ZANG TUMB TUMB DISCOGRAPHY “…which deny the freedom of the flesh…”

PROPAGANDA

a secret wish

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ZCIQ 3

PROPAGANDA

a secret wish

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WIR DENKEN DIE BEQUEMEN GEDANKEN DER ANDEREN UND FÜHLENS NICHT, DASS UNSER BESTES SELBST ALLMÄHLICH ABSTIRBT, WIR LEBEN EIN TOTES LEBEN. WIR ERSTICKEN UNDER ICH.

SIDE ONE (WITHIN)

1 DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

2 THE MURDER OF LOVE

3 JEWEL-DUEL

SIDE TWO (WITHOUT)

1 P-MACHINERY

2 SORRY FOR LAUGHING

3. DR. MABUSE (FIRST LIFE)

4. THE CHASE (LIED)

5. THE LAST WORD

6. STRENGTH TO DREAM

PROPAGANDA’S Secret Wish…it is just in this same, cold, loathsome self-mania, this half belief in oneself…this same position of unsatisfied wishes…that there lies the essence of strange delight…^[1]

Produced by S.J. Lipson

Mixed and matched by Lipson and Horn

Jr. engineer Bobby Kraushaar

co-ordination: zang tuum tumb. “it is the traditional task of the prophet to denounce systems of rule and life which deny the freedom of the flesh or the imagination.”

sleeve cut in by anton corbijn and placed together by the London design partnership with ZTT.

IQ number 3 become number 13 in Z.T.T.’s Wishful Action Series.

Propaganda also supplied numbers 2 and 8 in this series.

Propaganda photography: Anton Corbijn at Ze Famouz.

Propaganda management: Keith Bourton at Heavenly Management.

In composition Propaganda use the P.P.G. System: equipment supplied by Synthesiser Studios (Bonn).

Propaganda acknowledge the participation, with some voice and instruments, of: ANDREW RICHARDS, Steve Howe, David Sylvian, Glenn Gregory, Trevor Horn, Ian Mosely, Jonathan Sorrell, A. Thein, Stewart Copeland and Allen L. Kirkendale, and S.J. Lipson

and then, just before we blurt out the word s.e. double l, false commonsense must be shot dead

without beauty love and danger life is almost easy to live^[2]

stranger always rhymes with danger

ZCIQ 3 (the cassette)

Manufactured by Island Records

©&℗ 1985 except Dr. Mabuse ℗ 1984 ZTT

Released June 1985. Propaganda songs: Music by MERTENS, lyrics DORPER, with additional music by BRUCKEN and Freytagm except Dr. Mabuse; written by DORPER-MERTEN-THIEN, and released in 1984. Propaganda musuc published by Perfect Songs Ltd. Sorry For Laughing written by Paul Haig and Malcolm Ross: copyright control.

Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this cassette prohibited. All rights of the manufacturer and owner of the recorded work reserved.

MICHAEL MERTENS, SUZANNE FREYTAG CLAUDIA BRÜCKEN AND RALF DORPER

PROPAGANDA NOW

COMPOSTITIONS

illuminated

Dream Within a Dream

“the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents”^[3]

The Murder Of Love

“…the idea of crime is able always to ignite the senses and lead us the lubricity”^[4]

DUEL JEWEL

“the imagination is like and engine that can work on many different fuels: but it must be powered, and sex, properly used, is the fuel of high potency”

P MACHINERY

“the dark religions are departed and sweet Science reigns”^[5]

Sorry For Laughing

“…always two strangers united in the interests of torment”^[6]

Dr. Mabuse (The First Life)

“the greater an individual’s power over others, the greater the evil that might possibly originate with him”

The Chase

“reliance on powers of reason does not come easily: it is opposed to our basic animal instinct”

THE LAST WORD!

“the contemplation of the world independently of the principle of reason”^[7]

The Strength to Dream

“…so it is”