Style: Post Can Dubby Happiness

Format: EP
Label: 45

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

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: Krautdub

Format: LP
Label: 45

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Dunkelziffer! the #1 successors of a certain band from cologne with three letters. Here's their 1st LP including the almighty This is how you came and many more gems. You know what I'm talking about anyway. Finding an OG got a bit more difficult theses days....

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Style: Mellow Psych

Format: LP

Label: EMI (It)

Year: 1969

Condition: NM/VG+

We smile ... and smile...

We smile ... and smile...

laughter echoes in your eyes...

CRYING SONG! aww man. how much do I love this song?

One of my Top Five "Immediate Chill" pills. Rest is awesome

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Style: Funky Krautrock / Left winged Prog

Format: 7"
Label: Kanal

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Funky lefties singing in german over their Kraut jams.

Working class hymns that are unfortunately still relevant ...

(maybe even more than ever, but the distractions work well)

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Style: Spooky Funk

Format: LP
Label: G&G (It)

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG

Ferrer inhaled the Cannabis filled air of Metronomie and exhaled Blanat - a dark and psychedelic album that most probably inspired the authors of a certain Virgin Suicides soundtrack...

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Style: Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Masterpiece - proto Ambient next to proggy Kraut.

In stunning condition here...

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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:  Krautrock / Acid Folk

Format: LP
Label: Nicolai Records (Private)

Year: 1979

Condition: VG-/VG+  

Grazy rare and excellent psychedelic folk from Germany. Unfortunately this copy has an audible scratch that creates light clicks on the last track of Side A. I'll include a CD with a repaired version

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Style: Psychedelic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Maritim

Year: 1970

Condition: NM/VG 

Fuzzed out and funky psychedelic kraut in the vein of Vampyros Lesbos or the Vampires of Dartmoore. Rare and sought after OG in stunning condition. Even though the cover shows tears on the back

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Style: Folky AOR

Format: LP
Label: TDS

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

The ever amazing trio teamed up with Amby (of Ambi & Arno fame) to record this folky AOR gem. Maybe their best album and for sure the hardest to find...

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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: Mystic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Silent Sun

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Psychedelic Kraut with a new age touch and indian influences...

Sister Magic will bewitch you!!

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Style: Cowboy on the Baum

Format: LP
Label: Daviton

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG

Are you bored of all the balearic / ambient / digi / obscure sound?

Maybe Gerhard Baum has something for you. Whispering a soft yankee doodledoo in your ear and expanding your musical universe gently. Come on! You don't have anything to lose...

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Style: Krautrock

Format: 7"
Label: EG

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/NM (generic)

Promo only single containing two Eno jams. Backwater is taken from "Before And After Science", On Some Faraway Beach is taken from "Here Come The Warm Jets"

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Style: Cosmic Kraut / Prog

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+   

Deepest cosmic Prog with few symphonic elements. Private Pressing from Hamburg, Germany. After recording this LP in Hamburg the brazil born painter Beny Tchaikoswky went o the US to become a renowned digital and video artist.....

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Style: Progger Fun

Format: LP
Label: Herkules

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Private Krautprog from Kassel. For heaven's sake not too symphonic (no me gusta). My fave is the breakbeatish Elnteg Tnaig (Gentle Giant reversed) and the long melancholic jam Dollarhut coming right after the giant.

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Style: Private Kraut

Format: 7"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Completely under the radar aka ungoogleable Krautrock with prog elements and a wonderfully stoned B-Side ;) Dark Cloud is incredibly chilled with a kind of a subtle reggae rhythm...

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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: Proggy Krauts

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Dark and moody Krautrock with progressive, funk and Bluesrock Elements.

Partly sounds like Funkadelic. Entertaining lyrics mostly in german. TIP!

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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: 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: 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: Forever!

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG- ringwear, seamsplit

I am 20 again and letting my hair down, dancing, eyes closed.

