Style: Sugary Synthwave / Bitmap Escapism

Format: LP

Label: Growing Bin Records

Year: 2021

Condition: M/M

After the heaviest of years, Basso invites you to take the weight off with the playful sounds of The Person. Mapping its own Bermuda Triangle between dub-pop, sugary synthwave and Balearic boogie, ‘Tide Life’ transports Compass Point to Soggy Bottom, providing maximum fun, sun and bitmap escapism.
The eagle-eared may recognise The Person from the aspirational Italo-rockers Steaming Jeans, whose chalet-ready romp on Bordello A Parigi scored a Winter Olympic gold back in early 2020. Now left to her own devices, Minna Wight swaps the slopes for a jet ski and takes a Wave Race from Summer Bay to Monkey Island across 11 cuts of vintage oddball pop.
Whether she’s borrowing Brenda’s Beach Balls for the dubby daydream of ‘Snail Cafe’ and ‘The Place’, serving lost library cues to SNES club scenes on ‘Barry R Reef’ and ‘Elastic Shoes’ or spinning high school slow jams into synth soul ballads like ‘Nice Feeling’, Minna disguises serious musicianship behind a naive aesthetic. Disarmed by charm, we’re powerless to resist her tidal pull.
words by Patrick Ryder

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Growing Bin Records

Year: 2021

Condition: M/NM selfmade shizzle

 1 of 3 Testpressings (approved)

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Style: Experimental

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG (woc = signed)

Experimental Music For Dance.

Synthesizers, Flutes, Percussion.

Deep, Dark and full of suspense.

Partly quite drony!

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Style: Walking on clouds

Format: LP
Label: Chappell Music

Year: 1982

Condition: VG/VG  light wrinkles, light wear

The cover could not be more of an understatement.

So much colour, so much emotion! What a record!

Unfortunately so scarce... NM rip included

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Style: Kraut on drugs

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1972

Condition: VG-/VG+

An audio play about kids on drugs in the early 70s. Backed by sounds from Cluster and Neu! Mad rare... Audible marks on side A are creating clicks that fit the atmosphere. Clean version on CD-r included...

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Style:  Experimental Guitar Percussion

Format: CD
Label: Pläne

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

May I call it Organic Balearic?

I might as well call it Tropical Fusion

Or percussive Jazz with ambient vibes?

Whatever?

PS this CD also has tracks from LPs "Point of no return" and "Escape from a fairytale"

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Style: Angelic Ambient

Format: CD
Label: Unison

Year: 1995

Condition: NM/VG+  

Music to get completely lost to.

Sit down and transcend to zero...

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Style: Organic Percussion

Format: LP
Label: Jazz Haus Musik

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG small rip at the back

Christoph Haberer is a percussionist from Cologne, Germany - still going strong. On Mir Was, Dir Was (transl. A little something for me, a little something for you) he plays with all kinds of percussion instruments, synthesizer, sequencers, drum machines and his voice. Let me tell you that it's a blast!!

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Style: Proto New Beat / Odd Waves / Post Punk

Format: LP
Label: Parsley

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG seamwear & ringwear

Documenting the ground well on which the strange flowers grew...

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Style: Fun!

Format: 7"
Label: Extra Records & Tapes

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Whacky cut up business with a whole lot of fun! Komm Lass Uns Flippen komm wir ziehen einen durch die Gegend heute fällt uns der Kopf ab

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Style: Etheral NDW

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Kaffe und Kuchen never tasted that guuut. By the way - the LP version is 1:30 m longer than the single version...  Apart from that you'll find REAL wonky pop sung in english with a lovely german accent. Funny for germans and those who understand them!

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Style: Sultans of Quirk

Format: LP
Label: Broadway International

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG stickers, wobc

Odd and partly experimental pieces by mad Paolo.

Full of sounds that are begging for MPC or Sp1200 use...

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Style: Progressive Electronica

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+

Vangelis, the guy caged in by synths!

Heaven and Hell is pretty epic.

For me it's all about Part II.

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Style: Experimental

Format: LP
Label: AMF

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM incl. poster, pics and newspaper bits

No Y in the band. But a whole lot of experimental X.

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Style: Post Kraut Indie

Format: LP
Label:  800 Achtspur

Year: 1995

Condition: NM/VG+

Brilliant Stoner Kraut from the golden days of Indie Rock. Including that completely stoned groove Der Komissar. I also had to think of the Post Rock air of Chicago when listening to the B-Side. Who else has danced her or his ass off to Take Me Home in 2004? Lopazz is one of them guys here :)

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Style: Odd Waves

Format: 7"
Label: No Fun

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG

Sarcastic Waves and rocksteady driven Post Punk

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Style: NDW Creeps

Format: LP
Label: Pool

Year: 1982

Condition: VG/VG+

The talented Else Nabu is accompanied by some equally talented spirits. I'd like to mention Christian Kneisel and Wolfgang Thierfeldt. This album has quite a bunch of great tracks, of which Adler & Raketen might be my fave. I really dif Angst too, but I have listened to it too many times on the wrong speed so the original sounds akward now. I'll include a CD-r with the wrongspeeder. This copy would be a NM if not for the marks on the A-Side that create clicks in the last 5 revolutions of Adler and 10 clicks in Jagdzeit. Will add these in clean to the CD-r

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Style: Parcanterment

Format: LP
Label: Phox (Private)

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

When Parliament camped in Canterbury and woke up somewhere in North Germany. Lovely copy of this amazing genre breaking gem.

