Pop / Balearic / Mediterrenea

 
Style: Mediterrenean Travels

Format: LP
Label: Telefunken

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+

Before Alec R. Costandinos produced all these continetal disco gems he recorded this wonderful album under the moniker Milton Di Sao Paulo. The whole thing was arranged by genious Ivan Jullien and sounds incredibly rich. South american tristeza meets balearic funk. Don't Miss This!!

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Style: Shoegeysirs in Heaven

Format: LP
Label: Rough Trade

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG

A true beauty of an album! Inlcuding that wonderful Far Concern: Staring at my shoes thinking this is the best pop song I've ever heard...

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Style: Teutonic Samba

Format: 7"
Label: Teldec

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

The top latin synth pop jam from their Olympia album on 7".

Almost impossible to find. 3rd copy I see in years and years.

Likely "promo-only" since Teldec usually floods the world with copies...

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Style: Yacht Disco

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+

Most excellent AOR Disco and some mellow tunes as well.

Let the Lightning strike you ...

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Style: Demented Pop

Format: LP
Label: Signal

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+ was sealed

Totally demented but equally fun pop by some weirdos from germany's south! Smells like teen urine or smells like that party in Vienna.

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Style: Tropical Island Dreams

Format: 12"
Label: Sire

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Last Night I Dreamed Of San Pedro! Including extended and instrumental for karaoke pleasures. You might as well play a hip hop accapella over it. Running by The Pharcyde worked pretty well once.

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Style: Odd Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Idiot

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Good humour and a golden voice.

Fay sure is funny as Ramon is romantic.

Don't miss to

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Style: Brazil Pop

Format: LP
Label: Mercury (Br)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG tear

Seldom seen synth pop from Brazil.

When 80s chill meets tristeza...

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Style: Ripp Zippen Dua Duweh

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor (Ö)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Driving and funny Austropop with the ability to cause lots of fun on german speaking dancefloors...

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Style: Exotica?

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

Check this amazingly lush groover.

Überbalearic!!

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Style: Sweetest Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  incl. the doll dress insert (one dress missing)

Sweetest Pop indeed writen by Jay Alanski, produced by Telex (Moulin/Lacksman) and sung by the adorable Lio. Lots of tunes here. From the Alanski Boogie Comix Discomix over the mellow beauties Petite Amazone and You Go To My Head to Telex Style hit Speedy Gonzales - fantastique (and all in the soundclip)

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Style: Mediterrenean Beauties

Format: LP
Label: EMI italia

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

And what a beauty! If you have not been a fan yet, you'll be soon. Richie teams up with with Pino to record such everlasting marvels as Gay Cavalier, Things Must Change, Leave Well Enough Alone and more.

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Style: Emotional Assistance

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Something We Can Do!!

The sunset and this song -  what a combo <3

Emotional pop. High on drum machines!

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Style: Emotional Pop

Format: LP
Label:  Producciones Twins

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Mediterrenean Pop with emotions only found in the catalan capital. Amazing interaction between bass guitar and drummachine. Is it organic?

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Style: WTF

Format: 12"
Label: Mercury

Year: 1990

Condition: VG+/VG+

Balearic Swingbeat! The B-Side wins again...

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Style: Euro Disco / Balearic Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Transparent

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Balearic Pop on side a and that innocent Summer Boogie jam on side b. If you too are waiting for a good time I have good news for you...

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Style: saxophone?

Format: 7"
Label: Zeppellin

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Here's the 7" Single of a neglected and forgotten emotional pearl that has recently gained cult status among aficionados of balearic pop. Dug out many years ago by my dear friend Meda this has been a wonderful end of the night secret. Until I've sent a copy as a gift to Manchester ;) Now it's official! Contact me if you hate sax like Johnny ... 

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Style: Mediterrenean Pop

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

A wonderful italian pop album!

Including that massive balearic HIT: Keep On Moving!!

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Style:  Italian Pop

Format: LP
Label: Numero Uno (Ger)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG

This overall great album is including Questo Amore that has been skillfully edited by Lexx for Lovefinger's Concetration comp plus the incredible Perchè Non Sei Una Mela that some of you might know from Chee's Tropicalia mix

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Style: Ciggy or Spliff?

Format: 12"
Label: Philips

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG

Serge chilling with Sly & Robbie on the island. Swapping the perpetual ciggy for a spliff!

Record shows lotsa hairlines but plays surprisingly clean

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Style:  Never Too Much Style

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Superb german Synth Pop from the mid 80s. I remember Concrete + Clay from the radio. It was a big hit over here in 1985. Too Much was hit too and that one's timeless....

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Style: Floatin' Free

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Take off your shoes and feel the warm sound under your toes...

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Style: Pino Jazz-Pop

Format: LP
Label: Scio

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Signore Daniele is just too good.

I haven't heard a bad record by this guy yet.

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Style: Island Music

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

E.S.S.E.N.T.I.A.L!

Whatever Grace Jones hit you seek - you'll find it here...

