Krautrock / Progressive What? / Psichedelica

 
Style: Psyched Kraut / Mnml Jms

Format: EP
Label: Red Line (Private)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+ including insert

Make sure to listen to these tunes from this wonderful private 12" EP. It's a three tracker but funnily the title track is the least intersting one here. Just For Lust and Paris are both top drawer JAMS - intense  and deep!

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Style: Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: View Records

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

A pretty much unknown Krautrock LP by Nino Hiemann. Outstanding to my ears is the slow and creepy Gorleben (a lovely little town in north germany, unfortunately famous for it's nuclear waste repository). Maybe because I grew up near that area, maybe because it reminds me of Michael Bundt's Neon LP... please check out also the Disco Satire Sweeter Than An Angel (last track in the soundclip)

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Style: Cool In The Pool

Format: LP
Label: Harvest

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Funny, Emotional, Deep, Danceable, Entertaining.

Czukay is KING!!

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Style: Experimental Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Saguitarius

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM 

The hardest to find Ceddo album in like new condition. Recorded live with poet Christoph Derschau reading from his book Die Grüne Rose.

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Style: Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Clear Galaxy (Private)

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/NM

Unplayed archive copy of this private Krautrock gem. Very spacy Kraut that is. Schniering produced it almost completely by himself. He learned to play bass and drums 3 months before recording this record (in 5 days time), because he didn't know anybody playing these instruments..... I wouldn't have guessed so if the liner notes wouldn't have told me....

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Style:  Flute Kraut Salad

Format: LP
Label: Ohrwurm

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Deepest Underwater Kraut by Friedemann Leinert aka Lenny MacDowell. He's joined by Zeus B. Held and Peter Seiler on Synths.... Please notethis is the rare Ohrwurm version with different tracks on the B-Side. On the first pressing on Harvest the B-Side is utter crap. Not on this version here!

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Style: Cosmic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Vanguard

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG woc

Let the willow take your hand,

and lead you to organic land,

where shakuhachi and piano free

the inner light that you can see

only with Cosmology ...

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Style: AOR Anthems

Format: LP
Label: Squa

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful Post-Hippie vibes on this one. Outstanding: The uplifting AOR hymn Springtime, penned by Dominik von Senger and Jango. Dunkelziffer comrad Stefan Krachten on Drums.

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Style: Psychedeliars

Format: LP
Label: Barclay

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+

And now to something completely different.

Mad stoned bluesrock or happening music?

Great percussion by Shamsi Sarumi and Gasper Lawall!

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Style: Odd but tasty Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not on Label

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Yes please, suck my brain! If you don't watch out, this mystic DIY Kraut oddity will do the same to you. Presumably coming from the northern territories of Germany this trio recorded merely one album and vanished!

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Style: Psychedelic!

Format: LP
Label: Verve Forecast (Ger)

Year: 1969

Condition: VG+/VG+ inaudible scuff in A1

Soft and serene Psychedelia for the fireplace.

Don't shoot a bear to warm you with his skin!

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Style: Smooth Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Harvest

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+

Let's Take A smooth Ride with the Krautfunksters of Kraan on their fifth album. Let me talk about Silky Way only since that is my favourite Kraan tune ever. A few seconds into that song you'll feel the blood pressure drop. It's okay to sit down and droooool. The world is your friend!

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Style: Acid Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Homegrown Special (Private)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

An unexpected acid folk nugget from Germany. Herberg really nails it on his second and harder to find album. Looks like another one of those traditional pingerpicking things but it's a psychedelic bomb exploding very gently. The b-side has a strong apricot brandy taste. Especially the 14 minute long jam Leaving  L.A. "... So watch the clouds, They are drifting in the sky, And feel the river, He's floating by, bye, bye, good bye. And there ain't no reason why , You should look up and cry, No Message will reach you, And no god will teach you, The Reason Why. You know LSD and Alice dies, Paranoid In Paradise, And I'm trying to leave Los Angeles..."

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Style: Prog Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Eye

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

Funky clavinet driven Rock with a strong disco touch released 2 years before their infamous Tibet album. Private release!!

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Style: Jazzrock / Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: GeeBeeDee

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Kraan's most danceable LP - filled with hits.

Among them the timeless classic Lunapark

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Style: Oriental Spiced Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Pensive folk rock. Spiced with oriental flavours and psychedelic fumes. Auf Der Suche, Anamur / Eastern Trip and Ruhe Vor Dem Sturm are included on Timeless Horizons. Sitting At My Window, Just A Simple Tune, The Rocky Reef Of Himalaya and Im Abendlicht would have been included too if Timeless Horizons was a triple or quadruple album.

