Kraftwerk cassettes

AUTOBAHN (1979, Spain) Vertigo 71 05 181 Spain has been the source of a lot of interesting releases by Kraftwerk, including some of my favourite cover designs. It is also one of the few places which released all the early albums on cassette, allowing us a full discography up to The Mix. To the best of my knowledge, Autobahn was not released on cassette in Spain until 1979. I don't think it came on LP at the same time, apparently, this cassette corresponds with the 1977 release. At least, I think so, as they came on the Vertigo label, had a slightly dark repro of the German cover image and, somewhat surprisingly, still use Florian's full name, crediting him as F. Schneider-Esleben (in Germany, he had dropped the Esleben bit since 1973!) The Spanish 1979 edition came in a grey case, with two-panel J-card printed on just one side. Cassettes have white paper labels on white shells. All in all a stylish release, and although not the easiest to get, still obtainable at an ok price. M

 So, hello everyone - or anyone - and welcome to the Kraftwerk cassettes blog. For whatever reason, I decided to make a blog for Kraftwerk cassettes. It's possibly a place to keep track of my own collection, or just somewhere to brag without bothering my mother and/or FB friend list?  I started collecting Kraftwerk cassettes a few years ago. I had previously bought some cassette singles, and had a couple to listen to in the car, back in the days when cars had cassette players, but recently I've been collecting international Kraftwerk items, simply for the design. In the 70s and 80s, many countries had different design for their releases, and this is true of cassettes too, so it made sense to try and collect them as well (-at least, as much 'sense' as collecting anything, that is - I do know that all the music is on youtube, before you ask!) Cassettes also have the design "feature" that they're of a more rectangular shape. Most cassettes appear to have been