Kraftwerk cassettes

RADIO-ACTIVITY (France, 1983) EMI/ Fame 1820874  Another post, another addition I was glad to get. I think this is fairly obscure, if not necessarily valuable in terms of Euros? Anyway, here's a French reissue of Radio-Activity!   Sometimes, with these cassettes, it can be hard to find any actual information... I don't often know much about the item at hand, unless the info is printed on the actual item itself it has generally gone down the rivers of time. Especially when it comes to the release year of a particular re-issue, in most cases you rely on guesswork and hearsay. France is an exception to the rule, however, their reissues would generally print the year on the J-card. So this copy of Radio-Activity, on the Fame imprint, came out in 1983!  The release year was a little surprising to me, as I have a Fame reissue from France of Trans-Europe Express, which is dated 1985. It would make sense if they put out reissues of all the Capitol albums in 1985 - the same year a...

ELECTRIC CAFE (UK, 1986) EMI (no cat.no) It feels rather strange to say this, but - here is another Abbey Road Studios cassette.  "Another", as in, I posted a different Abbey Road cassette earlier; the Telephone Call one. As I said then, I expect these must be listening copies for studio use, although I don't really know for sure.    The two are very similar, this Electric Cafe cassette is also a TDK AD C-46, without labels or any info - so take care that you put them right back in their cases or you'll have no way of knowing where it belongs. The J-card is printed or colour copied on standard white paper, as per that other one. The front is the same too, a giant Abbey Road logo. The track list panel has different tracks of course, this one having the correct one for this release - it has a couple of printers' errors; the first one is spelt "Boing Boom Tschack", the first single is listed as Musique Non-Stop - other releases has it without the hyphen ...