Style: Balearic Pop / Shouldhavebeenahit

Format: 12"
Label: WEA

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Huge Hit Alert here!! I can't believe that this one didn't chart in 1990!?!

It brings insane midtempo action (102 BPM) for the chilled dancefloor in 3 different mixes of which the Dance Edit is the sharpest with that sick bassline being most prominent. The Orient Version whas a nice intro if mixing it in is not an option

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Style: Italo Disco / Balearic Bangers

Format: 12"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

BP: 119 / 119

Proper "Feel-Good-Italo-Disco" for the people of Ibiza and those who just go there to party. Or for sad people  like me who have never been to the white island :( Hands in the air anyway! Hands in the air!

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Style: Post Abba Gems / Fake Reggae Pearls

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

I SEE RED!!!!! You wouldn't belive as she looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, but it's true. Also true: Phil Collins producing this and laying down the drums too.

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Style: Mellow Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Adult Oriented Synth Pop by the swiss masters of mellow. Including the long version of Gliding and Lakes In The Desert. I love it that it sounds like Gwiding ...

LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: Balearic Boogie

Format: 12"
Label: Flop

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Very continental sounding Balearic Boogie just perfect for the beach!!

Doesn't really sound like a Flop to my ears...

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Style: Balearic Boogie Blouses
Label: CBS

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

That dude was actually one of my heroes in 1983. I only knew Stand And Deliver and saw that he had paint on his face - like Kiss (the greates band in my little universe back then). Knowing this you might understand that I dared to listen to this horribly looking album including a bunch of horrible songs. And the reward: VANITY - wtf  - what a tune !!

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Blouses win!

 
Style: "Progressive" Chanson / Fake Reggae

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM

You know right away it's not your average chanson album when you put on the platter as it starts with a wonderful uptempo fake reggae number... I am not saying that this album is lacking the cheey bits that even a romantic like me cannot take, but the interesting tracks where Simon leaves the mannered chansony comfort zone are in the majority! It sounds like it might have been influential to a certain Monsieur Tellier...

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Style: Balearic Magic

Format: LP
Label: Chrysalis

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

THIS IS A FANTASTIC POP ALBUM and I command you to get a copy of it. If not here, maybe at your local recordstore. Shoot From The Heart is definitely in my top 20 pop songs. Hearing this for decades and it just won't wear out. And the album is not a one tracker. Peep the clip!!

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Style:  Emotional Pop

Format: LP
Label: Les Disques Du Crepuscule

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Right bewteen Synth-Pop and Jazz Isabelle Antena builds her home!

So many beautiful tracks on this album ...

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: Perfect Pop

Format: LP
Label: Parlophone

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG+ including printed innersleeve

Mark White and Martin Frey bringing pop to perfection in 1991. Incorporating Streetsoul, Rave and Downbeat to their recipe for ultimate pleasure. Don't miss!

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Style: Magical Pop / Balearic

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

May I introduce this unknown Pop Pearl from late 80s Hamburg? Thank you! The number one reason to own a copy is the beauty of a über-balearic tune called Who Knows Doesn't Talk. Please excuse that I dare to do the opposite! While I am at busting secrets: the hits are ALL on the B-Side. That might explain why nobody cared much for this album in the last 30 years

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Style: Dubbed Italo / Afro Synth Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Dopest Vocoded Synthfunk ...  including the mighty dub version! In big demand since a crackly nigerian repress was sold for 500€. This is a german copy - no campfire crackles :)

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Style: Dream Pop

Format: LP
Label: 4AD (EU)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+ including insert

I imagine describing the sound of this record to someone who has never heard the Cocteau Twins before. And I see myself recommending to just open their ears and fly...

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: "sensual" / the birth of sleaze pop

Format: LP
Label: Fontana

Year: 1969

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Lovely tunes by the girl and the guy with the cigarette. Recorded in 1969 - L'Anneé Erotique. Of course their major hit Je T'Aime is included but I don't consider this the strongest track on the album. 69 or Jane B. with that particular pre Melody Nelson sound are way more interesting to my ears ...

