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
fina
‘To Be Like Them’
bedroom pop
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The Eska
‘Good Life’
trap/hip-hop
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BOY SODA
‘BIG’
contemporary r&b
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Ivan Frey
‘Start Over’
adult contemporary/pop
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SIDE B
Adrian Sieber
‘Alphabet of Love’
electro pop/chillwave
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OchoForeign
‘Do U’
afro-pop
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Nedelko
‘Cœur Bleu’
alternative hip-hop
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BONG-747
‘Big Brother’ (lil sys mix)
idm/experimental electronic
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I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, ‘This sure beats respectable life in England.’
Simon Sebag Montefiore