EXPO 2000 (Scandinavia, 2025) unofficial - home-made
No label, no cat.no


In the quiet week before the New Year - just a bit of fun for once!


This blog explores the art of collecting through the medium of cassettes. I've touched frequently upon what I collect, and what I do not collect, although this has also changed as the collection develops (or grows, as I don't think I've ever taken stuff out of the collection once I've made room for it!). I started out focusing on official releases, but soon realised that not all countries even could get the cassettes officially, and that the line between official and un-official can be more blurred in some countries than it is in my homeland... And here's the first cassette which I define as "home-made", as in, not duplicated and with a cover not printed professionally, and with no connection to the record industry - _or_ with a view to selling the item.


It was given me for Christmas. My brother thought it a shame that Expo 2000 was not available on cassette, and with the aid of a friend, produced this "Placeholder Edition", just for the fun of it. It is home printed on photo paper, the music is dubbed to a c15 cassette (so the two tracks on the A side are the radio edits of the tracks, while the B-side is the full length version), and the labels - well, I don't really know, seems like they're printed on to stickers? Semi-glossy, and not as thin as standard copy paper.


There's no other reason for this to exist than it looks nice, and that it does. For next year, I will put "Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie" on cassette on my Christmas wish list :-)





 

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