
THE MAN·MACHINE (Italy, 1978?) Unofficial - no label, no cat.no. I've posted the official Italian The Man·Machine cassette before, but Italy also had a flourishing un-official music industry in the 1970s... So here's one example of a bootleg copy from Italy. There were many different editions, and I suppose this pirate industry enabled some cottage industry-type limited editions, so of course they keep turning up, and no-one can tell how many copies there were made, or exactly when. I have two different Italian editions with no record company logos, or S.I.A.E stamps (more about those here ), this is the lesser-known one. It's funny too - the front cover is a replication of the official album, but the Dolby logo from the official cassette is simply crossed out with a big black box - in fact, blacker than the background colour used on the rest of the front cover. A rare case of honesty among the pirates - I expect the cassette is not recorded with Dolby then? Thanks for spa...