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Style:  Slow Disco /Balearic Italo

Format: 12"
Label:  WEA

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Today Let the music play is lesser known than New Mexico, but it probably was Sammy Barbot's biggest success. Sounds like somwhere between Italo Disco and Balearic Boogie. The instrumental Love Sensation on the flipside is a great piece of freestyle electro. Vinyl shows lightest hairlines and plays perfect.

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Style: Esoteric Fusion

Format: LP
Label: VeraBra

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG

Esoteric fusion from Sweden - perfect for the golden summer. Almighty Janne Schaffer on guitars and sitar featuring Peter Ljung & Björn J:son Lindh on synths making the dream come true. DRIFT!

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Style: NDW

Format: LP
Label: Eitel Optimal

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Was man ausser dieser LP noch so braucht erfährst Du im ersten Clip!

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Style:  AOR

Format: LP
Label: Capitol (ger)

Year: 1978

Condition: M/VG+ Sealed!

Desert Lady might be his HUGEST hit!!

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Style: AOR Jazz

Format: LP
Label: WB

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+  

There's a bumch of wonderful songs on this record. But seriously - can I get any better than When I Give My Love To You with that tropical sound? One of my favourite duets ever...

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Style: Balearic Disco

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Melancholic disco produced by Thomas Bangalter's dad. Makes you wanna go to Valparaiso!

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Style: Balearic Hanseatic

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Wonderful Pop from Hamburg, Germany. The album holds some Pop pearls and my fave among them is Secrets Of The Night with that irresistible hook! One of my favourite discoveries of 2012.

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Style: Funky 80s O.S.T.

Format: LP
Label: Teldec / Clan

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

My favourite Celentano record is an obscure 80s soundtrack including the massive pumping Il Tempio - 7 minutes of fun on the dancefloor.

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Style: Latin Pop

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Wonderful Post -Santiago Balearic Pop by Mario Argandona with the Santiago crew behind him. Dude has something like god status in Chile! Brown Eyes might be his most beautiful song on record. I'm totally hooked! Listen and you'll understand...

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Style:  Italian Funk

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Toto Cotugno was the head of the italian group Albatros, known amongst friends of Balearic Funk and Italian Disco. Here's his first solo album. Boring italopop numbers being highlighted by some heavy funky chooons!!!

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Style: Balearic Disco

Format: 12"
Label: Flop

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Very continental sounding Disco just perfect for the beach!! Doesn't really sound like a Flop to my ears...

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Style: saxophone?

Format: 12"
Label: Zeppellin

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Here's the 12" Maxi Single of a neglected and forgotten emotional pearl that has recently gained cult status among aficionados of balearic pop. Dug out many years ago by my dear friend Meda this has been a wonderful end of the night secret. Now it's official! Contact me if you hate sax like Johnny ... 

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Style: Battisti in inglese

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  light corner bumps

This album includes english versions of some of Lucio's most beautiful songs. Amarsi Un Po is now To Feel In Love etc. etc.

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Style: Mysterious Synth Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

and then the herbergsvater switched to english and recorded these irresistible synth pop gems. yes the hook is pretty much unbeatable (Cheers JD!)

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Style: Vocoder Dreams

Format: LP
Label: Growing Bin Records

Year: 2016

Condition: M/M

Growing Bin is swapping bucolic Poland for the buzz of the Big Apple, reaching a magnificent seven in the company of synth-pop dreamer Shy Layers (JD Walsh to his mum) and his sublime self titled debut. Over the course of ten emotional pop serenades, the New York musician recalls lost days sofa surfing to the lounge electronica of Air, Mellow and early Phoenix or the swooning lo-fi psychedelia of a pre-MD Simian.
Fusing French pop, glistening Americana, 80s AOR and afrobeat into a hazy vision of balmy mornings, long evenings and lazy days, Shy Layers has served up the soundtrack to your summer.

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Style: flying sax at sundown

Format: 12"
Label: Nunk

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Balearic boogie meets the flying sexyphone at sundown - in Santa Barbara of course! If that wasn't enough there's also this speccial occasion to walk down California Street. Fans of the genre will quickly snap that this one is not just another version of FG's Romance's What Is Love Today - it sounds so much better on that california street!! All written by Frank de Gryse ;) NM copy with two gentle pops!

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Style: Italo AOR

Format: 12"
Label: Eichhorn (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Odd mid 80s Italo Pop from the baltic sea.

Has that AOR vibe to it and a whole lotta DIY charm

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Style: Balearic Dance

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+ seamwear

If you should have an image of Righeira please rethink this. Yes, Vamos a la playa is a disgrace to your ears, but forget about it for a second and listen to Gli Palero Di Te, Jazz Musik and Kon Tiki. Now we can talk :)

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Style: Ambient Guitars / Balearic Balaton

Format: LP
Label: AMiga

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG

The cover on the back says it all - Ralf dressed all in white holding his guitar, drifting away to far away lands in the mediterrenean. A dream that might have come true 3 years later when the wall came down...

