Our favourite NY based artist Lushlife has just dropped his new album ‘Cassette City’ which is available now on Rapster Records. Lushlife real name Raj Halder is far more than your average rapper – as a multi-instrumentalist classically trained on the piano he can play just about any instrument and it shows in the rich sound he creates for this album.

Here is a preview track ‘In Soft Focus’ featuring Ariel Pink and Elzhi:

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Lushlife has also just started a video series on YouTube called Redux where he performs alternative versions of classic hip hop tracks live and in one take. Here are the first two of the series: