THE MAN·MACHINE/ RADIO-ACTIVITY (Saudi-Arabia, 1981?)
Unofficial - 747, 7724

Another day another unofficial release... From Saudi-Arabia!

The '747' label is a fairly prolific label, putting out lots of different releases of Western pop music of different kinds. They put out a fair bit of Kraftwerk, but the thing that makes it a little more interesting is, that instead of releasing the albums as they were, they have re-assembled the tracks. In the case of this one, it's a C-60 cassette with the 35 minutes that are The Man·Machine, followed by selected tracks from Radio-Activity! Four tracks are left off: Airwaves, Radio Stars, Uranium and Transistor. Transistor was released on another cassette in Saudi-Arabia though, it's a bonus track on the label's issue of Trans-Europe Express (I will feature that one some other time, it's also rather interesting!).


The J-card is a hi-quality glossy 2-panel card. It is printed on both sides, but the inside is just a list of other releases from the label. (Most of these were originally released in 1981, so this could be from the same year, at least not before...) The front has a unique design - the band picture from the front cover of The Man·Machine, with a detail from the back cover of Radio-Activity added in as background. The band name and titles of both albums on some coloured stripes across the image. Whether it is how it should be is up to the viewer I suppose, but they certainly put in the effort for this! There are some spelling errors here, "Spacelas" and "Krafiwerk" on the cassette labels (grey cassette with black on-body print)... As usual with these unofficial releases! Nice one though, all in all!








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