- Artist:
- Propaganda
A Secret Sense of Rhythm, A Secret Sense of Sin (The Complete ZTT Propaganda): 6CD Box Set
Release date: 14 November, 2025
PROPAGANDA 6-CD / Blu Ray- A SECRET SENSE OF RHYTHM: A SECRET SENSE OF SIN
A COMPLETE, 6-CD ANTHOLOGY OF PROPAGANDA’S GROUNDBREAKING ZTT ERA
This extensive collection gives an unprecedented insight into the now legendary debut album with Stephen Lipson producing. The discs are housed in a slip-sleeved box and feature a new remastered version of the album and a collection of Demos, Singles, outtakes, and unreleased material
DISC 1: SECRET
An encyclopaedic edition of the debut album, A Secret Wish with all tracks from all
editions. Plus the group’s original intended sequence remastered for its 40th
anniversary.
DISC 2: STAHLNETZ
If 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 – and largely unreleased Disturbdance series. And with a title referencing both Claudia Brücken’s iconic metal dress from the group’s artwork and one of the most brutal 12" mixes of Dr Mabuse ever recorded.
DISC 3: SINGLETTE
Propaganda's three specially-edited EPs - known in ZTT’s world as singlettes - all with unique 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 the originally-planned five track suite.
DISC 4: SERIES
A 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: STUDIO
A behind-the-scenes tour of Propaganda in the recording studio: the making of the albums and singles via raw, illuminating works-in-progress juxtaposed with beautiful, finished versions which never originally saw the light of day.
DISC 6: STAGE
Propaganda on the television and movie soundstages. From television, the Anton Corbijn and Zbigniew Rybczyński video mixes of Dr Mabuse and p:Machinery, and the Top Of The Pops Mix of Duel. STAGE also includes the previously-unreleased exact mix of Dr Mabuse that was used in John Hughes' classic 1987 movie, Some Kind of Wonderful. Note that all compilations - including 2022's Live Moves Pretty Fast four-CD box set of Hughes soundtracks - have hitherto used the wrong mix of this track.
Tracklist:
DISC 1: SECRET
- A Secret Wish (Propaganda's Analogue Sequence)
- Dream Within a Dream
- The Murder of Love
- Jewel
- Duel
- p:Machinery
- Sorry For Laughing
- Dr. Mabuse (First life)
- The Chase
- The Last Word (Strength to Dream)
- A Secret Wish (Stepen Lipson's Digital Variation)
- Dream Within a Dream
- Jewel
- Duel
- Frozen Faces
- p:Machinery
- Dr Mabuse
DISC 2: STAHLNETZ
- Disturbdance One
- Abuse - Here
- Machined
- p:Machinery - The βeta Wraparound...
- Laughed
- Sorry For Laughing - Alvin Clarke 12" Mix
- Loving
- Jewelled
- Loved
- Abuse - There
- Im Stahlnetz Des Mabuse
- Thought
- Frozen faces - The Echo of...
- Machined - Nowhere
DISC 3: SINGLETTE
- (The Nine Lives of) Dr. Mabuse
- Dr. Mabuse - A Paranoid Fantasy
- Dr. Mabuse Der Spieler - An International Incident
- Das Testaments Des Mabuse
- Femme Fatale - The Woman with The Orchid
- Dr. Mabuse - The Ninth Life of...
- Do Well
- The First Cut
- Duel - Voiceless
- Jewel - Cut Rough
- Wonder
- Bejewelled
- Complete Machinery
- Introduction
- p:Machinery – Connected
- Separation
- Frozen Faces – βeta
DISC 4: SERIES
- Die Tausend Augen Des Mabuse
- Testament One
- Duel - Bitter-sweet
- Testament Two
- p:Machinery - Polish
- Testament Three
- Frozen Faces - αlpha
- Testament Four
- Sorry For Laughing - Unapologetic
- Testament Five
- The Murder of Love - Murderous Instrumental
- Testament Six
- p:Machinery - βeta
- Testament Seven
- Dr Mabuse - Special Instrumental Mix
- Testament Eight
DISC 5: STUDIO
- Dream Within a Dream (Within A Dream)
- P:Machinery - αlpha
- Dr Mabuse (An International Conclusion) - Outtake 24.04.85
- (The First Life of…) Strength to Dream - Outtake 04.02.84
- Dream Within a Dream - Noise and Girls Come Out to Play
- Frozen Faces - A Secret Sense of Rhythm
- Frozen Faces - A Secret Sense of Sin
- p:Machinery - Goodnight 32
- The Chase - The Goodnight, Mix
- Femme Fatale - The Orchid
- Jewel - Rough Cut
- Lied
- The Lesson
- p:Machinery - Passive
- p:Machinery - The Voiceless βeta Wraparound Edit
DISC 6: STAGE
- Disturbdance Six
- Dr Mabuse - Some Kind of Wonderful
- Disturbdance Five
- Duel - Top of the Pops Mix
- Disturbdance Thirty-three - Parts one and two
- Dr Mabuse - Anton Corbijn Video Mix
- Disturbdance Seven
- p:Machinery - Zbigniew Rybczyński Video Mix
- Disturbdance Fourteen
BOOK
- 28-page hard backed book which includes insightful notes by ZTT expert Ian Peel covering the history album, The book includes previously unpublished photographs and memorabilia
- Formats:
- CD Box Set
- Label:
- UMR
- Cat#:
- 7569634