Kraftwerk cassettes

THE MIX (India, 1994) EMI STSC 890217/ EM 1408 Finally, I got an Indian edition of The Mix. I've been searching for one for years, and finally I decided to splash out on one! As I've said before, there are not as many different editions of The Mix as of the albums from Autobahn to Electric Cafe. It's sort of logical; by the late 90s, cassettes were a niche product in Western Europe, and there was little point in reissues and Nice Price editions. Most countries would just put this out once, then refer customers to the CD shelf if they wanted to make a purchase. India has a different policy with reissues than most places. I have few Indian editions, of several albums, and they are often dated on the spine, and have the recommended retail price printed there too. For instance, I know of copies of The Man-Machine dated both 10/88 and 11/88, so there could be quite a lot of very slightly different variants out there yet to be documented. Today's cassette is marked with ...

COMPUTER WORLD (Japan, 1981) EMI ZR28-613, EMS-91030 I've been looking forward to posting this, my first Japanese Kraftwerk cassette! As you can see, here's Computer World! Music fans all over the world love Japanese releases. Whether it's vinyl records, CDs or cassettes, Japan has had a history of going the extra mile with their physical product. Extras like bonus tracks, picture inserts, stickers, lyric sheets and OBIs are commonplace, and cassettes typically came with a long text insert inside, and a glorious outer slipcase! My pictures hardly do the item justice. The slipcase makes the front a little larger, and the Japanese text adds to the beauty of the front. On the back of the slipcase, the tracklist in both English and Japanese, and if Google translate is to be trusted, a short blurb about the album. Inside the slipcase is a standard cassette case, with a 4-panel insert. Here we get a Kraftwerk time-line on one side, and on the other: The lyrics, or more exactly s...