1980. A good year for Ronald Reagan and Sissy Spacek but a bad year for John Lennon, Ian Curtis, and anyone involved in the production of Caligula. Chances are, even if you were alive and aware back then, you haven't experienced anything like this big bowl of 1980 soup, featuring fragments of music, news, film and trivia gathered up and broken down by the Timestump project. 1980: it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or would you?

"People like using decades to categorise music. The 1970s: disco. The 1980s: Duran Duran. The 1990s: Take That. And the 2000s: Crazy Frog. But what if you zoom in a level and use a year instead? The Timestump project tests this out by taking a single year and turning it into a bewildering audio experience, staggering between musical genres, news stories, films, trivia and TV adverts. By showing how vast and confusing even a single year can be, it proves how daft it is to treat an entire decade as a single musical genre."

 

The Timestump Project, April 2010

 

Tracklisting:

The Human League - Black Hit Of Space

Madness - Shadow of Fear

Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Fi Peach

The Gap Band - Yearning For Your Love

Telex - Plus De Distance

Brian Eno & John Hassell - Delta Rain Dream

Queen - Dragon Attack

Cheap Trick - High Priest of Rock'n'Roll

Paul Simon - One Trick Pony

Blondie - Angels on the Balcony

Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

Tangerine Dream - Tangram 1

The Clash - The Call Up

Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours

Giorgio Moroder - Night Drive

Ultravox - Mister X

John Foxx - 030

David Bowie - Kingdom Come

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce

Sister Sledge - You Fooled Around

[TV Soup]