| What A Country: The Soviet Tape — Beat Flips From USSR Samples feat. Blu, Open Mike Eagle & More | February 6, 2015 |
Art by USMC Archives Chris Daly is about four five seconds from Boris Spassky. Like most Americans who lived through the Cold War, I was under the impression that Mother Russia tapes beat listeners*. First Word Records’ own Fulgeance and DJ Scientist have proven just how wrong I was on their latest, “The Soviet Tape.” […]
| Charades: First Word Records “Two Syllables Volume 11” | January 13, 2015 |
Chris Daly don’t know how to behave. If there’s a label out there today that better marries funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul into one gloriously decadent cosmic slop than First Word Records, I have yet to hear them. Others embark upon the some glorious path of pure amalgamation, but First Word continually produces concoctions of the […]
