Style: Deviant Pop / AOR / Funk / Hardrock

Format: LP
Label: AWS records (Private?)

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Rough emotional pop diamonds on this ungooglable* hobby compilation from Neumünster (a small town 45 minutes north of Hamburg) I spare you the few Hardrock jams to avoid the lovely "Private Metal" freaks and focus on the deviant pop pearls by Dolce Vita, Curity and Make. Their Sentimnetal Jones might be the secret hit of the album (2nd in the clip). Comes with a fat booklet!

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* might add to discogs sooner or later to attract the private metal freaks

Style: Private Kraut

Format: LP

Label: R&M (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+ some tiny tears on the back

This mad rare private comp from Upper Frankonia holds some real gems.

Flying Dreams by the Dice Project might be the most obvious but check those subtle Balearic Funk jams by Mielitz and Russner as well as that incredibly funky Cold Turkey by Mick Jones & Band. Last one in the clip is the prog disco jammer Give Me A Chance by Firewater. One of the most potent german newcomer comps out there...

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Style: Odd Newcomer Jams

Format: LP
Label: Audiorecord

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's a wonderful addition to the world's biggest offering of german newcomer compilations - part III of Koblenz's own Music Live series. You'll be happy to hear that it's not only rare private metal here. The bands Ocean, Fancy Free and Panoptikum are serving a great mix of jazzy Blue-Eyed Funk and Pop Rock. And then there is Rap Sebi Blue by Sentimental Gentlemen... wtf!

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Style: Various / AOR Disco

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF

Meeting by Mazy Mc Coy is such the DIY AOR Disco hymn

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Style: Various / Private Party

Format: LP
Label: Radio Aktiv

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

A funky private Party in Cologne, 1988.

Soulful, blue eyed Boogie for the connoisseur.

And this post Italo pop tune for guilty pleasures...

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Style: Prog Disco / AOR Grooves / Stoner Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

It seems like what happened in Paderborn, stayed in Paderborn. Only a few seem to know about this private gem loaded with delights for us seekers of the obscure. I couldn't decide for a fave here - wether it's the Fusion Dance bastard Jam To The Beat or the AOR groover Pacific Blue with a hook from heaven. I made vids for both. More to explore...

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Style: Various / German Gems

Format: LP
Label: Na Nu (Private)

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

For years this has been sought after by hardcore fans of The Bates only. Seeing a copy change hands for over 70€ recently made me go through the shelves, knowing I had a spare. I knew it was a good one, but it's actually amazing. First stop: Twice As Nice with their etheral Fata Morgana. (Fans of Sango will be happy to hear the heavenly voice of Susanne Vogt here) From this molasses-like moment in time we're rocketing into obscurity. Arrabiato by Head on Shoulders breathes in some belgian air to transform it to universal sweat on the floor. And finally Excursions & Visites are creating and odd end with two "one of a kind" experimental pop gems that made me think of  Mr. Selig & Kanzler Z...

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Style: Various / Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Impossible to find private press compilation from North Germany including some fantastic Prog and Krautrock gems. Rayan And Friends' seven and a half minute long Collage is an epic trip led by synths with great additional guitar and drums. My personal highlight is the funky krautrock jam Der Übersinn by the K.H.J.- Band. Übersinnlich!!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Radio Aktiv (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/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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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Z-Records

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Obscure DIY compilation from Hamburg, Germany. Including 5 pretty uninteresting tracks and 3 tracks that I really enjoy. They couldn't be more different: the first is some easy jazz funk tune á la Style Council - The Only One by a band called The Shuffle; the second a superobscure funky NDW tune called Nur ein Witz (transl. only a joke) by Shizo and the third and my fave is the deep and hypnotic turkish tune Leylim Ley by the Arkadaslar Orkestrasi 84!

