I’m going away for a few days dear readers. Don’t fear though, Days Are Numbers will be brimming with exciting posts and exhilarating features! Huzzah! So how about Germany’s finest

A dazzling track from 1983, Affinity’s ‘Don’t Go Away’ was produced by Warren Doris and Mark Kamins. Released on Island Records’ offshoot, Mango records, this cult Garage anthem is all

Sorry for the delay folks, blame the bloody snow!  Anyway, warm up your cockles with the zaniest version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ever!!! Recorded by cult American ukulele

Taken from the 1979 Italian-Japanese soft sexploitation flick Dedicato Al Mare Egeo (Dedicated To The Aegean Sea), this frothy erotic number finds the Maestro at his most playful and light-hearted.

Led by drummer, Scott Hartley and featuring bass, vocals and various percussions by Richard McQuire, Salvatore Principato and Dennis Young respectively, Liquid Liquid were influenced by the DIY Punk aesthetic

Coming out of the early-’80s Britfunk movement, London’s Funkmasters may seem an unlikely source for a New York disco classic. Though this record did not do well in good ol’

THE IVAN DRAGO SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE: ZE RECORDS SPECIAL!!! Hello and welcome to the first ever edition of THE IVAN DRAGO SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE!!! Before we look at the first

Today’s SOTD is a 1983 “proto-techno” classic from Conny Plank, Dieter Moebius and Mani Neumeier. As former members of Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Guru, the trio were pretty accustomed to

Not many bands would take creative inspiration from the Jewish Mourners’ Prayer – The Kaddish, but cult avant-garde electro-disco pioneers Gina X Performance did just that with their 1981 song

“…propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy” Suede frontman Brett Anderson once warbled, and it’s not hard to see why he arrived at that conclusion. It

Surreal. Surreal. It’s one of those words, isn’t it? It seems to me that often people aren’t 100% sure of what it actually really means exactly, but it still gets used an awful lot.

Hip Hop, eh? It’s all bling this bling that, but is it…?? We were lucky enough to rope in the very charming and wonderfully talented Daniel Ross (BBC Music, The

Released in 1983 on the famous Roulette Records, David Keaton’s funky cosmic excursion has a loose Italo elasticity with a nice electronic boogie. Slightly camp, this will have you bouncing

Taken from his 1977 album Cosmic Wind, Mike Theodore is one of the unsung soul and funk music heroes of the seventies and eighties. Working with the prolific Dennis Coffey