Hi all! Finally had some spare time and created another compilation (yes, I love doing them ). This time it's of the instrumental compositions released during the year 1980. It's a curious phenomenon that lots of NW bands and artists had at least one instrumental in their calatogue, either an album track or a B-side. Some even made a habit of doing the voxless compositions - usually for singles. And many of them are genuinely good or even great. I took some of those and created an hour-long program.
I mostly took tracks from the original vinyls or CDs i.e. not compressed ones so the sound is very pleasant (even with the very occasional vinyl crackles). Tracks are from across the NW specter, from guitar-based ones to completely synthetic. It's a good listen, very dynamic and hopefully will appeal to listeners. For better listening I made slight changes to the tracks, mainly shortening long silences and cutting out some unnecessary wankery, but nothing serious really, The last track is the unique edit from the later compilation.
Maybe if there's an interest I can do more of these for other years
Download here:
https://mega.nz/#!f190QCZR!pqaXWzdQJOOD ... eY_yShjiBQ
Tracklist: Rockets - Prophecy / Ultravox - Astradyne / The Human League - Gordon's Gin / Visage - The Dancer / The Books - I'll Be Your Friend / Split Enz - The Choral Sea / Rheingold - Pirata / The Korgis - Rover's Return / After the Fire - 1980-F / Yellow Magic Orchestra - Multiplies / The Boomtown Rats - Whitehall 1212 / The Pretenders - Space Invader / The Police - The Other Way of Stopping / M - Maniac / Yello - Blue Green
Cheers!