Kraftwerk cassettes

AUTOBAHN (1985, Canada) Warner Bros. 92 53264 Taking us back to the Canadian "Super Cassettes", today I present another 1985 variant of Autobahn. The Elektra edition was posted here  two years ago , so this post brings us up as far as I've come on the subject! As I said before, the "Super Cassette" or ("Super C Cassette"?) isn't really all that super, they had a plan to make cassettes sound better, but it wasn't really radical. Personally, I think the changes around 1990 were more important, but CDs had largely taken over by then anyway. So for me, it's simply a fun logo to make my cassettes look different. Like the previous one, this too came in a 1-panel J-card with print on both sides, and a full-panel backflap. In fact, the whole cassette looks very similar to the Elektra edition, even down to he cassette being black with silver on-body print. The only significant difference is the Elektra logo on that other one and the Warner logo he...

  RALF & FLORIAN (Spain, 1979) Philips 71 05 147 Another Spanish cassette already? Sure. We've had some early works compilations, but it's a while since I had an actual, full early album on the blog... So today, I bring you a Spanish issue of Ralf & Florian, from 1979! I think it's the last time this album was reissued on cassette officially... Surprisingly, this edition is more "German" than the German edition - design is quite similar to the German LP. The German cassette, elsewhere on the blog, used a different typeface on the front, and yet another on the spine, whereas Spain went for the gothic lettering on the front, and the cassette standard on the spine. Strangely, they use the German "Seite 1" and "Seite 2", rather than Spanish indicators like "Cara" or "Pista" which I've seen on others, or even the English "Side", as per some other early one s. Possibly they copied the information from a G...