According to my contacts, there was a 2001 Austrian promo release with this very same title but a different artwork, with these three tracks plus three more - "Sylvians Machine" and two Mabuse remixes. Anyone has more info about this?

I have the promo M: The Secret Tapes Of Dr. Mabuse. The track Mabuse [Eric D. Clark Remix] is a fine trance style stomper. Repeats: "Why does the beat hurt?" x infinity! https://www.discogs.com/Andreas-Thein-Ralf-D%C3%B6rper-M-The-Secret-Tapes-Of-Dr-Mabuse/release/335929 - Nice early archive. Recording levels are a little murky, so I am excited to get the 7 inch and CD- 2018 releases.

Arrived today (with the 7"). A lovely & well put-together package. Great to get a 'snap-pack' again!

That label also has a Ralf Dorper early recordings release, so my guess is these recordings were very early instrumental versions of Dr. Mabuse, perhaps before the band formed and vocals were added. Just a hunch. What do you guys think?

DJ_Andy I think someone should change the artist name, or is there written Präpaganda on the release? It's written exactly like that, as you may see on rear sleeve and record labels.

This EP is called PRÄpaganda, because these are tracks before Propaganda started, from Dörper, Thein, Maertens and Susanne Freytag, who is the voice on `Disziplin`...These tracks had been given to Trevor Horn , who decided then, to sign Propaganda...

I think someone should change the artist name, or is there written Präpaganda on the release?

A come back and already started with the wrong foot.A 300 limited edition is nothing but a total lack of respect with fans in Europe or Americas.Releasing music this way is elitist and quite childish.Something tells me no label took any interest in them and all that was left was the Asian market.What a fiasco.

Exactly. Now the new version of the project is called X-Propaganda and will play support shows to Heaven 17.

This release has nothing to do with what the other members are now doing, playing some shows.

@Guill, I can assure you, you haven´t got the faintest idea what this is about. Try to be less judgemental when your understanding is so clearly routed in cluelessness.

A come back? Those are 1982/83 recordings. What a childish, entitled rant.

The publisher is known as a small label who cooperated closely and carefully with artists.Therefore this title was released under the intention of the musician(s) and the rights holder(s).In case of you insist this is "elitist and childish", you should understand it would mean you insult the musicians.

I agree with you one hundred percent!! very disappointing. Whats the point. Lame!

Actually the comeback happened only on stage, because so far they didn't release anything new...These are their early recordings and, though 300 copies are very few, they're not for a mainstream audience, differently from their ZTT stuff.

PCF, I hope you got the 25th anniversary edition of Secret Wish, not perhaps as much original material as one would like, but essential listening just the same! Outside World's got a unique mix of p-machinery, worth the money alone...(it was on a 12" too, I think..)

Interesting for hardcore Propaganda fans (to see how their sound once started), but others will probably not get much enjoyment out of this EP, the tracks are too few, the sound is too dated and the two remixes are too uninteresting for that. But since it was only available in 1000 copies it probably hit the target. But I would love to hear more original demos and early recordings, if they were available.