exclusives (most of these are not offered anywhere else)

 
Style: Yachtrock

Format: 7"
Label: Global

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

A highly addictive german cover of Rupert Holmes' Him. Seriously - don't listen to this if you can't stand sweets - even worse - sweets that won't go out of your head. I wonder if they lost a lawsuit against Holmes since the record is completely unavailable...

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Style: Ambient / Experimental / Music for Theatre

Format: LP
Label: Ausfahrt

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+ tiny tear

A year before Georgie became red (and popular), George recorded these ambient soundscapes for Shakespeare related theatre. Partially very dark and as deep as it gets...

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Style: Experimental Pöp

Format: LP
Label: Present

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM poster included

Sweaty (...) experiments in synthesized pop by Philip Brophy. Made mostly from samples of sounds produced by the human body. Recommended listening: headphones and some dry clothes. Comes with folded theatrical poster and a bunch of inserts

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Style: Exp Synth

Format: LP
Label: Cleopatra

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Galopping sequencers meet obscure minds at the dawn of a dark

and cold century. Like kryptonite to your average synth pop record.

Do synthesizers sound different down under?

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Style: Afro Influenced Psych Fusion

Format: LP
Label: S&F (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

YES - DIY Afro Influenced Psych Fusion by whities. If you don't believe it, better check the clips before it's too late. I think its already too late for the bargains. It's getting REALLY difficult to find now!

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Style: Folk-Jazz

Format: LP
Label: TTS (Private?)

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  incl. insert and xeroxed newspaper bits

Folk-Jazz? Mmh, maybe it sounds more like a mix of Jazz and Progressive. Probably the intense use of the flute gives me that folky feel. Ad Libitum are actually playing with various styles on their only album. On side A we find mostly covers. Two Focus compositions (House Of The King, Anonymus- Janis-Anonymus), one by Ekseption (Rondo Alla Turka), a great flute lead Take Five rework as well as a surprisingly good cover of Stevie Wonder's You Are The Sunshine Of My Life. On the b-side there 's just one: Blood Sweat and Tear's Sometimes in Winter. The remaining four tunes are self penned. And these are the secret hits of the album. My fave is Ottochen's Mondfahrt. Starts off very "jazzy" played over an uptempo disco beat, breaking down into a desert storm like synth & electric piano part - yet returning to the uptempo flute disco again. Visionen and Persischer Markt are highlights as well.

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Style: Kraut Beauties / Hippie Funk

Format: LP
Label: Skyline (Not On Label)

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG stains

One of the most beautiful private Kraut Funk goodies out there by Jürgen "George" Kochbek's first band. Insert included.

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Style: Spiritual Jazz-Funk

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Private press Jazz Funk by this funky bhagwani crew from Bonn, Germany. If you don't mind a little religion in your funk this album will move your feet! Funkadelic styled guitar moves, lots of percussion and tight breaks make it a must for friends of the rare side of funky Jazz-Rock.

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Style: Organic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Private Pressing

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Simply one of the best synthesized 80s fusion LPs I ever heard.

It's pretty hard to find too... but you probably know that!

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Style: Poetic Pop

Format: LP
Label: Contrapunkt

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Schnee, Schnee, Schnee! That's all I can think about lately. I just can't get this subtle and deep beauty out of my head. Musically taking Sade's I Never Thought I'd See The Day to another level of placidness. Also on Lucky Are Those Who Hear The Birds Sing

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Style: Mysterious Vibes

Format: LP
Label: Remember Records

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG light wear

Yep, you have guessed right. This one's not easy to find. And it just got a whole lot heavier... You might have heard about the Mysterious Nights, but the instant heartbreak of Leaving You and the summer air of that Brazillian Breeze is still unknown to most. Here's your ticket! This copy plays with occasional crackle in quite parts and between the tracks.

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Style: Latin Jazz, Pop Jazz, Bossa 

Format: LP

Label: Private (MMT)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Lightweight Latin Jazz made in Germany with that special 80s sound. Highly recommended and almost impossible to find these days, especially in this condition!!

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Style: Fusion / Afro Not Afro Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Village Music

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Unexpected but excellent Spiritual Jazz - "Awakening" style from Württemberg, Germany. Their only LP recorded in 1984 and released on the small Viallge Music label that also brought us the amazing Olivier Peters Quartet album.

