Propaganda (band) - Reunion and Second Split

Reunion and Second Split

In 1998, Mertens, Brücken and Freytag reunited, signed an options deal with East West Records, and began working on new material. Several tracks were completed, including one produced by Tim Simenon and featuring Depeche Mode's Martin Gore on guitar. A video for one song, "No Return", was produced in Morocco and directed by "Keyser Soze" in December 1998. Two minute clips of it, along with photos of the shoot, were released via the band's official website in early 2000. However, no album materialized and, in January 2002, Brücken announced, "The reunion was worth a try, but did not work out." Later that year, an untitled nine-track CD was leaked via file-sharing networks on the Internet. Track titles were "Ignorance", "Who's The Fool", "Beast Within", "No Return", "To The Future", "Turn To The Sun", "Dream Within A Dream", "Cloud 9" and "Anonymous". "Cloud 9" was later recorded by Brücken and former OMD member Paul Humphreys for their act Onetwo. It first appeared on their 2004 5-track EP Item; then appeared again in 2007 on their album Instead, together with the song "Anonymous".