RADIO-ACTIVITY (Spain, 1976?) Unofficial
Crown (no cat.no.)


And we're back, with another unofficial item. It's been a quiet autumn for my cassette collection, I don't find much new to add, and what I do receive is generally pirate stuff. When I started collecting, I wasn't really that interested in the unofficial side of things... That said, I was glad to receive this Spanish boot of Radio-Activity!
 

I haven't posted any Spanish pirate cassettes before, simply because I didn't have any. Furthermore, this is my first unofficial cassette of Radio-Activity! For some reason, even the Polish pirate market seems to have given Radio-Activity the miss, Discogs has ONE Polish boot of this album listed. Compare that with other albums like The Mix or The Man Machine... As Spanish pirate cassettes go, Discogs has only one entry? Which is another Radio-Activity - ie, no Autobahn, no The Mix, nothing else in between. I suspect we're treading unchartered territories here, and that there were more examples, but that they simply haven't materialised online yet. It's not like this one has been listed, either, come to think of it. 


Anyway, this is released with a "Crown" printed on the front and spine, so it looks like it might have been released on "Crown Records" or some other "Crown" label - but I haven't found a label with the same logo on Discogs, so who knows if it was an actual company or if someone just liked the idea and made this cassette before tiring of it... 


The J-card is quite flimsy, two panels, and printed on just one side. Cassette is grey with pink labels, which are square, so it fits rather badly with the cassette itself! Some effort has been taken in the design here though, with full tracklist both across the labels and appearing twice on the J-card. The album design is taken from the LP, judging by the cat.no in the top right corner and the word "Estereo" - the official Spanish cassette has a cleaned-up image of the famous radio. In fact, the music is taken from vinyl as well, with a distinct crackle and pop! Hard to place this cassette on a time frame, but it has a 70s feel (clear shells became the norm a few years into the 80s), and the LP didn't come out before 1976, so - late 70s, early 80s is the best I can do so far.






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