Singer: Various
Title: [Post-Punk] 1981
Label: Not On Label ‎– none
Type: 10 x CD, Compilation, Unofficial Release
Country: US
Date of released:
Category: Rock
Style: Post-Punk, Avantgarde, Art Rock, Power Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Lo-Fi, Experimental, Punk
Size MP3 zip: 1658 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1573 mb
Rating: 4.8✭
Format: MP3 ASF VOX AA AU WAV DMF AHX FLAC

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Disc 4

Disc 5

Disc 6

Disc 7

Disc 8

Disc 9

Disc 10

Notes

'1981' was the undertaking that started ‘Musicophilia,’ in that it’s what pushed me from making tossed-off mixes that I’d share with a few friends, to obsessively culled, carefully sequenced, highly themed collections that I managed to share with people all over the world. It began as a 10-disc, 9-mix physical box set that I shipped to whoever wanted it (for the cost of shipping), put together and refined from 2004-2005 as a way of exploring a several-years-gestating obsession with post punk, which, it seemed to me, had reached its maximum depth, breadth and fecundity in the eponymous year. The goal was to share the infection of the obsession, and hopefully to get lots of people to buy lots of music and thus support the responsible artists and labels. Several hundred physical copies went out before I exhausted my youthful energy, and in the process I got to enjoy “meeting” (digitally, for the most part) many people, including a good number of the artists represented on the box set, and folks I’ve stayed in touch with to this day. I think the box did its part, as many testimonies of lessened bank accounts but increased musical enjoyment convinced me.