Kraftwerk cassettes

THE MIX (Canada, 1991) Elektra 96 8694 Today, I bring you the Canadian edition of The Mix. It's not what you'd call a major collectable, I suppose, but I haven't had an official The Mix for ages, so - here it is! There are not as many different editions of The Mix as there are of the albums before it. Cassette releases sort of had a window in Western Europe, where from the mid-70s to the early '90s, popular albums would see reissues and variants across the territories. I think you can find three times as many official versions of The Man-Machine or Autobahn as of this one! In fact, this is the last one I own that I haven't posted, so I must rush out and find the remaining few... They're quite rare though so who knows. Anyway. Again, the packaging is more or less based on the German/ EU release, via USA;  4-panel J-card, including full-size backflap, printed on both sides. The songwriting/publishing credits and larger print for the other liner notes are pretty...

LA DÜSSELDORF: INDIVIDUELLOS (Germany, 1980) Teldec, 4.24524 CR Branching out a little further in 2026, here's another cassette that isn't strictly speaking by Kraftwerk. We've had some "Related artists" before though, so it feels logical to follow that trail a bit further. Klaus Dinger played drums on Side 2 of the first Kraftwerk LP, and stayed on as a member for nearly a year. Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Dinger started work on the second Kraftwerk album, but sessions were aborted, Hütter returned and Rother and Dinger formed Neu!. The duo put out three brilliant albums, before personal relations had soured beyond repair and the band was no more. Rother went solo, and Dinger started La Düsseldorf, recruiting his brother Thomas Dinger and Hans Lampe. From 1976-1980, three albums were released, before relations again were so strained that they could not work together any more. One gets the impression that Klaus Dinger may have been difficult to work with...