Style: Weird

Format: LP
Label: Pigture Disc

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG+ plus inserts

Mouth really can't spell how good this under the radar experimental/industrial dance compilation is. Keys can't either so use your finger (mouse?) and do the obvious to learn about the latest oddities before no copies are to be found anywhere...

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Style: NDW Masterpieces

Format: LP
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+ including printed innersleeve

This highly underrated album holds some real pearls.

One of them is played everytime I'm on the decks ...

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Style: Demented Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ata Tak

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+  lovely embossed cover

"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:  Avant Pop

Format: LP
Label: Jupiter

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's Art - the first and by far best LP by Luna Set from Munich. Deep and unsual pop songs that stick like glue. A timeless record that should be a classic instead of an unknown pearl!

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Style: Post-Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Sneaky Pete

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

The family is haveing fun whilst giving birth to german Indierock (hallo Rio). I might exxxagerate, but hey who else over here had these kinda lyrics combined with punk influenced soul-rock?

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Style: Odd X-mas

Format: 7"
Label: Ulan Bator

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  Rare handcoloured version.

Jingle Bells is a melody I can whistle and hum all year.

This version here comes near my skills.

Cover shows light storage wear at the seams.

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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: Digi-Dance / Jazz Funk / Odd Pop

Format: LP
Label: Arcu (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

DIY Madness on this wonderful private release from 1987s Berlin. The variety of styles is remarkable and you might note critically that these two obviously young men have not elaborated a style of their own. Instead they try out their skills in various forms of Synth Pop and come up with unique gems in every direction they take. The approach is diletantish, the accomplishment is NOT. A total gem!

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Style: Odd Waves

Format: 7"
Label: Mu?ik (Private)

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG

Hypnotic oddities from Berlin. As addictive as scarce, so maybe you better not check the soundclip. Ventilator is accidentally popping up in my head for years already. It's not disturbing but at all since I can listen to it and perform a exorcism dance. That might be difficult without a copy...

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Style: Odd Waves / NDW

Format: LP
Label: Gulp

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Under the radar NDW jams with ATOM being my hit here. It just won't get boring even after 15+ years of playing it (and playing it out)

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Style: Psycho Son-In-Law

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG seamwear

Obscure NDW album witha bunch of mental tunes.

Hinterm Bahndamm and Das Goldene Kalb being the sickest of them....

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Style: Bizarre Synth

Format: LP
Label: Steyrer Disco

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

Oddest songs by this bizarre duo.

Theiy're best when the drum machine goes...

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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! Promo copy without picture cover BUT with a rare booklet.

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Style: Woozy Dreams

Format: LP
Label: Überschall

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+

Two hardcore Velvet Underground fans on a fantastic DIY trip. Northern Atmospheres is their first album and my fave among those I've heard by now. Acoustic Dark Velvet Wave with a psychedelic touch.

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Style: Xynth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Vertigo

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  including printed inner sleeve

Xynn's 2nd album featuring Curt Cress on Drums and Kristian Schultze on synths. Funky and pretty bonkers cosmic synth pop - superunique!

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Style: Mnml / Odd Waves

Format: LP
Label: Klack! Klack!

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Playful & eerie mnml jams with perfect vocal hooks. Contains an envelope with a folder lyrics sheet. Also including the track that might wipe away the Hardcastle-19 connection in your brain...

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Style:  Krauts going Bananas

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Welcome to the weird world of banana slippers. Wahle and his friends came up with a odd mix of Prog and synthesized summertime Pop plus some massive discoid Rock on the B-Side. Highly recommended!

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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: Various

Format: LP
Label: Blizz

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

This obscure promotional compilation for radio stations holds tracks mostly published by small Hamburg based labels. The syles vary from Boogie to Comedy, from Italo Disco to NDW-Wave, from Falco to  - yes -  Beny Tchaicovsky. Here's your chance to get Explorer's best cut plus some amazing obscure ditties not available on any other medium ... just like that Frühlingstraum from Gero's lovely german-only mix

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Style: NDW GREATS!

