Dancing For Mental Health

 
Style: Outsider Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Fever

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

The title track does it for me. And it DOES! Awesome hypnotic outsider pop with a Afro Cosmic rhythm set. Props to Jago DJ for unearthing this a couple of years ago!

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Style: Cosmic World

Format: LP
Label: Ausfahrt

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Das Internationale Geräuschorchester made the transition to an

english version of their name. I guess because that sounds a little more "international". Fortunatly they keep recording those wonderful mid tempo cosmic world dance jams. Open minded dancefloors yearn for this!!

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Style: Dancing With Mental Dub

Format: 12"
Label: Island (Ger)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

The essence of  Dancing For Mental health.

Coming as the nine minute long dub version!

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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 a copy on board!

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Style: Odd Dance

Format: LP
Label: Cosmos

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

Funky Flute Fakes from Niederösterreich.

All machines in the Klangfabrik are switched to Silly mode!

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Style: Dubby Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Kaz

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Kazuko Hohki, Kazumi Taguchi, David Toop, Steve Beresford, Alexander Balanescu, Annie Whitehead, Clive Bell, Elisabeth Perry, Joao Bosco De Oliveira, Lol Coxhill, Roberto Pla, Tony Coe. This records does not have a bad track. It has 10 tracks!!!

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Style: Proto Something

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  seamsplit

Danceable Aerobic tunes galore. The outstanding track is Turning On.

Proto Detroit Techno with vocoded vocals... ENERGY!!

Albion knows!

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Style: Blub  Blub

Format: 12"
Label: Extra

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Extra demented goo. Euro Dance for the crazy hour!

Remember what hapened to the Soundstealers?

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Style: Mutant or Monster

Format: LP
Label: Csablanca

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+  

How Long is still as good as it was in 1980.

Herr Köhnke based a good part of his succes on it too ...

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Style:  Dancefloor Sureshots / HYMN

Format: 12"
Label: CBS

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

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 his Amanda ... LIKE NEW ARCHIVE COPY!

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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: Afro Cosmic

Format: CD
Label: Congano

Year: 1995

Condition: NM/VG+  

Ethno inspired AFRO-DANCE-MUSIC featuring African Vibes, Jambola, Ashanti & Mongawa. 80% of these pseudos are Stefan Egger and Michael Baur setting their clock at 107 BPM. That cover of Crocket's Theme ... oh and there's a 22 minute long MegaMix at the end of the cd for a DJs proper toilet break!

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Style: Muscle Dance

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG

A classy selection of Balearic Classics and Paradise Garage greats.

Moments In Love next to Adventures in Success knowing Life Is Something Special. When Thinking About Yout Love Larry Levan's says of Feel Up, Grace!

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Style: Mystic SHt

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1985

Condition: M/VG+ sealed copy

Wally's hits and lots of dialogue for your next mix or track...

And then there's this ambient marsh where the voodoo lives!

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Style: Euro Dance / Opera House

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

A seldom seen Euro-Dance beauty with a flipside from heaven. Infact I cannot recall how Side 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. This is the 12" with wide and deep grooves...

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Style: New York Mutant Funk

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

 A highly potent Mutan Funk comp including Was Not Was' magnificent Wheel Me Out, Don Armando's Deputy of Love and many more!!

Quite the opposite of a one tracker

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Style: Modern Dance

Format: 12"
Label: Koch

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Irresistible "Over the top-Synth Pop" from Austria.

Has a very Modern Sound ;)

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Style: Cosmic Synth

Format: 12"
Label: Intercord

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

The german Pink Marbled Vinyl version.

A true cosmic classic when pitched down.

Pink Rhythm's John Rocca produced this gem!

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Style: Weirdo JazzFunk

Format: LP
Label: Guerilla Records & Tapes

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

"Clive Stevens is an English synthesizer genius whose brand of funk, fusion and rock is simply light years ahead of the competition."

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Style: Spastiscus Disco Dubs

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

The lord, Chaz and Sly & Robbie having fun at Compass.

Spasticus Autisticus is just the tip of the iceberg...

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Style: Awesome Chill / Big Beats

Format: 2LP
Label: Wall Of Sound / Pussyfoot

Year: 1996

Condition: NM/VG+

Killer comp including Akasha's Brown Sugar and more of the downbeat magic. Not to forget these big Big Beats...

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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: Cosmic Rain

Format: LP
Label: X-Records

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

One of Peter Hauke's masterpieces (together with the TCP) imho.

Johnny Davis brought in some boogie elements to the usual Hauke / Carey / Schönherz madness. Forget about the few rock songs on the record and dance in the Rain (2007 Tako signature track), dance in Space, dance to the boogie down Party Music and slip into something cozy to the incredibly smooth emotional shower Never Felt This Way Before!

This one is coming with a highly limited (1 of 5) T-Shirt in large with the Q head printed on front.

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Style: Afro Cosmic

Format: 12"
Label: Sound Station

Year: 1993

Condition: NM/VG corner bümp

Automatic pushing the remote control for some heavy Afro-Cosmic bangers. Yes BANGERS!

