Electronic & Dance Vinyl 1619 Items

12" | 1979 | DE | Original (Virgin)

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing
OBI not included.

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The Flying Lizards

Money; Money

6,99 €*

Release: 1979 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

12" | 1979 | DE | Original (Hansa International)

Amii Stewart

Knock On Wood

Release: 1979 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

7" | 1979 | AU | Original (WEA)

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Space Invaders

5,99 €*

Release: 1979 / AU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants

Stevie Wonder

2LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Motown)

10,99 €*

Donna Summer = Donna Summer

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: VG

Embossed cover has slight wear, With insert. Japanese pressing, OBI is missing. Records need proper cleaning (foxing), probably a good VG afterwards

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Bad Girls = 華麗なる誘惑

2LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Casablanca)

Donna Summer = Donna Summer

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI.

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Bad Girls = 華麗なる誘惑

2LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Casablanca)

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (CBS/Sony)

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing with OBI!

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Celi Bee

Blow My Mind

9,99 €*

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Victor)

Madleen Kane

Cheri

11,99 €*

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Bureau B)

Harald Grosskopf

Synthesist

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Palace Of Lights)

K. Leimer

Closed System Potentials

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Brain)

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following the RVNG reissues of A Period of Review (ranked the No. 7 reissue of 2014 by WIRE) and Artificial Dance (ranked the No. 2 reissue of 2015 by WIRE) Closed System Potentials, recorded in 1979 and originally released in 1980, finds its way back to vinyl in a completely remastered + expanded edition. The LP includes two previously unreleased tracks plus the included digital version includes an additional two unreleased tracks, all taken from the original CSP sessions. Also included is a four-page insert featuring an essay by Paul Dickow. Remastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K.

K. Leimer founded Palace of Lights in 1979. In addition to his own work, PoL has released albums by Ang Mo Faux, Marc Barreca, Roy Finch, Michael William Gilbert, Steve Peters, Savant and Gregory Taylor. Leimer’s early work has recently been reissued by Autumn and RVNG, and his early cassette work is in the critically acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture. Leimer has been actively producing music since the mid 1970s – his current catalog includes 16 still in print albums plus 2 collaborative albums with Marc Barreca.

Leimer’s work is included in the collection of The British Library.

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Klaus Schulze

Dig It (2017 Remaster)

21,99 €*

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | UK | Reissue (Cache Cache)

Madfilth

Sympathy Nervous Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1980 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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From the pumping heart of The Magnetic System comes the “dirtiest” Da-Da-dancefloor
anti-jams with this lost 1979 blueprint of Italian conceptual cosmic disco played by the
cream of the Goblin studio band. Ultra rare and unscrubbed, Finders Keepers finally snip the
trip from the cash machine to the trash machine. Pay dirt just got dirtier.
Carving its own grubby niche as an early prototype of cosmic disco cum Italo space funk
whilst simultaneously harbouring Dada hat stand satire with a junkshop glam aesthetic this
ecological illogical poplitical crab cabaret clearly broke the mould before way before the jelly
had set.
Fans of “other” obtuse outernational agit-camp might find a fantasy fusion between France’s
J. P. Massiera and Sweden’s enviroMENTAL marvel Kaptain Zoom while trying to unravel the
Madfilth tangle - but rest assured there were method men behind this madness and a portal
to Italian funk royalty still festers at the bottom of the psych rap scrapheap.
Originally drip fed out of Cesare Andrea Bixio’s Cinevox stable as one of a tight grip of nonsoundtrack
LPs, made to test the label’s commercial potential, Madfilth would follow the
band Goblin (and their non-cinematic Roller) as well as the hens’ teeth eponymous long
player by the group The Motowns in what was perhaps the last-ditch attempt at custom
built popsploitation - combining the skills of overqualified composers with undercooked
conceptual mind farts! Naturally, after almost 40 years in the barrel, this micro-brewed
oddity finally quenches the acquired taste of a new breed of shambolic psychotropic guzzlers
proving that 1979 was obviously good year for fool’s gold. The Madfilth medicine has finally
come to cure your psychic ills so open wide and don’t bite the spoon.
As both doctors and diggers will agree, always read the label. It is beneath the flamboyant
rhythm rants and vari-speed osric slop of alt-comedic sarcy-satirist Alberto Macaro (a genetic
beneficiary of a vaudevillian comic bloodline) that we find The Magnetic System maestros
Franco Bixio and Vince Tempera as the sonic driving force behind this unmarked treasure
trove of B-musical diamanté discoids. It will also come as little surprise that Cinevox/Dario
Argento favourites Goblin were not too distant from the whiff of this curates egg with the
men who many consider to be the group’s greatest assets in bass player Fabio Pignatelli
alongside sports rock drummer Agostino Marangolo. It was this unison that remained
consistent throughout Goblin’s career, weathering the temporary departure of Claudio
Simonetti and maintaining the stylistic heartbeat of the group. Madfilth’s inclusion of Goblin
synth Maverick Maurizio Guarini and the band’s mid-period guitarist Carlo Penessi (founder
of the band Etna) pinpoints the jobbing Goblin session group during the time they recorded
the soundtracks for the films Buio Amiga and Squadra Antigagsters. This lesser celebrated
late 70’s era also witnessed the mutating Goblin rhythm section providing discoid backbeats
for records such as Giorgio Farinas Discocross LP, Simonetti’s own Capricorn alter-ego and
the homoerotic nightclub spin-off Easy Going - all of which, alongside Madfilth, provide a
strong mutual stylistic support system for their claim to cosmic discos deep red bloodline.