Format: LP
Label: Risiko

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

All I can say: Don't miss this fantastic ALBUM!

It is filled with hits that almost nobody cares about...

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Style: Cold and not bouncy

Format: LP
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG wrinkles

A kind of a growing bin classic!  Dark but funky Synth Pop from Frankfurt by the guys around Peter Hauke and Tony Carey. Don't miss!

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Style: Obscure NDW

Format: LP
Label: Project (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Oddest NDW pleasures on this rare private press. My fave is the slow jam Nach Norden Zurück. Melancholic dreams of being back in the north. Must be incredibly hot where the guys went ;)

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Style: FIRE!

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Slow burning fire from the north! I believe the title of the B-Side refers to the scarcity of copies out there. I accidently listened to the A side at minues 6 and gell in love a second time with this gem. BTW Volker (the keyboarder) also played synths for Saada Bonaire... Vinyl shows faintest marks and plays perfect (just ripped it)

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Style: NDW / Mnml Snth

Format: LP
Label: Pool

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

A man with history (Agitation Free), some real nice friends joining him on the album (Butzmann, Kapielski, Else Nabu) and a bunch of mighty fine tunes between Minimal Synth and NDW.

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Style: Experimental Fun

Format: 7"
Label: WEA

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

Arno making fun of the stupid NDW circus.

Neubauten meets Yello on Conny's console.

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Style: Moonlighting

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Grown up lunatic melodies. Of course not lacking the usual Joachim Witt edge. Call it obscure pop. Call it whatever you like as long as you've listened to it first.

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Style: Experimental Disco / NWW Xmas

Format: 7"
Label: Marat

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+  generic

Dissonant Disko for freaky x-mas sessions.

White Christmas taking it a step further...

The festive season will begin soon!

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Style: Minimal HITS / Austrian Waves

Format: 7"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

The Black Madonna starts unbelievably good, but those guitar shreds need some cutting imho. The B Side IN FACT rules and I can verify the lyrics. In 1986 it was all about Computer Games ... Off to Mars with Zak!

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Style: NDW Torten

Format: LP
Label: Wunschklang

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Uptempo NDW that slows down for a stop at the little pastry shop called In Einer Kleinen Konditorei. This one is incredibly delicious!!

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Style: Elektro

Format: 12"
Label: f-Musik

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

A mad rare testpressing of this private press Electro wunder from Wuppertal. Cold and very german with proper underground "NDW" vibes. All killer!!

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Style: Saved By The Bell

Format: LP
Label: X-Records

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM

Overlooked is the werd here. And it's easy to understand why nobody would care for this album after hearing the first side. If the few that managed to flip sides actually made it to the last two tracks is questionable. Let me start with the last one as it's my utter fave here. The Amulet! The real freaks among you hear a bell ringing. Yes it's a Tony Carey tune. Yep from the TCP album, but with vocals. And holy mackerel - Justine puts a cherry on top!! Now back to B4. This one is called Gone Baby and I play this slower. Check them out instantly...

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Style: Strange Waves

Format: 12"
Label: 45

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG- seam split on top, spot

Odd but funky Waves by this short lived project.

Might be something for fans of wrongspeeders too!

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Style: NDW

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Next time you see this in a german recordstore you better buy it. After being radio-tormented with the hit from their first longplayer for some child years I'd totally  understand if someone wouldn't want to touch this record but it really has some great cuts. Die Sommersprossen kannst Du Total Vergessen!

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Style: Hymns

Format: LP
Label: Spiegelei

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Obsession! The title track is one of my all time faveourite german jams. Perfect in every sense. I thought about making a longer version, but there's absolutely no need. All is in balance here. I also thought about making a new youtube video for it since I love it that much, but the one that was already there is just great. No need to piss the non existing growing bin logo into the snow. By the way: the whole album is great. It's amazes me how Hoelderlin made the move from proggy Folk to Pop in Perfection.

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Style: Tolle Tunes

Format: LP
Label: Hansa

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+ tiny cut

Awesome NDW james here.

Once again the best tracks are album-only.

