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
Sweets
‘Yellow’
cloud rap/indieronica
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Julia Bhatt
‘Hair Salon Vibes’
bedroom pop/chillwave
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Demi Ramos
‘Killer 4U’
alternative/pop-rock
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RⱯHM
‘that kinda dead feeling on the inside (yeah yeah)’
indie electronic/experimental/downtempo
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SIDE B
Matan Arkin
‘Waste’
indie electronic/electro pop
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Safety Town
‘Bloom’
indietronica/indie pop
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Jnatra
‘Slow Motion’
lo-fi rock/dream pop/slowcore
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Loupe
‘Spill Over’
dream pop/pop
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Let’s assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I’d venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.
Philip Jones Griffiths