TRANSMISSION // 1980—1989
SIGNALS80—89
Ten years in which MIDI connected machines, drum computers rewired the pulse, and synthesis moved from the laboratory to the dance floor. A source-led map of the decade’s electronic releases.
Data status: bounded, verified scaffold sample — not the complete 25,078-release-group corpus. The source audit found 25,078 release groups; full import is designed as resumable year partitions.
DX//MIDI120 BPM
SYSTEM READY CH 01 SYNTH ███████░ CH 10 DRUM █████░░░ SYNC MIDI [LOCKED]
—artists in sample
—remote previews
10year partitions
25 078release groups audited
MIDI CLOCK // 01
Decade signal
Choose a year to tune the index.
DATABASE // MBID
Artist index
Search by artist, release, country, or style. Every entry retains an MBID and dated release evidence.