Single of the Day – Gordon Staples & The String Thing – Strung Out
Wind down your week with this funk classic from Gordon Staples and The String Thing! Gordon Staples was the concert master for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who famously played on many a classic Motown records from the 60s. ‘Strung Out’ appears on Staples and the String Thing’s 1970 self-titled album [...]
Single of the Day – Tom Tom Club – L’Elephant
The world famous Tom Tom Club are the provider’s of today’s chirpy SOTD. L’Elephant is one of the many delightful highlights from their seminal self-titled 1981 debut album, and is a surreal tale about an elephant and a hippopotamus who disguise themselves as men and enter a village causing mayhem [...]
Single of the Day – Joe Gibbs – Bionic Encounter
Legendary reggae producer Joe Gibbs is one of most important figures in Jamaica’s musical history. From rocksteady to ’80s dancehall, Gibbs can lay claim to being one of the most important of Jamaica’s musical giants. Responsible for one of the most influential reggae albums of all time – Culture’s 1977 [...]
Single of the Day – War – Flying Machine (The Chase)
‘Flying Machine (The Chase)’ is considered by many to be War’s finest moment. Taken from the soundtrack to Youngblood, a film about an L.A. street kid starring Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, it has since been proven to be the LA’s street band’s most diverse recording to date. Released in 1978, War’s first [...]
Single of the Day – Conrad Schnitzler – Fabrik
Today’s deliciously deranged SOTD is from Teutonic electronic legend Conrad Schnitzler. A former member of Tangerine Dream and Cluster, our very Conny (as I like to call him) is one of the most prolific and innovative electronic producers of all time. On this wonderfully mental track, taken from his 1981 [...]
Single of the Day – Bionic Boogie – Tiger Tiger (Feel Good For A While)
Bionic Boogie was a disco studio group produced by Gregg Diamond in the late 70s. Featuring a certain Luther Vandross on vocals, the group only released a few singles and albums. Diamond is probably best known for writing and producing Andrea True Connection’s saucy disco smash ‘More, More, More’, but [...]
Single of the Day – Artefact – Mae
Everyone seems to be banging on about “coldwave” and “synthwave” these days, so today’s SOTD is a nice bit of jaded synth-disco from some French post-punk band called Artefact. Created by extreme Right Wing theorist and sci-fi nerd Maurice G. Dantec (no, me neither) in 1977, Artefact were a concept-band [...]
MY THIRTY FAVOURITE-IST FILMS OF THE DECADE!!!
Hello all, and welcome to Days Are Numbers’ countdown of the thirty greatest films of the decade!* After a brief moment of mulling it over, I decided not to do a ‘best of’ list at the end of last year, because I didn’t think I’d seen enough new films to [...]
Single of the Day – Harry Thumann – Underwater
Start your week with a grandiose slice of disco from German synth pioneer Harry Thumann. Released in 1979, Underwater is a cult favourite amongst disco aficionados due to it’s bombastic and quite wacky nature. Huge Salsoul-style horns and strings blend seamlessly with the icy simplicity of Moroder-esque synths, resulting in [...]
Single of the Day – Holger Czukay – Ode To Perfume
Today’s “getting quite fed up of this bloody weather” SOTD, is from everybody’s favourite member of Can, Holger Czukay. Originally released in 1981, a rare live and extended version of Ode to Perfume was recently released by the Claremont 56 crew. This is however, is the edited version that can [...]