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
GNS
‘BIB’
indie r&b/hip-hop
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Bear2
‘Holy’
indie folk/pop
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JMSEY
‘Style’
alt pop
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The Slow Sound
‘Elora’
indie electronic/dream pop
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SIDE B
Opera
‘Fake Rolex’
indie electronic/trip-hop
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Miilk
‘System Bumpin”
trap/rap
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Yovoté
‘Marisa Tomei’
bedroom pop
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KDA, Tinashe, Ms Banks
‘Die a Little Bit’ (KDA Remix) ft. Karnage Kills
trap/big room
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Maybe I’ll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.
Pauline Oliveros