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
NICO.x3
‘WELCOME TO THE WORLD (online)’
chill-hop/vaporwave/lofi
Jesse Gold
‘Go Go Gadget’ (feat. Marc E. Bassy)
indie r&b/alt pop
Jay Sublime
‘Sound Of’
trap/hip-hop
ghost orchard
‘sweet song’
indietronica
SIDE B
Turtle White
‘VVS’
trap/autotune
Rodney Cromwell
‘Rod, Jane & Freddy’
kraut/synth-pop
Dark Dazey
‘Chameleon’
indie psych/alt pop
Own Dialect
‘Smoke And Mambo’
instrumental hip-hop
When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.
Ryan Seacrest