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Kraftwerk (Poland, 199?) Unofficial TomZo 0090 The Polish takeover continues with another pirate cassette, today it's a compilation! Well, kind of.   I've touched before on the anything-goes attitude, typical in Poland in the late 80s and through the 90s. Today's item is a brilliant case in point; nearly a two-for-one, it has most of the The Man-Machine album on side one, and most of the Computerwelt album on side two. Yes, one in English, the other in German! 'Neon Lights' is omitted from the first, while Computerwelt is presented here without 'Taschenrechner' _and_ 'Nummern'. All three are key tracks, although I suppose nearly every track is key on these two releases... It's especially baffling that 'Nummern' is not included, since it's sort of a medley with the next song, 'Computerwelt 2', so this one starts rather abruptly after the ending of it's counterpart. In fact, the cassette is a c60, so it wasn't even neces
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Computer World (Poland, 1990?) Unofficial release Tact 037 Been quiet here for a while, but I'm back today with a Polish edition of Computer World. I've featured many Polish pirate cassettes recently of course, and in fact, I haven't been able to add much else to my collection for a couple of months, so there's that. Also, I've been waiting for some fantastic rarities from a friend, but they have yet to materialise, so we're back to the boots again. It's ok though, they're nice, although there's little left for me to say about the Polish cassette industry . I have of course touched upon the fact earlier, that some of these cassettes look genuinely baffling, some quite hideous, but today's example I find rather pretty actually. It's green, as visible from the pictures, and the green background compliments the original yellow album design nicely while also being of a quieter tasteful style compared with some of the more garish eye-catching co