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Style: Prog Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Free Bird

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG (cut corner)

Zheulish folk meets sick & funky Prog. Serious gems by the COS guitar player. Yes, Belgium again. Not a bad track on this friendly little monster!

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Style: Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Trikont

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Dan Dare decided to be a street musician after playing with Dave Brock, Peter Green and Mulatu Astatke. Percussive folk is what he plays. Songs with a streetview. Including a multipage booklet with lyrics in english and german.

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Style: Innovative Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: IC

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM

An album running on 45 and you just know there's a wrongspeeder on it because it's on Innovative Communication. Apart from that Schütz has some unbelievable sweet miniatures and tight Elektro-Kraut. Nicest copy!

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Style: Experimental Folk

Format: LP
Label: Musikiste

Year: 1980

Condition:NM/NM

Electrified Folk with drips of Acid.

Tucker spits into the wind!

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Style: World Electronica

Format: LP
Label: 1980

Year: Harvest

Condition: NM/VG+

If I had to pick one Eberhard Schoener album it'd be this!

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Style: Cosmic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

As eerie as you'd expect it to be when you see his face. But at the same time quite soothing too. Music from an enchanted forest...

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Style: Forget about Placebo

Format: LP
Label: Brain (green)

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

All killer Prog Funk album by the group around Manfred Rürup (co-founder of Steinberg!), Frank "balearic" Fischer and Zabba Lindner. One of the highlights in german Fusion and a personal holy grail for the ??? anthem Atlantis...

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Style: Krautrock / DIY AOR

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Details: Gatefold Cover

Four guys with a whole lotta love for music spending all their sparetime (and pocket money) for recording this album. It really sounds like fun. DIY Krautrock meets obscure AOR.

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Style: Post Can Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Harvest

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this fantastic album. Original of course! Including the mighty Regina's Dance. In my opinion the best cut he ever recorded. The Dunkelziffer crew and Jaki Liebezeit on the instruments... DL the full LP here or click down there for a quick

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Style:  Sausages with the Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG tear

Free Jazz Guru Hans Reichel and Eroc teamed up to record this excellent deep album crossing many musical boundaries with a lot of humor. Highest Possible Recommendation!!

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Style: Ethno Psych

Format: LP
Label: Island (UK)

Year: 1972

Condition: VG+/VG+

Ethno psych on a trip through the middle east.

I wonder what they had on their stops...

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Style: Cosmic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Brain

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Guru Guru's very own version of Fusion - mixing Funk, Psychedelic Rock and Free Jazz. Check out Globetrotter and the amazing synth jam Moroso and you know what's happnin!

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Style: Funky Psych / Blues Breaks

Format: LP
Label: Epic (US)

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG

Awesome Rock Fusion monsters from Canada.

Funky psych jams and breaks for days ...

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Style: Prog Not Prog

Format: LP
Label: Aircraft

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG

In fact hard rockin' melodic AOR with a progressive notion. Great songwriting and hooks to hook up...

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Style: Belarus Psych Folk

Format: LP
Label: Melodiya

Year: 1971 / 1976

Condition: VG+/VG+

This odd mix of funky Beat and psych-Folk straight outta Belarus kicks жопа!!Second pressing from the mid 70s

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Style: Krautrock / Folk / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Wundertüte

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  (WOC)

amazing organic & folky Fusion on the independent Wündertüte label.  Filled with HITS for the campfire session...... 

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Style: Psychedelic Rock

Format: LP
Label: Harvest (Ger)

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+

Pink Floyd's first 2 album on a double LP.

A psychedelic trip into the inner mind's eye of progressive rock

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Style: Campfire Bliss

Format: LP

Label: Private (Musikiste)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful ambient guitar poetry for a beer at the beach or cozy campfire sessions. Highly recommended!

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Style: Humorous  Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Bearsville

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Let Todd Rundgren heal you with his wonderful version of progressive Synth Pop

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Style: bröseliger Krautrock / Guitar Tricks

Format: LP

Label:Pläne

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Amazing solo album by zhe Bröselmaschine master and Germany's guitar teacher #1. A friendly Hello Hello flutters through the autumn air ...

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Style:  Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1985

Condition: M/M sealed copy incl. poster   

Enter the bizarre world of Klaus Dinger -

Father of the Motorik, along with Jaki!

