FW is 10! - Celebrating Ten years of First Word Records

Today's weather is everything but sunny. Because of autumn - and also thanks to Sunday depression :P - I can't listen to energetic, fast BPM music.
One of my fav funk & hiphop labels is First Word Records. (Here you can listen to those records I ordered from them.) Anyway, these guys celebrated their 10th birthday this year. For this occasion they released a compilation started from the beginning 2003/4. These selected tracks include downtempo sounds (similar to Bonobo, Yonderboi), heavily trumpet-focused afro-funk tracks and light hiphop songs. The compilation starts with slowly tunes and then it gets you in a happier mood - Perfect for this weather!
Unfortunately I can't make playlists on this Bandcamp-based site, so simply click on the picture to listen to all the songs.




I know 2 hours could be too much to spend it with discovering tracks from unknown artists. I put some of them into group of genres so you can choose who fits your mood:

Downtempo

• Amenta - Stormy Weather
• Yosi Horikawa - Stars
• Frameworks - Dawn feat Rioghnach Connolly
• Various Artist - Payers of a Non-Believer feat D.Ablo
• Tall Black Guy - The Motor Is Running

Afro-funk:

• 6ix Toys - Sisters of Soul, Brothers of Funk (Greg Wilson Edit) -- Greg Wilson can't make any mistakes
• Riot Jazz Brass Band . Paradox
• The Haggis Horns - The Traveller Part Two
• Teotima - Counting The Ways
• Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra - African Kings
• The Fontanelles - Afrocat

Hip-hop:

• Today's Matemathics - Butterfly
• Red - The Nuts  -- you need great speakers to enjoy the bass!
• Herma Puma - Space to Breathe feat. Rider Shafique -- you can read more about Herma Puma here

Reggae:

• Border Crossing - Dream On feat. Knati P
• Lotek - Rebel Hifi
• East Park Reggae Collective - Build a Wall

If you think First Word Records does its job well, check their releases out or follow them on SoundCloud and Facebook.


Jefe