AUTOBAHN (New Zealand, 1975)
Vertigo 7149 005


New Zealand again! As seen before, I do love these NZ cassettes. A small market, far away, with many variants and generally nice-looking releases, I suppose, all of which add to the charm.


I've posted the NZ reissue of Autobahn before, but here's the first edition. (In fact, I thought I'd posted this too, but I checked, nope, I haven't) In contrast to the Australian edition, one has here given the UK sleeve a miss, opting for the Emil Schult painting, as per the German original LP.


The front panel has the LP cover below a big yellow Vertigo Swirl logo, and the band name and album title - and a Dolby logo - against a black background. The J-card folds out into a second panel, with the track list and some credits, including the cat.no for the LP (The NZ and UK LPs share the same cat.no, just like the cassettes). The spine gives the Price Code M, and the backflap has a slightly shorter tracklist - with "Kometenmelodie 1 and 2" saving someone the bother of typing the word twice. While the labels state (p) 1974, the backflap says 1975, which is why I assume that's when this came out in New Zealand. Labels are white on light grey cassette, and this variant does not have writing and production credits to Ralf and Florian. There is another NZ cassette which does have them - another anomaly shared with the UK cassette, which also comes in those two label variations.


Sorry about the shitty snaps, better luck next time!






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