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Sympathy Nervous

LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Minimal Wave)

32,99 €*

The Lund - St. Petri Symphony

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Minimal Wave presents a reissue of Sympathy Nervous’ pioneering debut album originally released in 1980 on Vanity Records out of Japan. Sympathy Nervous was Yosihumi Niinuma’s lifelong project which he started in his Tokyo living room in 1979. Through Sympathy Nervous, Niinuma was able to channel his energy into what he loved – building his own synthesizers and speakers from scratch.

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Lubomyr Melnyk

2LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Sounds Of Subterrania)

50,34 €* 52,99 € -5%

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Bureau B)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Silk-Screen cover. In 1978 I arrived for my first time to Sweden, to the town of Lund .. and there I met a remarkable man named Jean Sellem who ran a tiny gallery in the middle of the town, "The Galleri St.Petri: Dedicated To Modern Art and Thought "... and he was one of the few and first people who saw the greatness and beauty of Continuous Music .. and since I was a complete "unknown" at that time, I really needed his moral support ! --- and he created with me, the idea of a huge work for multiple pianos ... three pianos .. in stages ... and it became as he had envisioned ! and was first performed on a small upright piano in 1978 in his gallery, and the piece was called THE LUND.St.PETRI SYPMPHONY .. because it was so symphonic in grandeur (once the three pianos came together ...) The Lund - St. Petri Symphony, from 1979, is the second album from Lubomyr Melnyk and the first composition for double piano which he released. In this work, the early minimalist tendencies which played such a major part in the emergence of Continuous music, are very significant and clearly evident. This Double LP set sold out within 1 year of production, Only 1000 copies were made. Original Release: 1980 Limited All Analog Remastering Recording

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Richard Pinhas

East West

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP+CD | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Spittle)

Magazzini Criminali

Crollo Nervoso

12,99 €*

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Magazzini Criminali can be considered one of the most important experiences in Italian Post-Avant-garde theatre of the '70s and the '80s. Back in 1980 the group gave birth to one their widely acclaimed and most representative works. Crollo Nervoso was a real Post Modern Opera, a complex and multi layered work based on the transfer between different Art languages and aesthetics. A deep mixture of Avant Rock, Burroughs's Cut Up, science fiction, body art, glamour and a hint of porno. On stage actors move obsessively and creating some highly repetitive sequences that show a clear "Rock" approach. Musically we are in front of a great hybrid where electronics, tribal funk, ambient and Blues interact with actors excited voices and "stolen" fragments from the musical works of Eno, Fripp, Jon Hassell, Miles Davis and others. More than a Pre-Plunderphonics kind of work, Crollo Nervoso is a definitive re-invention of the soundtrack concept in relation with text and drama. Originally released in 1980 (on black or white vinyl) by Italian Records, Crollo Nervoso stands as a unique sound-art object that finally sees the light again in all its multi-sensory eclecticism.

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Cultural Noise

Aphorisms Insane

20,99 €*

2LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Cortizona)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The only album by Austrian trio Cultural Noise is a an electronic marvel. Band members were Gerhard Lisy, Walter Heinisch and Karl Kronfeld, and instruments used included an ARP Sequencer, an ARP 2600, a VCS 3, an EMS Digital Sequencer, a Mellotron M400, a Micro Moog, a Roland Studiosystem 700, a Roland Analogue Sequenzer and an electric guitar. With these weapons and a strong influence from the Berlin school Cultural Noise created a rich electronic tapestry which expanded through the two pieces of this record, one per side, being compared by reviewers to works by Zanov or Anna Själv Tredge. Mentions of Tangerine Dream are also present on reviews, although Cultural Noise have a pretty unique personality on their own and besides sharing the use of Mellotron, sequencers and analog synths we have a totally personal concept here which sets them aside from all TD impersonators of the era.

The album was originally released in 1980 on CBS and later repressed in 1981 which came in a B&W version of the sleeve that some sources list as a self release private pressing done by the band themselves - this has been denied by members of Cultural Noise.

We are proud to offer a 500 copies only reissue, housed in its original full colour version artwork.

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Bernard Szajner

Some Deaths Take Forever

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Glossy Mistakes)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First time vinyl reissue since the original 1980 version. Original remastered album plus second LP with unreleased extra tracks from 'Some Deaths Take Forever' recording sessions.

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Stu Cisco

Amanita

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Our Swimmer)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Originally released in 1980, ‘Amanita’ is an early approach of Canadian artist Sherine Cisco, formerly known as Stu Cisco, to the limitless world of synthesizers in music, through ambient, progressive rock and drone noise. A unique combination of ambient, progressive rock and even drone noises and space-age that converged in ‘Amanita’, her first full album and a piece of music history. This LP marks a milestone in the investigation, experimentation and evolution of musical instruments, where the Mini Moog demonstrated its versatility and creative potential, opening Sherine a path of limitless possibilities.

