FIRST WORD JANUARY SALE

by First Word on January 4, 2012

Happy New Year! Well, the festive season is gone for another year and here at First Word we’re recharged and ready to give you another 12 months of fantastic music. Before we get started with the new releases for 2012, we’ve made the staggeringly original decision to have a January sale. It’s quite simple really – all our CD albums are now £5 or less for the next 2 weeks – just visit our sale page and get busy. We’ll be back with more news in the next couple of weeks with our plans for 2012 – which is shaping up to be our biggest year yet. Don’t forget our free compilation Two Syllables Volume Six is still available, so click here if you haven’t already got your copy. Happy shopping! 

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Merry Christmas From First Word Records!

by First Word on December 21, 2011

So another year comes to a close – 2011 has been amazing for us and to celebrate the festive season we’ve put together another fantastic FREE album for your listening pleasure. It’s exactly one year since the last Two Syllables compilation and the latest instalment keeps up the quality. We’ve got a mix of highlights from 2011, new artists, exclusives and remixes across 12 brilliant tracks. It features music from Ye Mighty, Souleance, Frameworks, Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra, kidkanevil, EPRC, Homecut, Herma Puma, Debian Blak, Lotek & Amenta: we’re really proud of this comp, so please spread the word as far and wide as you can.

2012 is already shaping up nicely, with great new releases coming soon from Souleance, Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra & Herma Puma as well as a few other surprises that we think you’ll love.

So, grab yourself a glass of mulled wine and a hot mince pie and get downloading.

Merry Christmas from all of us at First Word!

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New 7″ from Tall Black Guy Productions

October 12, 2011

We’re back with some new music to wash away the winter blues in the shape of a new 7″ from Tall Black Guy Productions. We were introduced to the Chicago-based producer earlier this year through Simple X of Herma Puma and were instantly hooked by the two tracks he sent through. Dance Forever is a [...]

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Introducing Amenta

September 15, 2011

We’re stupidly excited to introduce our new signing Amenta. We first met her when she was a student at the Red Bull Music Academy in London last year. Her haunting vocals and fearless experimentation grabbed us immediately, as did the flood of top producers queueing up to work with the Toronto born singer. The RBMA [...]

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Lotek & the UDL – International Rudeboy Dubs

September 13, 2011

Lotek’s new album International Rudeboy album has been out for a few months now, and the more observant of you will have noticed the dub version has also sneaked onto the internets. Put together by Lotek and the mysterious UDL (Ubiquitous Dub Legitimizers), it is a full dub version of the album, and it is [...]

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New Signings to First Word

July 5, 2011

Plenty of activity here at First Word Towers at the moment – we are delighted to announce the signing of three fantastic new acts to First Word. We have the futuristic soul of Debian Blak, the hard hitting dub-reggae of East Park Reggae Collective and the switched up Ethio-Jazz of Ye Mighty. Three great acts, [...]

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Thank you!

May 24, 2011

Thanks to everyone who came down on Sunday for the birthday shindig at Vibe Bar. It was without doubt the best event we’ve ever done and will live long in the memory. Photos and audio soon come – keep em peeled for that! There’s plenty more events going on for us at FW – London [...]

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First Word Is 7!

May 8, 2011

Big news this week! In two weeks we’ll be celebrating 7 years of First Word at London’s Vibe Bar with probably the biggest line-up in the label’s history. We start at 2pm out in the courtyard with our FW 7 x 7 – 7 DJs playing 7″ records. Full details of the line-up are strictly [...]

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Souleance – Soupape Limited Edition

March 11, 2011

Some very exciting news from Souleance this week – after the fantastic Le Plaisir special edition 7″s (which sold out in 1 hour), the fabulously talented Alice Dufay is back with another unique take on the Soupape EP. Alice has re-drawn (by hand!) her design for the EP, creating 15 unique, numbered pieces from scratch. [...]

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Two Syllables Volume Five

January 28, 2011

Happy New Year one and all! We hope you’re all having a fantastic 2011 – all is going well here at First Word, we’ve got some great new music and exciting new artists coming soon, as well as some fantastic live shows. Keep em peeled for those, and in the meantime grab this fantastic free [...]

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