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Style: Various / Blue Eyed Funk

Format: LP
Label: NDR

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

My fave among the Hörfest compilations. Blue Eyed Funk jams - uptempo & elegant, that sleazy Jazz Funk number and incredible experiments at the very end of the record (and the soundclip)

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Style:  Post Can Kraut Dub

Format: LP
Label: 45

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+ 

incredible compilation from the Dunkelziffer - Unknown Cases - Phantom Band - Dominik von Senger crew. Filled with dubbed out masterpieces.... check the whole album here

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Style: Various / Sunshine Sound

Format: LP
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG seamwear 

Highly recommended compilation featuring newcomer bands from the Saar area. Including two wonderful pearls by Ambi & Arno!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Style: Jazz Pop Folk

Format: LP
Label: Thema

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG

An austrian Newcomer compilation featuring Zenit's Departure 03, Andy Marek's weird Eurodance Jam Explosive Girl, pensive ambient Jazz by Werner Auer called Concave and a soothing ambient piece by austria New Age prophet #1 Gandalf.

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Style: Various / Hobby Funk

Format: LP
Label: Andromeda (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Apart from the Hardrock monsters that somehow had to be included on every newcomer comp after 1981 this album from Karlsruhe has some great hobby funk cuts for the friends of the DIY Partygroove.

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Style: Dream-Pop / Fake Italo / Mutant Dance

Format: LP
Label: Wunschklang

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

This late 80s compilation on clear vinyl holds some perfectly wonderful dreampop gems by a girl called Zina! Once you're out of her emotional web you can dance with the boys. I'd like to point out a few of the boy's jams: Firstly Nervous Breakdown by Charles W. Chicken, that shows strong influences of Baltimora-style Italo Disco and raging hard FGTH vibes. Sparkling Fountain's Thousand Years is a new beatish obscurity based on Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn pattern. Double Trouble's Beat Goes On and it's proper 80s Synthpop dreaming about holidays in Italy. Mardi Grass' Copa Cabana starts great but drifts off into pseudo brazillian chessyness. You should edit that track...

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Style: Various / Deviant Pop

Format: LP
Label: Poly-Bär (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG

I have no clue why I even came up to listen 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: Berlin Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Check these mighty under the radar boogie jams by Deniece Brooks, G.C. Slabs, Robert Butler, Top Spin and Jocelyn B. Smith - straight out of mid 80s Berlin!!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: CBR

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Erholung translates recreation. Finding this album is far from being restorative. Those of you who are on the hunt know how exhausting exactly... Once you found it will give back lots ;) I've upped the two best jams to youtube, so you can enjoy them if you don't want to give me all your loot.

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Style: 80s Pop Pearls

Format: LP
Label: Sound & News

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

This amazing cat seems to be out of the bag! A pretty much private compilation including wonderful boogie pop (probably under the influence of a british band led by a guy named Le Bon ) as well as fresh Boogie Rap, sophisticated Synth Pop and some stylish 80s ads in the extensive booklet. Don't miss this!

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Style: Accidental Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Krawall (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Another unknown newcomer compilation... Of course it has the metal songs the other guys are after. And of course it has the accidental blue eyed boogie-rap gem. It's named Marion and feels in good company with some Funkrock bastards and bits of dreamy AOR!

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Style: Various / Synth / New Beat

Format: LP
Label: Fuego

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Oddest newcomer comp from Bremen, up north in Germany. Including the unbelievably subtle beauty Read My Lips by Kocoé , Zeno's amazing Brötchen and more of the real goofy stuff!

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Style: Private Party im Pott

Format: LP
Label: C.B.R. (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG+

And another one of those wild C.B.R. newcomer comps! Immer Wieder Montags made me sob waterfalls (and reminded me of my Garfield coffe cup) and Hard Man made me laugh hard. Bundeswehr-Song isn't bad either ;)

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Style: Austrian Cheese Gems

Format: LP
Label: Lion Baby

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Seriously cheesy gems from the sought after Lion Baby stall. Fake Reggae, Synth stacks and emotional alerts. Horribly hard to come by these days...