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Style: Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: CeeM

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Scritti Politti is one of my favourite bands when it comes to 80s pop not pop and I'm always happy when i find music by people they influenced. Here's a rare example of young germans making their version of the Scritti sound. BTW - is Rolf Kiffmeier a nom de plume?

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Style: Balearic Boogie

Format: 12"
Label: WEA (Eu)

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG (stickers for your notes, BPM, etc...)

The older among might roll their eyes... that sunnyboy of a Levi's model under Madonna's wings. Just listen to the awesome instrumental then (Madonna is a hell of a producer!!) and leave the vocal version to us helpless romantics...

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Style: Sleazy Disco / Fake Reggae

Format: LP
Label: Pepita

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Something fresh for your ears from hot Judith and her band. Playing the hungarian version of fake reggae and adding some sleazy disco joints too!

LISTEN! LISTEN!

Style: Balearic Pop

Format: 7"

Label: Metronome

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Here's the ORIGINAL german 7" of this stone cold balearic classic. Of course including the very useful INSTRUMENTAL!

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Style: Blue Eyed Funk

Format: 12"
Label: Chrysalis (US)

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Mutant Funk by the later leaders of the New Romantic.

B-Side glows  ahhhem wins again! Both versions EXTENDED!

LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style:  BALEARIC / Flamenco Jazz

Format: 7"
Label: APM / Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Excellent balearic Jazz featuring Santiago's Tato Gomez.

German only promo 7" of the mediterrenean calssic unlassic Nena.

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Style: Balearic Synth

Format: 12"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Right in the middle between Synth Pop and Balearic jams (in wickedest weather for walking) you find this wonderful 3 tracker. Prime Time Driving!

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: Balearic Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Chic

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

When we boys played cowboys, I was a native american. Makes it easy for me to skip the cowboy side and get totally lost in No Identity - a wonderful dancefloor pop pearl penned by the amazing Toni Cicco.

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Style: Gardening Music

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

THIS is the 12" MAXI single and unlike most copies floating around it really has Im Garten on the B-side!!

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Style: Private Parties

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1988

Condition: VG/NM including insert

Well hung private Dance Pop with a synth stab reminiscent of PG's good old Sledgehammer and a 3 minute instrumental part before the vocal part begins. Legendary!

Plays with a couple of crackles early in A1. Clean 24bit rip included!

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Style: Utterly balearic

Format: 12"
Label: Jupiter

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Skip Sunshine Dancing and care for the Cover Girl immediately. Such a lovely piece of post Mike Francis beauty not lacking a bit of parmeggiano.

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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: Balearic Italo

Format: 12"
Label: CBS

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Hands in the air.

Feet in the sand!

LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: Balearic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: CBS (NL)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

The dutch king of fusion adds a drume machine as well a some shreds and opens the door for wrong speed fetishists (like me). Epic ketamine boosts for balearic burnouts!

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Style: Prog Pop

Format: LP
Label: Melodiya

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

It's the mellow moments of this estonian prog obscurity that melt...

Perfect to chill out to!

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Style: Odd Pop / Cosmic Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Teldec

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/NM

fans of obscure 80s dance will start to drool when they see the cover - and it's really just that good. I recommend pitchng it a tad down for ultimate pleasure!

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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 Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1984

Condition: M/NM still sealed!!

Including the massive Electro Dancer Berlin

and the balearic Übertune Samba Olec. 

Highly recommended!!

LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: Balearic Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Tony Cicco from Napoli with a typical neapolitan song. Well his version has little to do with the famous song from the 50s. It is proper balearic Funk with a rhythmic accentuation you just cannot escape...

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Style: Compass Point Magic

Format: LP
Label: Island (Eu)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

This is pure MAGIC! In Nassau with Sly, Robbie and Wally.

So many hits that I can't say which is my fave. (It's prolly the Hunter)

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: New Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Jumping from the pumping synth-pop section into the New Beat pool. Totally irresistible.

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Style: Brazil Disco

Format: 12"
Label: UA (Ger)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

BPM: 118

Skip her life and go straight to the Copacabana.

