THE MIX (Germany? 1991?)
No label, no cat.no, barcode 0 035627 48102

Back into uncharted waters, for another unofficial edition of The Mix!

I have of course had several pirate cassettes before, mostly from Poland or United Arab Emirates, but this one claims to be from "West Germany". I got it from a seller in Hungary, and of course, with a low-key unofficial item like this, it's not easy to tell, but the cassette plays the German-language version of the songs, and the labels have the legal text in German, so perhaps it is from Germany after all. It just seems like the backflap is copied from some other release, since Germany was no longer divided into East and West by 1990, and the barcode matches a totally unrelated release... Hard to tell. -I would expect the "Fall of the Berlin Wall" to have been a bit of a thing in Germany at the time, though, would a German be so careless as to still use "West Germany" after that? OK, never mind.


Where-ever it came from, this is a very simple release. A 1-panel J-card, on glossy paper, with the LP/CD cover against a white background (instead of just ripping off the original cassette cover), and the inside of the J-card reproduces the LP/CD tracklist, ie. indexed from 1-11 without Side A and Side B mentioned. The typeface is the same as on the official releases though, even if it's in black on white.






 



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