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Style: 80s Pop Pearls

Format: LP
Label: Sound & News

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Subtle 80s pop with a nod to Spandau Ballet, laid back post NDW grooves and paisley painted Funk. That huge booklet is extra fun. asking the ladies and gents surviving the 80s: When was athe last time you saw a cherry coke commercial?

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Style: Various Oddities

Format: LP
Label: Raubbau

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

This might be strongest of the three Debüt comps with jamming Jazz Funk by Gustav Rabe, serious Synth Pop greats by KinderCorps (lyrics!!), Latin Fusion by Domingo and weird Minimal Synth by Opi H.P. Overlooked to the MAX!

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Style: Slow Boogie / Modern Soul / Odd Dance

Format: LP
Label: Antoni

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

A seldom seen newcomer / hobby comp from Sindelfingen, just a step out of Stuttgart. That area of germany saw a lot of US soldiers stationed in te 70s and 80s and they brought some funk along with their guns. The funk is very strong in this record as one can tell from the clip ;) But make sure check out that odd leftfield dancer with kölsch yrics too!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Musikzentrale

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

A live recording of some Nürnberg local heroes, 1984. Wonderful blue eyed boogie by No Chance, the obligaory Metal tune, and some synthie bits by Minimal Einstein. Baci Perugina sounds like the blueprint for Balla Mozzarella to my ears.

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Musikzentrale

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

You wouldn't expect that kind of blue eyed boogie fire judging from the cover, would you. Ah wait, you've not listened to the clip yet? Do it quick and don't miss that 7 minute long prog fusion monster Ottmar, Dein Bart Brennt at the end!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Feierwerk

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Yep, this is the one with Tempo 100 by Trimolo.

And it's a different version from the album!

And there is more....

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Style: Private Kraut / Prog / Hard Rock

Format: LP
Label: ACG

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

This is the second and last part of the Rock Aus Braunschweig series. Whilst number one featured more jazz and pop this one here is rocking straight to the point. Or taking some extra rounds like the 8 minute long prog jam Live and Die by the band Divine. Thir colleagues called Action offer some excellent Bon Scott era AC/DC hardrock. Paradise Way is included in the clip. Some fellas called Heartburn are also featured with two tracks and they both made it into the clip. One fake reggae jam and the ironically funny Day Of Sadness. Delirium delivers hard pubrock for folks who like to propagandize their extensive abuse of alcohol. I'm sure there are fans for that kind of stuff but I'll save you from hearing it here.

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Style: Various Pleasures

Format: 2 LP
Label: Extra Records & Tapes (NDR in disguise)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Two highly interesting newcomer comps comissioned by the NDR (North German Radio). Hörfest 1 holds the hits like the eastern tinged Proto New Beat [;) jam Eastern Paaradise by the No Dance Project, the tight Boogie tune Idealtyp  by Per Express and some more accidental boogie obscurities. Hörfest 2 is all about that jazzy Krautfolk gem Winterserenade by Kolibri (unless you dig Irish Folk too)!

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Style: Prog / Krautrock

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Superobscure german DIY compilation. All bands are completely unknown. I guess that fact is somehow connected to the record's title. Cod stuff by Ganja Reggae Band. Cheapness Forever (sic!) and Nelly Fair really move me. Also noteworthy: the hard progressive rock of  Melange. 

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Style: Punks on Synths / Various Weirdos

Format: LP
Label: Secret Wonder

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Post Punk Pleasures galore on this howling private comp from Switzerland. Lots of tracks, many of them short but nevertheless intense. Just liek a punk comp - only better. Peep the long clip...

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Style: Various / Prog / Jazz-Rock / DIY

Format: LP
Label: ACG (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Melodic Prog, AOR and funky Jazzrock from the Zonenrandgebiet. Very DIY, exorbitant rare and highly recommended for friends of weird Kraut.

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Bernbaker

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Did I say WHOAh. Yes I did!

