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Style: Dreampop Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Strangelove

Year: 2021

Condition: M/M 

When I found my first copy of one of Ferger's 45s in a Hamburg record store in the early 2010s I was sold immedietaly. Only to find out these records were mad difficult rto come by. Finally these incredible jams from Ferger's mad rare 45s are available again!! But what do I know? Here's the real salesnote "Hypnotic ambient pieces written for short film swirl amongst the electronic/electrified- unreleased versions of ‘Destiny’ and ‘Candlelight’ allude to his Mindgames LP to come, while the album culminates in the highlights ‘Night Rituale’ and ‘Childrens Mind’ - Intoxicating amalgalms of Sjunne’s influences & inspiration, they unknowingly hint at Mkwaju Ensemble and other key Japanese contemporaries and bear witness to the Swede’s deep Eastern philosophical outlook."

curious? 

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Style: Weird Cosmos

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: Pastoral meets Digi-Dance

Format: LP
Label: Ariston

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Just listen to these two jams below.

Pastoral ambient or rather Italo Digi?

Totally contrary but equally great.

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Style: Soul Hymns

Format: LP
Label: Tamla (NL)

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+ small tear on front

From the golden age of funky soul here comes Eddie with his masterpiece album (recorded one year before his Temptation's "Masterpiece" album). I count four mindblowers on this one.  Starting with flowery Funk in If You Let Me, that the heads will love for the memories of Brooklyn Battles. Then comes a strong call for endurace in the deep soul hymn My People...Hold On. If that wasn't enough already Eddie adds the midtempo floorfiller and Larry Levan fave Girl You Need A Change Of Mind. Then we're throwing away our umbrellas because of that incredibly funky Date With The Rain (a thematic variation of I Wish It Would Rain?)

THIS is a strong VG+ copy with an inaudible (play-tested) scuff on B1 :)

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Back on the market. The buyer was not capable of reading...

This is a great sounding dutch copy with a lovely laminated cover.

I have ripped it today and it's close to a NM record!

 
Style: Deep Downtempo / Cosmic Throb / Sensitive Soft Rock

Format: 12"

Label: When Doves Cry

Year: 2021

Condition: M/M

It’s a strange world we’re living in and these addictive cuts mirror it well.

Dancing all night in cheerful melancholy with two strictly limited edits.

The A-side renders gothic synth pop at cruising tempo, spinning a web of tape delay as your mind unravels. A bassline throbs, pistons hiss and a paranoia takes hold of an icy vocal. Lose yourself in the otherwhere.

We step into a pristine wilderness on the B-side, stately pads gliding over a supple rhythm section while tender chimes tug at your heartstrings. Emotion abounds on an instrumental which never was. Big boys do cry, and this dove’s weeping over broken wings…

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Style: Psytrance / Wrongspeeders

Format: 12"
Label: Corrosive

Year: 1999

Condition: NM/NM

Three sick Goa / Psy / Trance House GEMS on this EP.

And they also sound so damn good when slowed down ...

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Style: Mellow Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Wea

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Mellow fusion by dutch guitar master Jan Akkerman. He also plays bass and synths on this one. Also on Synths - Joachim Kühn... check out the ambient jam Cool In The Shadow and you may see why I call this my favourite Akkerman LP.

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Style: Various / Deviant Pop

Format: LP
Label: Poly-Bär (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

I have no clue why I even listened to this odd compilation. A giveaway from a pharma company. bäh! Maybe it has to do with my "private" fetish. And in this case I need to thank my private fetish for the strong curiosity. This wonderful & highly eccentric "deviant pop" pearl by Christos & Zodiac would have never made it into my life without it...

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Style:  Funky Soul / Disco

Format: LP
Label: Touchstone

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+   

Rediscovered this fine record lately when "car listening" to a 15 year old cd with various tracks on it. Crazy that it still plays ; ) What's It All About has been on repeat for at least half an hour.  So nice with the sunshine... and there's more of these upright & uplifting tunes on the LP. Also an interesting band setup. Jeff Beck's drummer Richard Bailey, next to Taj Mahals Steel drum player Robert Greenwich. Van Morrison & Richard Moorcock's bass buddy Kuma Harada meets Denny Diaz from Steely Dan and the Gap Band's Glen Nighhtingale on guitars. Oisbisa's man on keys Robert Bailey also in the boat.

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Style: Deep House / Techno

Format: 12"
Label: Gifted & Blessed

Year: 2010

Condition: M/M 

Gnarly deep house baked in acid.

More dreams on the B-Side...

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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: Gentle Waves

Format: LP
Label: Mute

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Smells like ether here! Lovely copy of this seminal Bruce Gilbert production. Including the instrumental No Talk on the flipside

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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... Teneriffe is one of the smoothest balearic tracks I've ever heard. SERIOUSLY!

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Style: Walking on a cloud

Format: LP
Label: Orbeatize

Year: 1986 / 2017

Condition: M/M 

Wonderful New Age Electronics previously only available on tape. Here reissued as a limited vinyl edition by Cesare Barbetta's Orbeatize label. Highest recommendation!

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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 ...