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Style: Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Cosmic post Berlin School electronics from Hamburg - one of the impossible to find original copies of Hardy Kukuk's first album featuring Klaus Bloch on Ping Pong guitar echo system and Andreas Schneider on guitar and congas. Partly dark and very deep throughout the whole album. Vinyl shows some hairlines that don't affect the play.

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Style: Krautrock / Progressive

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+ wobc

A highy unique mix of early 70s sounding Krautrock-Fuzz and funky Jazz-Rock. With a dedication by the drummer Tom, who has some proper solos in the last jam the 13 minute long Peace And Freedom!

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Style: Private Parties

Format: LP
Label: MPB

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM including Insert

A private gem that seems to become a wantlist fave. It has THAT tropical floorsmasher, cosmic funk, weirdo boogie and even a number that sounds like Johnny Hates Jazz covering Sade. 9 minute clip below!

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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: AOB

Format: LP
Label: Agaloco (private)

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Let me introduce you to this private Adult Orientated Boogie oddity from Cologne, made in 1990. It's seriously funky all the way through and has a huge DIY charm and some lovely post FGTH vibes at times. Easy to fall in love with ... it seems like people have caught up on this one by now!

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Style: Continental Disco

Format: LP
Label: Triple Music (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG corner cut fully signed 

The monster rare blue vinyl follow up to their Soundhouse album.

Lots of AOR and this floaty banger of a disco ding!

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Style: Mnml Snth

Format: 7"
Label: Exil System

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG

Mad rare minimal synth.

You know the deal...

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Style: Smoothies by the pool

Format: LP
Label: J&P

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

You can grab a cocktail too. Parijato and Tom will serve it in cozy atmosphere and privacy, of course. This exlusive piece of wax comes from the same turf as I do. I found one as a teenager and one recently. This is my personal teenage years copy that I only part with to fund the next releases. I hope you understand that I won't give it away for next to nothing.

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Style: Cosmic Pop

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

I have never been a fan of Hair. Yeah Galt Mc Dermott bla bla. But then this french dude came and changed it all. And there's more on this almost invisible album... and seriously - how can a record on a major label be that hard to find? I'd be incredibly happy if someone could shed some light here.

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Style: Electro Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Harlequin

Year: mid 80s

Condition: NM/VG+

Dopest private electro boogie from southern Germany. If you dig the PPU vibes just spread your wings and fly ...

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Style: Disco Nuts/ Adopted by aliens

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

This one is odd. I mean really ODD. Never seen before Schlagerheads being adopted by aliens to produce outerspace disco? I think so too!

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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: Library Gems

Format: LP
Label: Paloma

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Lately I was reminded that I had spares of these unbelievably good Bombo Orchestra LPs on Paloma. Sweetest jams by Paolo Zavallone aka El Pasador who also recorded the Movement In Rhythm N°1 album. Grab this one here and I'll add a free B-B-Boogaloo 7". You'll understand why!

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Style: Rarest Disco

Format: LP
Label: RCA Brazil

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/G

The ONE cosmic disco grail from Brazil including the incredible moroder influenced jam Me And My Superfriends. The cover has definitely seen better days but the records plays perfect!

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Style: Library? GOLD

Format: LP
Label: Klawei

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

Looks like a library and looks as if it was soso. It's actually SO SO good! These two SUNBIRDS enjoyed playing together a LOT - covering almost all bases of styles that I'm after: Underwater ambient, Synth Funk, Balearic Boogie, Experimental electronic, Breaks that only Klaus Weiss can play and outtaspace Bossa. You have to hear to believe. believe me!

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Style: Weird Wood

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the weirder pieces of wooden wax out there. It actually some kind of compilation since every track is different and I mean different. My favourite "different" track out here is that pseudo samba jam that might be a take on Coati Mundi's Prisoner Of My Principles (on 33) or just a damn freaky GEM. I don't have to tell you that it's just as rare, eh?

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Style: Neo Classical

Format: LP
Label: Republica de Cabo Verde

Year: 1979

Condition: VG-/VG+ delicate thin paper cover is not really flat

Superrare modern contemporary piano from Cabo Verde. Wonderful music, from calm and ambient piano to adventurous compositions. But it's a horrible pressing. I had another copy some years ago that was just the same. It's rather crackly and the first track plays with a repeated noise for the first 45 seconds. I'll include a cleaned CDr version. I wonder if the VG+ copies offered on discogs sound much better...

