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

LOUNGETUNES

‘Morning Coffee’

chill-hop/lounge

Immortal Wound

‘bender’

indie electronic/lo-fi rock

Brothers of Song

‘Jealousy’

retro soul/blues

Able Delilah

‘Echoes’

blues/alternative rock

SIDE B

Scant Regard

‘Nobody Talks’

electro/new wave/experimental

Sebastian Darlington

‘Lemon’

new wave/synth-pop/lo-fi pop

wavesiswet

‘gobbledegook’

rap

LearningToDive

‘Tainted’ (Feat. Bravo Bonez)

dark wave/post punk

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

Jeffrey Gitomer