Style: Art Rock

Format: LP
Label: Island (Ger)

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+

Vinyl shows hairlines from being pulled out of the sleeve. Sleeve shows tiny bits of wear and two spots in the inner gatefold. One below Manzanera, one below Mackay. Please check the images!

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Style: Progger Fun

Format: LP
Label: Herkules

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Private Krautprog from The Kassel (documenta) area. 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: Prog Dance

Format: LP
Label: Love (UK)

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG some rub-off and woc on back

Funny what people call prog-rock. I had to think of Steely Dan or Traffic when listening (and dancing) to this wonderful laid back gem from Finland.

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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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Style: Lurchkraut

Format: 2LP
Label: Brain

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG

Trippy hippie Kraut by Mani and the gang.

The best tracks from their Känguru and Guru Guru LP!

Take off your shoes and feel the setting sun...

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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: 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: Prog Fins

Format: LP
Label: Love (Finland)

Year:  1977

Condition: NM/VG+ including insert

When finish Prog sounds like this I don't anything else from now on ;)

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Style: Private Prog

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Very obscure homemade Prog by this completely unknown group out of Hamburg. Released in 1984 but it somehow sounds "older". Krautprog fans will DIG this rare oddity!

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Style: Swamp Voodoo

Format: LP
Label: ATCO

Year:  1970

Condition: VG/VG+

New Orleans voodoo by the great Dr. John. For me it's all about the sidefilling Angola Anthem - a funky and VERY trippy voodoo workout. Here's a bit of background info by the Doc himself: "My managers put me in a psych ward. These guys were very bad people – I had gotten busted on a deal, and they got me bonded out of jail, and so when they did I could have got a parole violation. All of this stuff was so unconnected to music that it’s hard to relate it. A friend of mine had just come out of doing 40-something years in Angola [the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary], he was just someone special in my heart – called Tangleye. And Tangleye says, 'I’m gonna sell you this song. Got it in Angola, but ain’t nobody ever cut this song…' Even now guys I know getting out of Angola know this song. It’s still a horrible place to be."

Overall great playing VG+ copy with a tiny scratch causing clicks in the first minute on side A. Cover shows light wear.

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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: 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: Psyched Humour

Format: LP
Label: UA (GB)

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG+

"Hawkwind's Robert Calvert's 1st solo project. A concept album: Music/Theater - Captain Lockheed alternates between octane guzzlers in the classic Hawkwind vein and Monty Python-like vignettes." First UK pressing with embossed starfighters and silver lettering. Expect Space Rock, satire and humorous experiments!

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Style: Soft Psych / Avantgarde

Format: LP
Label: Edsel

Year: 1968 / 1987

Condition: NM/NM

THIS IS A MASTERPIECE AND IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD of people who describe themselves as music lovers. Alone for Love Song For Dead Che which might be among my top ten songs ALL TIME. Enough of the caps - just click ...

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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: Pancakey Funk / Baked Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Blubber Lips

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Superfunky and progressive Krautrock on Michael Bundt's Blubber Lips label. Check Cakey Funk and you get a taste!!

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Style: Krishna

Format: LP
Label: ISKCON

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

The first thing that got me hooked when checking this one out was the synth bass in the title track, but even though I am not a big fan of the Krishnas I find the 10 minute closing track Jiv Jago amazing.

That's why the full track is in the clip. Enjoy! If they should convert you please leave me out of responsibilities ;)

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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: Kraut-Funk / Fusion / Hippie Rock

Format: 2LP
Label: Musikerinitiative Ostwestfalen-Lippe

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+ including thick booklet

I'll only give you the line up to spoil your curiousity:

Embryo, Munju, Real Ax Band, Moira, Release Music Orchestra,

Missus Beastley, Skyline!, ES, Julius Schittenhelm, Hammerfest,

Sadja, Checkpoint Charly, Molle & Co, Funky Bone & The Gang

and the unbelievable Einhorn! Guru Guru were too expensive...

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Style: Fuzzy Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Signed copy of this fuzzy Krautrock oddity. Recorded in 1982 but sounds like early 70s. Condition of side A is VG beacuse of a small scratch creating a handful of clicks in the intro of A3.  Side B is VG+ with only some inaudidle hairlines. Clean rip included!

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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: 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: Psych - Folk

Format: LP
Label: Lava

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/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: 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: VG-/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! Actually unplayed - 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... Cleaned rip included.

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Style: Massiera Madness

Format: LP
Label: Lizard

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

A psychedelic melange of Funk, Prog and Disco that nobody would be able to dream, but that guy J.P. Masiera pulls if out of his hat like a cosmic rabbit.

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Style: Canterbury Kids

Format: LP
Label: Pro Art (Private)

Year: 1983

Condition: VG/VG

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. The latter plays with background crackle on this copy. Also the ballad before Break. All in all it seeems to be a very delicate pressing. Even the superclean keeper is a tad crackly. But don't worry, you'll get a cleaned rip on CD-r.

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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: Funky Italia

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: 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: Hard Rock / South of Scorpion

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG traces of a tear, seamwear

Austrian Hardrock that reminds me of the gang from Hannover in their prime. Record shows one inaudible surface scuff on side B and plays perfect all the way through the  album.

 
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: 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: Pink Psych

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG+

A double album with their wild and juicy first two albums namely The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (still with Syd Barrett) & A Saucerful Of Secrets (not really with Sick Barrett any more). A great introduction to their art...

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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: Hippie Funk

Format: LP
Label: Schneeball

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+ (all cards & regeln)

Funk for free thinkers. A similar approach to the force like Funkadelic. Unconventional fusion by ex-hippies.

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:  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: 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: 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

Format: LP
Label: Intercord

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG wear on front and tears on back

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: 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: 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: 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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