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