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

Bentle

‘Darkest Blue’

bedroom pop/chillwave

Lynda

‘Dingo’

electro pop/alt pop

Life is Better Blonde

‘HABITS’

indie electronic/alt pop

TEEJ 

‘Millennial Gideon’ (feat. Fedd The God)

folktronica/hip-hop

SIDE B

Qwiet Type

‘Too Good To End’

alt pop/electro pop

BBASSI

‘New Money’

trap/rap

Doctor Gosso & The Samplers x Telica

‘The Kicks’

lofi house/instrumental hip-hop

KiKi Holli

‘It’s Chemical’

indie pop/soul

At home I don’t really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I’ve always used.

Bryan Ferry