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1: Beatles - White Album (Apple 2LP)
You never forget your 1st, right?



2: V/A - That's Black Music (K-Tel LP)
Flea-market catch when I was 10. There was hardly any soul on German radio in 1976 and this one had "Move on Up" & "Sex Machine" on it. Initial Blast-Off! [I think this may have been one of my first soul lps also!]



3: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Talma LP)
Just the best album ever made.



4: Alvin Cash - The Creep (Seventy Seven 7")
My first Funk 45. So that truely seems to be the record that changed my life the most...



5: Clash - Sandinista (Columbia 3LP)
Best fitting record to those desperate teen-age days. And what a record!



6: De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising (Tommy Boy LP)
No comment nescessairy.





7: Mary Queenie Lyons: See And Don't See (De Luxe 7")
THE best Funk tune period. Fuck the sound engineer & producer who faded that unbeatable beauty out.





8: Poets Of Rhythm - Funky Train (Hotpie & Candy 7")
Changed my life because this one ended my short career as a lousy Conga-player (& the boys did good in turning down the percussion-volume as much as possible)



9: Webster Lewis - Would You Believe (Counterpoint LP)
Hypnotizing. again & again and still after all those years.





10: Larry Ellis & The Black Hammer - Funky Thing (Al King 7")
Still can't believe how much energy you can transfer into seven inches of flat plastic.

city you live in?
munich - germany

how long you have been collecting?
since the early 80's, although I was a teenager & couldn't spend any serious money on 45's

most heart stopping find on a digging session?
I got my rarest records before there was such a big hype around, the most exiting thing was & is to find some unheard great stuff. the dig where i knew what the deal was about must 've been those three sealed 24 carat black albums for one buck each plus roy porter / jessica the same day for five in '92 in memphis

top spots for record hunting?
if i told they wouldn't be anymore. bigups: jazzman & resolution

ebay. good or evil?
good. prices seem to become proper again, don't they?

motown or stax?
mmmh, that's like paramount or mgm for independent films??? motown i'd say.

sneakers or shoes?
best of both worlds

creole or gumbo?
i love food too much to

favourite tipple?
sorry i dunno this word...

where can people see/hear you play?
weeklyinto somehtin' saturdays @ funky kitchen , munich atomic cafe, munich every 6th sat http://www.intosomethin.com/floriankeller/ has a whole night in real audio etc in clubs around (this summer so far: trianteum / porto, jellyjazz / plymouth, jojo's / london, lila / beirut, aquarius / zagreb, soulseduction / vienna, unique / duesseldorf,...)

anything to add?
all the best with your site!