Dancing For Mental Health

 
Style: Cosmo-Animalympic Jams

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG  small tear

10CC's Gouldman on the Animalympic trip. 

Get on the floor and do the Bionic Boar!!

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Style: Odd Pop / German Rap

Format: 7"
Label: Pool

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG

Melancholic Synth Pop flirting with Italo Disco called Flug In Die Unendlichkeit on side A and the ribbedi-Rap King of Berlin on the flip. Don't sleep!

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Style: Balla Balla

Format: CD Maxi Single
Label: Columbia

Year: 1995

Condition: NM/VG+

No Frills brought you here, eh?

N' Gude Käs, N'gude Käs!

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Style: Classics In Disguise

Format: 7"
Label: Racket

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

I have no clue why Horst has a problem with breakfast eggs. maybe he just didn't know what to sing and höhere Wesen befahlen something about eggs. Any idea what the original is?

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Style: Synth Pop / Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Neuland

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Detail: Red vinyl

Pretty unknown german Synt Pop / Boogie basterd with a bit of a "Style Council" Sound. The intrumental jam Russian Lover might also be something for Italo Disco people. Highly recommended!!

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Style: Progged out Pop

Format: LP
Label: Polydor Italia

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Progressively influenced italian siinger songwriter pop. Including that incredibly beast of a track called La Voglia Di ... (transl. "the desire to...") it sounds as if it's coming from Toni Esposito's Rosso Napoletano.

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Style: Post Can Dub

Format: 7"
Label: Fünfundvierzig

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Seldom seen seven inches of Dunkelziffer.

Good vibes on side A. Q on the flipside

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Style: Mental Kraut Disco

Format: LP
Label: ZYX

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

One of my secret weapons to get stiff parties going... This late Witthüser album has not been very popular at times. Maybe people just didn't understand the humour?

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Style: Post-Can-Krautrock at it's best

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ incl. printed innersleeve 

Ode To Perfume, my friends, 18 minutes of Ode to Perfume!

IMO one of the greatest pieces of music ever to be recorded!!!

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Style: Synth Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: GNP

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM  light dish warp, plays great

Alex Cima is well known among connaisseurs of intelligent Cosmic Disco. His second album is standing in shadow of this monster but it shouldn't. If you dig library style oddities to dance and do the freak to check this immediately...

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Style: Downtempo killer

Format: 7"
Label: Magic Cube (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Ahhsome downtempo 2-sider from the Bremen area. Probably influenced by local heroines Saada Bonaire. It has that vibe... Bits of Help The Man in there too. Music is - great, but the B-Side Never Look Back is even better imo. Have you slept on this for the last two years? Well here's a copy at a decent rate again...

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Style: New Beat

Format: 12"
Label: DA

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Who knows this odd New Beat stomper from Frankfurt that sounds best when slowed down? Me, and I scream out loud: The B- Side, The B-Side (=> Instrumental)

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Style: Cocktail Parties gone wrong

Format: 12"
Label: White Gold Dance

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

Don't listen to that cover of Gainsbourgh's Je T'Aime. Go straight to side 2 for WEIRD tropical pleasures. Cocktail Parties gone wrong and then some...

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Style: Cosmic Kraut

Format: 7"
Label: EMI

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

A story about a guy named Tommi who wanted to be a moviestar and ended in gay porn. Musically just as interesting ...

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Style: Afro Synth (Pop)

Format: 12"
Label: Island

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Great Midtempo Floorfiller. Including the extended Mix (7:06)

plus Edit and the very useful Dub (5:26)

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Style:  Krauts going Bananas

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

welcome to the weird world of banana slippers. Wahle and his friends came up with a odd mix of Prog and synthesized summertime Pop plus some massive discoid Rock on the B-Side.

Highly recommended!

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Style:  Jazz-Funk / Proto House

Format: LP
Label: Ray Lynch

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+ WOC = SIGNED

Signed copy of this holy grail of educational jazz dance records... Made by Ray Lynch for his dance lessons down in Stuttgart. Pressed in tiniest quantities and accordingly hard to find.

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Style: Meshuga Dancing

Format: 12"
Label: ZYX

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

"New World, New Dance, New Girl , New Song, New Beat, New People on the floor. Listen to the voices, listen what they say." Well they say Wakk Digge Dugge Baba Dugge Bamanu and it's as stupid as you'd guess but it actually works on a drunk floor like the promise for free beeeeeeeeeer. WTF Disco!?!

