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Release Date: 2010-02-26

Labels: ZTT, Salvo

[sticker]
Deluxe double CD edition
Includes three #1 hits:
Relax, Two Tribes, the Power Of Love
Plus bonus disc of previously unreleased 12" remixes, demos, outtakes and B-sides,
detailed liner notes and previously unseen artwork
SALVOMDCD03 (is) Element 06
"it was a pleasure"

Comes in 6pp digipak with 28-page booklet.

[back sleeve]
Element 06. ℗ 2010 ZTT Records Ltd, under exclusive license to Union Square Music Ltd.
© 2010 ZTT Records Ltd / Union Square Music Ltd.
Salvo is a Union Square Music label.

"25 years on, the definitive edition of an 80s masterpiece.
Includes the original double album remastered, plus classic B-sides, Trevor Horn's epic 12" remixes of Relax and The Power of Love, and archive audio interviews.
CD2 also features previously-unheard studio demos of War, Two Tribes and Welcome to the Pleasuredome, an early, eleven minute version of Ballad of 32, and a completely unreleased song from the end of the Pleasuredome era, Watusi Love Juicy.
Beautifully expanded artwork includes previously-unseen photos, paintings, and new liner notes."

[spine]
"IQ number one becomes Part Six in Zang Tuum Tumb's post-Bang Element Series, having previously appeared as number four in the fishy Action Series. “Ain't that peculiar?”
A product of Zang Tumb Tuum – the organisation of pop. “Under the charm of the Dionysian.”"

[booklet]
Published by Perfect Songs Ltd except
1-4 & 2-6 published by Jobete Music Co Inc, EMI Music Ltd;
1-7 published by Universal/Dick James Music Ltd;
1-8 published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing Ltd;
1-9 published by Warner Chappell Music Publishing Ltd, Universal/MCA Music Ltd.

Post–BANG sources:
All songs sourced from original master tapes, courtesy of the Zang Tuum Tumb Tape Library. Track 9 transferred from Sony U-matic master dated 26.09.84.
Track 12 transferred from Ampex master, dated 08.09.86 (engineered by Bob Kraushaar, assisted by Paul Wright).
Special thanks to Mark O’Toole for transfers of demo tracks 5-7: Pleasuredome dated 08.06.84, War dated 22.03.84, Two Tribes dated 22.03.84.
The original B-sides of Relax and Two Tribes were One September Monday and The Happening, a/k/a One February Friday.
Relax (Greatest Bits) previously released on cassette only (CTIS 102).
Disneyland/Mickey originally released on Zang Tuumb Tumb Sampled (IQ6).
Who Then Devised The Torment? previously released on cassette only (CTIS 105).
The Last Voice previously released on vinyl only (12 ZTAS 3), and Relax (Disco Mix) previously released on Greece-only promo vinyl

Track 1-2 "Welcome to the pleasure dome" with vocals in the 'Snatch of fury' part ("Life goes on day after day...")

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