Afro / Islands / Reggae

 
Style: Soukouss

Format: LP
Label: Eska

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG plays better than it looks

Dude looks like he had something really disgusting for dinner and cleared his throat with heavy liquor. Dude also plays like a god and sets the air on fire with his wicked soukouss movement!

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Style: Reggae Disco

Format: LP
Label: Wambesi

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+

one of those reggae albums with two superb and uplifting boogie disco cuts!! pretty much undiscovered still but it's getting reall yhard to find already. So get your groove on and get a copy before it goes off ...

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Biton

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Highly collectible Afro Funk made in Germany released on the small Biton label. "Tasteful compositions from Don Ridgeway (Mombasa) with good structure based on the polytonal and ostinato bass lines, puts motion in the body" Shake your thang!!

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Style: Mellow Zouk

Format: LP
Label: LM

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Seven tracks on this self produced mellow Zoul LP by Gilles Floro. You might want to hear that this one has a great dancefloor track. Well Pouki is what you might want to hear - a proper summer jam!! That über -emotional Baleafro joint Tou Ça Te Ja Maké is the cherry on top!

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Style: Dub Poetry

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1982

Condition:NM/VG+

Spliffed Poetry and deep Dub.

Those ROOTS...

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Style: Zouk Monsters

Format: LP
Label: SS

Year: 199?

Condition: VG/ no cover, record warped

The bad news: the cover is missing and the record is warped. The good news: the only track of relevance is playing great with only a bit of background crackle in the intro and outro. And what a track that is!!

You might have heard it in my mix for No Frills...

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Style: Afro Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Aquaitone

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM Sealed! 

A bit of High Energy and a whole lot of sickest Afro-Boogie

on this mad rare private release from New Jersey.

You Got Me Hot is the monster here...

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Style: Afrobeat / Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Blackframe

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG seam split

Superfunky mid 80s Afro Funk from France.

Totally Fela Kuti style. Wonderful for dancing!!

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Style: Irie Worries

Format: 12"
Label: Blue Mountain

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM still in shrink

Lordamercy! Listen this...

The crack jam with these insane synth licks...

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Style: 80s Funk / Highlife

Format: LP
Label: Cage (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this boogie-ish 80s Funk gem. More highlife influences than his Sweet Vibration LP from 1984. And supertight!

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Style: Super Soul Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Taretone

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Super soulful Afro Boogie from the early 80s recorded in Eddy's coachhouse studio and released solely in Nigeria. Uplifting like a balloon!

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Style:  Afro Funk / Reggae

Format: LP
Label: ICE (Es)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Message Man Eddy Grant dropping some heavyweight jams like Neighbour, Neighbour and It's Our Time. Highly recommended!!

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Style:  Calypso, Reggae & DISCO

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM

Sought after for Wild Fire's Try Love.

Sounds way better than from 7"....

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Style: Electro Zouk

Format: LP
Label: LM

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Franky is an explicit cat. He likes to do the do and he can be your Sex Instructor if you take him home...

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Style: Zouk!

Format: LP
Label: Liso Musique

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Fantastic Zouk tunes here.

The instrumental Es Ou Dako is the hit!

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Style: Salsa Not Salsa

Format: LP
Label: Kemayo (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+ shows a few inaudible scuffs

Great and one of a kind Fusion of African Boogie and Salsa. Of course including the mighty African Salsa and the mellow groover Money Is Good for You (plus instrumental version). Peep the lyrics ;)

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Private

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG including printed innersleeve

Charley Kingson's rare first album. A great mix of Funk and Afro Boogie. Private release signed by Charly on the backside!

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Style: Rain Dance Classics

Format: LP
Label: 1984

Year: Arista

Condition: NM/NM

PULA EA NA! What a gentle monster. Over the years I've had so many beautiful moments with this one played out. Total tribe-gatherer. If you want more ENERGY just play Don't Go Lose It Baby instead...

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Style: Yoruba Party in Lagos

Format: LP
Label: Shano  Olu

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Szzzerious Afro- Percussion Bizznizz on this funky Yoruba album outta Nigeria. You sitting around too much. Get a prescription from the Dr.!

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Style: Funky Soukouss

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1982

Condition: VG/VG

AHA, YEAH! This video affair is a thumbs up affair as you have guessed already. Super soukouss jams. Record looks VG and plays VG+

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Style: African Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Moles

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

Superb mellow jams and some for a dance or two

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Style: Afro Beat Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Capitol

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG woc, co

A compilation of some of Fela's best tracks from the seventies.

I.T.T. and Colonial Mentality are milestones!!

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Style: Afro Beat

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM  still in shrink

The full army arrangenemt by Fela and Egypt 80 in two parts. Try to hold your feet still while enjoying this almighty slow groover!!

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Style: Afro Beat

Format: LP
Label: Capitol

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Welcome to the Power Show of the #1 Sufferhead!

Recorded after the king was beaten to shit by the police.

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Style: Afro Beat

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+ still in shrink

The two best tracks of his Zombie and Everything Scatter LPs. Mr Follow Follow stays in moderate tempo so we can all follow. Then Who no know go know speeds up the pace a little and encourages us to learn in his own special way.