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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: Slow Jams

Format: 12"
Label: EMP

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+

Awesome austrian Milli Vanilli pop with a fragile Streetsoul vibe...

... and cover art straight from heaven or the like!

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Style: New Age Pops

Format: CD
Label: IC

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

whoa! here's an incredible collection of IC gems plus some more silky smooth cuts be the likes of Jan Hammer Bob James, Johnny Hates Jazz on the balearic tip and others. When it comes to the IC gems you might be happy to hear that Software's Ocean Breath, Steve Roach's Breathing Stones and Mind Over Matter's Bali Sunrise are mong them!!

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Style: Ambient Pop 

Format: CD

Label: RCA

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Pure Bliss. Emotional Pop from heaven....

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Style: RIO in Rio

Format: LP
Label: Philips Brazil

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Brazillian rock in opposition. Some tracks have the energy of the young chili peppers, others are so smooth without being boring. Transcends me to a place where crickets sing...

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Style: 90s Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Adult Orientated 90s Pop in the tradition of Mr. Mister or late 80s John Farnham. Partly influenced by the latest breakbeat craze. Harold Faltermeier was aware of this, of course!

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Style: Smooth Jazz / Silk Pop

Format: CD
Label: Mikado

Year: 1993

Condition: NM/VG+  

Silky Pop from the Ghia crew. Emotional Pop and smooth ballads plus this supersmooth Fusion floater Tender Rain.

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Style: Balearic!

Format: 12"
Label: MFD

Year: 2018

Condition: M/M

When West Coast grooves enter the Baleares  and Hawaii is shining through. Loveliest vibes from Japan plus remixes. Phil Mison's reworks stand out !

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Style: Acoustic Dreams

Format: LP
Label: Ivy (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Percussion, guitar, flutes and lovely voices - jazzy folk and AOR delights. If you dig melancholic guitar picks à la CSN - here's one for you. If  dancing on flower beds like a fairy is your thing you might be happy with this sensationally sensual gem too :) 

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Style: SmOOth

Format: CD
Label: IC

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

Free Your Body! Seriously! and if you don't like sax or that "vocoded-streetsoul-meets-post-ambient-smooth-jazz-monster" you will find even smOOther liquids to dive into ...

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Style: Coolest Fool

Format: LP
Label: RCA (Ger)

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+ one inaudible paperscuff

If there's a voice deeper than Scottie Pippen's it'd be Lee's. In the mid 70s he dwelled in Sweden (supposedly to save his son from US military, but what about the blondes?). I always wanted to hear Björn Jason Lindh and Janne Schaffer play country!

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Style:  Funky AOR

Format: LP
Label: Phonogram (UK)

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+

You may stop asking yourself what Tony Visconti did when he was not producing records for people like T-Rex, David Bowie, Osibisa, Marsha Hunt, Gentle Giant, Sparks or Haysi Fantayzee. The answer is funky music and karate (see cover). I don't care much about the Karate, but the funky music sho nuff turns me on!

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Style: Bavarian Reggae?

Format: 7"
Label: Master

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  stamped

Meet the busdriver to the universe...

Einmal raus und einmal rein.

B-Side rules too.

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Style: Cocktails by the pool

Format: CD
Label: Monopol

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Here's some incredibly funky late 80s smooth Jazz that you would NEVER expect from guys who have previously recorded with C.C. Catch, Chris Norman, Modern Talking and Blue System.

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Style: Timeless Music / Private AOR

Format: LP

Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

This german private release from 1979 is absolutely TIMELESS. Gently exploding somewhere between 60s latin influenced Pop, 80s Paul Weller style hymns and contemporary independent rock. 

A total fave !!!

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Style: Cool and Breezy

Format: 7"
Label: PWL

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

the german remix single with the Cool And Breezy Jazz Version. Balearic vibes and guilty pleasures - awesome jam. Stock, Aitken & Waterman never sounded better!!

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Style: Latin Jazz / Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Kovariks Musikothek

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Insanely good latin Jazz-Funk from Austria. Excursions into Batucada and Samba also in the bag. IMO this is Jaritz's best. Hasta Siempre Comandante gives me goosebumps but Ferviente and Samba Em Cinco stand back only slightly.

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Style: Lofty Sounds

Format: LP
Label: Palo ALto (It)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG seamwear

Lofty Jazz Funk for soulful dancers with a sound as warm as if it was coming from Brazil. And it's just as winning as her smile!