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Style: Tearjerking Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Including the sensual balearic pop anthem Hush plus some more neglected pop pearls

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Style: Sadness Galore

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG (light discoloration top front)

Sensual boogie meets emtional electro.

This Sadness ripoff got it going on!

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Style: Emotional / Nitchpop

Format: LP
Label: Arista

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  (Promo)

Highly emotional pop that would have felt right home in a Zecky set.

Melancholy by the pool!

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Style:  Tigers and elephants in the mediterrenean....

Format: LP
Label: Monopol

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM

This is Circus Music from the late 80s - and what a surprise!

Among the musicians: Zabba Lindner (Tomorrow's Gift, Release Music Orchestra, ES, ...) , Kurt Rudschuck (Pago Pago), Sid Gautama (Aera, Nine Days Wonder) and percussionist Sergio Bore!!

The style is a unique mix of 80s fusion jazz with pop / dance that partly has a decent worldmusic feel to it. And a good part of Circus magic. Will appeal to friends of the mediterrenean dance grooves....

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Raubbau Private

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's an eerie newcomer compilation made in tiny suburb of Hamburg. Some surprises included. Especially  Heisser Sand by Dolce Vita, Schwuler Frosch by Thotes Schwein and Tasten Hopser by Schwachsinniges Geklimper.

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Style: Balearic Soul

Format: 7"
Label: BCM

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Enter the Balearic Soul Express!

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Style: Sleaze, sleaze sleaze and a bit of romance

Format: LP
Label: Idea

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

Superb eazy sleazy tunes by the italian library prince. Including tracks from the film "Orgasmo nero". Expect some erotic moments on this one ;)

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Style:  Mediterrenean Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Movieplay

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Elegant and breezy mix of Fusion Jazz and Vocal Pop not lacking a bit of wonderful melancholy. Highly recommended for a blissful start into the golden summer!!

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Style: Psyche-Rock

Format: LP
Label: Elektra (Ger)

Year: 1967 (late 70s reissue)

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Their first including all the hits and the #1 "last song of the night"

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Style: 30 years later

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

It seems like not too many took notice of this pop group from belgium when they released their one and only album on 1986. Apart from the Duran Duran style dance numbers there's this amazingly subtle gem...

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Style: Mediterrenean Jazz

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

It's all about the B-Side here. An unbelievable tune somewhere between Jazz-Funk and AOR Mediterrania. The only record he ever made and unfortunately never turns up ... almost never ;) Maybe it's just a promo thing that flopped so they didn't go into pressing a lot of copies?

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Style: Ambient Jazz / Balearic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

White vinyl in gorgeous multi fold cover.

Looks like it's made for the white island.

And it sounds like that as well!

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Style:  Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Les Disques Du Crepuscule

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM  

Nicest copy of Anna Domino's 3rd album.

Excellent emotional pop as you'd expect from the lady! 

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Style:  Sensual Pop

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Palm Tree Luxury galore. A wonderful voice, great arrangements and a whole lot of feeling. Fay rules :)

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Style: Sunshine Pop

Format: LP
Label: Dureco

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM

I have no clue why this is so damn hard to find. I really took me a while to spot another copy. the album is filled with wonderful 80s pop gems. Standout tracks are Heartbeat and Sunshine. You might have heard these in mixes by yours truly ...

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Style: Balearic Nutcase

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Bavarian Balearic? Of course this isn't possible!

But these dudes have tried at least. The outcome is rather strange, but I can really enjoy this. Let 's see if I'm alone with this guilty pleasure. The Edit will be on soundcloud soonish...

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Style: Chilled 80s Fusion / Unintentional Balearica

Format: LP
Label: Intercord

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

It seems like these guys just can't fail. And ageing doesn't keep them from bringing the good stuff. Dancing in the shade brings you exactly what the name offers. Some incredibly mellow post fusion Pop played by humble giants. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Tropical Pop

Format: LP
Label: Idee

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM  

Axel Schulz aka John Buttermann aka Papertiger and the Cat Cammer Orchestra delivers some intense teutonic balearic vibes in Dein Mann Sucht Seine Frau (Your husband is looking for his wife). In this song a guy is trying to convince the lady of his heart to stay for the whole night instead or returning to her husband immediately after having a good time... an AWESOME LUSH & TROPICAL TUNE!!

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Style:  Ethno Synth Pop

Format: LP

Label:  Spoon

Year:  198x

Condition: NM/VG+

TD of Diethelm/Famulari fame on the solo trip.

Highly recommended adult Pop with splashes of Ethno!

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Style:  Party Crushers

Format: LP
Label: Merlin (Private)

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

One of the obscurest private DIY Pop records I came across in the last few years. Of course I got attracted by the beautiful combination of cover and title ;) Musically it's just as interesting: Soft but Cynical Post Sade Synth-Pop with a boogie touch at times!

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Style: Exotic Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM 

Wonderful Synth Pop - partly with a disco vibe, partly very balearic. Produced by nobody else but Daniel Vangarde and featuring Georges Rodi on Synths and Pierre Alain Dahain on Drums. 

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