NEW ARRIVALS FEBRUARY

 
Style: Early Punk

Format: LP
Label: UA

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Groundbreaking Proto Punk-Rock. Some interesting facts for the collectors: Original UK first press with embossed cover, insert and also the original inner sleeve (I added a new antistaic one though) Runout Grooves say: UAG 30197 A-1U "S0'" 0 A SPIKEY SPECTACULAR 3 and UAG 30197 B-1U WHAT?? 5.

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Style: Psychedelic Drone Dances

Format: CD
Label: Interfisch

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

I once wrote "music is best when it's hard to describe" and that hits the nail on the head when it comes to this rare CD from the crew around I.A.O.'s Ace Colberg, TV Victor and Günther Schickert. Psychedelic Drone Dancers get ready!

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Style: Woozy Dreams

Format: LP
Label: Überschall

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+

Two hardcore Velvet Underground fans on a fantastic DIY trip. Northern Atmospheres is their first album and my fave among those I've heard by now. Acoustic Dark Velvet Wave with a psychedelic touch.

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Style: Post Dunkelziffer Trance Dubs

Format: CD
Label: EMI

Year: 1997

Condition: NM/VG+  

It should actually be "Post Stollwerk Trance Dubs" as only two of the three composers were part of Dunkelziffer ;) Their explorations into Ketamine Trance, Afro Kosmik, Deep Chill and Tribal Affairs are one of a kind!!!

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Style: 90s Ambient Dance / Acidic Tekno

Format: CD

Label: Harthouse

Year: 1995

Condition: NM/NM

Astral Pilot is Steffen Britzke and Sven Väth.

Just listen to the 21 minute Day After and you're sold!

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Style: Ambient / Music For Dance

Format: LP

Label: Growing Bin Records

Year: 2014

Condition: M/M

One of the last handful Overworld copies on white vinyl, that I wanted to keep as "label copies". Unfortunately I can't afford label copies these days. This is not the recent reissue with a sticker on the front the advertising inner sleeve and a warp...

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Style: Acid / Techno / Deep House

Format: CD
Label: Toxxik Trakks

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/NM 

Julius is a jack of all trades when it comes to hypnotic goodies for sweaty floors. Feeling at home in deep house as in trancy techno. Greatest hits! Literally LIKE NEW

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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: 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: Breakbeast / Techno

Format: EP
Label: Torso

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy of this industrial breakbeast!

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Style: Experimental

Format: LP
Label: The Log (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

A private experimental avantgarde obscurity with an industrial touch. A strong contender for the NWW list and your next noisy mixtape. Bits of proto techno fusion included at +6;)

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Style: Engtanz NDW

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

When most NDW artists tried to break the 140 BPM speed limit with silly songs, Andreas Kasulke slowed down and delivered quality. Too bad that nobody noticed this. Alarm on the radar equipment!

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Style:  Ambient 

Format: LP
Label: Wergo

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG water stain @ bottom

Keyboards + Percussion = Ambient Heaven.

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Style:  Deep Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Enja

Year: 1988

Condition: M/M still sealed  

So deep and so beautiful. all the way through. Music and African Songbird might be the oustanding tracks followed by Winnie Mandela. Music might be one of my all time favourite songs ever...

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Style: Ambient / Modern Classical

Format: LP
Label: Apollo Sound

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Pensive and sensual things.

Keyboards and strings.

Time to calm down!

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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: Drony Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Cryonic

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+ occasional background crackle, CDr included

Ambient music for dark nights.

Experiments with drones.

Occitanian apocalypse.

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Style: Elektronik / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Trance Records

Year:  1980

Condition: NM/NM unplayed

Highly recommended ambient / electronic masterpiece released as a private pressing in 1980. Ranging from cosmic electronic to deep and atmosperic ambient.... 

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Style: New Age Electronica

Format: LP
Label: Canyon

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

New Age Electronica and pensive ambient from Yoshiaki Hoshi aka Nimekami. The cover leads you in the right dirction -> clouds!

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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: Experimental Swing

Format: LP
Label:

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

No swing on this record. Not even experimental swing.

Instead: the sound of speakers swinging. And it's a lot more pleasant than one would guess. Kind of drony ambient made in an awkward way. Yay!

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Style: Alone in the Desert

Format: LP
Label: IC

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

DEEP AMBIENT! Three dudes trying to capture the atmosphere of the deserts of the southwest USA. Desert Solitaire style! It works so well you're getting mad thirsty for more in the end.

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Style:  Esoteric Jazz / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Biber

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Friedemann still rules the pensive and poetic Eso-Jazz charts in 1990.

Calming you down like a cloud disappearing in the summer sky...

Büdi fans will be very happy with this one, he's omnipresent!

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Style: New Age / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Windham Hill

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG soft corner bump (see pic)

Here's my favourite Windham Hill album. Smoothest New Age Jazz recorded by Philippe Saisse with Mark Egan on bass and Don Alias on percussion. You might have heard one of the many great tunes from this album in my Dezember mix for Testpressing.

