EMI Records announced a release date for the "Techno Pop" album. Promotional advertisements were released and official catalog numbers were assigned to the project. "We were working on an album concept, "Technopop", but the composition was developed and we just changed the titles", Hütter explained. "It became "Electric Café". But somebody within the record company went out and did a pre-order, we were working on the sleeve and some marketing idiot did this". To bide time while the band continued work on the new album, "Autobahn" was reissued in 1985 with a slightly updated cover art. Indeed, by this time, Hütter & Schneider had regained the rights to the recording following the expiration of the group's original contract with Philips Records.