Elektronik / Synth Pop / Minimal / Wave / NDW

 
Style: Cool In The Pool

Format: LP
Label: Harvest

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Funny, Emotional, Deep, Danceable, Entertaining.

Cool In The Pool is a way of life... Czukay was KING!!

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Style: Experimental Pop

Format: LP
Label: Mute / Stumm

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis, Colin Newman and Robert Gotobed showing the average synth-poppers how the wind blows. This one here is not the ideal copy but it's pretty close.

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Style: Organic Synth

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Organic sounds from another universe!

Well - from Switzerland, but it sounds way out...

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Style: Post Can Pleasures

Format: EP
Label: Pure Freude

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Their first EP. Seen it often?

Me neither. Proper GEM!

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Style: Mnml Snth

Format: LP
Label: Futuremusic

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+ small seam split on top

RTC's hard to find 2nd album meanders between unusual dancefloor weaponry and challenging experimentation. I've seen beautiful things when the Little Boy encountered people gathering on a floor and I'm experiencing weird but wonderful moments at home on Limited Speed (first in the clip)

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Style: Anti Disco

Format: LP
Label: LINE

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Sickest Anti Disco moves from minimal wave to punk.

Death to Disco!

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Style: Weird Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: Hiheid (Private)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Spaced out and experimental private synth pleasures from Austria. Long tracks for fantasmorphological  TRIPS (extendend) in soul-saving head-nod tempo. All aboard?

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Style: Dunkelziffer

Format: EP
Label: Geebeedee

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ 

A seldom EP from the mighty Dunkelziffer crew. Including a special remic of Don't Ask Me plus Colours and Soul as well as the previously unreleased Shadogs.

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Style: Synth Boogie

Format: EP
Label: AIA

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Where Boogie Lane ends on Dark Wave Square... The colors say it best! Dunkelbunte Mischung from Düsseldorf on this DIY gem! Same label as the Bop Whopper crew - just sayin'...

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Style: Experimental / Organic Industrial

Format: LP
Label: Studi Urania

Year: 1990

Condition: VG+/VG+

No need for dreams when reality feels like this.

Organic industrial is the new thing :) or was it?

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Style: Industrial / Drone

Format: LP
Label: SDV

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/NM

THIS is an incredibly versatile collection of experimental music. Industrial breakbeats meet dark ambient, bone collectors meet night birds!

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Style: Minimal Wave Hits

Format: EP
Label: Rock-Trend

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG

This 4 track EP is pretty good. It holds two HUGE hits for me and more for the uptempo freaks. "Wir sind Pseudo Elektronixx - lasst uns nicht in die Charts!"

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Style: Weird

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1989

Condition: VG(+)/VG+

Wonderful weirdness from the soundtrack to the avantgarde film "Der Einzug des Rokoko ins Inselreich der Huzzis" by Mara Mattuschka, Andreas Karner & Hans Werner Poschauko. Mara was one of the lovely professors at my artschool :) Another funfact. I haven't seen copies of this one for ages... this one plays with crackles in A2. The rest plays awesome. I'll include a clean rip!

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Style: Romantic Electronic / Ambient Pop

Format: LP
Label: Konkurrenz

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

The second album by the Hamburg based duo. Totally different from their first (proper nerdy electronica). This one is pretty emotional compared to their work from the early 80s. Glückliche Zeiten translates happy times. Well there's still a bit sadness in those happy times... a very strange beauty in my opinion!

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Style: Adult Disco / Sick Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Editions EG (UK)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM including insert

Come one fellow weirdoes.

Let's dance and nobody's watching!

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Style: New Beat / Anti-House

Format: LP
Label: TUG Records

Year:  1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Post New Wave jams, that are probably closer to New Beat than to any other genre. Maybe Anti-House fits it too. Programmed beats, vocal samples and weird hooks. And it's actually filled with great tracks. I expect to see at least 4 different youtube clips in a year ;)

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Style: Psychedelic Goth

Format: LP
Label: Big Noise

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+

This one is pretty odd.

Coming out of the goth cellar.

I really like it though.

Maybe better for winter?

