Various Artists - Musik Music Musique 1979: The Roots

Facts FOURTH VOLUME IN OUR HUGELY SUCCESSFUL ‘MUSIK MUSIC MUSIQUE’ SERIES. THIS TIME A PREQUEL, EXPLORING 1979 AND SYNTH POP’S LEAP FROM NOVELTY AND FAD INTO A CHART DOMINATING SCENE WITH ITS OWN IDENTITY. 60 TRACKS SHOWCASING THE ARTISTS BEHIND THAT LEAP FROM THE MUSICAL OUTSKIRTS INTO THE MAINSTREAM. FEATURING THE BUGGLES, TUBEWAY ARMY AND GARY NUMAN, THE HUMAN LEAGUE, OMD, GIORGIO MORODER, YELLO, DALEK I, DEVO, JOHN FOXX, M, VISAGE, SUICIDE, FAD GADGET, THOMAS LEER AND ROBERT RENTAL, JAN HAMMER, STEVE HILLAGE, GINA X PERFORMANCE, ZEUS B HELD AND AN EXTENSIVE CAST OF PIONEERS AND INNOVATORS. PACKED WITH OUR TRADEMARK BLEND OF FAMILIAR CLASSICS AND LESSER-KNOWN GEMS, AND BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TEAM BEHIND THE CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL HITS ‘CLOSE TO THE NOISE FLOOR’ AND ‘ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE’. SLEEVENOTES BY ELECTRONIC SOUND MAGAZINE’S MAT SMITH.