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Alvin Curran

The Works

Confusional Quartet Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Works - one of the most famous pieces by brilliant American composer Alvin Curran - was not created by will and direct purpose but, as the composer himself states, as a “providential accident” which is to say quite organically. Combining piano and voice with found sound and a custom-built Serge modular synthesizer, “The Works” is a slowly developing piece where space and ambient tape are eventually overtaken by raga-esque chanting and frenetic piano playing, where synthesizer washes become full-on workouts all leading to a coda where the listener is “finally carried off on the wheels of the Berlin U-Bahn.” Curran - whose initial training and musical education was as a pianist - had been living in Roma, Italy, in the mid-‘70s returning to his roots and performing regularly in cocktail lounges on Via Veneto. It was this return to piano and vocals that became the genesis for The Works. In relearning the piano, a five-note “motive” took hold. Added to this was “a recording I had made of our 14 year old dachshund Caspar just before he died. It was, in fact, a love song which he persisted in singing all day after meeting a lovely bitch in heat in Piazza Navona. This I knew would be the beginning of the piece.” As the piece expands further the listener will hear “cows munching grass, the Rome-Florence express train, a horse-fly caught against a window pane, my footsteps approaching a Roman fountain and later going up the steps of my old studio, cicadas, an Amsterdam calliope, a tin can being kicked, and a series of sounds from La Serra di Lerici.” Though “The Works” has been performed in many incarnations over the years, it’s this performance - captured on February 24, 1980, and originally released that same year by the short-lived Italian avant-garde label Fore - that is the definitive version, and one of the finest recordings ever made by the celebrated composer.

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Confusional Quartet

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Italian / Disordine)

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Growing Bin)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Out of any classification of musical genre, “Confusional Quartet” is a distillation of the creativity and freedom of expression that in 1977 put Bologna at the center of the international cultural scene. This record places the Confusional Quartet in the history of Italian alternative music.

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Guy Maxwell

Outside My Window

7" | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Edition Hawara)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Basking in the golden glow of an Indian Summer, Basso brings us a much needed reissue of one of his most treasured musical discoveries, Guy Maxwell’s ‘Outside My Window’. A long time favourite in the Growing Bin, this mellow masterpiece originally crept out in 1980 with no backing from its label, the soon to burst Bubble. Now resequenced and redressed to the exacting standards of Mssr. Maxwell, ‘Outside My Window’ is ready to warm the hearts and cheer the ears of a whole new audience. Born in Bordeaux under a wandering star, Guy spent the 70s on the road, freewheelin’ from Paris to Rome, guitar in tow, before settling in Switzerland at the end of the decade.

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Magic Sound

I Like That / Time

Soul Syndrom (Henry Stone Records)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Edition Hawara’s fifth release is a raw funk gem by a little-known Austrian pop band called Magic Sound. Edition Hawara’s second 7“release features one of the more obscure Austrian bands from the 1980s. Little is known about Magic Sound. The cover suggests that their label wanted them to be Austria’s Village People, though their sound is much rawer and funkier. One thing we know for sure is that the group included Andy Töfferl, who was also a member of the famous Austrian pop ensemble EAV (Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung). And we know that they went to the studio to record a whole album after touring Sweden in 1980. Only these two songs survived, and they are worth listening to over and over again. Enjoy in fancy dress, or dressed down. With or without a moustache.

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James Brown

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Wagram)

LP | 1980 | US | Original (Cracked)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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By 1980 James Brown did one album for Henry Stone's T.K. While this doesn't have Brown bubbling over with innovation, he still provided a more substantial alternative to disco. On this album, we have a sublime sped-up version of "The Payback," which rocks like nobody's business. Or on the remake of "Mashed Potatoes", Brown is reuniting with Bobby Byrd. Shortly afterward they both go through a travelogue of cities and states like it's "Night Train" all over again. Soul Syndrome has Brown still full of ideas. The inane "Funky Men" has a killer reggae/funk guitar riff and a fantastic Latin horn arrangement...In the end, it makes it a nice album that counts in the rich carrer of the master of Funk !

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The Turn Ups

Turn Up

17,59 €* 31,99 € -45%

Digital Stimulation Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1980 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

close to NM

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Units

LP+CD | 1980 | US | Reissue (Futurismo)

41,99 €*

12" | 1980 | DE | Original (CBS)

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Futurismo have the privilege to be the first label to ever reissue one of the most sort out and revered electronic albums of the early 1980’s: Digital Stimulation by Units.

Inspired by punk in ideology, though not necessarily in sound, San Francisco’s Units were a young breed of dystopic visionaries art space prodigies and trash culture futurists set on reshaping sound for a new age. Leading the charge, along with only a couple of others such as Screamers and Chrome, they lit the touch-paper for a new sound, a new scene. A new approach. Equally as influenced by experimental cinema, performance art and Brechtian street theatre as they were the music of Suicide and Devo, Units offered a glorious glimpse into how and what pop music could be. Their influence has stretching all the way through synth punk and new wave pop into the most contemporary electro musicians.

Originally released in 1980, Digital Stimulation was Units true calling card and masterpiece. Containing the now famous opener ‘High Pressure Days’, this is a time capsule brought up from the dawn of the digi-age; all metronomical rhythms, wry lines and ice-cold delivery…part of a lineage that includes Neu!, Tubeway Army, ‘Being Boiled’-era Human League and Cabaret Voltaire, making this a vital recording for anyone interested in electronic music at all – past or present, with original copies selling at extortionate prices this is a release long overdue.

The remastered version of this out of print 1980 LP is presented here in a choice of ltd edition Colored Vinyl, alongside a CD of the album completely remixed in 2020 by Scott Ryser. This deluxe release also contains a 12pg art booklet containing rare imagery and new liner notes.

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Debbie Neon

American Nightmare

3,79 €* 3,99 € -5%

Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Price tag.

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Xanadu Special

12" | 1980 | JP | Original (Jet)

199,99 €*

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG

Album | 1980 | JP | Original (Casablanca)

Lipps, Inc.