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Style: Odd Future Classics

Format: LP
Label: Eichhorn

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

What a versatile EP by the Shamall trio!!

Starting with the odd peaktime pusher My Dream where continental synth pop meets pumping Italo Disco, followed by the slow (100) cosmic jam Caligula 2009 and finally the balearic jam Karin brings in some synthetic emotions and the occasional shred. Highly recommended!

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Style: Tribal Dub

Format: 12"
Label:  Rough Trade

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's the amazing 1989 rework of the Tribal classic by Adrian Sherwood.

Including the mighty DUB!!

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Style: Post Can Dubby Happiness

Format: EP
Label: 45

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this exquisite Dunkelziffer EP. Including You make me happy, 1st Future Information, Trailer and 2nd Future Information. None of these available on LP...

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Style: Nonsense Disco

Format: 12"
Label: RCA

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Welcome to Nut-Disco Country! "Pantomime auf 45" on the B-Side is the tune here.....and a very useful tool for the floor

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Style: Electronic Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Hot Electronic Disco writen by Ralf Nowy and produced by Peter Lüdemann and Jack White. If those names didn't convince you yet check the soundclip!!

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Style: New Age Dancing

Format: 7"
Label: DA

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Balearic House on one side -

New Age Dance on the other.

Highest recommendation!

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Style: Synth Pop Smashers

Format: 7"
Label: Hansa

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Fighting with windmills?

Only on the dancefloor please!!

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Style: New Age Elektro

Format: 7"
Label: IC

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG

Two amazing New Age Dance jams from IC's Dancing Fantasy era.

Both sides rule...

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Style: Dub Monsters

Format: 12"
Label: Island

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Can nothing stop this MUSIC! Sly & Robbie jamming the shit out of this electro dub groover.

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Style: Ali Rap

Format: 7"
Label: Mercury

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rare Ali Rap in nicest condition. Including Promosheet: Türkei trifft Deutschland, nicht nur in den Sommerferien...

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Style: Post Can Dub

Format: 12"
Label: Rough Trade

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/generic

2 HITS from the Dunkelziffer crew!

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Style: Advert Breaks

Format: LP
Label: Steyrer Disco

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG small repaired tear 

Wearing my Mustang Jeans whilst typing these letters. It muts have worked on me... Odd music for odd times! The small cult label Steyrer Disco accomanies Mustang's Autumn & Winter collection 1983 with a mixed bag of goodies. My fave is Klaus Herzing's ELEKTRONIK jam Journey to Alternaty only available on this comp and a horribly hard to find 7". But check out also Peter Janda's Pluto (that begs for an edit) and that funky superman disco joint. Picture Disc inside!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Wunschklang

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Eerie german compilation from the mid 80s. Including the lovely Caribic Sundance by the Acoustic Groove Band, the Boogie Funk tune Love You by Mardi Gras (unfortunately this seems to be their only track recorded...) and Mutant Disco by Konec called Rio. 

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Style: Vocoder Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  woc = signed

Loner Kraut from Munich featuring Dave King and Curt Cress. The outstanding tune is the vocoder spiced Krautfunk jam I've Been Worried. 

Don't miss!

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Style: Sizzling Synth Pop / Mutant Dance

Format: 7"
Label: Stunt Sound

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Funky african inspired Synth Pop meets Mutant Disco on the flip.

Unplayed stock copy with light storage wear to sleeve and bits of dust!

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Style: Mutant Disco

Format: LP

Label: ZE Island UK

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+(incl. printed innersleeve)

Lots of tunes for the dancefloor on this Mutant Disco nugget.

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Style: Avant Dance

Format: 7"
Label: Mosquito

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM 

Poet Gysin rapping his shit over Matta's grooves.

Don Cherry playing the bird in the cage. HUGE!!

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Style: Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Megadisc

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Richenel got a proper record deal after privately releasing the incredible "La Diferencia" on tape (see MFM reissue). Here's his first LP called Statue Of Desire. Pure fun!

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Style: Synth Funk / Space Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Crea

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

Another massive album by master Patzer. Slow blowing Synth Funk all over the place. Mental Disco adventures with "Beat It" licks called Saturday Explosion closing the funhouse!

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Style: Electronic NL

Format: LP
Label: CBS NL

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Weird dutch electronics. Including the massive hit Giddiyap A Gogo featuring Daniel Sahuleka on vocals.

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Style: Raw Street Soul

Format: 12"
Label: Intrigue

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Elegant and soulful breakbeats from the fantastic Soul Conection's second album Raw Street Soul. Dub included. The previously un-released Dance If You Wanna Dance also included!

