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
KILL Carter & Dann Dib
‘Ballin”
trap
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girlhouse
‘paul blart mall cop’
bedroom pop/indie
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Ex-poets
‘Bay Of Pigs’
indie r&b/soul
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Sound Science
‘Speleogenesis’
psychedelic pop/experimental
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SIDE B
Just Leila
‘Approche toi’
French pop/indietronica
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Drive Thru Alumni
‘London Girl’ (Feat. Alaina Cross, Jacob Zane & Cheeks Santana)
hip-hop/rap
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Hexagon Cat
‘Sorry’
indie pop
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Teophiell
‘Us Two’
indie r&b/neo soul
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I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.
El-P