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Style: Afro Beat

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG- corner bumpitis with cut

Fela talks about religion. And the system of suffering as a virtue being part of the oppression. He's with Africa 70, with Tony Allen and with a smile.

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Style: Caribbean Funk

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1975

Condition: VG+/VG+

First Pressing of this funky Peter Herbolzheimer production. Of course his friend Dieter Reith does his magic on the keys.  Including that insane funky version of Bob Marley's Get Up Stand Up. The brass & horns are tight as hell. Check also the tropical funk tune Caribbean Rock and the superfunky Motherles Child!

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Style: Soca Dance

Format: 12"
Label: McIntosh Productions Inc

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Two tight Soca stompers for the Soca Rockers and Mini Skirt Lovers of the world. Mini label or private party?

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Style: Dubbed Afro Synth

Format: 12"
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Manu's sick Afro-Synth hit!

THAT Bassline...

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Style: Roots

Format: 12"
Label: Warrior

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM (generic)

Two serious roots jams on this 12".

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Style: Roots

Format: 12"
Label: Cha Cha

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM (generic)

Red vinyl edition of this epic Roots gem.

7 and a half minutes of warm reggae purr!

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Style: Afro Synth

Format: LP
Label: EFA

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Epidemic Afro Synth from the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis.

No, also I have never heard of that area before,

but it must be something in the air there...

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Style: Island Disco

Format: 12"
Label: Astron

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Superfunky synthesized Bahamas Disco with a lovely reggae funk tune on the flipside. Impossible to find!

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Style: Burger Highlife

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Stompin burger High Life bombs in typical Lumba style.

Pretty much perfect condition!

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Style: Merci Maman

Format: LP
Label: Mazu (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/ VG+

Private Digi Zouk from Hamburg? Well you wouldn't expect these kind jams record in a rainy environment, but hell yeah - it's true. And a damn rare piece of wax it is!

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Style: Mellow Bubbles

Format: LP
Label: Bush Tea Records

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+ woc

Signed copy of this mellow SA sounding Lesotho gem. When I found my first copy many years ago on a digging excursions with the almighty Bifi-Man I had to play this out loud in the shop to check it. Almighty Bifi Man said: What the fuck. Is this Balearic Afro? Maybe! Or it's just some wonderful South African soul. I met Peter Bursch in this shop that day and went down on my knees! Fondest memories...

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Style: Cod Ragga

Format: LP
Label: Fünfundvierzig

Year: 1995

Condition: NM/NM

Dancehall Deutsch!

You wouldn't belive it but its true.

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Style: Afro Synth

Format: 12"
Label: GeeBeeDee

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Two odd and pumping Afro Synths jams from Hannover.

Not popping up very often...

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Style: Good Times

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

That Lucky Dube is known for his reggae jams. I guess that's why the lovers of the soulfully stompin' S.A. sound did not fall in love with this mighty groover of an album yet. It has it all. Driving beats (all between 103 and 109 BPM), rolling bass, offbeat guitar and vocal hooks galore. Wake up!

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Style: Soukous

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1995

Condition: VG+/VG+

Modern Soukous jammers with a great 90s Summer Jam vibe.

Feel good music galore! NM copy with a warp that does not affect play.

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Style: Reagge-Funk

Format: LP
Label: Vulvan

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

Everybody - I mean EVERYBODY dance to Jungle Beat!

The rest is fine and System is a classic...

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Style: Goumba Soula Gandjal

Format: LP
Label: Kappa

Year: 1984

Condition: VG-/VG

Superb Jams from Cameroon. Can't stand still when Waioh sets the air on fire. The mellow funk bomb M'bororo cools you down perfectly afterwards... Vinyl shows hairlines and light scratches and plays with crackles here and there.

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Style: SAS really means South African Soul

Format: LP
Label: Celluloiud

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Such a beautiful mix of african Funk and Womack & Womack styled 80s Soul.  Look & Decide, but first -

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Style: Cameroon Killers

Format: LP
Label: Tessy

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

Amazing copy of this in demand gem from Cameroon.

Laminations tarts to peel at the back - otherwise perfect.

If Tessy was an UFO Govy would sit in the cockpit :ß

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Style: ROOTS!

Format: LP
Label: Trojan

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

A holy grail in the BM discography for me.

Has both my fave Marley jams.

vv down there vv

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Style: African Earworms

Format: LP
Label: Finger (Nigeria)

Year: 197?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Highly infective tunes by Mrs Biddy Uchendu.

And plenty of them!! Great copy...

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Style: SA Street Soul

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Heartwarming soul from South Africa's Stimela.

With a nod to the uplifing Womack & Womack sound!!

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Style: Digidreams

Format: LP
Label: Christiana Satel (France)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

The title tracks Looking Over There picks you straight up and takes you to Fantasy Island. The rest is great mellow drummachine-happy High Life from Ghana...

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Style: Afro Boogie

Format: 7"
Label: EMI

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Both sides of this funny looking (google Puck the Fly / die Fliege) platter RULE. Too bad there's no nigeraian press that some idiot bought on ebay for $500 - or just too good there is none...

