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 "3/94" on the spine, which I take to mean that it came out in March 1994. This, again, suggests that cassettes were not going away as soon as they did in Western Europe. I wrote in an earlier post about three different editions of The Man-Machine from 1994 to 1996, so it seems the cassette was alive and well at that time!

Anyway. For once, the packaging is a little different to the norm: The blue background colour of the front is augmented with some red, green and grey boxes, and there's a huge pink star that says "BRAND NEW RE-MIXES"; I know I read in interviews at the time that the band themselves wanted to clarify that they were _not_, in fact, "re-mixes", but brand new recordings... Anyway, The J-card is a simple 1-panel, printed on both sides. The cassette is clear with white print.