This fourth volume in the critically acclaimed Musik Music Musique series is a prequel, exploring the transitional year 1979: A period which saw electronic pop move from novelty status into the credible post-punk pop landscape. This is a story of experimental and eccentric artists, outsider aesthetics and the fusion of the spirit of punk with a pop sensibility.

 

Featuring an array of artists who would become household names and dominate the pop scene during the first half of the 1980s, alongside lesser-known scenesters, independent innovators and one-off scene hoppers, Musik Music Musique 1979 includes tracks by Tubeway Army, Japan, Buggles, OMD, Dalek I, Devo, John Foxx, Suicide, Thomas Leer, Steve Hillage and many more.