Pucker Up

Melodic Energy Commission

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with obi.

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Migration Of The Snails

LP | 1980 | CA | Reissue (Telephone Explosion)

Laura Les Ombres De L'Ete

Release: 1980 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

2018 reissue. Original inner sleeve. Cover and vinyl are close to NM.

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Patrick Juvet

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Barclay)

33,99 €*

LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Autobahn)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop, Soundtracks

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with Obi.

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2 plus 1

Easy Come, Easy Go

Slow (Motion And Movement)

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Writing on cover

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V.A.

LP | 1980 | Reissue (Be With)

LP | 1980 | UK | Reissue (Southbound)

Release: 1980 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Welcome to library breaks *chopped 'n screwed*! Slow (Motion And Movement), originally released on Sonoton in 1980, is super-sought-after and full of crazy dubby, super SLLLLLOOOOWWWWW and super HEAVVVVVY library breaks. It's also home to blinding new age/synthy tracks that are equally great. It's really varied throughout, but all absolutely fantastic.

Slow features KPM/Bruton/Sonoton-legend John Fiddy, the mighty Sonoton founder and composer, arranger and conductor Gerhard Narholz in 2 of his best-loved guises - Sammy Burdson and Norman Candler (get it?) - as well as a couple of fine offerings from Antonio Campo.

Heavy opener "Slow Business 1" is veeeerrrrrrryyyyyy slooooooooow with the phased drums so beloved of Narholz but this time delivered by Campo, with a proud, deliberate piano melody and great bassline adorning the creeping rhythm. "Slow Business 2" is equally as slooooooow but without any melodic decoration. Just pure phased drums, folks! Get sampling. "Moody You" is Narholz's first track on the record and what a beauty it is. A languorous, insouciant, slo-mo guitar soul track with warm synths, electric piano and heavy drums. It sounds a wee bit like an erotic film score, and all the better for it. "Slow Groovement" is Campo's final contribution and it's definitely his best. It's an ace, moody-yet-melodic crime/blaxploitation track with gorgeous percussive elements, mellifluous Rhodes and twinkling piano over a fantastic bassline and drums with some great electric guitar soloing halfway through.

"Slow Reactor 1" is Narholz again, under his Burdson pseudonym, and it's him all the way, now, joined by John Fiddy for half the tracks. This one is a tense, phased, slo-mo thriller with mysterious percussive elements and ominous strings. "Threat To Research" contains mysterious, dramatic sounds and heaps of string-assisted tension whilst "Ion Exchanger" is replete with repetitive, strange accents and sounds; all half-tumbling drums and dead tense, again. Truly, a taut experience and ideal for adventurous sample-based beat-heads. "Wave Motions" is a real highlight and the first to feature John Fiddy. It's a beatless ambient banger with slowly changing sound waves. It sounds like Angelo Badalamenti would if he were crafting strung-out teutonic library madness in 1980. The A-Side closes with "Slow Motion Link" which is over waaaay too soon but just simply needs looping. Trust us. Phenomenally dope!

Flip over for "Scenic Vision 1" for here, ladies and gentlemen, we go sublime. It's an absolutely stunning ambient wonder, with slowly changing textures and colours that create a peaceful, gliding, tranquil atmosphere of sheer bliss. You will not want it to end. Whilst "Scenic Vision 2" adds a bass melody, "Scenic Vision 3" uses the same melody but renders it isolated and lonely in the background. Haunting, hypnotic and hyper-beautiful. "Study In Brown" is s a lengthier number, with room to stretch out, and features Fiddy back in the game. Again, a slow, isolated melody gradually segues - by way of Fiddy's mournful electric guitar solo - into a slow heavy rhythm with rumbling, groovy bass and stratospheric drums.

"Deja Vu 1" weaves swirling, disorientating magic. It's described on the original sleeve simply as "indefinite arpeggios inexplicable vision" and we can't put it any better ourselves. "Deja Vu 2" sounds like you've heard it before, it's "as above with melodic line" and really is fun. "Glistening Surface" sounds exactly as you'd expect, all frisson-inducing movements, slow waves and generally peaceful scenic sounds. This remarkable library record closes with "Laser Fight", blasting "utopian percussive sounds" that totally get under your skin like fireworks through your veins. A neat trick!

Established in Munich in 1965 by Gerard and Rotheide Narholz, Sonoton introduced library music to Germany. Initially intended to cater to the country's new TV market, the library also provided an avenue for Gerhard Narholz's astonishing musical prolificacy, and soon became a haven for a wide range of European composers and musicians. In 1969, Sonoton struck a deal with the British label Berry Music for international publishing rights, exposing its catalog to a worldwide audience; when Berry was bought out by EMI in 1973, Sonoton transitioned into a full-fledged international label, with successes in the library and commercial fields and many innovations to its credit. Now a worldwide operation with hundreds of producers and composers under its employ, Sonoton nonetheless remains an independently run business still helmed by its founders - a remarkable achievement in an era when nearly every other major library has been absorbed by a multinational conglomerate.

The audio for Slow (Motion And Movement) has been remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring this release sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the original, iconic sleeve has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.

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Two Tons O' Fun

Release: 1980 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Trance)

Trance

Here And Now

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 1980 | NL | Original (Frizz Bee)

V.A.

Darker Skratcher

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Dead Mind)

Release: 1980 / NL – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: F

Record has scuffs and hairlines.
Front cover is badly torn.