This copy is still sealed.....

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Style: Prog / Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Superobscure german DIY compilation. All bands are completely unknown. I guess that fact is somehow connected to the record's title. Cod stuff by Ganja Reggae Band. Cheapness Forever (sic!) and Nelly Fair really move me. Also noteworthy: the hard progressive rock of  Melange. 

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Style: Experimental Jazz / NWW

Format: LP
Label: Portobello

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

Germna musicologists divide music into E-Musik and U-Musik. E for Ernste (serious) Musik and U for Unterhaltung (entertainment). In the Wikipedia article about Frank Wolff I read that he's constatntly travelling between those two poles. To me it sounds like that Wolf can be at both places at the same time. If you dig Black Masses, Experiments in Pop, playful Krautrock, Baudelaires Flowers Of Evil recited like a liturgy (bien sûr en français) and would like to enjoy the german national hymn Hoffmann von Fallersleben's Deutschlandlied in a different way than usual grab this copy. You won't regret!!

PS Put it on the NWW List immediately...

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Style: NEU!

Format: 7"
Label: Brain

Year: 1972

Condition: G+/generic

A stone cold KRAUT classic. This record definitely saw better days. It doesn't look neu at all. But it plays all right with noise and crackles in the beginning of each side. Also someone marked the best part of side 1 but the thick brain single survived it astonishingly good! Full rip in the clip...

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Style: Ambient Prog

Format: LP
Label: EGG

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+ runs with a loght warp that does not affect play

Dark and moody melodies from the frog side of the ocean. Black sand on the beach! Listen and you'll never get rid of it again...

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Style: Magic Guitars

Format: LP
Label: Lava

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ (slightly bumped corner)

You know the vibes must be great when Kraut-Bossa meets Drum Computers and Vocoders. Check this obscure beauty!!

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Style: Experiments for the floor

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble and Jaki Liebezeit drawing this highly organic full circle. Dubby Kraut at it's best! Once you're hooked on it you will never want to listen to anything else again...

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Style: Organic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Love

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/NM

Amazing fusion of Jazz, Suomi Folk and Rock.

Super organic and power recommended!

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Style: Synth Oddities

Format: LP
Label: Melodiya

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

Two adventorous dudes in Estonia, 1986 and their machines (Grand Piano, Minimoog, Prophet 5, Roland Jupiter 5, Roland Jupiter 8, Roland Vocoder, Roland Studio 100m, Roland Rhythm Composer) creating outerwordly pathways to the inner sanctum. 

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Style:  Psychedelic Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Harvest

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+ (Generic Harvest single cover)   

German only 45 with 2 non album tracks. One Blind Mice gets you into the mood but Punting (7:10 minutes!!!) is going to crush you.....

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Style: Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Intercord

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

Zhe 2nd Bröselmaschine album including zhe mighty Come Togezher, zhe twanged Sofa Rock and zhe superfunky version of Wayfaring Stranger. Top album!

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Style: Krautprog

Format: 7"
Label: Zebra

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG+ generic cover

Rare Promo copy on the sought after Zebra label.

Funky and folky Prog from Krautistan.

Does someone know the way to Canterbury?

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Style: Psychedelic Schlagers

Format: 7"
Label: Intercord

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG (woc)

Shoot that little bird and Drop Out immediately! I'd like to mention that WOC on the back. It's croatian and means scarecrow...

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Style: Krautrock

Format: 7"
Label: Harvest

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM 

Two Alex Oriental Kraut groovers only available on this seldom seen 7"

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Style: Private Pleasures

Format: LP
Label: Goodwood

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+

Hutch is a drummer and he's the gifted musician in his band. Fatback drums all over the AOR styled platter. With a mix of delight and schadenfreude I notice some strangely played sax at the beginning of Reasons To Live and throughout Quiet Side. Even stranger that these are actually my faves...

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Style:  Krautrock / Fusion / Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: RD Bazar (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

One of my favourite german private compilations. Excellent Fusion from Belzebub and Atrium, stoned Krautrock  by Goblin and superb Afro Funk by Afrodisia. Including the multipage booklet containing info about the bands.

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Style: Cosmic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Strand

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  (OIS)

In my opinion this is Zeus B. Held's best album.

So many good cuts. Slow cosmic kraut to dance to....

