Over three consecutive Record Store Days, First Word Records pioneered a 7″ vinyl trilogy of beats sampling old records.
The idea was originally born on Record Store Day 2012.
First Word label founder Gilla explains:
“As we dipped in and out of London’s Soho record shops, kidkanevil mentioned to me that he wanted to mine Mr Thing‘s vast record collection for samples. An idea formed to invite a couple of other beatmakers to join him and to press the resulting beats onto vinyl. Mr Thing enthusiastically agreed to the idea with one stipulation: they could sample what they wanted, but the records had to stay within the walls of his flat. We quickly enlisted Eric Lau and Tall Black Guy to complete the quartet and ‘Nothing Leaves The House‘ was born.”
That first release came out for RSD 2014, followed up by ‘Thing Leaves The House’ for 2015.
Completing the trilogy of releases, the crew were invited to the legendary John Peel Archive to dig for samples there. After trawling the legendary Peel Acres Collection, the producers individually selected sound snippets to create new beats from; this time under the stipulation that ‘Nothing Leaves The Archive’. This double 7″ release again landed on Record Store Day, 2016.
A decade later, the label have compiled all three EPs together with four new tracks for a new 12″, out today.
Buy NOTHING LEAVES THE HOUSE: THE ANTHOLOGY here.