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Plus Instruments

79/80

28,99 €*

LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Metronome)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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While she was still a member of Nasmak, one of the leading bands of the Dutch ultra-movement, Truus de Groot started Plus Instruments in 1978 with herself as the sole member. When the project evolved, she found a wide range of rotating collaborators like Michel Waisvisz, Lee Ranaldo and James Sclavunos. Plus Instruments was about freedom and the live performances were largely improvised. The sound minimal but captivating. The music always came from within, but De Groot was also triggered by bands like Red Crayola, Suicide, DAF, Wire, Per Ubu, Devo and the No Wave scene in NY. She was always experimenting with primitive multi-track recording and whatever crappy gadgets she could find. Always looking for a gritty, dirty sound and bizarre overtones.

At a young age she travelled to New York and began to immerse herself in the nightlife of the city that never sleeps. Here she found true creativity, passion and expression. The club scene was alive but highly competitive, so this fearless Dutch girl would just knock on promoter’s doors to get gigs booked at places like CBGB’s, Peppermint Lounge, Underground and the Pyramid. De Groot eventually settled in the United States and never stopped experimenting with sound. In recent years she reinvented Plus Instruments and led the group into new territory.

The recordings for this LP were made by De Groot at home and the music is experimental, minimal, industrial but also playful, sounding nothing like most of the later material. 14 tracks in total of which 7 are taken from the elusive and impossible to find self-released debut cassette as ‘Truss Plus Instruments’ which was sparingly distributed by Nigel Jacklin and his legendary Alien Brains fanzine in 1980. The remaining 7 tracks are from the same period (1979-1980) and were carefully selected from the vast archive of De Groot. We are glad to present this anthology that serves as a long overdue testimony to the formative phase of a unique female pioneer of electronic music.

200 copies on black vinyl with insert.

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Metro

Future Imperfect

7,99 €*

LP | 1980 | GDR | Original (AMIGA)

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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V.A.

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme...

Release: 1980 / GDR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | NL | Original (Ariola)

Menage A Trois

Ménage à Trois

44,99 €*

Release: 1980 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Box)

Maurizio Colonna

Colonna

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Editions Mego)

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Dome

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Editions Mego)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of »using the studio as a compositional tool« and recorded and released three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: »Dome« (July 1980), »Dome 2« (October 1980) and »Dome 3« (October 1981). A final fourth album, »Will You Speak this World: Dome 3« was released on the Norwegian Uniton label in May 1983.

These albums represent some of the most beautifuly stark and above all timeless exercises in studio experimentation from early 1980s alternative music scene.

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Dome

LP | 1980 | DE | Original (WEA)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Rockets

Galaxy

33,99 €*

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Electric Light Orchestra / Olivia Newton-John

OST Xanadu

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Jet)

14,99 €*

2LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Brain)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop, Soundtracks

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Klaus Schulze

...Live...

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Eastworld)

The Ventures

Super Live '80

28,99 €*

7" | 1980 | DE | Original (Polydor)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Oliver Onions

Santa Maria

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | US | Original (T.K.)

KC & The Sunshine Band

Greatest Hits

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Мелодия)

Release: 1980 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Raimonds Pauls

Сестра Керри

8,99 €*

LP | 1980 | NL | Original (Philips)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Soundtracks

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Lori Spee

Behind Those Eyes

Release: 1980 / NL – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Mesh-Key)

R.N.A. Organism

R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O

34,99 €*

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Polydor)

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Much appreciated reissue of R.N.A. Organism’s ‘R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O’ (first released by legendary Osaka label Vanity Records in 1980). A key document of the late ’70s experimental music scene in Kansai, Japan, R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O is a hallucinatory trip of dubby bass, churning guitars, sputtering rhythm boxes, twisted vocals and unidentifiable sound effects.

Carefully remastered by Stephan Mathieu from the original tapes, cut by Josh Bonati, pressed by RTI, and housed in a hefty Stoughton tip-on sleeve. This oedition also includes an expanded insert with an illuminating essay by R.N.A. Organism producer Kaoru Sato.

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Sweet People

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Arista)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Hiroshima

LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Stiff)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Rachel Sweet

Protect The Innocent

LP | 1980 | DE | Original (Ariola)

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Passengers

Girls Cost Money

15,99 €*

Electric Light Orchestra / Olivia Newton-John

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

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OST Xanadu

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Jet)

11,99 €*

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Epic)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop, Soundtracks

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The Nolans

Making Waves

6,99 €*

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Epic)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The Nolans

Making Waves

Don't Come Stoned And Don't Tell Trude!

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Max 'N Specs

12" | 1980 | DE | Original (CNR)

5,99 €*

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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12" | 1980 | UK | Original (Automatic Record Co.)

Eye To Eye

Am I Normal?

5,99 €*

Release: 1980 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Victor)

Arabesque

Arabesque IV

21,99 €*

The Golden Voyage Vol. One

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

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Bearns & Dexter

LP | 1980 | US | Original (Awakening Productions)

Release: 1980 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Chrysalis)

Ultravox

Vienna

The Turn Of A Friendly Card

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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1988 reissue.

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The Alan Parsons Project

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Arista)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Together We Are Beautiful / Baby Let Me Kiss You

Fern Kinney

7" | 1980 | DE | Original (WEA)

Release: 1980 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | JP | Original (RCA)

Neoton Família

Marathon

8,99 €*

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Victor)

Arabesque

Arabesque IV

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Epic)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The Nolans

Making Waves

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Brian Eno & David Byrne

2LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Nonesuch)

45,99 €*

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Bureau B)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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fully remastered 180 gram vinyl reissue incl. 7 orginally unreleased tracks of this groundbreaking collaboration!