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Style: Bonker Fonk

Format: LP
Label: CGD

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG- waavy cover

Squallor is a group of italian parody rockers. Cappelle is the one album to get since it has these mad spoken word jams D'Annunziata and Confucio. Get your freak on!

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Style: New Beat

Format: 7"
Label: Target

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Very purcussive New Beat from Belgium taking you on a camel ride to an unspecific location in the Orient!! Unplayed stock copy with light storage wear to cover.

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Style: Anything You Like

Format: 7"
Label: CBS

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Let's call these guys flexible!

Thanks for this funky oddity ...

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Style: Thunderdome Spirit

Format: 12"
Label: Capitol

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Magic moments without Tina!! The instrumental is in fact an odd pop gem... very danceable too!

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Style: Italian Wave

Format: 12"
Label: WEA

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Excellent italian wave that just got a renaisance through the rework by Leo Mas!!

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Style: OPEN MINDED Disco

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Seminal leftfied Disco LP filled with underground hits like Oh That Love Decision, Prisoner Of My Principles, Como Esta Usted, etc

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Style: Balearic / High Energy

Format: LP
Label: Record Shack

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Slip into something comfortable and enjoy the end of the night with the title track - a highly emotional balearic booster spinned by Harvey. High Energy wake up calls included too!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Z-Records

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Obscure DIY compilation from Hamburg, Germany. Including 5 pretty uninteresting tracks and 3 tracks that I really enjoy. They couldn't be more different: the first is some easy jazz funk tune á la Style Council - The Only One by a band called The Shuffle; the second a superobscure funky NDW tune called Nur ein Witz (transl. only a joke) by Shizo and the third and my fave is the deep and hypnotic turkish tune Leylim Ley by the Arkadaslar Orkestrasi 84!

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Style: East of Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Pool

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM 

City's second album including the infamous underground club hit Aus Der Ferne mingling a proper beat with east european and oriental vibes. And then the beat drops in again!! There's more good stuff on the album in a kind of very unique ethno prog style. Highly recommended.

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Style: Cosmic Strings

Format: LP
Label: Editions EG

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Post Quiet Sun progressive Cosmic.

Dancing for mental health!

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Style: Never Leave The Bag

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Driving NDW featuring Can's Jaki Liebezeit on drums. Some seriously odd jams here. The sickest one is of course the Herbergsvater Tri Tra Trullala. Has not left my bag ever since the 90s

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Style: Mbaqanga / Township Jive

Format: LP
Label: Rounder

Year: 1989

Condition: M/VG+ sealed

These queens from Sout Africa brought some kings to keep the township dancing. No bowing down required as long as you jive along!

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Style: Electro Disco

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Instrumentals..... the tightest Human League record ever.

"Metro Area sound" 20 years before Metro Area

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Style: Sunny Synths

Format: 12"
Label: ZYX

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

Shuffled up balearic synth pop on side a plus that Mike Francis style sleazy cocktail jam Water From The Moon on the flipside. TUNES!!!

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Style: J-Rap

Format: LP
Label:  File Records

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/VG+  

Highly recommended "Golden Age" J-Rap by these funky veterans. Even if you don't dig J-Rap that fluffy Guiter Dub of  N.I.C.E. Guy will make your knees tremble

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Style: Vocoded Synth Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Indisc

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Funky mid tempo synth pop with a hook to scream along in the middle of the night. Who's that Digital Lady. Bring your vocoders!! Unplayed stock copy with light storage wear to sleeve!

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Style: Electro

Format: 12"
Label: Disques Zou-A-Ves

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

A highly positive electro banger from France!

Thanks a lot Vidal!!

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Style: Dubbed OUT!

Format: 7"
Label: Master Records

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Yeah Space Invaders! But hell yeah that Space In Faders on the flipside will totally DUB the shit out of you!

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Style: Weirdo Dance / Free Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Core

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Bristish free jazz lagend Keith Tippet teams up with Crimson's Dave Cross, Jim Juhn on guitar and mighty Dan Maurer on drums for this short lived project. Call it Rock In Opposition, call it Free Fusion, call it Mutant Dance or whatever as long as you listen to it!! Moronathon (2nd in the clip) is a lovely challenge for courageous disc jockeys. 

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Style: Fleetwooden Floors

Format: 12"
Label: WB

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Including the floorshaking Arthur Baker Remix championed by Copenhagen Family Man Mikkel and the Family Party (Bonus Beats). Perfect for partying in good company :)

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Style:  Electro / Hip Hop

Format: 12"
Label:  RCA

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Massive Electro for your dancefloor!