Percussive disco heaven with cheese explosions!

LISTEN!!

 
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: Soft Pop

Format: 12"
Label: EMI

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG  taped rip

aMAZEing balearic pop. Maybe the #1 hit of the album? EXTENDED mix and radio edit plus that wonderful non LP track Weekend.

LISTEN! LISTEN!

 
Style: Balearic Boogie

Format: 12"
Label: When Doves Cry

Year: 2017

Condition: NM/NM

Ladies & gentlemen, strike your most curious pose and welcome WDC101 into your lives and living rooms. One gentle adjustment of a tunes that shoulda, woulda coulda been a hit if it weren’t for that horrible hook, overblown saxophone or depressing denouement. A pair of 80s artefacts rescued from the euro bin and revived with tender scissors.

Whether you’re after Balearic boogie or an end of night anthem,

this platter of passionate pop should more than hit the spot.

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Style: Odd 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: Sadness Galore

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG- (odd discoloration top front and back)

Sensual boogie meets emtional electro. This Sadness ripoff got it going on! Vinyl shows two surface scuffs and plays NM. ( I can provide soundclips)

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Style: Pastoral meets Digi-Dance

Format: LP
Label: Ariston

Year: 1989

Condition: M/NM sealed

Here's a wonderful italian library from the mid 80s. It's killing me on both sides of the floor with pastoral ambient beauty and Italo Disco style DIGI-MADNESS!

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Style: a voice and a sampler

Format: LP
Label: WB

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+ light seamwear

A great and diverse album including the most beautiful Todd Rundgren track ever recorded (imho) - Lost Horizon !!

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Style: Odd Summer Hits

Format: 12"
Label: Idee

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

This imaginari Safari Trip starts in Rimini!

Congas popping, cocktails dropping.

White slippers in the sand!

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Style: Mutant Pop

Format: LP
Label: Metronome

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

This little known group from Germany's north enjoyed the vibes spread by Dr. Buzzard and the Tom Tom Club and formed their own version of Mutant Funk, Cocktail Jazz and Synth Pop. It's actually a BIG album with many hits. Sadly nobody cares...

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Style: Mediterrenean Travels

Format: LP
Label: Telefunken

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG+

DOLCE!!! 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: Mellow AOR

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+ light wear

Gjon Delhusa from Hungary really has a golden voice. Even when he sings in german. Check the soulful beauty Sing Nur (Just Sing) and melt away!!

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Style: Smooth Jazz / Cocktail Time

Format: LP
Label: CBS (NL)

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:  Synth Pop with a balearic twist

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Such a beauty - finally back in stock. Elisa Waut's 2nd longplayer.

Including the hits Four Times More and Lots Of People.

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Style: Slow Jams

Format: 12"
Label: EMP

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Awesome austrian Frankenstein assembled of street-soul legs and emotional pop torso. The head is invisible since it's in the clouds checking that cover art straight from heaven!

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Style: DreamPop

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG water stain bottom right

Wonderful pop from Hamburg, Germany. Klaus Voormann on the console. Dancing to forget is one of my favourite discoveries of 2012. But that is just one of many highlights on this album...

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Style: Blue Eyed Boogie

Format: 12"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Post Paul Weller Pop from the UK.

Pure joy for the lovers of Boogie-Pop pearls!!

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Style: Smooth Jazz

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+ small corner ding

Yep that cover might cause nausea for sax haters. Why I ended up listening to the album is a mystery to me. Maybe because it was just too much... the bigger suprise: There are some really lovely smooth jams for lovers of proper balearica on the album. Sounds like Dancing Fantasy plays Prince at Mike Francis' party. Unfortunately a rare one!

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Style: Soft Pop

Format: 7"
Label: EMI

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+  

aMAZEing balearic pop. Maybe the #1 hit of the album?

plus that wonderful non LP track Weekend.

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Style: All That Love

Format: 12"
Label: Factory benelux

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG sticker tear

Tomorrow always goes easier with the Vini's vibes.