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Roedelius

Wenn Der Südwind Weht

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Release: 1981 / US

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 1981 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

B.C. Gilbert / G. Lewis

Ends With The Sea

13,99 €*

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Celluloid)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis have always juggled darkness and light in their various collaborations (Dome, Cupol, etc.); Gilbert’s pointillist melodicism counterbalanced by Lewis’s menacing bass and sardonic lyrics. While the duo explores cinematic soundscapes on their album 3R4, here they return to more song-based territory with icy vocals, detached guitar lines and even a faint industrial vibe. Ends With the Sea provides a vital glimpse into the creative forces that even a band as daring and inventive as Wire could not contain. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of SPK, Chris Carter, and Einstürzende Neubauten.

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Irmin Schmidt of Can

Toy Planet

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Jean-Michel Jarre

Magnetic Fields

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

John Bender

Plaster Falling

28,99 €*

Computer World Remastered Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Plaster Falling was recorded at the same time as John Bender’s first album, I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It. Released in 1981 on the artist’s own Record Sluts label, copies of Plaster Falling’s initial pressing came hermetically sealed in plaster (and later latex). Thus, listeners had to literally break open the record to find what’s hidden inside. Produced in relative isolation, Plaster Falling is a beacon of brilliance in the nascent minimal-wave sphere. Veering towards skeletal urgency, these recordings set bright analogue melodies against half-whispered vocals and expand Bender’s electronic cryptography thru a series of lone signifiers: “Station,” “Plaster,” “Women,” etc. As Bender explains in the liner notes, “I began to distance myself from the present and describe scenes as if in a movie – seeking concrete, terse, juxtaposed imagery.” This first-time standalone reissue is recommended for fans of Gareth Williams & Mary Currie’s Flaming Tunes, Minimal Man and Grouper. Pressed on translucent blue vinyl in a limited / numbered edition of 1,000 copies.

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Kraftwerk

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

49,99 €*

Mkwaju Ensemble (Midori Takada)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Computer World (German: Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk, originally released on 10 May 1981. The album deals with the themes of the rise of computers within society. In keeping with the album's concept, Kraftwerk showcased their music on an ambitious world tour and issued several different versions of the single "Pocket Calculator" in different languages: namely, German ("Taschenrechner"), French ("Mini Calculateur") and Japanese ("Dentaku", or 電卓). A fifth version, in Italian ("Mini Calcolatore"), was lip-synched to on Italian television in 1981. The compositions are credited to Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, and Karl Bartos. As was the case with the two previous albums, Computer World was released in both German- and English-language editions. The title of the final track, "It's More Fun to Compute", is in English in all releases, as it is based on the slogan "It's more fun to compete!", which could be seen on old pinball machines.

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Mkwaju

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

22,99 €*

12" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (TAL)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Beautiful 1 LP Edition Clasic with 350g cardboard sleeve, Sticker - The holy grail album Mkwaju by acclaimed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada’s Mkwaju ensemble WRWTFWW Records is proud to announce the highly anticipated official reissue of holy grail album Mkwaju by acclaimed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada’s Mkwaju ensemble, sourced from the original masters and available in two versions: a vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios (formerly the in-house recording department of Deutsche Grammophon) and a digipack CD.

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Roter Stern Belgrad

Massa EP

13,99 €*

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

Normal Brain

Lady Maid

21,99 €*

I'm Dreaming (Any Moment I May Wake Up Scraming)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is immensely happy to announce the reissue of impossible-to-find cult album Lady Maid by Japanese outfit Normal Brain.

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John Kongos

12" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Best Record Italy)

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Optimo Music Selva Discos)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Cosmic disco classic played regularly by Baldelli, Lodola and in the underground scene, produced by John Kongos in 1981and released on 7 inch, containing only the short vocal version. Now remastered and reissued by Best Italy on 12" containing the full vocal original version plus the instrumental version on the flip.

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Fernando Falcao

Memoria Das Aguas

24,99 €*

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Bureau B)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Selva Discos returns to the LP reissue game with a bang – by giving a new life to the stunning and very sought-after Memória das Águas album by Fernando Falcão. Originally recorded in 1979 in Paris but only released independently in Brazil in 1981, the album comes complete with genre-hopping explorations that swirl around ambient soundscapes, lively jazz, experimental-leanings, Afro-rhythms and a unique blend of Latin grooves and French pop with a Brazilian accent, but it also comes with a story as deeply unique as the music. Remastered from the original master tapes, not only the sound but the artwork of Memória das Águas was completely and faithfully restored. Also, the reissue comes with unprecedented liner notes featuring rare photos of the musician and his sound sculptures plus articles that help to explain who Fernando Falcão was and where Memória das Águas sits among other staples of Brazilian music, including one from DJ and selector John Gómez – who helped to connect Selva Discos' Augusto Olivani with Diana Lion, Fernando Falcão's daughter (since the musician died in 2002), for this project. After Memória das Águas, Selva Discos will also reissue another long lost Fernando Falcão LP album – Barracas Barrocas.

