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
notsure
‘Coarsed’
downtempo/experimental electronic
SHYAWAY
‘Smile For the Camera’
indie pop
Vector, Mastaa
‘No Worries’ ft. DJ Magnum
rap/afro-fusion
Everything But The Everything
‘The Story’ featuring Sophia Prise
indie electronic/post punk
SIDE B
Divorce Court
‘Same Same’
chillwave
Gregor Klamra
‘Floreana’
melodic house
Myoon
‘Jump’
electro pop
Zingg
‘Psychedelics’
emo rap
I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, ‘This sure beats respectable life in England.’
Simon Sebag Montefiore