Ambient / New Age / Esoteric

 
Style: ESO WONDERLAND

Format: CD
Label: Biber

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

The kings of ESO JAZZ strike again. Such a wonderful collection of songs by Friedemann, Büdi, Ralf Illenberger's Circle and some CD only tunes by the amazing Silent Jazz Ensemble. Check out Volume 2 as well. Highest recommendation!

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Style: ESO WONDERLAND

Format: CD
Label: Biber

Year: 1993

Condition: NM/VG+  

The kings of ESO JAZZ strike again. Such a wonderful collection of songs by Friedemann, Büdi, Ralf Illenberger's Circle and some CD only tunes by the amazing Silent Jazz Ensemble. Check out Volume 1 as well. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Ambient / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Magic Cube

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Laid back New Age electronics from the North Sea.

Perfect for some rest by the window...

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Style: Symphonic Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/NM 

I always thought this would be some nerdy ahem doodly symphonic prog thing until lately I overcame my fears and just listened to it. That was a good idea: Not too symphonic and very very beautiful ... I dare to call this ambient! Mark Nauseef helping out on percussion, bells, cymbals, etc. Including the opener for my Dezember mix for Testpressing

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Style: Mellow Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Studio Montan (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Melancholic folk songs by this collective of 13 musicians from the volcanic Vulkaneifel area in southern Germany. Partly sounds like Sufjan Stevens (!) Released on their own Studio Montan label.

A rare beauty ...

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Style:  Ambient Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Musikkiste (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Imagine sitting by a medium sized pond, surrounded by meadows. It's late afternoon and the sun colors the scene with a gentle red .....

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Style:  Ambient 

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  tiny tear

Somewhere in the land bewteen Ambient, Folk and Jazz the gentle King and Ex- Ache member Finn Olafsson sits calmly and mingles the elements. What a pleasure to my ears.....

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Style: Deeper & Deeper

Format: LP
Label: Midi

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

Detail: Including Insert

I'm happy to offer you my favourite Sakamoto album. Experimental ambient at it's best. Dolphins opening this mix.

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Style:  Ambient / Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: WB

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG+

Agitation Free and Tangerine Dream member Michael Hoenig with his first solo LP. Deep and succulent ambient gems ...

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Style: Esoteric Dub, Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Pläne

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ seam split

Voyager is most definitely Friedemann's #1 LP

Including amazing tracks like Passenger without a Passport etc ...

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Style: Elektronik aus dem Osten

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the most interesting electronic LP on the east german Amiga label. 5 long and deep compositions in the tradition of early works of TD or Klaus Schulze. IMO Ruhezeit and Klangzeit are the most noteworthy among these.

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Style:  Ambient Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Lovely copy of this relaxed electronic album.

Excellent from beginning to finish! Rother at his best ...

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Style: Blissfull Oddities

Format: LP
Label: Brain

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

My favourite Eroc album including those incredibly beautiful ambient / hanseatic tunes Hundertwasser, Tausendwasser and Von Der Insel. Balaeroc!!!

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Style: Ambient / New Age / Fricking Balearic

Format: LP
Label: Marlboro

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG

What the hell did the people at Marlboro (yes the stupid cowboy ciggies) think when they teamed up with Virgin to establish a label and sign someone so gentle and esoteric like Andreas von Wangenheim? Change the whole cowboy image by releasing New Age music??

Whatever they thought - it's just fantastic that they released these wonderful songs. Calling it All killer, no filler doesn't really fit the New Age vibe, huh? But hey it's Marlboro :)  and it's shotgun recommended!

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Style: Ambient Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Vertigo

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Yatha Sidra members Klaus and Rolf Fichter recorded this lovely record at Bruno Spoerri's studio in Zurich back in 1979.

Wonderful tunes from beginning to end...

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Style: Fusion / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Jeton (Ger)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Excellent relaxed fusion. Seems to be CD only with only a tiny bunch of LPs pressed. Perfect for the summer days!

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Style: Ambient / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Marlboro

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

What the hell did the people at Marlboro (yes the stupid cowboy ciggies) think when they teamed up with Virgin to establish a label and sign someone so gentle and esoteric like Andreas von Wangenheim? Change the whole cowboy image by releasing New Age music??

Whatever they thought - it's just fantastic that they released these wonderful songs. Calling it All killer, no filler doesn't really fit the New Age vibe, huh? But hey it's Marlboro :)  and it's shotgun recommended! And you might know a track from my Dezember mix for testpressing

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Style: Ambient

Format: EP
Label: Melody As Truth

Year: 2014

Condition: M/M new 

Jonny (Land Of Light) pulling out the deepest set of cuts on his own new label. one of THE records of 2014 for me

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Style: New Age / Etheral Sensations

Format: LP
Label: Flower

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Deep and mysterious New Age vibes on this hard to find Flower library.

Etheral sensations for zoning out... watch out for the flying harp!

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Style:  Balearic Guitar Experiments

Format: LP
Label: Pläne

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

This rather pensive album holds some amazing tunes between Balearic and Organic Jazz.

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Style: Ambient / Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/NM 

"Late" and excellent album by TD's Johannes Schmoelling. Laid back Elektronik bordering New Age most of the playtime. Off to the arctic!!

