

The result is that I’ve finally made something I’ve wanted to make for all these years, a proper box-set scale follow-up to ‘ 1981‘: ‘ 1979: Post-Punk‘. And so, inspired by the fact that ‘ 1981‘ continues to find open ears, I began revisiting post-punk, focusing in on the year that first made me realize while it doesn’t get the “history of rock” attention of hippies or punks, post-punk had been a phenomenon that was as significant as any in popular music. That makes sense, because post-punk is seemingly a light that never goes out, and it’s really no surprise that in many ways it still sounds new in 2017: a big part of the aim of post-punk music was to make the future finally happen.
#Post punk compilation rar file full
Those nine mixes, recently collected in full as the The Complete ‘1981’, have consistently remained the most listened-to of the blog’s near decade run, along with other post-punk sets like ‘The Young Lady’s Post-Punk Handbook’ series and the ‘No Heroes’ collection. I originally started Musicophilia mostly to share the box set of post-punk music from 1981 that I’d made in 2004. Update, January, 2019: A third post-punk box set has now been published, ‘ Post Punk 1980‘, an eight-mix digital box set, as well as a collection of women-lead post-punk ‘ The Young Lady’s Post-Punk Handbook‘, a box set of contemporary post-punk, ‘ Post-Punk: 2007-2017‘ and a long mix of proto-post-punk, ‘ Post-Punk 1968-1977‘. (This stream is a 1-hour sampler of the full box set.
