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Socialismo tascabile (Prove tecniche di trasmissione)

Socialismo tascabile (Prove tecniche di trasmissione) is the debut album by Italian indie/electronica band Offlaga Disco Pax. It was released in 2005 and received mostly positive reviews.

Track listing

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

  • "Kappler" <small>(Collini, Carretti)</small> (5:25)
  • "Enver" (4:54)
  • "Khmer Rossa" (5:36)
  • "Cinnamon" (4:28)
  • "Tono Metallico Standard" <small>(Collini, Carretti)</small> (5:04)
  • "Tatranky" (8:16)
  • "Robespierre" (3:35)
  • "Piccola Pietroburgo" (5:58)
  • "De Fonseca" <small>(Collini, Carretti)</small> (11:37)

Thematic elements

The title can be translated as Pocket socialism (broadcast test techniques).

Collini's lyrics are filled with references to people and places from the past, mostly from the Italian years of lead. Among the political figures mentioned on the album are Enver Hoxha, Georgi Dimitrov, Rosa Luxemburg, Malcolm X, Antonio Gramsci, Alexander Dubček, Maximilien Robespierre, Enrico Berlinguer, Marco Pannella, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Dolores Ibárruri, Josip Broz Tito, Kim Il Sung and Vladimir Lenin. A range of confectionery products, including Cinnamon-flavoured bubblegum and Tatranky wafers, is also mentioned, carrying several political metaphors: the commercial disappearance of these products is compared to the decadence of communism. Collini cites several musicians, including Mark Lanegan and his band Screaming Trees, the punk band Dead Kennedys, the hard rock band Van Halen and several new wave and synthpop acts such as Depeche Mode, Modern Talking and Nik Kershaw. Actual life happenings are also translated into lyrics in several songs.

  1. "Kappler"
  2. *Herbert Kappler
  3. *Matura
  4. "Enver"
  5. *Enver Hoxha
  6. "Khmer Rossa"
  7. *Georgi Dimitrov
  8. *Vladimir Mayakovsky
  9. *Filippo Turati
  10. *Pietro Nenni
  11. *Khmer Rouge, the ruling political party of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
  12. *The October Revolution
  13. *Rosa Luxemburg
  14. *Stalingrad
  15. "Cinnamon"
  16. *Cinnamon-flavoured bubblegum
  17. *Koper, Slovenia (Italian: Capodistria)
  18. *The Black Panther Party
  19. *Malcolm X
  20. *Stimorol chewing gum
  21. *Antonio Gramsci
  22. *Big Babol chewing gum (manufactured by Perfetti Van Melle)
  23. "Tono Metallico Standard"
  24. *Standa, an Italian chain of department stores.
  25. *Mark Lanegan
  26. *Screaming Trees
  27. *Dead Kennedys
  28. "Tatranky"
  29. *Prague
  30. *Leonid Brezhnev
  31. *Marxism
  32. *Modern Talking
  33. *Samantha Fox
  34. *Nik Kershaw
  35. *Al Bano and Romina Power
  36. *Depeche Mode
  37. *Alexander Dubček
  38. *Å koda Auto
  39. *Tatranky wafers, once produced in the Czech Republic but now manufactured by the Groupe Danone
  40. *Loacker wafers
  41. "Robespierre"
  42. *Maximilien Robespierre
  43. *Jacobins
  44. *Space Invaders
  45. *Enrico Berlinguer
  46. *Alberto Juantorena
  47. *Sandinismo in Nicaragua
  48. *Marco Pannella
  49. *Marlboro cigarettes
  50. *The NSU Prinz
  51. *Anna Oxa
  52. *The Festival della canzone italiana
  53. *Van Halen
  54. *Jarmila Kratochvílová
  55. *Toblerone chocolate
  56. *American bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, which occurred on 15 April 1986.
  57. *Ronald Reagan
  58. *Karl Marx
  59. *Ho Chi Minh
  60. *Che Guevara
  61. *Dolores Ibárruri
  62. *Stalingrad
  63. *Josip Broz Tito
  64. *Vladimir Lenin
  65. *The village of Cavriago
  66. *The Italian Communist Party
  67. *The Democrazia Cristiana party
  68. "Piccola Pietroburgo"
  69. *Italian singer Orietta Berti
  70. *Vladimir Lenin
  71. *The village of Cavriago
  72. *Reggio Emilia
  73. *Kim Il Sung
  74. *Enver Hoxha
  75. *The Festa de l'UnitÃÂ
  76. *Jukka Reverberi of the band Giardini di Mirò
  77. *Civitavecchia
  78. *Komsomolskaya Pravda
  79. *Arkhangelsk
  80. "De Fonseca"
  81. *De Fonseca, an Italian brand of slippers

Line-up

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

Other musicians

  • Francesco "Burro" Donadello – drums in Enver and Cinnamon
  • Daniela "Comaneci" Roman – vocals in Khmer Rossa

References

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