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Style: Library Gems

Format: LP
Label: Film Sound Musik

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Insane cuts from afro synth to carchase funk one this rare library out of Hamburg. Only one album on this obscure label... like new copy!

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Style: Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Abaco (Private)

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Chris "The Fusionist" did it again. Here's his completely unknown 2nd album from 1989. Stylistically quite similar to his first album, but more mature and mellower.

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Style: Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label / Private

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG painted tear, seamwear

One of the hardest to find german private press Elektronik LPs. TOm Und CHarly from Bavaria recorded this deep and trippy album in 1980. It's basically synths and drums. The sound is deep and will appeal to friends of the drone. At times it reminds me of Wolfgang Bock's Cycles but the atmosphere in Traumwerk is darker.

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Style: Private 90s jams

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 199?

Condition: NM/VG+

hey Baby - aha yeah! At first listen this obscure 90s private Eurodance jam sounded pretty silly to me, but after a few spins I was badly hooked. Ouch! Not to speak of those angelic background vocals...

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Style: Italo Disco

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

DIY Italo Disco made in Hannover, Germany 1986. There's not much information available about Cocy. Computermixage seems to be the only thing he ever recorded. That kind of correlates with his talent. Soundwise this album can't compete with the big studios in Italia and the tunes are played, produced and sung very badly. All in all one of the most obscure things on this planet with the Italo Disco sticker on it. A truly fantastic album full of moments where screaming out loud out of disbelief is the only possible reaction. If you like it weird THIS IS YOUR GRAIL.

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Style: Canterbury

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

A hidden canterbury gem from the Bodensee area. Private pressing by this completely unknown trio. Remarkable flute and organ / keyboard playing here :) There is actually a lot of magic in these unheard tunes! Guest appearances by young Markus Stockhausen and Hugo Read...

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Style: Superfunky Soukous

Format: LP
Label: Dragon Phenix

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG-

Under the radar and unfortunately very rare Soukous album.

Including that uplifting jam of afro disco jams - Nikuzebi.

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Style:  Experimental / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Edi Pan

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  Pop Up Gimmick Cover

Crazy rare italian experimental record on the library label Edi Pan. One of my favourite finds of the last years. Seriously deep tunes on this album. Don't forget to check the pretty amazing pop up cover art .... but it can't get better than the music!

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Style: Ambient / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Rainbow (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's a pretty much unfindable private dutch New Age pearl including the wonderful Het Yin En Yang Van De Chaos. Comes with a lyrics sheet so you can practice your dutch...

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Style: Ambient Voodoo

Format: LP
Label: Alles

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Like new vinyl of this mindbending Voodoo session.

HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!!

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Style: NDW Boogie

Format: 7"
Label: Transparent

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Sick NDW Boogie on side A of this sought after gem. The B-Side holds a tight uptempo jam that invites you to hit the 33 rpm button...

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Style: Symphonic Tales / Progressive Electronics

Format: LP
Label: Pirol

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Unfindable progressive Kraut jams next to DIY symphonics.

No symphonic prog here ;)

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Style: Vocal Jazz / Balearic Bossa

Format: LP
Label: Looky

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

This german bossa beauty is completely below the radar. It seems to be a real rare one. I've dug out 2 copies in 15 years. Fans of Kitty, Silvia and Monika will have a party!

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Style: Over The Top!

Format: LP
Label: Cosmos

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful over the top Digi-Dance jams with full on synthesized orchestration. Post-"Ka Jakee Music" madness!!!!

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Style: Experimental Kraut

Format: LP
Label: K18 (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Insane experimental dance not dance from Kassel, Germany.

Hard to describe, harder to find...

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Style: Electronic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Trend

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM

Hard to find Electronics by these two Krautrock veterans. Klaus Nagel played with Joy Unlimited!  Peter Seiler was the leader of Tritonus and played on/produced  Michael Bundt's albums. They recorded together before as the superfunky Intercity Sound Association, but this record here is something completely different...

Deep, distorted and moogy electronic meets ambient kraut. The first side holds longer tracks and the second is filled with short but intense bits.

A subtle BOMB!

