Artist: Propaganda
Title: A Secret Wish
Year: 1985
Format: LP
Label: Island
Genre: Synthpop
Catalog# 207027
"A Secret Wish" was the 1985 debut album of synthpop band Propaganda. Released by ZTT Records, it was produced by Stephen Lipson and label boss Trevor Horn.
With guests including David Sylvian, Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory, and Steve Howe, A Secret Wish is synth-rock with an eye toward orchestrated pop as well as a bit of sampler experimentation in the grand ZTT tradition of Art of Noise. There's a distinct lack of songwriting on the album, and though the synth-grooves are tight enough to keep it flowing for most of its length, "A Secret Wish" occasionally falls flat from its own weight.
Propaganda were a Dusseldorf band, and with hindsight you can see them as the halfway point between the city's most famous sons Kraftwerk and the common European language of Techno-Pop that flourished in Ralf and Florian's wake. But Propaganda were pipe-banging confrontationalists before they became a waking Pop dream. Ralf D”rper, a bank employee, music writer and member of Dsseldorf Industrial-Electronic band Die Krupps, founded Propaganda with vocalist Claudia Brucken, part-time DJ Andreas Thein and jeweler/goldsmith Susanne Freytag. None was a musician in the conventional sense but they made a demo version of 'Discipline' by Throbbing Gristle which found its way to NME writer Paul Morley, then in the process of setting up ZTT with Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair.
Side one
1. Dream Within A Dream (8:04)
2. The Murder Of Love (5:12)
3. Jewel (3:10)
4. Duel (4:43)
Side two
1. P:Machinery (3:50)
2. Sorry For Laughing (3:25)
3. Dr. Mabuse (first life) (5:00)
4. The Chase (4:03)
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