Nino Nardini – Afro-Beat/Afro-Syn (edit)
I have just realised that this is my first post for the cheery old month of Feb. Soz for that! How about some Nino Nardini to brighten up your day and indeed your month?? This 1972 piece of synth wizardry sees the Library music legend Nardini experiment with bleeps and [...]
Surreal Singles Club: The B-52s – Deep Sleep
Athens, Georgia’s finest, The B-52s, recorded this minor Surreal classic back in 1982. Taken from the Mesopotamia EP and produced by David Byrne, it saw the band delve deep into the past and travel to a mysterious post-punk parallel universe. Alongside the title track, ‘Deep Sleep’ is one of the [...]
Single of the Day – Moebius Plank & Neumeier – Pitch Control
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 pushing musical boundaries, as this energetic and mad effort shows. Taken from their album ‘Zero Set’, the track is still [...]
Downtown Week: Under The Influence with Gyratory System
Daysarenumbers are the lucky recipients of an exclusive mix from one of most exciting UK bands around, Gyratory System. Wowing audiences and critics alike with their hallucinatory brand of post-punk and electronics, we were over the moon when Andrew kindly agreed to do a special mix for us during our [...]