THE MAN·MACHINE (The Netherlands, RE 1981)
Capitol 1A 264-854444

Trying to cram some cassettes in between all the "life" that tends to get in the way, today it's one of the many Dutch re-editions of The Man·Machine!

In the mid-80's, with EU regulations opening up the borders between at least some Western European nations, reissues would typically be "Made in Holland" for general distribution. I've shown before how Electric Cafe was manufactured there for German export. This, however, is earlier, a fact made evident for once by the year of manufacture stated on the label.
 

The Man·Machine underwent several reissues, and later ones will have the "FAME" logo, but that wasn't until 1982. The FAME ones have several variants, too; some have the standard cream-coloured background on the front of the J-card, some are white, and there are stuff like XDR logos, "Budget price" hype stickers and what have you. I like this one though, because the cover is made tidier, in a way - the cat.no and Dolby logo are at the bottom of the front panel, and all the record label logos and XDR logos are nowhere to be seen (I don't suppose XDR was a thing in 1981, either). The Capitol logo is on the spine, while the EMI logo is inside the J-card. 

Both companies are represented by the logos on the labels of the cassette itself though, in brown print against a cream-coloured body. And I forgot to mention that the J-card is just the one panel, printed on both sides on rather thin glossy paper. 







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