Description

Polish pressed music cassette. Mag Magic cassette with white text

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 catalog number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. Most Polish cassette labels disappeared in May of 1994 when Polish Parliament passed on a new copyright law. Mag Magic was a label that managed to release way over a thousand tapes so they were very active up to 1994. Mag Magic were one of the better labels as most of their releases had excellent sound.

After being dropped by EMI following a number of commercial and critical stiffs in the late ’80s, the boys in Saxon signed with Charisma for their tenth album, Solid Ball of Rock. The record saw another stylistic U-turn, but for once it was an improvement. The songwriting was still largely unimpressive, but the addition of new bassist Nibbs Carter seemed to inject some new life into the group, which recorded its most aggressive batch of songs in a decade, including “Altar of the Gods” and the scorching “Baptism of Fire.”

Track listing.
1. Solid Ball Of Rock
2. Altar Of The Gods
3. Requiem (We Will Remember)
4. Lights In The Sky
5. I Just Can’t Get Enough
6. Baptism Of Fire
7. Ain’t Gonna Take It
8. I’m On Fire
9. Overture In B Minor / Refugee
10. Bavarian Beaver
11. Crash Dive