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Style: Fusion / Computer Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Sonet

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Danish keyboard wizard Kenneth Knudsen on the Computer Jazz Fusion trip with buddies Ole Theill and Michael Friis. First pressing with printed inner and Tapes missing on the back. Fortunately Tapes has not gone missing on the record either. Good one. Untitled and Anima and Pieces even better...

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Style: J-Pop / Synth

Format: EP
Label: Moon

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM  with Obi & Insert

Mysterious vibes. Silence.

A deep breath. Echoes... .

Pensive Pop at it's best!

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Style: Mnml Wv / Coldwave

Format: LP
Label: No Fun

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG

A stunning album filled with mostly Coldwave hits.

And then there's this insane bastard of a track ...

... sounding like Berlin School on MDMA!

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Style: Exp Elektr / Weirdo Pop

Format: LP
Label: Golfdish

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

The horribly hard to find second album by Molto Brutto out of Austria. The album is filled to the brim with amazing tracks. Their first one is fantastic - this one's a MASTERPIECE of experimental fun! Here's an OG copy. Not the recent reissue

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Style: Experimental Synth

Format: EP
Label: Infidelity

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Great DIY Zynth Pop / Experimental EP. One of the harder to find releases on the Infidelity label.  Guess why...

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Style: Psychedelics / French Prog

Format: LP
Label: Disques Festival

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Roland Boucqet's Catharsis!

Psychedelics to embrace the world.

Throw your socks away and dance!

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Style: Minimal / Experimental

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/NM

Horribly hard to find minimal synth (not synth). Partly acoustic, experimental and - believe it or not - warm and cold at the same time. This kind of magic you won't find everyday. Also miraculous: the vinyl looks perfect but plays with occasional crackle in the quiet parts. Probably pressing related. People buying ambient music on vinyl in 2022 know the problem... Cleaned rip included.

PS. it's partly utterly sad music. prolly not suitable for depressed humans

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Style:  Synth Pop / Tropikal Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: Atatak

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Late Pyrolator lacking the roughness of the early Pyrolator sound. Instead it has that kind of weirdness that gently takes you to Pyrolator's Tropical Pop Traumland.  A strange dream... I hear a lot of influences of japanese pop on this album. Agree?

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Style: Experimental / Mnml Synth

Format: LP
Label: Eksakt

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+ Including Insert!!

Not under the radar any more! People have finally understood what a beast of a record this is! Dutch experimental electronics on the small but excellent Eksakt label. A feast for friends of mnml synth as well as cosmic heads!!

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Style: Shoegazing Mysteries

Format: LP
Label: Midnight Music

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ including full size insert with lyrics and pics

Sad lovers singing sad songs for sad days. Almost true. I'm quite happy on a not so sad day and I'm enjoying these songs a lot as i write.

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Style: Japanese Synth Pop

Format: EP
Label: ARC

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

Hosono San produced this 4 track EP.

Synth Pop with world music influences.

Unique sound - great vibes!

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Style: No Wave Dance

Format: LP
Label: Infidelity

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ stil in shrink

Wild waves cruising over drum machine grooves.

Bad Lieutenant Dance Club greats galore here!!

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Style: Experimental Synth

Format: LP
Label: Dome

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG tear and wear

Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis returning as Dome for the second time. They celebrate rhythmic experiments to perform weirdo dances to.

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Style: Demented Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ata Tak

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

"It's a strange and different world" and Der Plan are providing a proper soundtrack to it. Eerie experiments in Synth Pop not Synth Pop.

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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: Contemporary Jazz /Dub / Synth-pop /Funk /Disco

Format: LP
Label: Y

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

This is a compilation of songs by Maximum Joy, Shriekback, Disconnectio, Pigbag, Sun Ra, etc. It RULES! All the mutants on the floor...

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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: It's Dark Down Under / Synth Gaze

Format: LP
Label: Cleopatra

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Q: How do you gaze at your shoe when you're nude?

A: When it's that dark yo don't see the shoes nor that you 're nude.

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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: Modern Classical / Experimental Electronica

Format: LP
Label: Strike Back

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Rubber Ducks in classical setting?

