Which 8 current gems will make it on this Hip Cassette round-up? Plug that rusty tape player in, press play and make sure you keep notes…
by Christos Doukakis
SIDE A
good son
‘re: beginnings and endings’
indie
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/855391954″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”60%” height=”366″ iframe=”true” /]
The Deckadent Movement
‘Some Soul’
techno/electro
[iframe src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1awvXJ3294QboRu2mnTIpA” width=”400″ height=”500″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” allow=”encrypted-media”></iframe]
Tallulah.
‘Hysteria’
indie rock
[iframe src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6XnJ7qIunvh3fTaBgR4XW5″ width=”400″ height=”500″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” allow=”encrypted-media”></iframe]
Cloud Chamber Experiments
‘Curling’
post punk/new wave
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/847930150″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”60%” height=”366″ iframe=”true” /]
SIDE B
Bee Bee Sea
‘Gonna Get Me’
indie rock
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/857037787″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”60%” height=”366″ iframe=”true” /]
Coastgoth Community Center
‘Come Out w/ Me’
bedroom pop/new wave
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/858472015″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”60%” height=”366″ iframe=”true” /]
boy pablo
‘Honey’
indie pop/bedroom pop
[iframe src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3MMLO6TUL07tze9IXud0Vc” width=”400″ height=”500″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” allow=”encrypted-media”></iframe]
Henry Bowers-Broadbent
‘Cruiser’
jazztronica/’future funk’/downtempo
[iframe src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1QSaj4CW03t8bQRdX6YZRj” width=”400″ height=”500″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” allow=”encrypted-media”></iframe]
I don’t like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I’m recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
M. Ward