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

TIGERDAZE & JAYA (Raise)

‘Metanoia’

hip-hop/indie electronic

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XOR

‘Path’

synth-pop/synthwave

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Jessie Spartano

‘Visionaire’

rap/hip-hop

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hillamillion

‘Comatose Myself’

pop punk

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SIDE B

The Psychopets

‘She’s So bizarre’

alternative rock/indietronica

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Yinyang

‘Poison Darts / Boyish Charms’

experimental hip-hop/noise rock

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Miniature Flower Girl

‘Yikes’

chillwave/indietronica

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Juno Francis & Alejandro Molinari

‘Symmetry’

synth-pop/nu-disco

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I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not ‘photographing’, in order to keep the eye in practice.

Josef Koudelka