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Style: Dada Dance

Format: LP
Label: Chlodwig

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Härte 10 going a step further after recording the comparably friendly Welcome To Germany. Dadesque Fusion meets Cosmic Funk meets mystic ambient. Welcome to Cologne!

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Style: Experiments with Arno & Conny

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

It says Arno Steffen on the cover. It should be Arno & Conny. They wrote and recorded this experimental pop gem together at Conny Plank's studio. No instruments or synthesizers were used for this record. Curious?

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Style: Mental Kraut Disco

Format: LP
Label: ZYX

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

One of my secret weapons to get stiff parties going... This late Witthüser album has not been very popular at times. Maybe people just didn't understand the humour? Or the Deutschrock fans didn't like his excursion into Italo Disco?

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Style: NY Post Punk maze / Mnml Snth?

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Overreacting oscillators, a punk attitude and memories of rock'n roll being rebellious. Walter Steding combines disturbing soundscapes, minimalistic synthethisation, provoklingly bad sung rock'n roll covers and doomed violin ambient. Forget that amazing dude with the cello for just a second and give Walter a chance ...

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Style: Flying Saucers in my Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Vibratone

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/NM 

Pago Pago was a group from Hamburg, Germany. The band consists of former members of the Release Music Orchestra and Tomorrow's Gift - Kraut Kings ;) Ellen Meier also sung for Alto and ES... Check the great spacy Krautjam Space Saver / Flying!

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Style: SLOW BLOW

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG

When most NDW artists tried to break the 140 BPM speed limit with silly songs, Andreas Kasulke slowed down and delivered quality. Too bad that nobody noticed this. Alarm on the radar equipment!

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Style: Conspiracy Party

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Drafi was a pest in the 80s. (no escape on the radio) And a wet dream of the milfs, to be honest. If you listen to most of his songs you'll understand why. But there are exceptions! Vorprogrammiert is the only Drafi song you need so far. Unfortunately superrar.

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Style: Sick Boot

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 2017

Condition: M/M

This is a bootleg but it sounds amazing.

It's been hiding in the shelf for four years now...

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Style: Post Punk

Format: LP
Label: Null Records (Private)

Year: 198

Condition: NM/VG+

Creepy NY Mutant Funk Punk styled goodies sung in german.

Subliminally aggressive, except for the uptempo tracks ;)

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Style: Country Rock WTF?

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG+ cut still in shrink

Oh my god! These Tippy Toes get me every time.

Does anybody else hear these secret messages to a certain Frank?

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Style:  Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG small sticker abrasion

Superb Japanese Synth Pop with the ability to make the floor explode. Connoisseurs will gently nod when the featured artists Pecker and Sandii are mentioned...

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Style: Balearic Soul

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG some creases

Before your image of Bill Withers manifests - listen to You Try To Find A Love and see why I call him the GOD of balearic soul. That lovely day has nothing to do with it... actually the whole album is fantastic!

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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:  Mediterrenean Funky Pop

Format: LP
Label: Numero Uno

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Lucio made so many fantastic records. Una Donna Per Amico is no exception. Prendila Cosi is the outstanding track here. Maybe even my fave among all his beauties. A massive track that sounds like it was sampled by Carl Craig for his wonderful remix of Incognito's Out Of The Storm

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Style: Italian Pop

Format: LP
Label: CGD

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG

What a record! Balearic Funk and sleazy grooves. It actually goes deeper and is a little more laid back than her famous self titled from 1980 (see below). Don't MISS!

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Style:  Balearic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Inside (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+ 

A highly recommended 80s Fusion album with lots of tracks that will amaze friends of guitar driven mediterrenean Jazz. 

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Amanyana

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  cover yellowing on the right

Tightest Jazz Funk with some incredible breakbeat drumming by George Green, who was also featured on the first Niagara album (the one with the beautiful cover!). There are a lot of great numbers worth mentioning here but let me just point to that Triangle. Starts off as a bluesy swing and after 25 seconds - just when you think "okay we're done here" - they drop their disguise and fall into the funkiest breakbeat piano jazz jam you've heard for a while. Joachim Knauer's bass solo is the cherry on top!

OG COPY!

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Style: Library Jazz Funk / Easy Bossa gems

Format: LP
Label: Drive In

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/NM

More of the superfunky Sound Factory stuff. The Second Direction drummer Val Hargreaves is going off on this one. Especially the supersleazy Funk tune Remis and the more uptempo Fianchetto show his skills. But the bossa numbers are just as good.

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Style:  Modal Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Trend

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Don't be put off by the production date. This record indeed sounds timeless - well at least not like 1983. In my opinion a fantastic Jazz album in the tradition of the Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland Big Band etc. Among the players: infamous Fritz Münzer (Second Direction) on flute and Chuck Tscheschner (King Pin Meh, Sound Factory Inc.) on bass. Of course Wolfgang Lauth is doing a great job on the vibes.... The album features some wonderful waltzes and even a short trip to brazil.