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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: Dub

Format: LP
Label: On U Sound

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Of course they meant BIGLY. Adrian Sherwood on the console. So the experienced among you do expect mental dub, mutant electro disco and some oddities as well! Damn right!

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Style: Sleazy Disco

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

All phazers set on SLEAZE when the mighty Witchcraft bedazzles you.

Did I say phazers? Maybe because of the phased title track - a heck of a slow disco gem. And there's more! The sizzling percussion jam One Minute Samba for example, or the supersleazy Space Age Romance ... 

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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: Smooth Jazz / Cocktail Time

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Are my ears deceiving me or is this this the strongest Sade album out there? A true beauty all the way through and a gentle must... Seriously one of my favourite pop records of all times. Maybe it's the Compass Point Studio magic!?!

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Style: Accidental Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Alpha Music

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

I remember well that it took me several attempts over the years to actually listen to this one at my favourite record shop. The cover kinda attracted me as it put me off at the same time. Listening to the first two songs reassured my doubts... and then EVERYTHING changed! German speaking people out there don't ...

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Style: Bigos Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Wifon

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

This mid 80s album by polish Soul diva Krystyna Pronko show a strong turn towards pop and holds an amazing boogie bomb that matches Palazzo Di Danza perfectly.

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Style: FG's Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Sneak Preview

Year: 1984

Condition: VG/VG- seamwear, ringwear

Sweetest european Boogie with a whole lot of feeling! Dance & Romance gems written by your beloved Frank Degryse (FG's Romance, Special Occasion, Réservé). Sweet, soft and killer! Record shows hairlines and scuffs but plays VG+

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Style: Esoteric Knowledge

Format: LP
Label: Sky

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Blenner's best! Dry aged ambient from the woods. Mystic sounds of unidentified animals approaching from behind. No need to be scared - they just want to play...

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Style: Untergrund Hits

Format: LP
Label: Schallter

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Experimental Synth-Pop with a whole lot of Schmäh.

Something for the lover of german speaking weirdness...

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Style: Fusion Not Fusion / Experimental

Format: LP
Label: SBF (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Stop for a minute - Mind your heart frequency and dive deep with this private experimental Fusion gem from Austria. Dynamic and diverse. And extremely unique.

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Style: It IS Balearic!

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Cocktail time! Coming from the same pen that wrote the end of the night saxophone monster "Hold On". Four hits ranging from Silky Schmoov to balearic Boogie for your next sundown session!

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Style: Mellow Street Soul

Format: 12"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG+ light crackles in intro

Like Milli Vanilli on downers! A pretty timeless gem featuring nobody else but Lou "Mambo No.5" Bega. Isn't it lovely to hear how relaxed he was before he met Monica?

 HAMMER!

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Style: Synth Dub Experiments

Format: LP
Label: On-U-Sound

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/NM

Be it percussive darkness in afro-cosmic tempo or melancholic spoken word dub experiments - this overlooked record is an eerie GEM. Unplayed backstock copy!

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Style: Odd Pop

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Konrad Beikircher is Keepin The City Clean. This Liederbetätigung find is undoubtedly the highlight of his highly odd and sought after deutsch-pop album... Falco meets Funkadelic!

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Style: DIY Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Private

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Welcome to the funky DIY Krautrock heaven and join Noah turning to the sun. Loose & funky drums, flutes, synthesizers, rhythmical changes, a lovely voice.....Noah sometimes reminds me of the Real Ax Band on April Records. Please have a listen to the long soundclip including a couple of tracks ...

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Style: Fouth World Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Wifon

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Mindblowing Fourth World Fusion from Poland.

The mellow one remind me of Sun Signs...

Don't miss this!!!

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Style:  Mellow Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Mistlur

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's the third album by the swedish master of ambient Fusion.

Including the mindbending jam Sun Signs with a drum machine perfect for slow jawdropping. Plus some gentle ambient guitar pieces in the vein of Nyanser ...

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Style: Playful Electronica with tristeza

Format: CD
Label: AKT

Year: 2018

Condition: M/M 

Studio outtakes, alternative versions and sessions recorded in 1991.

Right between Sublimity and Touch Of Love. Sounds like 93-95 though.

Sounds fantastic!

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Style: French Boogie

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Positive vibrations galore and some killer boogie too.

Dans un universe bizarre... Don't miss!

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Style: Wrongspeeder Party

Format: 12"
Label: Pool

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

Else's best tracks coming as a pre album limited promo.

Nice on 45 (if available...) and a monster on 33

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Style: "World Music"

Format: LP
Label:  Tropical Music

Year:  1987

Condition: NM/VG+   

A pretty hard to categorize argentinian folk pearl. The whole record is astonishingly beautiful and it'll break your crusty listening habits easily!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Radio Aktiv (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

Another one of those wonderful hobby comps. As usual there are some songs that need to be skipped quickly. And there are some really unusual beauties. Top of my pops the  Jazz-Funk meringue I Send You All My Love by Checkpoint and Mai Thi's synthesizer excursion to Vietnam called Le Vent De Dieu (the wind of god) ((as featured in this mix from 2017)). More lovely jams in the 3rd clip. Don't sleep!

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