All That Love And Maths Can Do EVEN BETTER!

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Style: Pop Dubs

Format: 12"
Label: Virgin

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

 That wink prolly means You can play me at a different speed too ;)

Chamfort and Moulin on the console!

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Style: WTF?

Format: 7"
Label: Mikado

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

I found a bunch of Fonio singles one fine day some years ago. When putting on that Bonbona as the last of 5 I was not expecting anything but more of that power elevator business. And then came Technical Peace.

Seriously - WTF?!?!?

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Style: Emotional Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Titan

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

Baleraric pop about Mr Dark all alone sitting in the park.

I see him sitting there with a cocktail in hand ...

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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: Pop Dubs

Format: 7"
Label: Chrysalis

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

French Kising in the USA probably sounded like freedom to a lot of teenagers in the mid 80s. I focus on the incredible production of this balearic beast...

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Style: Heartbreaking Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Crownhill

Year: 1990

Condition: VG+/VG+  

One Broken Heart is such the innocent early 90s pop gem.

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Style: Cosmic Emotion

Format: 7"
Label: ZYX

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

I'm dancing slowly through a cloud of ether

wondering if it's a or b. A or B I like better

And I can't tell you anything but: I'm In Love!

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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: Bizarre Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Wonderland

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Funny cat, eh?

Bizarre B-Side wins!

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Style: Mediterrenean Gold

Format: LP
Label: Warner

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

AOR Disco fans beware. This magic stuff must be coming from Italy's WESTCOAST. Driving rhythms, bubbling synths and uplifting strings make this library-like album a WINNER!

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Style: Sirene Party

Format: LP
Label: WB (Ger)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

When I heard the Hammond Song first I couldn't move - or even think. Those girls must be angels. On fripperies and production: Robert Fripp

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Style: Balearic Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Ariola

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Help The Man is such the summer tune!

Including the Instrumental on the B-Side...

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Style: Boogie Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

The Boy crying Wolf LOUD and clear.

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Style: 90s Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1991

Condition: M/VG

Adult Orientated 90s Pop in the tradition of Mr. Mister or late 80s John Farnham. Partly influenced by the latest breakbeat craze. Harold Faltermeier was aware of this, of course! Still sealed but the seal is too tight.

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Style: Latin Pop

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1987

Condition: VG/VG seamwear

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... Vinyl shows wear but the good tracks plays much better than the record looks. Including printed innersleeve and a clean rip of the hits ...

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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: Mysterious Vibes

Format: 7"
Label: Ades

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Sleazy and slow vibes for days over 40° celcius. Down on a deckchair with a drink and the whole world is passing by. This wonderful number almost made it to Proper Sunburn, but Im Garten won by a hairbreadth...

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Style: Classic of Classics

Format: 7"
Label: CBS

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

The lovely 7" of this mighty Balearic Classic,

that puts a smile on a lot of faces...

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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: 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: 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: Balearic Soul

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG some creases

Before your image of Bill Withers manifests - listen to You Try To Find A Love and see why I call him the GOD of balearic soul. That lovely day has nothing to do with it... actually the whole album is fantastic!

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Style: Flying Saucers in my Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Vibratone

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Pago Pago was a group from Hamburg, Germany. The band consists of former members of the Release Music Orchestra and Tomorrow's Gift - Kraut Kings ;) Ellen Meier also sung for Alto and ES... Check the great spacy Krautjam Space Saver / Flying!

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Style: Shoegaze Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Crepuscule

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

A highly potent compilation from the Crespuscule vaults.

Unbutton your collars and DANCE!

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

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Style: Balearic Boogie

Format: 12"
Label: Mgic / WEA

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

Don't worry about the money, honey as long as you feel the SWEET BUMP. What a JAM!

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Style: Trip Hop / 2000 Grooves

Format: 2LP
Label: Vienna Scientists

Year: 2001

Condition: NM/NM

Unplayed backstock copy of this wonderful family affair of trippy downbeat and organic grooves. As laid back as you'd expect from viennese scientists...

