(x)Propaganda
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:40 pm
Propaganda – “The Eight Testaments of Propaganda” @ Element 45 for Record Store Day 2019
Limited edition 4 x 12" box set dives deep into the hits and mythology of Propaganda’s highly influential ZTT years. Take a fresh look at their two biggest singles – Duel and Dr Mabuse – and their two most beloved live/album tracks, Dream Within A Dream and Frozen Faces. 24 tracks across four discs, including rare and previously unreleased mixes, brand new artwork and liner notes. Two tracks previously unreleased, and 13 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl. The entire set is remastered from the original master tapes.
Testament One: Dream Within a Dream / Strength to Dream. Testament Two: Dream Within a Dream / Strength to Dream (Variations). Testament Three: Jewelled and Bejewelled. Testament Four: Bitter Sweet and Voiceless. Testament Five: An Echo and Frozen Faces. Testament Six: Secret Senses of Sin and Rhythm and! disturbdance five. Testament Seven: Die Tausend Augen Des Mabuse / Dr Mabuse. Testament Eight: Im Stahlnetz Des Mabuse / Dr Mabuse and! disturbdance seven.
The Periodic Elements of Zang Tuum Tumb – “The Eight Testaments of Propaganda” – is Number 45 in Zang Tuum Tumb’s disziplined Element Series and features Number 33 in the still-pulsating Action Series and Number 4 in the Fatal(e) Series. This is Volume Six of Zang Tuum Tumb's The Art of the 12". Art and design by Philip Marshall, concept and compilation by Ian Peel, for Zang Tuum Tumb.
Deceit and propaganda are inseparable. A community in which the leader and his followers come to terms through propaganda – whatever the merits of its content – is a community of lies. Truth itself becomes merely a means of enlisting support and is falsified in the very utterance. This is why genuine resistance knows no propaganda. Propaganda is misanthropic. It assumes that to say that policy ought to spring from mutual understanding is not a basic principle but conveniently empty phraseology.
