Ayu cassettes
 

Can anyone tell me about these? They read as they were "manufactured and distributed by p.t. indo semar sakti" and for sale in indonesia only, licensed through avex asia limited.

They have AV then numbers for the label code and then a barcode. i know indonesia is still very big on cassettes, but wanted to know if these are for sure official?

Some Asian territories had official cassettes produced. eneabba/nick's site documented a lot of the official ones... I think they were made up till the early/mid 00s? Secret looks like it had one.

Yes, I think SECRET was the last one.... Just wasn't sure about them being official. Thanks!

A BEST 2 as well.

Man, those good old cassette days...no one releases music in cassettes today, right? It sounds weird for a 2006 album to be released on a cassette.

^ Lana del Rey released her latest album on cassete as well

Cassettes are coming back, though. Maybe not on a large scale, but some people are releasing them as a collector's item of sorts, similar to vinyls.

Yes, they are indeed official.

Hi, i'm from Indonesia,

I have some Ayu's album in the form of cassetes,
likes GUILTY, Secret, A BEST 2 BLACK, A BEST 2 WHITE, A BALLADS, RAINBOW, A BEST, I am... and many more



https://scontent-sin6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...1c&oe=5BB03E16

and ALL SURE OFFICIAL

even in the 'GUILTY' album there is a pose that is not released either in the other jackets format

subsequently released in the CD ONLY format (likes A SUMMER BEST, Rock 'n' Roll Circus, A Classical)



Lastly, I got the 'A CLASSICAL' album that became the end of the Indo Semar Sakti's released

I'm always on the lookout for Ayu cassettes but they seem pretty uncommon.:no

These are amazing! Thanks for posting that picture.

wow the A BEST 2 and I am... covers are so pretty zoomed out

Now that you mention it...I have never seen a version of the I am... cover where her legs are visible. I've seen other shots from the booklet etc where you can see them and those tan boots she's wearing but never the cover shot!

Can you take a picture of the back of "I Am..."

That is so cool! Here are the "I am..." scans from Discogs.
https://img.discogs.com/QUhYB4F4q3A9...-4492.jpeg.jpghttps://img.discogs.com/cKkS5P8GctXc...-3942.jpeg.jpg

which looks like the one I have... Notice something funny about track 7?

This is what makes me wonder how official they really are...

It took me a few moments to see whats wrong XD

Yep! Lol.

I know Indonesia still officially sells cassettes, but I'm wondering how official these really are for the reasons above...

Sometimes there are mistakes on official products. MY STORY originally had some wrong credits and often on Ayu's site, some English is questionable even though it is her official page. They are for sure the real deal.

awesome, thanks for clarifying :)

Oohh I had forgotten about these---, I bought a bunch last time I was in Indonesia. Yeah, they`re legit through Avex Asia, a subsidiary through Avex Trax. Keep in mind, bootlegging is still a very prevalent thing in Indonesia, but you can differentiate them pretty easily from a real copy. Congrats, I assume many people in the U.S. don`t have an Ayu cassette.

Not for now anymore. We don't even have CD stores right now, all moved to digital.

They are 100% official, PT Indo Semar Sakti licensed it from Avex Asia and produced their own copy with some translation or design (like cassette because original from Avex did not produced in Cassette format) so i assume PT Indo Semar Sakti design themselves hence comes they typo :p

Gotcha, that makes sense! I made sure to grab them all :3 lol.

How about "red beat" I know they had a song for, loveppears and duty circulating on cassette. Are they also official?

Hopefully, this will answer all of your question…

Why did you only post some photos of only some of her cassettes and not all? Not sure what you were answering by posting those, sorry!

Something in common with all ayu bootlegs is that avex trax is always mispelled or simply it isn't shown at all

In the case of Indonesian cassettes they do have the avex trax logo in it, I have 2 of them

For the mispelling error in NEVER EVER. There are even Avex Trax Japan CDs that have errors in it, specially on English tracks

For example Avex Trax's Bust A Move Original Soundtrack you can see in the tracklist at the back "Transforme" but in the booklet it's correctly written as "Transform". There are also several others error in this booklet as well.

Even Ayu re-released A BEST 2 -WHITE- because a song author was wrong on the booklet

good to know! luckily, I have the majority of her albums on cassette now since this post, thanks for the insight :)

that's great!! Please take a picture of the group :luv2

note that when i started this post I had no cassettes, haha