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Style: Svensk Fusion

Format: LP
Label: MNW

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ insert!

Egba still ruling on their 6th album. The group around Per TJernberg, Stefan Bloquist and Ulf Adåker bring all the variety possible to their version of Fusion. I dig Adåker trumpet a LOT.

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Style:  Fusion / Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year:  1978

Condition: NM/VG

On this mighty fine album the east german Placebo ;) play 5 compositions between 6 and 12 minutes long. Tight & funky Fusion with partly dark and psychedelic atmosphere. 

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Style: Big Band Boogie?

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

This private press attracted my eyes in the late 90s already when I spotted Dusko Goykovich in the credits. I have hoped for Yugo-Jazz but got this wicked Synth Boogie Serenade instead. Never judge a book...

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Style: Jazz Funk / Disco

Format: LP
Label: Mitsubishi Audio

Year: 197?

Condition: VG+/VG+ bg crackle in A2

Incredible Jazz Funk by Jun Fukamachi and New Colgen Band plus tropical synth Disco by Kyohei Tsutsumi And 585. Never seen this one before...

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Style: Easy!

Format: LP
Label: Sikorski

Year: 197?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Wether you're galopping into the sunset (on a pony, all in suede) or you're counting the parrots in the tree - this is your easy mo beasy soundtrack...

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Style: Jazz Rock / Kraut Funk

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG+

Another unlucky Tommy here This time made up by Günter Hoffmann. Recorded by Conny Plank, Produced and Arranged by Ingfried Hoffmann, Drums by Willi Ketzer, Percussion by Jaki Liebezeit. More jams between mellow singer songwriter and jazzy Kraut available.

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Style: Jazz Pop Folk

Format: LP
Label: Thema

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG

an austrian Newcomer compilation featuring Zenit's Departure 03 Andy Marek's weird Eurodance Jam Explosive Girl, pensive ambient Jazz by Werner Auer called Concave and a soothing ambient piece by austria New Age prophet #1 Gandalf.

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Style: Afro Beat Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Capitol

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG woc, co

A compilation of some of Fela's best tracks from the seventies.

I.T.T. and Colonial Mentality are milestones!!

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Style: African Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Moles

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

Superb mellow jams and some for a dance or two

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Style: Afro Beat

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+ still in shrink

The two best tracks of his Zombie and Everything Scatter LPs. Mr Follow Follow stays in moderate tempo so we can all follow. Then Who no know go know speeds up the pace a little and encourages us to learn in his own special way.

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Style: Various / Private Party

Format: LP
Label: Radio Aktiv

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

A funky private Party in Cologne, 1988.

Soulful, blue eyed Boogie for the connoisseur.

And this post Italo pop tune for guilty pleasures...

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Style: Boogie Funk

Format: 7"
Label: GIC

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Sickest private Boogie Funk from Bavaria.

With a dedication by the singer Freda and SOUL on the flip.

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Style: Sweet Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Prelude

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

A huge bag of marshmallow Boogie.

Sweet, sticky and addictive!

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Style: Blue Eyed Funk / Modern Boogie

Format: 7"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG 

Lovely DIY 80s Funk from Berlin.

A great female voice and tightest horns.

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Style: Blue Eyed Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Central Park

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG light wrinkles 

Tight german 80s Funk. One lovely uptempo number and a wonderful stepper on side B. Private Party!

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Style: UK Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the strongest UK Boogie LPs out there. And thank god (or whatever ...) it's totally affordable. Tell Me What You Want might be my favourite UK Boogie jam ever - a synth bassline from heaven, a hook that works like the captain's prosthesis plus that amazing guitar shred makes it one of a kind. And there's so much to discover on this mighty fine album...

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Style: Boogie Lies

Format: LP
Label: MCA

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Including the ultimate boogie anthem for cheaters - I Thought It Was You. Musically a highly explosive BOMB But for real - what is this dude singing? I hope there is no girl out there believing these kind of lies.. Maybe mindless but vocoded Dance Machines?

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Style: Gregorian Hop

Format: Maxi CD
Label: Intercord

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Erst Komasaufen, dann Komasingen.

The drunken masters of chillbeat right in you ear.

All four mixes included!!

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Style: Diabolic Orchestra Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Héloïse

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Dramatic orchestral Funk by master Yared.

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Style: Italo Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Plaza (Ger)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Delicious Italo Disco Pizza with boogie topping!

And a whole lot of Music and lights by Imagination...

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Style: Disco Monsters

Format: 7"
Label: Bronze (Ger)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Two synth disco smashers of the highest degree. Alien is an Ultimate Warlord style crusher. Around The World In 80 Days is the subtle & superfunky Synth-Disco hit here.

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Style: Italo Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Blow Up

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Two pumping mozzarella monsters for Prime Time piacere! Also perfetto fore di peopl-e whoe close di doore whene makine love...

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Style: Accidental New Beat

Format: 12"
Label: Teldec

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG woc

OGON - the name says it all.

Raw energy for dancing in the dark

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