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  ELECTRIC CAFE (1986, Italy) EMI 64 2606444 As I said in an earlier post, between 1981 and 1986, much had changed in the world, and not least, the different offices of the record companies who dealt with Kraftwerk output had decided to go with the design of the German edition, so for Electric Cafe, most editions are very similar when it comes to packaging. No rule without exeptions, of course, and so on to one of the nicest-looking cassette editions of Electric Cafe, from Italy. In fact, the Italian edition is comparably basic, a simple 1-panel J-card instead of the full 4 panels of the EU, Germany, UK and US editions, and a straight forward black-on-white track listing on both the back flap and inside the cover, instead of the "computer graphics" white-on-black style from other editions.  So the only difference where I think the Italian edition has gone about it the right way, is that they have placed the front cover - band image and white on grey logo - inside a black &quo