ELECTRIC CAFE (Brazil, 1986)
EMI (31C 264 240644)


Another far-travelled cassette today, as we tip our hat (or raise our glass) to Brazil for their version of the Electric Cafe cassette. I've said many times on this blog that most territories would issue the cassette with a beautiful 4-panel J-card with lots of graphics and liner notes, so in a way I suppose I like to see the few that were done differently!

The Brazil edition is fairly straightforward, just a 1-panel J-card, with small backflap. They did keep the graphic design as much as possible within that narrow space though, with tracklist and credits presented in the same "computer" typeface as the German original. Glad to see Henning Schmitz' name here too, even if he's not yet up there with the band members! 

Cassettes are the Brazilian standard-issue light grey, stamped with "FONOBRA'S" at the top of both sides. Blue labels, where Side 1 has info particular to the release in question - artist and title - while Side 2 has the varius labels and sub-labels that fall under the EMI umbrella.

Finally, I'd just like to mention the surprising info on Side 1 label, and repeated on the spine, that this cassette is "Super Luxo". In what way this is defined, what makes it "Super Luxo", I can't tell you, but the XDR logos from many other issues does not feature here, so maybe Brazil got this instead? If I ever come across a non-Super Brazilian edition of this, I'll post it here!








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