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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: Exotic Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

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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Style: Italo / Balearic

Format: 12"
Label: WEA

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG small tear

Into The Night is an emotional Italo Disco song. Useful, but nothing really something special to my ears. The flipside is indeed A DREAM IN THE NIGHT. A tight instrumental jam clocking in at 100BPM. Relaxoing balearic pleasures galore

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Style: Perfect Pop / Truly Balearic

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

This balearic synth pop gem from Spain has not really made it to the beaches, bars and mixtapes yet. Let's change this!

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Style: Sweetest Pop

Format: LP
Label: Stiff

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Isn't she sweet? Especially when she sings about the differences...

Such a wonderful and naive "balearic fake reggae" GEM.

This is the marbled green vinyl version!

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Style: J Hip Hop / Balearic Bangers

Format: CD EP
Label: Major Force

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM 

Like new copy of this Balearic Banger of a Japanese Hip Hop instrumental.

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Style: Kiwi Pop

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Synth Pop meets Balearic - when I first found a copy it reminded me of that Romie Singh album and this hasn't changed over the years. This one should have been a hit album back in the days. Sadly people have slept on it big time. You hear the alarm clock?

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Style: Drowning in downtempo

Format: LP
Label:  Sinnbus

Year: 2010

Condition: NM/VG+

When Indie attitude meets deepest downtempo vibes.

I Love My Harbour  is reasone enough already...

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Style:  Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: Epic

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG small sticker abrasion

Superb Japanese Synth Pop with the ability to make the floor explode. Connoisseurs will gently nod when the featured artists Pecker and Sandii are mentioned...

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Style: Country Rock WTF?

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG+ cut still in shrink

Oh my god! These Tippy Toes get me every time.

Does anybody else hear these secret messages to a certain Frank?

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Style: Sweetest Pop

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  incl. the doll dress insert

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:  Balearic Synth

Format: LP
Label: London (Ger)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG tear

Heaven sent Synth Pop with some great tropical vibes in the incredible well aged No Wonder They Never Made It Back. Can I serve some cocktails to it?

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Style: Draggin' My Heels

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1976

Condition: VG+/VG+

My only Hollies album. Draggin' My Heels is a stone cold loft classic and Thanks For The Memories is just perfect for the mix, beach, poolparty, whatever! 

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Style:  Balearic Pop

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

I wonder who of them is the sun?

This is a lovely german only release. Very deep and sunny! Including the great slowmotion boogie Heartbeat,  westcoast feeling in Free Spirit and balearic vibes in Bulding Bridges.

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Style: Perfect Pop

Format: LP
Label: Teardrop

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Yes perfect Pop by George Kochbek, who has recorded some amazing records before. Balearic heads have danced hours to Help The Man and Kraut collectors are still looking desperately for Louise For One Night. I'm off to Lingerton instead!

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Style: Esoteric Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Aaahsome esoteric fusion with latin and tropical influences.

Reminds me of Ben Tankard's All Keyed Up ...

Highly recommended!!

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Style: Soft Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Zeppelin

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

If Double came from Italy they might have sounded like this undiscovered Synth Pop duo from Hanover, Germany. Depeche Mode influences on the flip... On the lovely Zeppelin label that brought us so much joy at the end of the night

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Style: Truly Golden

Format: 12"
Label: Old Gold

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Two wonderful emotional jams on this 12" maxi single. Hearing Ned Doheny To Prove My Love gives me the feeling it couldn't get any better but then Alan Hawkshaw slows down the tempo and my mind slips into something more comfortable...

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Style: Wrongspeeders / Balearic Bananas

Format: 12"
Label: Avenue

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

I love Maureen, but she's moving too fast.

Fortunately this green vinyl runs on 45...

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Style: Power Pop

Format: LP
Label: MCA

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

The stadium pop songs on this album are just too much for me.

Fortunately there are these hidden pearls...

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Style: Summer Pop

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Aside from the obvious hits like Yeh Yeh and Dancing In The Streets and the latin jazz boogie Smooth this fantastic album holds one of my favourite pop songs for the sunny season - Summer Song!

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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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