Galliano - Halfway SomewhereAlmost three decades on from their last release, Acid Jazz forefathers Galliano are back with news of their new LP Halfway Somewhere which is being released on Gilles Petersons Brownswood Recordings on 30 August. Born out of Londons underground clubs and warehouse parties of the mid to late eighties, with the debut single on the Acid Jazz label in 1988, Galliano came out of a culture that spanned music, dance, fashion, art, design, and the written

Roland Juno 60 and JX 8P

Label co-owner A Virgo On The Moon joins forces again

updating the song and turning it into a peaktime Disoctatstic work out featuring live musicianship

French multi-instrumentalist Quiet Dawn has been an integral part of the First Word family for a full decade now

just a few years before he was diagnosed

In the tradition of the "production forward" discographies of such record makers as David Axelrod and the Mizell Brothers

Afro-folk and techno pop

Hail to the pioneer

With it’s ceremonial tribal roots on homespun guitars

falling about half way through their history and at the start of a particularly purple patch

'Gwinyitshe' was written by one of the sleeping giants of South African music

and Sonata No