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1980 Recordings

104 releases tracked · 102 producers · latest aug 2026

7 tracks · 6 charting artists · 7 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.

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◢ what the catalogue measures

sound

32% one genre

Tech House, then Techno and Deep House

32% of the 104 releases we can tag · 1 of the last 12 we could tag

career stage

1.6 yrs median

Producers here had a median 1.6 years of releases before their first record on the label

across 9 producers whose earlier history we can follow

format

34% solo/duo

Solo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases

counting compilations too, 42 of 122 · 18 various-artists compilations

◢ how often the roster changes

1.5

new names a year

averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace

7

releases a year

14 records in 24 months

◢ first records here, by year

16releases · first-time signings02013 · 6 releases · 13 first-time signings20132014 · 5 releases · 7 first-time signings2015 · 10 releases · 4 first-time signings2016 · 7 releases · 16 first-time signings2017 · 14 releases · 15 first-time signings2018 · 8 releases · 9 first-time signings2019 · 7 releases · 8 first-time signings2020 · 9 releases · 8 first-time signings2021 · 7 releases · 3 first-time signings2022 · 8 releases · 2 first-time signings2023 · 3 releases · 0 first-time signings2024 · 3 releases · 1 first-time signing2025 · 4 releases · 0 first-time signings2026 · 8 releases · 3 first-time signings2026

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.

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◢ where the roster releases

came fromof 9 traced

labels this roster released on before their first record here

also releasing onof 102

labels sharing this roster in the same period

29 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 102

◢ who's on it

6 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 2 have pages here

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