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Style: Private Pleasures

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Hobbyists again! Gifted girls and guys from Bückeburg (the middle of nowhere) playing tunes by Horace Silver, Alphonze Mouzon, Joe Sample, Ian Carr and Kenny Dorham. Plus these two self penned jams. Disco Swing is the notable among these two. Song For My Father and Come Into My Life are sthe strongest tracks in the batch of covers with an incredibly soulful sound for whiteys from the middle of Germany's nowhere. The sound is a bith thin since is was recorded in a school, but this is actually a lot more charming than disturbing ;)

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Style: Private AOR Disco Heaven

Format: 7"
Label: (Private) Dragon

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Dreamy uptempo AOR Disco.

Rare as a snail's toothbrush...

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Style: Ambient Jazz / Ethno Jazz

Format: LP
Label: MMR (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Like new vinyl of this ambient jazz masterpiece.

One of my favourire discoveries ever.

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Style: Private Press Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Audionova

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Private Press Boogie from Bavaria.

Tight grooves and funky horns.

Plus that incredible tropical jam Africa!

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Style: Wonky Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Synton (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Stealth german Boogie Pop. Private, and super unavailable, of course! Funny that a record with that name didn't go through the roof. It's actually fantastic.

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Style:  Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label / Private

Year: 197?

Condition: VG/VG+  

Impossible to find private press loner Krautrock form Hamburg / Germany. Excellent left winged lyrics in german and somewhere between Krautrock and Psychedelic Folk. It reminds me of Ton Steine Scherben.

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Style: Disco Bohemien

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

When some friends, all hobby musicians or non musicians, gather to record some tunes it can go all wrong. Or totally all right. It depends on your point of view! If you dig the immense freedom of DIY listen ton these funky ass bohemiens do their thing! Weirdo Disko, odd Kraut-Funk, and more bohemian bastards

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Style: Ambient / Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/VG+

Various percussion and flute is enough to light the fire. This impossible to find private pressing from 1992 has enough fire to burn entire woods. Light yer insense and burn the socks. It's time to dance!

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Style: Turkish Psych

Format: 7"
Label: Quality Of Germany (Private)

Year: 197?

Condition: VG/VG

Private Press Psychedelic Folk sung in turkish.

Both tracks are great. Too bad this one is made from unobtainium.

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Style: Funkiest Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Sun (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Excellent album recorded in the golden years of private pressings. Sun is one of those groups who mingle funky jazzrock with latin rhythms adding a touch of progressive - without sounding like Santana :) Infact they're so funky that i almost labelled it a Krautfunk album. Strong horn section and their affinity to the boogie (not woogie ;) is hard to find among german musicians...

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Style: Organic

Format: LP
Label: Yaya

Year: 1990

Condition: M/NM

Dancing For Mental Health in the organic workshop.

Filled to the brim with wit and percussion.

Unplayed backstock copy. Cowabunga!

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Style: Organic Music

Format: LP
Label: Yaya

Year: 1990

Condition: M/M

Unplayed backstock copy of this organic gem.

If you dig percussive post Can vibes here's your altar!

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Style:  Kraut Funk / Fusion / Boogie Jazz / Rap!

Format: LP
Label: Not On label / Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Kraut Funk at it's BEST! Starting off with a superfunky jam session incl. soli for everyone in the band. Kemmler on guitar is blowing them other players to the walls of the studio. He‘s showing some more of his funky guitar skills in the second track called Chris The Fusionist. One thing very remarkable for a private german Fusion LP from 1983: It has RAPS! And they are a lot better than you‘d expect from a german (forget about Falco!). More fusion madness on the B- Side in Rebirth Of The Firebirds and they‘re closing with a mellow track called It Could Be. Smooth... Check the long clip!

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Style: Boogie-Fusion

Format: 7"
Label: Letz Fetz Records

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG signed! 

One of the sickest boogie singles ever to be recorded in Germany. The Mainpoint guys are proper jazzheads so they know damn well how to handle their instruments. Both tracks rule. Someone has to reissue this GEM!! Oops i did!

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Style: Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Oh Lord! By now quite a bunch of people noticed the quality of this monster of an Afro Disco record. Four tracks on this private french issue. Two of them great mellow afro jams and one afro disco tune that goes through the roof. If you never heard about you missd some growing bin updates and must immediately check the soundclip and youtube clips so you know what's poppin!

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