RADIO-ACTIVITY (Spain, 1985?) 

Capitol/ EMI/ Fama 256 1820874

These endless lists of record companies confuse me, but as is clearly shown in the images below, this "Fama" reissue is another release where you can just smell the record company red tape... How it was possible that two big international labels had ownership of Kraftwerk's music I do not know, but it appears to have been fairly commonplace for bands to sign with different labels in different territories; maybe it is just some kind of legal spill-over?

Whatever the reasoning behind it, many of Kraftwerk's releases bear both the EMI and Capitol logos, at least up to and including Computer World. Additionally, the mid-80s albums were reissued as part of the "Fame" series internationally, and in Spain, yes of course, the word Fame was translated into Spanish, so you get a big "FAMA" logo on the spine and front of the J-card. 
 
On the front, the album cover is presented as a stylised, simplified version, without the band name and album title, against a black and white grid background, with titles and logos. This grid is also the case with other "Fama" reissues - even the LPs have a checkered margin on the front. 
 
The J-card is a simple 1-panel black-and-white one, where the inside has the titles in English, then translated to Spanish. The cassette itself has yellow paper labels, bearing only the English titles, and also two catalogue numbers; the original from the international LP release as well as the one made for the release at hand - not sure why, but it's an intriguing anomaly. Cassette shell is greyish white.







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