Kraftwerk cassettes

THE MIX (Poland, 1991?) SuperTape ST 632 Oh, come on. It's been ages since I had any Polish pirate cassettes up, surely one more can't hurt! Poland has had such a _mass_ of different cassettes, especially of The Mix, which I've shown in loads of different editions here before . Most of them will have tampered with the tracklist somehow - again I'm at the risk of repeating myself - as the original album is 65 minutes long and the normal cassette length is either 46 or 60 minutes. Simpler and cheaper to use a shorter cassette and skip one track on the CD. The track they left out, however, is slightly surprising: The last track of the album, and the highlight of the 1991 tour (and of many tours since) - Music Non Stop. They haven't left the rest of the tracks in their correct place, either - Pocket Calculator and Dentaku are on different sides of the cassette, bringing a medley to a confusing end, and worse still - Abzug is on its own in the middle of side B, while ...

TRANS-EUROPA EXPRESS (Australia, 1980s) Capitol TC-MID-166109 Back to Australia again! From a Kraftwerk cassette collector's perspective they put out quite a lot of interesting releases - certainly more than I knew when I started collecting! Most cassettes from Australia - whether first-issue or re-release - come with nicely un-imaginative design; sometimes based on the UK cassette counterparts, sometimes just the LP front against a white background. This one, which I think is from 1987, falls into the latter category, and looks like you'd expect it to if you've seen the LP version with colour front (as released in Australia, and also UK, US, Japan, Sweden and others, I talked at some length about it in an earlier post ). There's no mistaking it for the first edition though, as the LP design is moved towards the middle of the front, with the band name above. It looks like this cassette is the counterpart to a 1987 mid-price reissue on LP, with the same catalogue nu...

THE MAN·MACHINE (Greece, RE 198x?) Capitol 14C 262-854444 Time for a Greek re-edition of The Man·Machine! I don't have that many Greek cassettes, but let's at least see the ones I have... It's been nearly a year since I presented the original ! The Man·Machine came in several variants in Greece, but the differences are pretty minor. EMI changed address at some point, so the address printed on the J-card is different on this than on the original, and this edition has on-body print instead of paper labels. (There is also another reissue which has green on-body print, which I hope to put up in a future post!) The J-card is still 2-panel, printed on one side only, and the design is almost the same as the first edition, except the contact details as mentioned. It's the details that make for a collection!