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

Frostisrad

‘Mclovin/ the ugly one’

cloud rap/pop punk

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Gabriel Delicious

‘Jimmy Finds a Back Door’

lo-fi rock

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Mouse Sucks

‘WORD FOR IT’ (feat. Font Leroy)

indie r&b/emo rap

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BOMBARD

‘LAMENT’

cloud rap/indie electronic

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SIDE B

Yellow Shoots

‘FLYING HIGH’

indie r&b/psychedelic

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Baby Lucia

‘Every Time I See You I Die’

indie electronic/chillwave

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Wolf Castle

‘Summertime Crush’

hip-hop/contemporary r&b

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Stereo Club

‘Parma Violet Gin’

indie pop/surf

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There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from ‘audio-visual aids’ – flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

Marva Collins