That Talking Drums track Che Che Kule is an afro BOMB. Finding it's explosive equivalent in Mnml Snth in Nomusic by Noname on the B-Side. (R)Evolution - Nein Danke!? isn't bad either ;)

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Style: Rock / Jazz / Fusion / JazzFunk

Format: LP
Label: Private

Year: 198x

Condition: NM/NM 

Check this obscure private comp that even made it onto Waxidermy ; ) Freaked out Wolfram Brunke Gary Pacific Fuzz Funk (yes, the sought after Blue Onions) and some funky Jazz  and Kraut Funk tunes here. Extremely hard to find...

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979

Condition: VG+/VG+

A much overlooked newcomer comp with two superb Fusion jams by a group called Delirium Clemens and a pretty chauvinistic hit by Walter HC Meier Pumpe ;)

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Style:  Krautrock / Wave

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Obscure private comp from Mainz/Germany. Various styles are represented here. The most interesting tunes come from Kurzschluss (Shitgeil) - they remind me of the group Noah!!, but Cap Able Caps (Useless Feelings), D.K. Dance (Der Schwinger) and the relaxed West Coast Rock of Minas Tirith (Cries and Love) aren't bad either ;)

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Style: Various / New Wave

Format: LP
Label: Open Eye Records

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG

Ace DIY minimal and new wave from the rough streets of Liverpool.

Outstanding jams by Egypt For Now and Cooling Towers.

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Style: Elektronik Disko

Format: LP
Label: APM

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Obscure newcomer/hobbyists compilation from Cologne, Germany.

Including Stefan Blösers minimal cosmic elektronik hymn Voyager One

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Style: Contemporary / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Club Niederöstereich (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Excellent contenporary jazz by pfrofs and semi professionals. I have never heard of Helmut Berger before discovering this record, so the amazement about these two guitar jams somewhere between pastoral and psychedelic couldn't have been bigger. Sorry for ruining the fun before your first listen! Last one in the clip is a pretty wild track called G-Waltz by Mirror Image (their only apperance on a medium)

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM  

Who would have guessed that a small town like Esslingen near Stuttgart in Germany's south would have a female Afro Brazillian Percussion Group and gents that play some amazingly smooth Latin Jazz? Dug it out in the Stuttgart area and found out later that it was mainly pressed on CD and in very limited quantities on LP too.

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Ottomatik

Year: 1999

Condition: NM/VG+

This private comp from the late 90 is sought after for the balearic jammer Meer-Rausch-Blau by Ubik. If you're an old fart like me and that melody sounds somehow familiar here's a hint... AND  - if you dig unusual sounds, that lush number is just the parasol on the experimental iceberg!

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Style: Fusion / JazzRock

Format: LP
Label: CBS Germany

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

HIGH quality newcomer compilation featuring first outings of infamous Bands like Naima New Jazz Quartett, Marque Löwenthal Quartett, Breath, Quartet & Brass & the New Workshop Ensemble. Almost all tracks are exclusive....

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Style:  Krautrock / Fusion / Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: RD Bazar (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

One of my favourite german private compilations. Excellent Fusion from Belzebub and Atrium, stoned Krautrock  by Goblin and superb Afro Funk by Afrodisia. Including the multipage booklet containing info about the bands.

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label (McDonalds)

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

I didn't expect too much from a record with McD being the main sponsor, but never inderestimate the power of garage bands, even if they team up with the arcs of evil!! True garage sound and great DIY sounds: Fusion, Funk and Garage Rock - Highly recommended!

