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

Frostisrad

‘Mclovin/ the ugly one’

cloud rap/pop punk

Gabriel Delicious

‘Jimmy Finds a Back Door’

lo-fi rock

Mouse Sucks

‘WORD FOR IT’ (feat. Font Leroy)

indie r&b/emo rap

BOMBARD

‘LAMENT’

cloud rap/indie electronic

SIDE B

Yellow Shoots

‘FLYING HIGH’

indie r&b/psychedelic

Baby Lucia

‘Every Time I See You I Die’

indie electronic/chillwave

Wolf Castle

‘Summertime Crush’

hip-hop/contemporary r&b

Stereo Club

‘Parma Violet Gin’

indie pop/surf

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from ‘audio-visual aids’ – flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

Marva Collins