They had strange images of hits back then ;)

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Style: Dance & Chill

Format: LP

Label: Growing Bin Records

Year: 2022

Condition: M/M

Tribal electronics, dubby downbeat, sedated house and disoriented breaks coming from Molto Brutto’s Andreas Kunzmann. Following on from his essential reissue of II aka Molto Brutto’s feverish and freaky second LP, Basso fires up the Growing Bin lathe for a further foray into AK’s eccentric catalogue. Recorded between 1998-2005 and unreleased until now, these genre-fluid tracks retain the unorthodox charm central to the Austrian’s art. Sometimes dancing is just falling to music, and Andreas lives the life unbalanced.

Mastered by Sergey Luginin @ Luginin Studio in Moscow

Distributed by wordandsound from Hamburg

Sales notes by Patrick Ryder

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Style: Etheral NDW

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1985

Condition: VG/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!

This copy plays with clicks in the outro of (My) Love Will Find You and the intro of Badlands. The best tracks are not affected and a clean rip will be included!

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Style: Mnml

Format: LP
Label: Wahrnehmungen

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Subversive and all out minml wvs not lacking a little humour (well hidden). Delicate uncoated cover shows ageing.

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Style: Minimal Synth

Format: 12"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Minimal Düsterheit from Connie's desk.

I recommend minus 8

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Style: Synth Pop / Minimal

Format: LP
Label: Weltrekord

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's a highly recommended minimalistic Synth Pop album from Germany including the oustanding cosmic jam In Form

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Style: Ambient / Electronic

Format: LP
Label: Colosseum

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Dark ambient meets soundtrack style electronica meets synth pop.

Night music full of supsnese and mysterious moves.

It's vampire time!!

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Style: Synthetische Erdenklänge

Format: LP
Label: Erdenklang

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Klaus doesn't like to be alone! Whilst sitting at his synthesizers and drum machines he dreams about times of togetherness. Join in and please don't be disturbed by me slowing down Klaus a tad (first clip).

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Style: Cosmic Connection

Format: LP
Label: Rocktopus

Year: 1983

Condition: M/NM sealed!

Data Transfer feels like a good old friend.

And I enjoy meeting her or him anytime again

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Style: Austrian Waves (Gentle but Odd)

Format: LP
Label: Gepa

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ including insert, A5 booklet and Promosheets

Decent outsider Pop from Austria.

Actually pretty amazing. Varied, highly ironic and funny too.

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Style: Polite Weirdos /Mutant Funk

Format: EP
Label:  GeeBeeDee

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG

A great 4 track EP including the EP exclusive Höflichkeit.

I'm obsessed with this one... guess why!

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Style:  Cosmic Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ahorn

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

Odd Synth Pop album from the early 80s.

Pumping Elektro NDW with Vocoders!

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Style: Underwater Wave

Format: LP
Label: Eigelstein

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

Pretty much all killer mysterious waves by this unknown combo.

Luna Set meets Mutant Funk. Ether meets speed.

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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: NDW / SYnth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Woolfe

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Oddest Synth-Pop from way under the radar.

Those shadows man!

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Style: Pop with a capital H

Format: LP
Label: Baff

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

And it stands for Humor, not Heroin.

Seriously slept on Dancing Deutsch vibes here.

Organic laughter meets melancholic minimalism pop.

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Style: NDW / Odd Waves

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Most excellent odd waves with a wonderful bass sound for your comfort zone (in the cold). Far from mediocre!!

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Style: NDW

Format: LP
Label: Talent

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Salzgitter's very own Kristall relesed two amazing 45s in the seventies and gained cult status among collectors of rare continental disco over the last years. When they finally got a record deal the sound changed but it's still amazing!  

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Style: Extravagant Aesthtetics

Format: LP
Label: Phonogram

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Details: Tiny  taped rip at open seam

Yes, a pretty extravagant Synth Pop album.

Including that monster of a tune Das Tier.

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Style: Synth Pop / Balearic Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Ahorn

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Seemingly hard to find LP on Ahorn. Including "Heute ist nicht sonst" and a bunch of more jammers. Cover shows seamwear.

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