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1980 Recordings
336 releases tracked from 2008 · 397 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Club house · also in Tech house
10 tracks · 8 charting artists · 9 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Founded in 2007 by Dan McKie, 1980 Recordings is based across Ibiza, Berlin, Barcelona, and London. The label releases a range of genres including disco, house, and techno, and its releases have been supported by DJs including Marco Carola, Monki, Rob Da Bank, Louie Vega, Roger Sanchez, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, and Vanilla Ace. Artists on the label include Dan McKie, Jackin Lopez, Mark Lennon, Nicholas Jay, Clint Maximus, and Tom Crane.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
30% one genreTech House, then Techno and House
30% of the 336 releases we can tag · 1 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±8 BPM125 BPM typical, 122–138 across four in five releases
336 of 336 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.2 per record
8 chart entries since July · rate = entries per record over that window; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
2.5 yrs medianProducers here had a median 2.5 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 23 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
19 of 36
last debut
25 days ago
new here BLUEE (Oct) · Diego Play (Oct)
19 of the 36 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
52% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 190 of 367 · 29 various-artists compilations
remixes
36% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
14 of the 39 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Lex Loofah, Miqro
◢ how often the roster changes
10.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
13 of 44
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.5
releases a month
59 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 19 oct: 0 new entries · 0 top-20 placements
pathLW Recordings, Safe Ltd. → 1980 Recordings2 beforepath into
1980 RecordingsLW Recordings6Safe Ltd.41980 Recordings2 before ↓◢ path into 1980 Recordingswhere 1980 Recordings artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- LW Recordingstier 36 artists
- Safe Ltd.tier 14 artists
02 · this label
1980 Recordings
03 · after · released here next
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 32 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Club Session (8), Marba Records (5), RH2 (5), Recovery Tech (4), Variety Music (3)
63 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 397
◢ who's on it
9 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 2 have pages here
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- Club Session (8), Marba Records (5) and RH2 (5) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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