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

Dizzy Panda

‘You Can Do (What U Wanna Do)’ (ft Yogishine)

funk/chill-hop

The Wagner Logic

‘Mead of Poetry’

indietronica

Swervus

‘Goal Den Ours’

instrumental hip-hop/funk

Lukey & K.eena

‘OCEANA’

indie r&b/bedroom pop

SIDE B

Myriam Adams

‘Moshpit’ (Feat. Rajan Marwaha)

trap/cloud hop

Darci

‘Cold’ (Feat. CADE)

trap/rap

Brandon Jack & The Artifacts

‘boyz c1ub’

indie electro

Winston Surfshirt

‘Complicated’ (ft. Young Franco)

indie dance/nu-disco

I don’t like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I’m recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

M. Ward