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London label ZTT gets quite the 25th birthday party with Zang Tumb Tuum: The ZTT Box Set. The box set, available November 17 from Union Square imprint Salvo, features 50 tracks and 18 videos from across the label's history scattered across three CDs and a DVD. The package also comes with a 72-page book featuring rare photos, artist interviews and biographies, and writing from label co-founder Paul Morley. (Morley founded the label in 1983 with manager Jill Sinclair and überproducer Trevor Horn, whose production is all over the set)

Zang Tumb Tuum's tracklist is packed to the gills with awesome artists: There are multiple appearances by Art of Noise, Shane MacGowan, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 808 State, the Frames, and Propaganda, as well as contributions from Björk (singing on an 808 State track), Afrika Bambaataa, Sinead O'Connor (with MacGowan), and Johnny Depp (as the director of and actor in a MacGowan video...how about that dude's friends, huh?).

Each of the three CDs has its own theme. Disc one, And Suddenly There Came a Bang! represents "the early years, and early hits", disc two, Past Forward, celebrates "ZTT's contribution to dance music, in reverse chronological order," while disc three, From a Wasteland to an Artificial Paradise, is "a fantasy ZTT music festival, or surreal circus." There are also three hidden tracks.

Zang Tumb Tuum: The ZTT Box Set:

Disc 1: And Suddenly There Came a Bang!:

01 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: "Relax"
02 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: "Two Tribes (Annihilation)" [Trevor Horn 12" mix]
03 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: "The Power of Love"
04 Art of Noise: "Battle"
05 Art of Noise: "Beat Box"
06 Art of Noise: "Close (To the Edit) (Edited)"
07 Propaganda: "Duel"
08 Propaganda: "Thought"
09 Propaganda: "Dr. Mabuse"
10 Act: "(Theme From) Laughter"
11 Act: "Snobbery & Decay"
12 Act: "White Rabbit " [Jefferson Airplane cover]
13 Anne Pigalle: "Why Does It Have to Be This Way?"
14 808 State: "Pacific"
15 MC Tunes Vs. 808 State: "Tunes Splits the Atom"
16 MC Tunes Vs. 808 State: "The Only Rhyme That Bites"
17 808 State: "Cubik (Original Mix)"
18 David Jordan: "Move On (Clean Radio Edit)"

Disc 2: Past Forward:

01 David Jordan: "Sun Goes Down"
02 David's Daughters: "Is This Love"
03 Novecento: "Day and Night (David Morales Remix)"
04 Seal: "Killer (William Orbit Remix)"
05 Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force: "Planet Rock (LFO Remix)"
06 Time Unlimited: "Men of Wadodem"
07 808 State: "Oops" [vocals by Björk]
08 Shades of Rhythm: "Sweet Sensation"
09 General Max: "Time Keeper"
10 Sun Electric: "Red Summer (The Orb Remix)"
11 Nasty Rox Inc.: "Nobby's One"
12 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (An Alternative to Reality)" [Trevor Horn 12" mix]
13 Art of Noise: "Moments in Love (Beaten)"
14 Andrew Poppy: "Kink Konk Adagio"

Disc 3: From a Wasteland to an Artificial Paradise:

01 Shane MacGowan: "My Way"
02 Shane MacGowan & Sinead O'Connor: "Haunted" [originally recorded by the Pogues]
03 Kirsty MacColl: "Soho Square"
04 The Frames: "Say It to Me Now"
05 The Frames: "Pavement Tune"
06 Lee Griffiths: "No-One"
07 Lomax: "Waiting in Vain" [Bob Marley cover]
08 das Psych-oh! Rangers: "Homage to the Blessed"
09 808 State ft. James Dean Bradfield: "Lopez (Brian Eno Remix)"
10 Tara: "Save Me From Myself (Apollo 440 Remix)"
11 Heights of Abraham: "What's the Number"
12 Art of Noise: "Out of This World (Version 138)"
13 Seal: "Crazy (Extended Version)"
14 Seal: "Future Love Paradise"
15 Seal: "Kiss From a Rose"

DVD: The Television Is Watching You:

01 Propaganda: "Dr Mabuse (Version 1)"
02 Art of Noise: "Close (To the Edit) (Version 1)"
03 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: "Two Tribes (Destructo)"
04 Anne Pigalle: "Hé Stranger"
05 das Psych-oh! Rangers: "Homage to the Blessed and the Essential Art of Communication"
06 Andrew Poppy: "The Amusement"
07 Act: "Snobbery and Decay"
08 Nasty Rox Inc.: "Escape From New York"
09 MC Tunes Vs. 808 State: "Tunes Splits the Atom"
10 Shades of Rhythm: "Exorcist"
11 808 State: "Plan 9"
12 Adamski's Thing: "One of the People"
13 Shane MacGowan: "That Woman's Got Me Drinking" [directed by and starring Johnny Depp]
14 The Frames: "Revelate"
15 Dove: "Don't Dream (Version 2)"
16 Leilani: "Flying Elvis"
17 David's Daughters: "Dreaming of Loving You"
18 Raging Speedhorn: The Gush (Daytime Version)"