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Polish pressed music cassette. Clear Takt Music cassette with Takt paper label.

Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalogue number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. One of the bigger cassettes labels were Takt Music in Warsaw. They started in 1990 as Tact then changed name in 1991 to Takt Music who existed up until 1994 before becoming a major pressing plant in Poland and changing the name to Takt.

Genius. Pure genius. Way before Rage Against the Machine, before Run-D.M.C.’s collaboration with Aerosmith, and before their infamous collaboration with Public Enemy, Anthrax take the credit — or blame — for being the pioneers of merging rap and metal. Released in 1987, their now-classic I’m the Man is a funny tribute/parody/attempt at hip-hop that is not only pulled off successfully, but it’s also the first release that showcases Anthrax’s sense of humor — the latter of which was also a first for the genre of speed metal. There are also three live tracks — one of which is the title track — as well as a “moshable” version of Black Sabbath’s “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” — all of which are great but will probably be overlooked. Has it been mentioned that this EP is genius?

Track list:
1. Im the man-censored radio version
2. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-Black Sabbath cover
3. Caught In A Mosh-live
4. Im The Man-def uncensored radio version
5. Im The Man-uncensored-live
6. Im The law-live