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Style: Xian Prog? / Outsider Folk

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

Here's another VERY odd private pressing. The name of the band and the title might suggest christian background but I didn't really find that in the lyrics. Musiaclly it's quite amateurish at parts, but with a lot of charm. A short look at popsike told me this has sold for over 150€ in the past. I guess someone was really after that percussive uptempo version of Dylan's Knocking On Heaven's Door.

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Style:  French Cosmic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Decca (Ger)

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Pole mastermind and synthesist Phillipe Besombes also did pretty well with his Hydravion project. Located somewhere bewteeen Fusion and progressive Musique Electronique this album will also appeal to friends of the Cosmic.

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Style: Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: WK

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Lovely copy of this melancholic Krautfolk gem.

Great for strolling in the woods or sitting at home strolling through your mind's woods.

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Style: the herbs, the herbs ...

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1971

Condition: NM/VG+  including insert

Dr. John rises from the swamp and lightens the campfire for us to dance around - slow, very slow. Is that Zu Zu Mamou over there?

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Format: LP

Label: Not On Label

Year: ??

Condition: NM/VG+

Private release by south german radio station SWF3. Side A is a sidefilling collage of spoken word, music, jokes, musique concrete, etc and it's FAR OUT. Side B holds the jewels: Exclusive tracks by Alexis Korner, some other guy and 2 amazing Jam Sessions by Guru Guru & Kraan playing together. Wundervoll!

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Style: Jazz Rock / Synthesized Prog

Format: LP
Label: Melodia

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

First and unfortunately ONLY LP by this fabulous Estonian Band.

Spacious and epic funky Prog. Highly recommended!

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Style: Synth Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Mille Music (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Check this irresistible mix of Synthesized Kraut-Jazz and tight Funk. The funky and sometimes even a bit disco-ish rhythm section makes this one interesting for open minded underground disco freaks as well. A feast for Fusion friends anyway ...

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Style: AOR / Soft Space Folk

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Private AOR by some Hamburg dudes who seem to have done this just for fun. Pretty tight production and excellenet tunes for a DIY thing like this. Both tracks are on rotation here...

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Style: Oriental Spiced Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Pensive folk rock. Spiced with oriental flavours and psychedelic fumes. Through Desert Plains, Zeitlos, Momo's Traumand Interrail are included on Timeless Horizons. Gleitflug should have been on it too, but we wanted to have it play loud...

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Style: Oriental Spiced Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Pirol

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  (not signed)

Among Wolfgang Barthel's albums this is the record i discovered first and it was the main reason for me to do the compilation. I still remember the day well when digging this out. Been showing two friends around my favourite german recordstores for a nice weeklong digging trip. This one popped up in a store in a lovely bavarian town. Listened to it over headphones in the shop... and boom! Found another one in the shop across the road and passed it to one of my friends. Into The Storm found it's way into the hearts of many aficionados in the last years. Here's the OG for the collector in you!

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Style: Funky Italian Prog

Format: LP
Label: Ultima Spiaggia

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+  

What a friendly Prog Monster this is. Actually it's a mix of Progressive Rock  and funkiest Fusion from master keyboarder Roberto Colombo. Zappaesque frameworks, tight breaks and driving bass. No way to stand still while listening...

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Style: Vocoded Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Brain

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

Awesome funky & heavily vocoded Kraut by the Birth Control mastermind. Nicest copy!

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Style: Mellow Gold

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM some paperscuffs

Geron Piller und Gerhard Krause are playing a comprehensive variety of styles on this album. From blues over american folk to bossa nova. Everything they play sounds voluminous and warm. Pensive, sensible and never boring. Seldom have I heard an album with an instrumentation that sparse sounding so rich. Especially the 8 minute long opening track Sphinx will creat a cozy womb for your ears.

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Style:  Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Private Pressing

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Wolfgang Barthel's excellent first LP. Magic psychedelic guitar tales in combination with flutes. Not to forget his his amazing version of Bolero...

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Style:  Krautrock / Folkjazz 

Format: LP
Label: Private

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

First LP by Kaarst. Followers of the growing bin blog will know that this is one of my favourite groups. So better don't listen to me ranting about the inecredible beauty of their music, but

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Style: Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG  paper cover shows wrinkles

here's an odd Krautrock album recorded in Hannover, 1982. Lyrics in german. Surprisingly entertaining (if you understand them). the music: Prog and Jazzrock influences. good guitar figures, elegant breaks, tight drums and occasional synth solos. Mostly sounds like a 70s album.

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