Dancing For Mental Health

Style: Amazing Dance

Format: EP

Label: Glowing Pin Records

Year: 2020

Condition: M/M

Impromptu muscovite supergroup Lilipulu turn the needle neon with a quartet of unexpected killers for club cosmonauts, rainforest ravers, anxious insomniacs and giddy punks.

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Style: Cosmic Breaks

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG tear wrinkles 

Insane percussion bits and samples on this proggy beast.

Might be something for your next mix?

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Style: Disco / Funk / Italo-Pop

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Obscure 80s soundtrack. Featuring some nice 80s jams. I made an edit from one of these. Check it out here. A CD with the Edit will be included. 

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Style: Euro House / New Age Streetsoul

Format: 7"
Label: Blaxx Maxx

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

That incredibly positive Euro House track on side a smiling like Shanice would be enough for some people but there's this JAM on the flip that one would expect on a 90s Dancing Fantasy single. The HIT in my house! PS New Radio Version! (whatever that means)

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Style: Cosmic Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's an odd german soundtrack to a movie nobody has ever heard of. It holds a bunch of very interesting synth pop tunes ranging from percussive over cosmic to mellow and emotional. Side one has a lot of rather short cuts. Some of them returning on side b in longer and different versions. Check it out!

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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: 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: 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: 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:  Electro Reggae?

Format: LP
Label: Mango

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM 

Sly & Robbie caring for some dubbed out Electro Reggae. This LP is kind of a compilation from tracks produced between 1983 and 1986. Warm recommendation for chilled dancefloors. If you dig Wally Badarou's work, this sound might suit you as well!

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Style: Euro Dance / 

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

A seldom seen Euro-Dance beauty with a flipside from heaven. Infact I cannot recall how A sounds at all, B Blew me to the moon or to the opera on the moon. Guilty pleasures galore on this summer smash hit '91

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Style: Fake Italo

Format: 12"
Label: ZYX

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Swedish Synth-Pop swimming in the Italo pool. Right fits perfectly into your 1985 italian excursion tape but the remix version of New Art does not. Creeping slowly through the garden at cosmic 95 BPM this is the secret Fake hit!

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Style:  Mutant Disco

Format: 12" 45rpm
Label: Virgin

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

The german 12" running on 45 rpm including the instrumental version of the amazing Prisoner Of My Principles. check what happens when played at 33 +8 !!  I emphatically recommend the LP with the original version as well. The lyrics are awesome.....

(33 +8)!!! or (45)!

 
Style: Elektro Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Bashers, elektro boogie bashers. The IMS's second album has long been overlooked even though it is so damn good. Peep the clips!!

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Style: Dub

Format: LP
Label: On U Sound

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Adrian Sherwood on the console. Expect mental dub, mutant electro disco and some oddities as well!

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Style: Overpowered By Funk

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG rip at the open seam

If you're unsure about staying or leaving - better stay and Rock the Casbah with raw and punkified Funk.

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Style:  Proto "Disco Not Disco"

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

Sorry to bother you guys, but for everyone into dance music this record is a MUST. One of those LPs you can listen to from beginning to end and it keeps on bedazzling you. Even after spinning it for decades ...

Tommy Mottola lives on the road!

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Style:  a voice and a sampler

Format: LP
Label: WB

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Including the ONE (for me) Todd Rundgren track - Lost Horizon !!

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Style: Mutant Disco

Format: 12"
Label: ZE (Ger)

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+ hairlines

Two massive Muatnt Disco hits on this lovely Maxi Single.

Produced by August Darnell ala Kid Creole aka Dr Buzzard.

Fonda "Heobah" Rae on vocals...

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Style: Leftism

Format: LP
Label: Oval

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG

Think Ian Dury on Raki (but ten times better)

and enjoy your life!

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Style: Daniele's Faves

Format: LP
Label: Metronome (Ger)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Including some of those wonderful mellow Akkerman jams PLUS the incredible drum-machine driven Baldelli fave Back To The Factory

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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: 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: Acid Downbeat / Deep House

Format: EP
Label: Lo Fi Stereo

Year: 2000

Condition: NM/VG+

Dude is a genius! Deepest dives into electronic music of the turn of the century. Many have aged, not this all killer no filler EP. 

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Style: Cosmic Rock

Format: 7"
Label: UA

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rare german picture cover version of this epic cosmic corker!

Hands in the air and move along with the synth melody!

Making Camp Cosmic explode...

