ELECTRIC CAFE (Romania, 19?) Unofficial
Poker 443


Another pirate edition today, but this time it's a country that hasn't featured here before: Romania! Here's a Romanian cassette of Electric Cafe. Admittedly it looks a lot like a similar release from Poland; I'm not sure whether Poker Sound was an actual label, with a Romanian office or - if this is a "bootleg of a bootleg"...


Apart from the country of origin, today's cassette is fairly straightforward - the J-card has the LP design centre front, against a blue background, and band name and album title in coloured boxes over and under the image. There is a Polish edition of this, and the J-card for that looks exactly the same as this. The J-card is on glossy, thin paper, printed on one side, but with a stamp on the white inside (the significance of which is sadly lost on me). The track list both on the back-flap and the second panel is amended to make the sides of similar length.
 

The cassette has a clear shell, with white on-body print, and is the only place I see any actual reference to the country of origin; the Poker logo is much like the same from Poland, but has an added "by Roton", which I believe to be an acronym for Romanian Tones or something like that. Unfortunately I don't have the Polish version of this, so I can't post it for comparison. At least, not yet!







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