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Serge Blenner

Magazin Frivole

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Epic)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Bureau B present a reissue of Serge Blenner's Magazin Frivole, originally released in 1981. Cold, concise analog synthesizer instrumentals -- on his second album Serge Blenner remained true to his style, albeit shifting course slightly towards pop territory. The juxtaposition of dark harmonies and pop structures is what makes this album so appealing. In places, it feels like a blueprint for early Depeche Mode. Having seen his first album La Vogue (BB 324CD/LP) snapped up by the Sky Records and fast-tracked for release in 1980, Blenner delivered his second LP, Magazin Frivole, the following year. Mindful of the success of its predecessor, Blenner added the name of his debut in big letters to the front cover of the new sleeve. Blenner remained faithful to his musical style, albeit adding more of a pop flavor. Magazin Frivole would not look out of place filed alongside Depeche Mode on the record shelf, as a certain resemblance is undeniable. Moreover, Blenner was one of the few proponents of electronic music who preferred to keep his songs concise, in contrast to the meandering odysseys of many of his electronic contemporaries. The far better-known French artist Jean-Michel Jarre adhered to similar principles, yet although Blenner was often compared to his compatriot, he claims only to have heard his music long after La Vogue had appeared. Minor chords dominate his harmonies, the bass performs octave leaps which mirror the zeitgeist. Unexpected key changes abound, adding a restless, almost disquieting quality. Overall, Magazin Frivole is less dark than the preceding album, but a picture of cheerfulness it is not. Nevertheless, a poppy drum computer introduces a lighter note. From the very first track, chord changes pop up at unexpected junctures -- they seem to come in prematurely, before harmonic sequences have run their course. Blenner doesn't have any explanation for this curiosity, other than to note that "most of the music was played by hand, so of course it wasn't all perfect." "I did all I could to avoid being successful -- on a subconscious level, at least. Unpredictable metrics and irregular beats were definitely part of the process," Blenner admits with an enigmatic smile. Juxtaposed with Blenner's more recent works, one can see what he means. His latest album Musique de Chambre (2008) comprises modern classical chamber music, built on digitally sampled real instruments. Besides, Blenner points out, handling all of those analog devices was a convoluted and complex undertaking.

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Electric Light Orchestra

Time

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Venus HHV Exclusive Splattered Vinyl Edition

Logic System

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Wewantsounds)

32,99 €*

Computer World English Version Translucent Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited Edition of 100 copies of clear vinyl with pink & sea blue splatters. Only at HHV!

His name may not be instantly familiar, but Hideki Matsutake has had a huge influence over Electronic music. Starting his career as the assistant of Japanese Electronic Music master Isao Tomita in the early 70s, he went on to work with Ryuichi Sakamoto and then Yellow Magic Orchestra as their keyboard programmer and unofficial fourth member. In 1981 he started his own Logic System project recording "Venus" that year in Los Angeles with Don Grusin, Nathan East and Michael Boddicker, brilliantly mixing Synth Funk, Ambient and Boogie with a touch of Fusion Jazz predating Vaporwave by a mere 30 years. Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue this visionary album, which
comes remastered from the original tapes and features Pater Sato stunning artwork including the rare beautiful 8-page insert with an exclusive interview of Hideki Matsutake by Hashim Kotaro Bharoocha.
The early 80s were prolific for Hideki Matsutake. As the go-to keyboard programmer for the tokyo music scene, he worked on Akiko Yano's "Gohan Ga Dekitayo", YMO's "BGM", Ryuichi Sakamoto's "B-2 Unit", Mkwaju Ensemble's "Mkwaju" and found time to record two Logic System albums in 1981. While the first album, "Logic" had a harder techno feel, the second one "Venus" was different affair. Recorded in Los Angeles at the new state of the art Yamaha Studio, it was loosely themed on the Greek goddess Venus and had a funkier more organic sound. For the album Matsutake had asked a handful of American musicians to provide songs he would then add his synth magic touch to. Michael Boddicker, Don Grusin, Nathan East and Roger Powell duly complied and also played on the album.

The updated sound was achieved by switching from the Moog III to the E-mu modular System (which Matsutake brought over to LA) and other synths like the Prophet 5, the Roland MC-8 and TR 808 and the Yamaha GS-1, a forerunner of the DX7.

The result is an amazing futuristic mix of electronic music and early 80s funk, announcing many genres to come, from techno and house to French electro and Vaporwave. From the breezy ambient synth of "I Love You" to the city pop edge of "Be Yourself" (originally written by Nathan East for Debra Laws) and the vocoder-led Daft Punk-ish "Take A Chance", Venus is a fascinating album that both pushes the boundaries of electronic music and is yet strangely accessible and beautiful.

The other key elements of Venus is the artwork designed by Japanese legendary illustrator Pater Sato. Sato had started in Japan in the early 70s doing many album covers for Japanese artists including Tatsuro Yamashita's cult Spacy LP before moving to New York in 1979 to pursue a career in fashion and advertising. His airbrush style became hugely influential over the years and in 2018, Stella McCartney dedicated a whole Men’s collection based on his Venus. Star make up artist Pat McGrath also regularly posts his artwork to her 3 million fans on her instagram.

The original album came with a beautiful 8-panel insert illustrated by Sato which Wewantsounds has reproduced on this deluxe reissue also featuring remastered sound, OBI strip and a second insert featuring credits and line up plus liner notes by Hashim Bharoocha. The notes will feature an exclusive interview with Hideki Matsutake reminiscing about the making of this visionary album which Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue.

