A Secret Sense of Rhythm, A Secret Sense of Sin (The Complete ZTT Propaganda)
This extensive collection gives an unprecedented insight into the now legendary debut albumwith Stephen Lipson producing. The discs are housed in a slip-sleeved box and feature a newremastered version of the album and a collection of Demos, Singles, outtakes, andunreleased materialDISC 1: SECRETAn encyclopaedic edition of the debut album, A Secret Wish with all tracks from alleditions. Plus the group’s original intended sequence remastered for its 40thanniversary.DISC 2: STAHLNETZIf A Secret Wish was “ABBA in heaven”, STAHLNETZ is “ABBA in hell”: the full, extendedrealisation of Propaganda's remix album Wishful Thinking, adding the complete – andlargely unreleased Disturbdance series.And with a title referencing both Claudia Brücken’s iconic metal dress from the group’sartwork and one of the most brutal 12" mixes of Dr Mabuse ever recorded.DISC 3: SINGLETTEPropaganda's three specially-edited EPs - known in ZTT’s world as singlettes - all withunique remixes, edits and sequences: Do Well (Duel), Complete Machinery(p:Machinery).And, for the first time on CD, the full singlette of (The Nine Lives of) Dr Mabuse.Originally rush-released for cassette with only two tracks, SINGLETTE presents theoriginally-planned five track suite.DISC 4: SERIESA tour through Propaganda's contributions to ZTT's Action, Incidental, and Fatal series.In other words, some of the biggest, boldest 12” remixes in the history of electronic pop.All linked together by The Testaments of Propaganda archive of interludes and edits.DISC 5: STUDIOA behind-the-scenes tour of Propaganda in the recording studio: the making of thealbums and singles via raw, illuminating works-in-progress juxtaposed with beautiful,finished versions which never originally saw the light of day.DISC 6: STAGEPropaganda on the television and movie soundstages. From television, the Anton Corbijn and Zbigniew Rybczyński video mixes of Dr Mabuseand p:Machinery, and the Top Of The Pops Mix of Duel.STAGE also includes the previously-unreleased exact mix of Dr Mabuse that was usedin John Hughes' classic 1987 movie, Some Kind of Wonderful. Note that allcompilations - including 2022's Live Moves Pretty Fast four-CD box set of Hughessoundtracks - have hitherto used the wrong mix of this track.