PROPAGANDA WISHFUL THINKING (2012 DELUXE EXPANSION)

Artist: Propaganda Title: Wishful Thinking Producers: Trevor Horn, Steve Lipson Release date: 04/06/12 Label: ZTT via Salvo Catalogue no.: SALVOCD055 Format: CD in deluxe mini vinyl pack Website: www.ztt.com

A perfect free-form accompaniment to A Secret Wish. Proof that Propaganda are capable of divine interpretations and, if youve not already succumbed to their complex beauty, this could serve as an inspired introduction. Melody Maker on the original edition
Zang Tuum Tumb presents a remastered, repackaged and beautifully upgraded reissue of one of the most daring and accomplished remix albums of the 1980s: Propagandas Wishful Thinking. Featuring industrial, machined reversions of Duel, Dr Mabuse, p:Machinery and Propagandas dbut album, A Secret Wish, the album is presented in triple-gatefold mini vinyl packaging with expanded artwork, historical essay and five previously unreleased bonus tracks. Wishful Thinking was born when Paul Morley took the Secret Wish master tapes back to Sarm Studios and collaborated with Bob Kraushaar (A Certain Ratio, Gang of Four, Pet Shop Boys) to refashion them into his own vision of what Propaganda might be, or could be. He explains: "I just had this need, as much as I love A Secret Wish as one result of the Propaganda experiment, to point out how there is a fascinating ideological element to the content and context of sound, and all these different histories of pop music that coexisted even back in 1984. So Steve Lipson's Propaganda was the Propaganda of a fan of Steely Dan and Queen. Mine was the Propaganda of a fan of Can and New Order. Steve's Propaganda was a group that Stevie Nicks invited on to a tour, and that concerned me, as I wanted them to be the kind of group that would go on tour with Depeche Mode or Cabaret Voltaire." The results were way more cinematic than anything than Depeche Mode or Cabaret Voltaire might have come up with. Abuse based on the early, more rhythmic demos of Dr Mabuse was immediately spotted by John Hughes who used the track in the opening scenes of Some Kind of Wonderful, its first piano notes fitting perfectly to make a one-off Zang Tuum Tumb-enhanced version of the Paramount Pictures opening ident. Another track, Loved, was used across the opening car chase scene in Luc Bessons Subway. One of the most anticipated releases in ZTTs acclaimed Element Series, Wishful Thinking appears on June 04 and, as of mid-May, is already ahead of new releases from Kylie, Hot Chip and St Etienne all, to one degree or another, descendants of Propaganda on Amazons Hot 100 pre-order chart.

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