This dragon will dance at my funeral too. Chick Corea will be with us!

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Style: Krautrock

Format: 7"
Label: Harvest

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG woc

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

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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: Psychedelic Jazz-Prog

Format: CD
Label: Akarma

Year: 1971 / 2001

Condition: NM/NM

Truly mindblowing million £ jazzy prog madness.

Here's the affordable version on silver disc!

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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: Psych - Folk

Format: LP
Label: Lava

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG 

The first thing I thought when listening to this album was: "1971 - they must have fucked up the production date on the cover. This kind of singer songwriter style soft psychedelic can't be from 1981." Well some clocks tick different. Saskia's clock ticks very gently and I think the musicians might have had an affinity for Affinity. That should make you curious. A long soundclip is waiting for you!

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Style: Acid Folk

Format: LP
Label: Eulenspygel

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Kolibri's first album on the small Eulenspiegel label is a feast of fluffy acid folk. The "Post Drakian" flutes give me shivers. Wonderful record that you can enjoy from beginning to end. It actually develops amazingly with the two last tracks Cranes and Tsamadou being my personal faves. That's why they are the first in the soundclip! And I just made a video for these wonderful Cranes...

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Style: Ambient Prog

Format: LP
Label: EGG

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+ runs with a light 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: 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 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. From there 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: Kraut Tree

Format: LP
Label: Aarton

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

A young man finding his own way of writing songs. Certainly under the influence of a certain british gentlemen who decided to pass away some years before this album here was recorded. Torsten had a record shop in the 80s so he knew his stuff

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Style: Psychedelic Krautfunk

Format: LP
Label: BASF

Year: 1972

Condition: G+/NM

AchimReichel and his machines joining Frankie for a funky TRIP.

Of course Conny is in the house. Freak session!

20 minutes before writing these lines this used to be a LIKE NEW COPY! The nicest one I've ever seen. Coming from a radio guys archive (who was probably more into the aloa-he side of Reichel...) I then washed it to ship it out dust-free and when I wanted to put it back into the inner sleeve it slipped out of my hands. Now we have a few surface scuffs (from my fingernails trying to hold it) on side A and an audible scratch on B1. If the night wouldn't have been that short I would be incredibly mad at me but being so tired sometimes helps to get over it... Clean rip included.

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Style: Soft Psych / Prog

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1970

Condition: VG+/VG

Deepest cuts from the golden age of psychedelia. Cover says it all in this case. Don't listen to this if Melancholia makes you immobile. Overall lovely condition with one audible scratch in Sunshine Freak, a rather boring one.

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Style: Canterbury Kids

Format: LP
Label: Pro Art (Private)

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG (vinyl looks NM)

Completely private DIY-Canterbuy pleasures from the middle of nowhere. Somewhere up north west in Germany to be precise (Cloppenburg, to be german). Two of those obvious cover songs found on hobbyists records - Let The Sun Shine In and Gimme Some Lovin. Both don't hurt actually, but I'd not be going for them when pulling out my copy. Salouse and Lost Reggae are my faves followed in sympathy by the long jam Break on the b-side. This delicate pressing is a tad crackly - Even the superclean keeper. But don't worry, you'll get a cleaned rip on CD-r.

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Style: Indie Kraut

Format: 2LP
Label: David Volksmund

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

The beginning of german Indie Pop.

Comes with printed innersleeves.

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Style: Mellow Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Studio Montan (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

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

A rare beauty ...

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Style: 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: Cosmic Prog from the East

Format: LP
Label: Start

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG seamwear

Cosmic Prog from Hungary with a fat cloud of dope in the starship.

Check these mindbending mellow tunes too.

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Style: Haha Prog

Format: LP
Label: Silence

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG

People label thsi Prog Rock and I guess most Prog Rockers are really disapointed when they listen to this Mutant Dance monster. Someone is writing the NWW list on a dancefloor with a banana!

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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: 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:  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: 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: 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: 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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