Kraftwerk cassettes

ELECTRIC CAFE (United Arab Emirates, 1986?) Thomsun Original, EN-1249 Back to the Emirates again for this, a surprisingly garish unofficial edition of Electric Cafe! As seen before , I don't actually know anything about Thomsun Original, but it appears to be a pirate label, what with the general disregard for details such as the original track listing and design features. For The Mix, they left off "Metal on Metal", and moved Music Non Stop to the end of Side A; design-wise, they used some fonts that I doubt Ralf Hütter would have approved of, and not least, they put the "Thomsun" logo across the original LP design. Thomsun's version of Electric Cafe is also quite different to other editions. Let's talk colour scheme first. Not only do we get a white background, where a black one was generally regarded as the only possibility, but they have re-touched the album logo - it is now purple and green in a red frame, set against the white background. Well it...

   THE MIX (United Arab Emirates, 1991?) Thomsun Original EN - 4243 Long summer holidays without posting anything, but here at last is another Kraftwerk cassette - and it's another The Mix bootleg! This one I think comes from the United Arab Emirates - I'm not sure, as it doesn't say anywhere on cassette or J-card where it was manufactured, but Thomsun Original is known to be a U.E.A. label. And again, I'm just assuming the cassette was not issued in connection with Kraftwerk's record label or representatives, I have no way of knowing for sure. It would surprise me if Kraftwerk had sanctioned the release though, with the "Thomsun Original" logo scrawled across the front cover and jumbled running order of tracks... The J-card is just one-panel, one-sided print, and looks somewhat cheap and easy. The cassette itself has the appearance of one of those blank cassettes you'd buy to DIY... The cassette shell has both the Thomsun logo and Maxell's UR-60 p...