Are these french cereals then?

Come and have your mind blown!

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Style: Arty Farty

Format: LP
Label: Zickzack

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM generic

Detlef Diederichsen, Marcus & Albert Oehlen, Werner Büttner amongst other creative nuts enjoying their freedom. This is the second album / sides C & D only including the HIT Do You Fick? (berechtigte Frage, oder?) and the (musically "Bettwurst-inspired") Strenge Ohne Liebe!

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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: Synth Pop / Odd Pop

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Odd synth pop by this british duo. Double odd that it's a german only release. If you're up for some unheard and fresh stuff ...

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Style: Post Punk Pleasures

Format: 12"
Label: Marat

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Ja, hier Laufen sie!

Bettina Köster and Gudrun Gut supported by Christine Hahn and Klaus Krüger on their first ever record. Raw and confrontational songs forming the avantgarde (followed by the NDW)

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Style: Experimental Alternatives

Format: LP
Label: Real Records

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+ including INSERT

When Berlin was grey, and divided.

No raves in sight, but the alternatives were bright.

In the underground. Subcultural sunshine

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Style: Industrial Dance

Format: LP
Label: Robot

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Listening to these raw stompers I begin to see Mad Max floundering in a night club in Belgium surrounded by huge speakes that look like tanks. Listen to the clip! Do you recognize the Kraftwerk cover?

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Style: Nice Moving!

Format: LP
Label: Crystal

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

If you dig Saada Bonaire listen to this. In fact this is the blueprint that the girls copied from. Produced by Krautrock hero Zeus B. Held who's also getting down on synths and vocoders. Some seriously sleazy hits for the dancefloor!!

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Style: Shoegaze in Estonia / Baltic Rave

Format: LP
Label: Ritonis

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+

Estonian Raves? Yes please. Longhaired shoegazers seeing Indie Rockers in the mirror. Sad Disco is the hit here. If you like your disco triste Jim is your messias!

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Style: Swiss Waves

Format: LP
Label: Electric Unicorn

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Cover of the century and some straight cold wave by Rudolph Dietrich & Crew from Switzerland. released on the tiny Electric Unicon label that also brought us some fine music by Stephan Wittwer. My fave is the slow We Talk

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Style: Other Music

Format: LP
Label: Entenpfuhl

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Rough and rugged experiments from Cologne.

Not really industrial and only occasionally ambient.

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Style: Cosmic Electro

Format: LP
Label: Barclay

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Synthesist Blake became famous for his work with Gong, Hawkwind, The Delired Chameleons, etc etc. New Jerusalem is his second self produced album and among a gang of hits it has Generator Laserbeam - a true cosmic dancefloor bömb!

PS. Don't look at the back cover for too long. You might feel the rabbit ears grow

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Style: Dets Dubs

Format: LP
Label: Karaoke Kalk

Year: 2010

Condition: M/NM

I found a double in the shelf!

Maybe I should keep this??

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Style: Experimental

Format: LP
Label: Drops

Year: 198

Condition: NM/VG- back cover rip off

Wild and worbly experiments in Elektronik. Underwater Drum Machines and Cultural Noises interpreted by synthesizers. Could have been a library record if it wasn't a private party.

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Style: Slew Beat

Format: LP
Label: 1989

Year: Garage

Condition: NM/VG small corner bump

Under the radar cosmic pop with jams for the New Beat floor.

Who sits on the floor?

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Style: Experiments in Pop

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Japanese Synth Poppers with love for the organic in the laboratory. Not seing the moon made them do wonderful things!

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Style: Industrial Dance

Format: LP
Label: Überschall

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Moving to the Tanzfläche with Überschall-Geschwindigkeit.

Dancing like a machine until someone hits the remote control!

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Style: Experimental / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Mute

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG+ including printed inner sleeve

SFT's soundtrack to Derek Jarman's garden. Balancing between ambient strolls and experimental windstorms. I recommend not to skip whilst listening to the album!

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Style: J-Synth

Format: LP
Label: Pick Up (Ger)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

What a nice move by the japanes masters of Synth Pop to release their Naughty Boys album as an instrumental version as well...

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