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Style: Jazz Funk / Brasil / Elektronik / Synth-Pop / Folky Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label (Private)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM (incl. a 22 pages booklet)

Obscure and hard to find private newcomer compilation from Berlin 1979.  Including Baden Powell's Berimbau played by Ipanema,  the groovy Keep On Pushing by Airship and the first appearance of Christian Kneisel's Dig It Al(l) with the track Siouxsie Sioux

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Style: Advert Breaks

Format: LP
Label: Steyrer Disco

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG small repaired tear 

Wearing my Mustang Jeans whilst typing these letters. It muts have worked on me... Odd music for odd times! The small cult label Steyrer Disco accomanies Mustang's Autumn & Winter collection 1983 with a mixed bag of goodies. My fave is Klaus Herzing's ELEKTRONIK jam Journey to Alternaty only available on this comp and a horribly hard to find 7". But check out also Peter Janda's Pluto (that begs for an edit) and that funky superman disco joint. Picture Disc inside!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: EST (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Sought after by krautrocksters for Arktis tracks, but honestly - they suck... BUT there are heavy tunes by unsung heroes here. Did i say heavy? I mean HEAVY! Can I exaggerate this any more? I would if it was possible. Listen to the tunes - you'll understand my excitement

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Style: Latin Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Feierwerk

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

A private compilation presenting unknown Latin Jazz groups from late 80s Munich? Yes, please! There's three or four afro cuban tunes on this album that I can't talk about much since i don't understand it - too fast for me. But what I can tell you: it doesn't sound bavarian at all ;) The reason for buying this album are these two wonderful songs by Quintessenz who are actually only borderlining the term Latin Jazz. Their Ludenhausen, with that irresistible waltzy feel, might be the HIT of the album! Closely spaced with Kariba's Demasiado with a groove that sets you in motion instantly....

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Style: Uni Jazz

Format: LP
Label: NTSU

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Sizzling Student Jazz from North Texas. Young guns serving funky Fusion with a strong horn section and some insane bass workouts too.

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Style: Mnml Plsrs

Format: LP
Label: Schallter

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

WHOA! Have you heard this one yet? When finding it for the first time I worked my way through the A-Side and didn't expect anything. And then all these B-Side BANGERS rained down on me.

I'll never forget that afternoon :)

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Style:  Jazz / Fusion / Blues / Disco Op Platt

Format: LP
Label: Blind Man (Private)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

As one would guess this is a Live Recording. It says Volume I, but after investigating heavily I can tell you that there's no Volume II. Probably due to a lack of commercial succes. The concert was given in a small spot called Gulfhaus in the middle of nowhere (Northern Germany). There's some deep blues and bluesrock tunes on the album and even some funky disco "op platt" by the ever-funny north german original Jan Willem.

And there's a non LP track by the Fusion-Combo Matter of Taste around Fritz & Kathrin Haug. This track is a beast of driving funky fusion... and seemingly only available on this compilation.

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Style: Various / Breezy / Boogie / AOR

Format: LP
Label: Elternkreis

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Here's another OG GB dig, baby... This unknown gem brings us soft AOR Disco with a pinch of hawaiian air, breezy Fusion with a "Loose Grooves And Bastard Blues" feel and that soulful teutonic BOOGIE JAMMER. Some of the usual newcomer comp oddities included too (last clip).

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: bellaphon

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Highly recommended compilation featuring newcomer bands from the Saar area. Including 3 pearls: Ambi & Arno's sweet For You, Marx Rootschilt & Tillermann's Colder Winds and the instrumental elektronik track Inside by Three Men

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Style: Various / DISCO

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Under the radar Dutch Newcomer comp incl. that stealth Kaas-Disco monster You Walked Out Of Me 

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Style: Kraut / Prog

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+ small tear

A seldom seen compilation from the city of Bremerhaven, just north of Bremen (if you have ever heard of that). Bremerhaven obviously had an active music scene guessing from this great comp. Starts off with Zambo serving a funky AOR groover in Wolfsmond style, followed by conga led folk with great lyrics. Next is the Band Traumauge (Dream-eye) with the serious Krautprog jam Reflections. Side B is for the hardrocking folks (usually i'm out at this point) and oh wonder I found MUCH PLEASURE in the funky early AC/DC styled rocker Set me Free by Rampage

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