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
Qualms
‘Angeles’
indietronica
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Sleepy Gary
‘Staring at My Phone’
bedroom pop
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NoXu.u
‘Mo.onshine’
trap/future bass
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Panaviscope
‘Perplexed’
electro /pop
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SIDE B
GUTTER
‘grave inside my head’ (Feat. Internet Girl)
emo/alternative
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CaliCronk
‘Remember’
instrumental hip-hop/lofi
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Scrilla King
‘BRB’
contemporary r&b/hip-hop
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The Winsomes
‘Let You Down’
indie pop
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I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother’s cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.
Panos Cosmatos