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Style: New Age of Munich

Format: LP
Label: Major Music (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Some ether? Awesome oriental flavoured new agey synth-pop featuring Luna Set's Mario Strack on synths and percussion.

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Style: Ambient / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Son Gaia

Year: 1985

Condition: M/M

Sealed copy of this new age gem! Including the sound of children giggling, seagulls and waves. Super relaxing all the way through... Highest recommendation!

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Style: Autumn Moods

Format: LP
Label: pläne

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Mellow Acoustic Guitar for the days with occasional sunlight. Reimer's tunes help a lot to cope with reality after leaving the fairytale. My fave is Let Me Reach Your Island that closes the album and shows the horizon. Wonderful cover picture by Ed van der Elsken that always reminds me of the most touching compliment I ever got for DJing. When playing at the wedding of one of my art history teachers in the late 90s the widow of Ed van der Elsken came up to me and thanked me for the music. It made her dance for the first time since her husband died.

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Style: Minimal / Avantgarde

Format: LP
Label: Krem

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Piano and percussion in the shade of a cypress.

Hungarian avantgarde at the dawn of new europe.

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Style:  Fusion 

Format: LP
Label: Panton

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Great czech Fusion! Incl. the mindbending SIESTA. 

Perfect for a nap in the hammock!!

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Style: Electronic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Ashra's last record before a 9 year hiatus. Göttsching, Großkopf and Lüül exploring new territories. Sausalito sounds like a lost tune from Richard Schneider's first!

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Style:  Ambient Fusion / Esoteric Jazz 

Format: LP
Label: Edition Collage

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

The second LP by the relaxed duo comes on the wonderful micro label Edition Collage that brought us Florian Poser's Winds. Musically very close to their first outing. Ambient tunes made with synthesized guitars and saxophone. 

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Style: Fusion Not Fusion / Experimental

Format: LP
Label: SBF (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Private experimental Fusion from Austria.

Dynamic and diverse. And extremely unique.

Highly recommended.

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Style: Ambient / Minimal Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Yaki

Year: 1985

Condition: M/VG+  sealed, has some yellowing

Sealed copy of this minimal contemporary gem.

If you dig Musci and Masin you will sob!

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Style:  Ambient 

Format: CD
Label: Wergo

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Keyboards + Percussion = Ambient Heaven. Impossible to find music for dance. This is the CD version. Perfect if you don't want even a single crackle and 100€ for the vinyl is too much for the purse

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Style: Organix

Format: 7"
Label: Wundertüte

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Oppermann's most amazing and unfortunately also hardest to find tunes. Big fave of the Thing From The Woods ...

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Style:  Aussie Rules Ambient

Format: LP
Label: growing bin records

Year: 2016

Condition: M/M including Insert!

"Setting up camp where the Swan River meets the Indian Ocean, Wilson and Tanner tuned into nature, translating the warm sun, sea air and blue sky into a postcard from paradise. Lithe clarinet dances around tranquil piano, relaxed guitar decorates velvet synth textures and unhurried percussion makes an occasional appearance, as if to remind us that time’s still passing. Employing an innovative alfresco recording technique, Andy and John invited members of the local animal community to join their jam sessions, saving a Blue Swimmer Crab from the flames of the barbecue and encouraging him to claw the ivories. Drop the needle and drift away on the distant ocean of “Pilot”, freefall into the soothing ambience of ‘Further Than Your Headlights’, and let “Sun Room” guide you gently back to terra firma. The dream team of Australian musicians (not to mention a very talented crustacean), come together on one vinyl – and it’s better than you could possibly imagine." Patrick Ryder

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Style: Magic Fusion / Synth-Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Fink & Star

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Santino of Diethelm / Famulari fame on the solo path. Not piano solo as the cover might want to tell you but rich and magic fusion with a whole lot of fantastic moves and some overflowing synth boogie as the cherry on top. Private release on Diethelm's own label ...

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Style:  Synth Pop Ströer Style

Format: LP
Label: Mood

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM 

The Ströer Duo's mighty 2nd LP. Filled with fantastic cuts. Nomad Song is the outstanding one to my ears ...

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Style: Organic / Ambient

Format: CD
Label: Verabra

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG woc

Deepest organic ambient by Härte 10 and Earforce Band synthesist Mike Herting. #rare cds

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Style: New Age / Ambient Folk

Format: LP
Label: WYE (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Peaceful and quiet. Like a walk in the countryside.

One of my favourite songs from the Autumn Air mix from 2009.

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Style: Balearic New Age

Format: CD
Label: IC

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/NM

Pure bliss by the former Release Music Orchestra member and one of the fathers of baleric new age jazz ...

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Style: Cosmic Meditations

Format: LP
Label: Z Sounds (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG

Highly organic cosmic meditations played live on selfbuilt instruments in summer 1986 in Hamburg. Power recommended!

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Style: Blue Guitars

Format: LP
Label: Silver Wave

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Wonderful new age guitar poetry. Flowing like....

water! NM with some minor pops in A4.

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Style: New Age Guitar

Format: LP
Label: DDD

Year: 1989

Condition: M/M

Contemplative new age sounds on guitar. Bhakta Priya is a collection of songs recorded between 1984 and 1989 by the milanese guitar player Walter Lupi. One of those wonderfully warm records that you put on and listen to all the way through... If you dig the Andreas von Wangenheim LPs you should definitely check this out!!

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