100 GREATEST OF THE 80'S

Eighties music divides into at least three distinct eras, and this station compresses all of them into single programming block. New wave and post-punk dominated early '80s, synth-pop and stadium rock dominated mid-period, and hip-hop's emerging presence transformed late decade music. Programming navigates those shifts through of canonical tracks. 192kbps streams handle the era's production well. Synthesizers shine at that quality level - 1980s production innovations around electronic instruments benefit from adequate bitrate. Drum machines, sequencers, and production techniques that define th…