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Style: Latin Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful latin fusion jams galore on John Thomas' most sought after album. Monika Linges involved on the feathery Like A Samba.

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Style:  Percussion Meets Synthesizer

Format: LP
Label: CMP

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Two geniusses getting together to JAM. Synth & Percussion!

All killer no filler. Please listen to the whole clip!!

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG+

Changing the T-Shirt for a Blouse and the Mizells for Ralph McDonald and Bobbi Humphrey still delivers these lovely jams. Jazz Funk with one foot in the Disco!

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Style:  Modal Jazz

Format: LP
Label: BN Records / Private

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG signed

This is a private pressing and accordingly not that easy to find. It holds great versions of standards like All Blues, Take Five, St. Thomas or Coming Home Baby. And then are Still Alive track and Rolands Tune. WTF!!  I simply cannot believe how these guys have managed to stay unknown.....

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Style: Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: CBS (NL)

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG seamwear

How many LEGENDARY fusion LPs are out there?

This legendary album set the standards for all killer, no filler...

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Style: Spiritual Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1970

Condition: M/VG+ sealed, cut

Still sealed copy of this spiritual gem. Mr Lateef plays flutes, tenor sax, tambura, cymbals etc. Around him: Cecil McBee, Pretty Purdie, Roy Brooks, Ray Baretto and Chuck Rainey.

Quite antipodal to another flutist who bare breastedly released proto popjazz on the same label the same year. (i'm sayin no names since he made one amazing album with Cissy Houston a couple of years later)

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Style: Kwaito Disco

Format: LP
Label: Tusk

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG woc top right

Magic Kwaito from SA via Tusk in the US. A couple of magnificent dancers here. And then there's this emotional GEM No Tender Care

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Style: Street Soul

Format: LP
Label: Def Jam

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

When Tashan is not chasing dreams, he's singing us those tight street soul anthems like Read My Mind, Got The Right Attitude and Thank You Father. The whole album is really lovely and might make you forget about that missed the Soul Connection ...

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Style: Boogie / Italo / Wave

Format: LP
Label: Neuland

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG corner bümp

pretty underrated german New Wave Boogie with a bit of a "Style Council" sound. Or maybe State Of Grace? The intrumental jam Russian Lover will also appeal to Italo Disco fanatics. The is is the limited RED VINYL version!

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Style: Freestyle Dub

Format: 12"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

From the very first second you know:

This has been played at the Paradise Garage.

A true 80s anthem in my books...

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Style: Bavarian Street Soul

Format: 7"
Label: MD

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+  

A couple of people have gone almost mental over this one featured in the RA Label of the Month Mix. I have gone completely mental over it ... Plays NM with a tiny warp

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Style: Old School Rap / Funk Rap

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Beep Beep! This superrappin' sensation is still so fresh!

When Rap sounded like proper Boogie Funk ;) Bambatta, Flash,

T-Ski Valley & Bon Rock are my faves on this legendary compilation.

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Style: Wah Wah Heaven

Format: LP
Label: Sussex

Year: 1972

Condition: M/VG+ SEALED, tiny cut

Dennis' foot is surely glued to the wah wah pedal. Delivering Funk that even a redneck would feel by taking the sound of the instrumental funk groups of the 60s to a post-Hendrix guitar oriented stage.

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Style: Funk

Format: LP
Label: Volt

Year: 1972

Condition: M/VG+ sealed, cut

The fourth album of the mighty Bar-Kays sees the blooming of their version of Black Rock. You might as well call it rough, slow and creepy Funk. Getting down on this still sealed OG!

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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: Boogie Funk

Format: LP
Label: H&L

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM 

Sick late 70s boogie funk by the 5 Zafra brothers. Highly listenable all the way through with Skateboard Shuffle, This Cat's On Fire and the westcoast jam I Can See That being the hits...

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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: Unintentionally Disco

Format: LP
Label: Spiegelei

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

These german rockers know damn well how to chill... and how to record a proper AOR-Disco monster or two. Check Zauberstadt (yes I had to stretch it) and the moody groover Dunkle Stunden.

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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: DFMH

Format: 12"
Label: Emergency

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Saves you the money for the psychiatrist. Dancing for mental health!

Side A provides Dancing Therapy for the whole body, while side B focusses on your big toes!

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Style: Vocoder Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

check this german only moody vocoder disco monster!!

Of course Everybody Needs It ...

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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: Deeper Dance

Format: 12"
Label: A&M

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

It's that easy to set dancers on fire with this incendiary matter ...

make sure to have an extinguisher handy

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Style: Filter House

Format: 12"
Label: Corrosive

Year: 1999

Condition: NM/NM

Jazzy Filterhouse from the golden age of neverending knobwhirling. All three tracks want to be played out, but drop Wish Of Jazz at primetime to see more than your two hands...

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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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