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Bachelite (album)

Bachelite is the second album released by the Italian indie/electronica band Offlaga Disco Pax. Recorded between May and October 2007 and mastered in October in New York City, the album was published by Santeria Records on February 8, 2008. With this album the band developed its sound, which became much more electronica-influenced than in Socialismo tascabile (Prove tecniche di trasmissione).

Track listing

<small>songs written by Collini and Fontanelli, except where indicated.</small>

  • "Superchiome" – 4:22
  • "Ventrale" – 3:18
  • "Dove ho messo la Golf?" – 6:18
  • "Sensibile" <small>(Fontanelli, Carretti, Collini)</small> – 5:49
  • "Lungimiranza" (4:00
  • "Cioccolato I.A.C.P." <small>(Collini, Carretti)</small> – 9:19
  • "Fermo!" <small>(Collini, Carretti)</small> – 5:43)
  • "Onomastica" <small>(Collini, Carretti)</small> – 5:55
  • "Venti minuti" – 7:03

Thematic elements

Bachelite's themes are similar to the ones in Offlaga Disco Pax's debut album, Socialismo tascabile (Prove tecniche di trasmissione). Collini writes once again about people, athletes and daily happenings linking them to politics, even though Bachelite is more introverted and cryptic than its predecessor.

  1. "Superchiome"
  2. *Punk music
  3. *Korn
  4. *The village of Albinea
  5. *Dave Grohl
  6. "Ventrale"
  7. *Vladimir Yashchenko
  8. *The 1978 European Championships in Athletics
  9. *Jacek Wszoła
  10. *Lech Wałęsa
  11. *Dietmar Mögenburg
  12. *Javier Sotomayor
  13. *La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian newspaper.
  14. *Doctor Who
  15. "Dove ho messo la Golf?"
  16. *Volkswagen Golf
  17. *Litfiba, an Italian rock band
  18. *Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  19. "Sensibile"
  20. *Francesca Mambro and Valerio Fioravanti, culprits for the 1980 Bologna massacre
  21. *Fiat Uno, referring the case of "the band of the white Uno", la banda della Uno bianca
  22. *Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, an Italian neofascist terrorist organization.
  23. "Lungimiranza"
  24. *The "Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana" (ARCI), an Italian cultural association.
  25. *Luciano Ligabue
  26. *Vinicio Capossela
  27. "Cioccolato I.A.C.P."
  28. *The "Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari" (IACP), the Italian public housing organization.
  29. *Vladivostok
  30. *Toblerone chocolate
  31. "Fermo!"
  32. *The Chirocephalus marchesonii
  33. *Monte Vettore
  34. *The Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini
  35. "Onomastica"
  36. *Jean Jaurès
  37. "Venti Minuti"
  38. *Military Service in Italy

Personnel

  • Enrico Fontanelli - bass, keyboards
  • Daniele Carretti - guitar, bass
  • Max Collini - vocals

Other musicians

  • Francesco Donadello – drums in Ventrale
  • Deborah Naomi Walker - cello in Sensibile
  • Jukka Reverberi - vocals in Cioccolato I.A.C.P. and Fermo!
  • Nicola Manzan - vocals in Cioccolato I.A.C.P.
  • Andrea Fumagalli - saxophone in Onomastica

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