Kraftwerk cassettes

ELECTRIC CAFE (Poland, 1992) MG 0914 Another Polish pirate edition today, and this time it's a version of Electric Cafe! I keep buying Polish cassettes, if I can find them. I think they're interesting, and there's a lot of different ones - easily the country in the world with the largest number of different Kraftwerk cassettes! As has been said before, Polish unofficial releases would often have strange/weird/surprising/striking design features, changes to the track list and other anomalies. Today's cassette is fairly straightforward though - the LP design against a white background, and band name, album title and release year in the vacant space above the image. The most interesting part of the front cover is that the colouring is off - the yellow colour seems to have been added the wrong way around, giving the design a surprisingly messy make-over... The J-card is on the usual glossy, thin paper, printed on both sides. The track list both on the back-flap and insid

TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS (India, 1977) Capitol 4TCS SW 11603 I haven't had an Indian cassette in an age, but here's an Indian edition of Trans-Europe Express. No idea why it hasn't been featured, it's by no means a recent acquisition, but that's how it is! It's a fairly lovely release, though, with some slight changes to the graphics on the front compared to any other issue; just a white box with the title and band name in bright blue letters across the top of the sleeve, and the "sheet music" stripes are gone, but it looks a little different to all other versions. The J-card is two-panels, printed on one side. The Indian cassette disregards the problem of different lengths to each side of the cassette, so you get the songs in their correct order here. Labels are white, on grey cassettes with "Made in India" stamped into the lower part of one side.  Intriguingly, the front cover has a logo presenting this as a "Hi-dynamic musicassette"!

THE MIX (Yugoslavia, 1991) Jugoton MC-7-T 3034658 - 79 6641 4 Here, instead of another Polish edition, is the Jugoton release of The Mix. Good to have something legit and official once in a while! This Yugoslavian edition is largely similar in design to other European/ North American editions; a 4-panel J-card, printed on both sides, with 3 pictures of the robots, plus the robot graphic on the inside. There's the small differences in record company logos and catalogue numbers, and the holes in the backflap are rectangular rather than round or oval, but I can't find much here to merit the credit of the Jugoton "editor" here; he is mentioned though - and even in pink letters to make it stand out. The cassette is black, with orange labels. My copy has a previous owner crossed out on side 1, which was tempting to photoshop out, but - y'know. It is there.

THE MAN·MACHINE (Greece, 1978) Capitol 14C 262-854444 Time for a Greek edition of The Man·Machine! I haven't posted so many Greek cassettes here; in fact, I don't even have that many, but let's bring them forward, they're generally nice items! The Man·Machine is one of few Kraftwerk cassettes that I know came in several variants in Greece, (even if I only have this one...). EMI moved sometime after 1978, so the address printed on the J-card is different on later issues, and this edition has yellow paper labels, where later ones have on-body print. The J-card is 2-panel, printed on one side only, and the design is pretty basic - album title and band name in large friendly letters on both the front and the right panel, while the spine only has the band name. Oh, there's also a spelling mistake: "Tne" Man·Machine. Not in the track list though, just in the "headlines". That's pretty much it, I suppose? Nice one! Both companies are represented