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Style: Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: New Cross

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Sickest UK only Afro Disco in top condition.

I won't spoke any more cos now you

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Style: Highlife Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Okoman

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG woc back

First pressing of this hard to find Afro gem recorded in Berlin, 1982.

Including these sought after foot movers Akoo Te Brofo and Medo Menanm

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Style: Highlife Boogie

Format: LP
Label: MSH

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG 

Rex Gyamfi's amazing first LP.

Superb Afro boogie for sweet ladies and gents!

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Style: Burger Highlife

Format: 12"
Label: Oval

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Tasty Burger Highlife by Lee Dodou and his crew.

Duke is the more subtle jam here and my HIT

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Style: Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: Dragon Phenix

Year: 1978

Condition: VG/G+

Disco boogie & hypnotic afro synth on this 4 tracker by Burkina Faso former Bozambo drummer. Cover is beaten up but not falling apart. The good tracks play amazing (-> VG+).

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Style: Soukouss

Format: LP
Label: Radio Rivage

Year: 1983

Condition: VG/VG

Watch out, here comes Maika and the orchestre Malaika!

Their soukous jams are on fire and very funky... Record plays mostly VG+ except from end of B2 and start of B3. These two tracks have not made it into the clip since there are way better tracks ;)

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Style: High Life

Format: LP
Label: Makossa International

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ still in shrink

Superfunky Highlife not only for African Children!

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Style: Zouk!

Format: LP
Label: LM

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Pretty much Balearic Zouk at it's best moments

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Style: Disco Boogie

Format: LP
Label: EMI Nigeria

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG

High Energy Disco Boogie with a whole lot of soul from Lagos. Looks and plays astonishingly clean for a 2nd hand record from Nigeria that was probaly not pressed on virgin vinyl.

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Style: Zouk Party

Format: LP
Label: Moradisk

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG

Fresh Zouk album including the mighty mover Ayo Dance. Listen and make sure you make it past the break around 30 seconds in.

That's where the fun begins!

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Style: Afrobeat

Format: LP
Label: Emidisc / Music For Pleasure

Year: 1975

Condition: VG+/VG+

Not too many hits on Music For Pleasure, but this album holds the mighty Afrobeat BOMB African Woman. I've seen beautiful things when dropped.

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Style: Afro-Jazz

Format: LP
Label: A-Disc

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Beautiful Afro-Jazz recorded in Sweden.

Wonderful mellow vibes...

Highly recommended!!

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Style: Makossa Synth

Format: LP
Label: GMA

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

The title is a bit misleading. Bebey Blacks definition of Electric Boogie sounds like proper Makossa mixed with Afro Disco to my ears. There's a lot of synthesized fire under Bebey's pot of Makossa. Jean Pierre Coco making the pace!

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Superfunky Afro jams from Austria? Yes please!

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Style: S.A. Fire!

Format: 12"
Label: Important

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Two great jams on this under the radar 12" by Sipho Mabuse. Burn Out is a wonderful Afro-Cosmic jammer whilst Zanzibar focusses on the girls and boys at the beach.

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Style: Soukouss

Format: LP
Label: WAM

Year: 198?

Condition: VG/VG

Mamie's got the tunes to make you sizzle.

Fire! Fire! Plays great!

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Style: Rumba on the river

Format: LP
Label: OR

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

You can't stand still when these infectous rumbas capture your ears. Tshala's angelic voice taking you higher...

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Style: Fuji!

Format: LP
Label: Omo Aje

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG- claws of a lion touched the cover's spine

I must admit that I have never heard of Fuji before discovering this record. By chance I directly got the self acclaimed king of Fuji who now calls himself K1 De Ultimate. His balls must have the size of ostrich eggs. Fortunately the music is not that blown up. Sounds pretty grounded!

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Style: Afro Synth Madness

Format: LP
Label: Pan African Records (UK)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this sought after Pat Thomas gem!

If only all records labeled "High Life" were like this :)

The complete 20 minute long B-Side is beyond real!

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Style: Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: Axum

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Sizzling Afro Disco recorded in Munich back in 1980.

Two uptempo jams reigned by some irresistible synth lines plus that mellow grover African Woman make this stealth private gem a winner.

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Style: Funky Calypso

Format: LP
Label: WIRL

Year: 1977

Condition: VG/VG 

Superfunky Calypso and reggae from Barbados.

Including the mighty RB Groove!

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Style: Highlife

Format: 12
Label: Rokel

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Easy Dancing is allright but Freetown Calypso on the flip is the hit here. Extremely positive vibes and an true body shaker. Get dancing!

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Style: Zouk / Kadence

Format: LP
Label: Kadance

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Frizzling Zouk working on your legs like northpoles. 

Music for good times!!

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Style: Afro / Ghana High Life

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG 

If all records labeled High Life were like this i'd be a high life fanatic. The side filling title track is a slow panty remover and the complete b-side kills it gently.

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Style: Tropical

Format: LP
Label: D&K

Year:1983

Condition: NM/VG+ SIGNED!!

Rare dutch release filled with deep tropical jams. Check out Dance With Me In The Morning as well as This Is Not A Sayonara in the clip!

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