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Style: Cosmic Overlord

Format: 12"
Label: Frog

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Q: Killer Jam?

A: KILLER JAM!

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Style: New Age Elektro

Format: 12"
Label: IC

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

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

Both sides rule... THIS IS THE HARD TO FIND 12"!

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Style: Bonker Fonk

Format: LP
Label: CGD

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/NM still in shrink!

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: Dancing With Mental Dub

Format: 12"
Label: Island (Ger)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

The nine minute long dub version!!!!!

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Style: Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: TFGC

Year: 2016

Condition: M/M

Superb sessions of dubbed Elektronik!

Made in Düseldorf by Stabil Elite's very own Lucas Croon ...

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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: Odd Boogie

Format: LP
Label: MFM

Year: 2017

Condition: M/M 

These insanely beautiful private boogie jams from the Netherlands are finally available on vinyl thanks to the MFM crew!

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Style: Dub

Format: 7"
Label: l.i.e.s.

Year: 2017

Condition: M/M 

Extremel limited promo copy by the cut up veteran Krikor diving into the dub basin wearing a Minneapolis Genius t-shirt. There's going to be an album later this year... i just can't wait!!

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Style: Experimental Dance

Format: EP
Label: Vul Vulpes

Year: 2016

Condition: M/M sealed 

Full On Leftfield Dance Music from Estonia.

Lovers of experimental dance must not miss this!!!

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Style: Concrete Worbles in Harmony

Format: LP
Label: Phon und Ton

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

As abstract as my right hand! The title is catchy but bullshit. The tunes are not. Wonderful worbly electronics with guitar that is supposed to fly to Polinesia or some other islands.

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Style: World Dance

Format: 12"
Label: World Music

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

The Muezzin is calling you to dance!

This isntrumental dub is just mental.

It's not getting easier to find these days...

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Style: Beautiful Dance Monsters

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Such a feel good tune.

One for the DJs ...

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Style:  Leftfield Dance / Lifesaver

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Where there's will, there's a way.

Dancing For Mental Health is a humorous conceptual album or, if you want, a guide to enhance your mental health by dancing. Will Powers a.k.a Lynn Goldsmith recorded some positive and danceable tunes with the help of Todd Rundgren. It's fun to listen to and at the same it gives you time to think about yourself. What do you want more?

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Style: Balearic Dance

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+ seamwear

If you should have an image of Righeira please rethink this. Yes, Vamos a la playa is a disgrace to your ears, but forget about it for a second and listen to Gli Palero Di Te, Jazz Musik and Kon Tiki. Now we can talk :)

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Style: Odd Waves

Format: LP
Label: Mondiphone

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Odd digi waves and world music influenced synth pop on this seldom seen and high in demand library from Canada.

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Style: Electro / Freestyle

Format: 7"
Label: Studio 1

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rarest french Freestyle.

Remix on the flip!

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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: 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: Rare Smashers

Format: 12"
Label: Parlophone

Year: 2003

Condition: NM/Generic Inside out Disco Sleeve

One of 500 copies of this single sided weapon.

Playgraded!

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Style: Afro House

Format: 12"
Label: Barclay

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

The 12" Remix is a true uptempo primetime classic!!

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Style: Downbeat / Trip Hop

Format: 2LP
Label: Ninja Tune

Year: 2000

Condition: NM/VG+ close to NM

One of my favourite records on Ninja Food!

Especially the second LP is pure bliss...

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Style: WTF?

Format: 7"
Label: Mikado

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

I found a bunch of Fonio singles one fine day some years ago. When putting on that Bonbona as the last of 5 I was not expecting anything but more power elevator business. And then came Technical Peace.

Seriously - WTF?!?!?

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Style: Afro Pop

Format: LP
Label: Barclay

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Mr. Kante had a huge hit with Yé Ké Yé Ké and this one still grabs people worldwide. The most excellent album also holds some more mellow jams for outdoor pleasure and the prime time jam Tama!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Ottomatik

Year: 1999

Condition: NM/VG+

This private comp from the late 90 is sought after for the balearic jammer Meer-Rausch-Blau by Ubik. If you're an old fart like me and that melody sounds somehow familiar here's a hint... AND  - if you dig unusual sounds, that lush number is just the parasol on the experimental iceberg!

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Style: Cosmic Classics

Format: LP
Label: Bearsville

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Including the extremely positive cosmic classic AEO.

No excuse for not having one on board!

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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: Mutant Disco

Format: 12"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

One of my secret weapons.

Don't tell anybody, please!

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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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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