Including the DUB version...

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Style: Cosmic Overdrive

Format: 12"
Label: Sonet

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Seldom seen 12" including that MONSTER of a track Nineteen Eighty Five on the flipside. Are you prepared for take off??

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Style:  Italian Weirdness

Format: LP
Label: Pull

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

Craaaaaazy Italian Disco and Psyched Out jams for all you beachfreaks out there... 

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Style: Disco

Format: 12"
Label: Epic (Ger)

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's a signed copy of the only sought after Sailor record ;) The rare german picture sleeve Maxi of their footstomping Disco Bomb -

2 minutes longer than the album version.

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Style: Scottish Raves

Format: LP
Label: Big Life

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/VG+

Succesfully climbing the Stone Roses and making it their own.

Proper post rave rock with a funky accent!

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Style: Jazz Funk / Brasil / Elektronik / Synth-Pop / Folky Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label (Private)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM (incl. a 22 pages booklet)

Obscure and hard to find private newcomer compilation from Berlin 1979.  Including Baden Powell's Berimbau played by Ipanema,  the groovy Keep On Pushing by Airship and the first appearance of Christian Kneisel's Dig It Al(l) with the track Siouxsie Sioux

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Style: Mediterrenean Grooves

Format: 7"
Label: EMI

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+  

The Capuano Brothers again! Milk 'n' Honey on the flipside will please friends of balearic funk to the MAX!

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Style: Dutch Pearls

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Their amazing first album including the hits Precious Little Diamond (Mayer's Amanda wouldn't be a thing without it) Boogie influenced Pop with a very european vibe!!

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Style: Cowboy dancing with Mutants

Format: 7"
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Gichy Dan of Kid Creole fame mesing with the cowboys.

Proper mutant disco for leftfield floors.

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Style: Heisse Kartoffeln

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Odd german soundtrack disco.

Both sides rule!

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Style:  Disco Not Disco

Format: LP
Label: ZE (UK)

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Lizzy's first including Torse Corso, a great cover of Lalo Schifrin's Jim on the move and the funky Fire. Not to forget that massive wrongspeeder Aya Mood 3.5.  NM vinyl with a light wave that doesn't affect the play

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Style: Tribal Dances

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG+  

You don't need to be a bad lieutenant to be dancing naked in the dark to that beast of a track called Hollis Brown.

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Style:  Cosmic

Format: 7"
Label: Teldec

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG

Frank Duval in disguise - and he did it again!

Octogon on the B-Side is the winner here

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Style: Synth Folk

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Pretty unusual sounds for friends of the unexpected.

Deep and melancholic folk not folk not pop.

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Style:  Percussion Meets Synthesizer

Format: LP
Label: CMP

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Two geniusses getting together to JAM. Synth & Percussion!

All killer no filler. Please listen to the whole clip!!

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Style: Rai

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rai? Arabian Style Synth Pop?

A little edgier than Ahmed but still awesome

Make sure to check this one before it's gone!

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Style: Summer Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's the extended 12" Arthur Baker remix of this Summer Hit (haha) including the very useful Instrumental version on the flipside.

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Style: Italo Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Teldec

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Hansi Ströer goes Italo Disco? Check out this pumping tune sung by the japanese/german ex tv-host Hiroko Murata! Also including the instrumental version ...

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Style:  Good Times Ahead

Format: 12"
Label:  MCA

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Including the awesome instrumental dub!!!

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Style: Rockabilly Waves

Format: 7"
Label:  Celluloid

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM 

Like new warehouse find of the only Minimal Rockabilly tune out there? Get dancing!

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Style:  Dancefloor Sureshots / HYMN

Format: 12"
Label: CBS

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

simply a TIMELESS HIT. If you have never heard this song but parts of the song sound familiar to you - it was  sampled by Michael Mayer for Amanda ...

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Style: ÖDW / Mnml Wv

Format: LP
Label: Gig

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Check this fantastic Austrian Mnml Wv album including the Danceflor Bomb 1000 Takte Tanz

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Style: Moroder Disco

Format: 12"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+  

The Sparks teamed up with Giorgio for this massive Salon Des Amateurs hit...

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Style: Synth Pop with an Afro Touch

Format: 7"
Label: Island

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Great Midtempo Floorfiller that sounds like a pricey Afro Synth jam.

Plus the boogie funk tune Working Hard on the flipside

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