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Style: Hot, Hot, Hot!

Format: 12"
Label: Elektra (US)

Year: 1988

Condition: M/NM

I taped this from the radio back then.

Made me hop hop hop around my room.

the Francois K mix is beyond good!

Sealed copy...

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Style: Demented Dance

Format: 12"
Label: DA

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

If god was a squirrel, he'd throw all of his nuts on the dancefloor when these songs are played! Not understanding the Katmandu connection !?!

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Style: Corporate Rules

Format: LP
Label: Amphonic

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

We have a pneumatic delivery from the 16th floor here. The product is ready for a succesful launch. A Strong Concept and Foreign Investments made it possible to reach a wider audience. We were able to spread our Business Vision through Intercompany Communications. Now all executives are lined up to greet the artist. Yes, same James Harrington!

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Style: Mysterious Vibes

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG

The world's least favourite Rolling Stone and lover of young Mandy recorded this mysterious soundtrack at the turn to the 80s. Weird Tropicalia meets Dark Ambients bits until Slow Cosmic hits the fan. Creepy synth drones take control again but suddenly they transform into fluffy clouds of love. What a trip!

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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: Psyche Rock

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1967

Condition: VG+/VG(+)  

The most popular (!) album by one of the fathers of musique concrète. Jerky electronics meet eclectic rhytms made for Ballet dancing. I just tried dancing to it as a morning exercise and I can tell you it was big fun! (Neighbours forgive me ;) Vinyl shows light marks but plays GREAT , the OG 1967 heavy vinyl is almost indestructible.

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Style:  Leftfield Dance / Lifesaver

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG small sticker tear

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: Welsh Beat

Format: 12"
Label: Concrete

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

The welsh version of New Beat! Pam? is pretty straight. The remics of Be? has that rough early 90s breakbeat (Apache to be precise) FIRE!

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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: RHYTHM TRACKS!

Format: LP
Label: Night n Day

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Agreed! This one looks like an average jingles dump.

Who would guess that it's loaded with instrumental hammers.

With BPM counts from 105 to 160 there's is something for all of us ;)

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Style: Gregorian Hop

Format: Maxi CD
Label: Intercord

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Drinking against mental health. Erst Komasaufen, dann Komasingen.

The drunken masters of chillbeat right in you ear.

All four mixes included!!

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Style: Disco Pop

Format: 12"
Label: WEA

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

A major hit that doesn't fail 30 years later. Including the Extended Special Dance Version and most important: the Instrumental!

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Style: Melancholic Dancing

Format: LP
Label: Arista

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Embrace yourself and dance to the beat of Thomas Leer.

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Style: Pop Breaks / Swedish Rap

Format: 7"
Label: Dance Pool

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rap from Sweden with a breakbeat.

Sounds as if it could have been popular.

Sounds as if you should have heard it...

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Style: COSMIC!

Format: MCD
Label: MNF

Year: 199?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Cosmic DJs of the world!

Are you hungry during a set once in a while?

This CD is the cure. Insert in the CDJ and go eating...

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Style: COSMIC!

Format: MCD
Label: Dakoda

Year: 1996

Condition: M/M sealed

Sick jams by the austrian king of Afro Cosmic!

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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: 4th World Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Erdenklang

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

4th world fusion played entirely on the Fairlight!! Ex Family member Palmer gathered a bunch of freaks for this experiment. Among them british legends like John Surman and Mel Collins (King C.) and even Cymande's drummer Sam Kelly.

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Style: Magic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

This Amiga exclusive by Josef Skrzek and his crew holds the mighty Magische Blaue Stunde, my favourite song recorded by SBB. A deep and subtle but incredibly funky tune. Check it out!

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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:  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: Dancing For Personal Success

Format: 7" Pomo
Label: Island (Ger)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

"The power to do anything you can imagine is within you"

here's the mad rare single sided promo... very useful in that singles box

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Style: Cosmic Prog

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Enter the FM spaceship and fasten the seat belts.

Expect to fly high on synth stacks and tribal prog juice...

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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: Not Just Words

Format: 12"
Label: Ariola (Ger)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

Mutant Disco Elephants shining like new.

Coming in the classiest Ariola Maxi Cover there is.

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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:  Italian Weirdness

Format: LP
Label: Pull

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

Craaaaaazy Italian Disco and Psyched Out jams for all you freaks in the woods or at the beach out there... Worship the Jungle Child and his noodling synths and off beat drum machines!

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Style: Dance Experiments

Format: 7"
Label: MCA

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

Never been a fan of Whole Lotta Love in any version so I can tell you anything about th A-Side. It's a miracle I even listened to this one and I'm really happy about that wonder. Experiment 4  (The Art of Picasso) is a subtle BOMB!

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Style: Cats and Dogs Dancing

Format: 12"
Label: A&M

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

TOP sounding bootleg in amazing condition.

A cat's hymn not only for fans of long dogs!

SPECIAL DISCO VERSION!

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Style:  Good Times Ahead

Format: 12"
Label:  MCA

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Including the awesome instrumental dub!!!

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