Question: The duo who created "The Bedsit Tapes" came to prominence in what decade?

Context articles: The Questor Tapes (TV series)
The Arm of Roger
Awesome Tapes From Africa
Nuclear Furniture
Black Gold (Jimi Hendrix recordings)
Snoopgate
The Bedsit Tapes
Soft Cell
PatesTapes
Frost (Norwegian band)

The Questor Tapes is an American TV series in the planning stage.
 It is based on the television movie, "The Questor Tapes", which was created in 1973 (and aired in January 1974) by Gene Roddenberry, who had hopes that the movie would serve as a pilot for a television series that "had the potential to be bigger than "Star Trek"."
The Arm of Roger is a fake band created by Jason Lytle and other members of American Rock band 'Grandaddy'.
 Back in 1999, Jason Lytle finished the mixing for the Sophtware Slump; in the prior two years however, the band wrote and performed joke songs made to sound awful.
 Before they sent them tapes for the real album, he created and sent 7 tapes of their joke album 'The Ham and it's Lily' in hopes for a reaction.
 On the following Tuesday, a V2 Records official called and said "I got the album….
now will you send me the real one you fucking asshole?!"
 They then sent over The Sophtware Slump, the real album.
Awesome Tapes From Africa is a website and music label operated by Brian Shimkovitz based in Los Angeles, CA.
 The site was founded in 2006 in Brooklyn, NY.
 The site was initially created as a way for Shimkovitz to share music he had come across while on a Fulbright scholarship in Ghana.
 He was interested in the variety of genres and artists he found, distributed largely on cassette tapes at markets, but that he had not come across outside West Africa.
 In 2011, Shimkovitz transitioned the site from just a blog with posted recordings of collected tapes posted without the artists' permission to a commercial record label.
 The goal of the company is to seed and expand an audience for the artists presented as well as provide opportunities to sell albums and tour.
 Artists are paid every six months and receive 50% of the profits from an album.
 Tapes presented on Awesome Tapes come from a variety of sources: gathered in Ghanaian street markets, purchased in stores in the US, or sent by others over the internet.
 In addition to the website, Shimkovitz DJ's concerts, clubs and at festivals as Awesome Tapes From Africa, as well as hosts a show on Dublab.
Nuclear Furniture is an album by the American rock band Jefferson Starship.
 It was the last album released by the band until 1998's "Windows of Heaven", and was also the final album by the band before the departure of leader Paul Kantner and the formation of the offshoot band Starship.
 It was released in 1984 and spawned the Top 40 single "No Way Out", which was also the first single by any incarnation of the band to hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
 The album itself reached #28.
 Produced by Ron Nevison, the album was arranged with the help of Peter Wolf, who had worked with Grace Slick on her solo album, "Software".
 Wolf also contributed keyboard and synthesizer work to the album, although not an official part of the band.
 Peter Wolf (not the singer of the same name) and Ina Wolf also wrote the single "No Way Out", the first of many songs penned by the husband and wife duo that took "Starship" in a more commercial direction.
 As the album was being recorded, Paul Kantner became frustrated with the album's direction.
 Before the sessions came to a close, he stole the master tapes, put them in his car and drove around San Francisco for a few days and wouldn't bring them back until the band mixed the album in a way more to his liking.
 Shortly after the release of the album, Kantner left the band, and he only appears in the first promotional video produced, "No Way Out."
 After the departure of Kantner the band lost the "Jefferson" moniker and morphed into Starship; there would not be another studio album released under the Jefferson Starship name until after Kantner reformed the band in 1992.
In early 1970, Jimi Hendrix recorded an autobiographical song cycle in his Greenwich Village apartment that he titled Black Gold.
 The tapes consisted of 16 songs, all created by a solo Hendrix armed only with his voice and a Martin acoustic guitar.
 Near the end of the collection lies an embryonic two-part rendition of his superhero themed funk-rock tune "Astro Man", in which Hendrix sings lines from the 1950s "Mighty Mouse" cartoon theme and makes humorous references to Superman.
 Other songs from the "Black Gold" sessions were also further developed in the studio and have surfaced in the Hendrix catalogue ("Stepping Stone", "Machine Gun", and "Drifting"), but at least nine of the songs are known to be unique to the tapes.
The Snoopgate controversy was an Indian political scandal concerning the illegal surveillance of a young woman using various state police and intelligence institutions in Gujarat.
 The details of the scandal came to light in November 2013, when the Indian investigative news website Cobrapost along with the website Gulail released tapes titled "The Stalkers".
 Audio tapes reveal Amit Shah, the Home Minister of Gujarat, ordered illegal surveillance of a young woman from Bangalore under instruction from an unnamed "saheb", or boss.
 The police followed her inside malls, restaurants, gyms, and tracked her scheduled flights, hotel bookings, and visits to her mother at a hospital.
 The Indian National Congress alleged that the "saheb" was Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the chief minister of Gujarat.
The Bedsit Tapes is a compilation of songs recorded by the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell before their record contract with Some Bizzare Records.
 The album, released 1 August 2005, collects various songs recorded in an amateur studio at Leeds Metropolitan University, then called Leeds Polytechnic, in Leeds.
 The album includes three tracks which appeared on their rare independent 1980 release, "Mutant Moments".
 The album has received criticism for not being comprehensive enough, excluding several rare cuts which have appeared on previous bootlegs.
 David Ball, the keyboardist, comments on the album in the liner notes.
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.
 The duo are principally known for their 1981 hit version of "Tainted Love" (#8 US) and 1981 debut album titled "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret".
Pates Tapes is an online streaming mixtape archive launched on November 1, 2010.
 The site was created and is maintained by Charles Pates, a self-proclaimed “Music Documentarian, Artist, Creative Director, [and] Amateur Archeologist ” The songs that make up the “tapes” on the site are first ripped from vinyl records to tapes, and they are then digitized and put online.
 Currently the site houses 36 mixtapes distributed across 10 genres.
Frost is a Norwegian electronic duo consisting of Aggie Peterson and Per Martinsen.
 The group formed in 1997 in Tromsø, Norway with original line-up composed of Aggie Peterson and DJ Rune Lindbæk.
 They released their debut album ""Bedsit Theories"" in 1998.