Pieces of a Dream – Mt. Airy Groove (instrumental)
Considered by many to be a classic B-boy anthem, this sublime slice of laidback rare-groove funk from Philadelphia’s Pieces of A Dream was released in 1982 and was taken from the album We Are One. A trippy excursion into disco, boogie and electro, ‘Mt Airy Groove’ has been sampled [...]
Groovy Ghosts of Yule: Santa Comes To Beat Street (sort of)
Attempting to outdo each other with tales of who will have the crappiest Christmas, here’s the Treacherous Three deliver their famous Santa’s Rap from the legendary 1984 film Beat Street. Still iconic due to the memorable sight of the torso-less ‘Three, it also features a brief yet splendid beatbox performance [...]
Shit Just Got Surreal!
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 Quietus, Popmatters) to tell us all about the subversive and sometimes eccentric world of Hip Hop and how the genre’s [...]
Downtown Week: An Introduction
Hello cool cats and jive turkeys, welcome to Daysarenumbers’ Downtown week! This week we’ll be traveling back in time to late 70s & 80s New York to celebrate one of the most creatively fertile periods of popular music and film. From the Big Apple to Gotham City, New York has [...]