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 inside the J-card is amended to make the sides of similar length, but the pencil marks inside this copy make it seem like the songs appear in the traditional order after all! (Full disclosure: I got this the other day and haven't played it yet, for shame!). The clear cassette has paper labels with black print against a yellow "MG" logo pattern, and if you don't think this is a fairly great item, well - let's simply agree to disagree!







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