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
Aingee
‘Don’t Cry’
hip-hop/house
MIXIE
‘fuccboi’
electro pop/alt pop
Refs
‘New Religion’
alt pop
Loco Ink x Fito Blanko x Medy Landia
‘Ninguna’
reggaeton/rap
SIDE B
Axel Muco
‘I GET IT’
trap/hip-hop
Trebor
‘How Fast a Dollar Goes’
rap/hip-hop
Richard Carter
‘Way i Feel’
alternative hip-hop
RIVER
‘Lucky Shot’
alt pop
I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don’t play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don’t know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn’t know anything about how to work a 4-track.
Petra Haden