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Kraftwerk

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

30,99 €*

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Rush Hour)

Colored Music

Heart Beat

15,99 €*

10" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Italian / Disordine)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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12inch release of highly sought after Colored Music edits by Tokyo's, Chee Chimizu (Organic Music). The two cuts originally featured on the the bands seminal self titled album (from 1981) that remained a cult DJ secret weapon, for many years, all over the world. This heavy EP includes an alternative version of 'Heartbeat' that featured on the Japan only "Individual Beauty" LP of 2018 (also compiled by Chimizu)

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Confusional Quartet

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Mecanica)

Carlos Peron

Impersonator

Suicide Commando Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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40th anniversary edition of the debut album by the multi-talented musician Carlos Perón. “Impersonator” was originally released in 1981 when he was still a member of Yello. This first solo work represents a desire to conduct daring electronic experiments, to achieve stylistic variety and musical intensity while at the same time it is an example of Mr. Perón’s bizarre sense of humour. Since the beginning of his career he pushed experimentation beyond limits with noise atmospheres, loops and complex textures which he has long used since before the introduction of sampling technology. With the arrival of sound sampling, he was among the first to experiment with equipment such as the Fairlight, Emulator and Mirage. During his time with Yello, Carlos may well have been one of the world’s first sampling masters. This new re-issue of “Impersonator” includes all original tracks with some bonus including the whole Frigorex EP from 1984 and six previously unreleased cuts recorded between 1982 and 1983. Limited edition of 500 copies with gatefold sleeve and an exclusive postcard.

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No More

7" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (El Caballo Semental)

13,99 €*

12" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Fulltime)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The year is 1981. The Kiel-based PostPunk / Wave underground outfit NO More releases their second ever single „Suicide Commando“ and their world changes forever. Well, not only their world – THE world. What began as an independently published 7“ single became a cult classic, a genre defining – and defying – song, an all-time dancefloor favorite of many, a timeless signature piece that escaped its original realm of PostPunk x Wave x Indie x Alternative to also become engrained in the DNA of modern electronic dancefloor culture most prominently in the beloved late 90s permutation presented by DJ Hell which became a classic in its own right. Now the year is 2021. Four decades have passed and NO More's „Suicide Commando“ is back once again - well... the song actually never left! -, this time harking back to the very beginning, the original vibe and the original format. Remastered and re-released with the original tracklisting and paying homage to the original artwork „Suicide Commando“ will be available in 7“ format for the first time since 1981. And staying true to the underground blueprint this 40th anniversary re-release edition once again is put out on the circuit through a small independent label: the Intrauterin Recordings offspring El Caballo Semental which also released NO More's „123456789 *baze.djunkiii & Herr Brandt Dream A NuDream Remix“ as a limited to 200 copies one-sided, colored whitelabel 7“ edition in 2019. Initial pressing will be limited to 400 copies.

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Kano

New York Cake

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Open Space Motion (Underscores)

Klaus Weiss

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Margo Michaels And Nitelite

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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They say: "Contemporary synthesizer sounds illustrating wide open space activities, environment and research." We say: Panoramic proto-techno underwater-electro library dynamite. One of the hardest pulls on the seminal Coloursound, Open Space Motion (Underscores) isn't just regarded as one of the best releases from library-funk overlord Klaus Weiss. It's one of the very best library records ever. As cult as it gets when it comes to library music, the Klaus Weiss sound was built on top of sometimes funky, sometimes frenetic, but always hard-hitting drums. AND YET! Open Space Motion departs from his drum-heavy approach by being completely...BEATLESS! That's right, the virtuoso beat smith, Mr "drumcrazy of Deutschland", a man known for snapping necks at will, crafted one of the most horizontally sumptuous, elegantly sweeping electronic masterpieces, sans-drums, a good decade before chill-out rooms became a thing. It features organic instruments married to pulsing synth bass atop brilliantly subdued yet irresistibly funky percussion. Possessing a very special vibe, that's at once futuristic yet cinematic, it overflows with atmosphere. The highlights - unsurprisingly - are many. The very first track - the unstoppable "Wide Open Space Motion" - is a sinister, string-fried electro bomb that rides an unrelenting bass loop. "Incessant Efforts" is more reflective, with pastoral yet probing flutes atop strutting synth chords and head-nod percussion that really swings. The heavenly, uber-kosmiche "Pink Sails" hovers over swirling neon-synthy-strings and yet more unobtrusive percussion. The beautiful "Transiency" is a dramatic piano-led underscore, its creeping unease created by patient strings, unhurried percussion and some wonderfully strident keys. "Driving Sequences" is perhaps the key tune here, and if the Detroit crew weren't listening to this staggering piece then, well, imagine if they *were*. The bubbling rhythms of "Southern Mentality", at first ominous, give way to a more optimistic vibe as the movement progresses. The lush, gorgeous "Bows" is deep-sea slow-motion magic whilst the bright-eyed "Outset" feels as fresh as the dawn, and no less beautiful. How these tracks haven't been gobbled up by sample-driven producers is beyond us. Equally calming is the sweeping majesty of "Constellation", again conjuring images of being at one with and fully beguiled by the wonders of nature, of space, of underwater worlds. "Changing Directions" is another fidgety, propulsive non-Detroit beatless bomb. As with all our library music re-issues, the audio for Open Space Motion comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis. Richard Robinson has brought the original Coloursound sleeve back to life in all its metallic silver glory.

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LP | 1981 | US | Original (Real World)

5,99 €* 9,99 € -40%

General Hospi-tale (Vocal & Instrumental)

Release: 1981 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Worn but still enjoyable copy. Golden promo stamp on back.

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The Afternoon Delights

12" | 1981 | DE | Original (MCA)

2,59 €* 3,99 € -35%

Musiques Pour Garcons Et Filles + Inedits

Release: 1981 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Record is close to near mint.

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Video-Aventures

2LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

34,99 €*