Offlaga Disco Pax was an Italian

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band.

Background and discography

The band was formed in

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in 2003 by Daniele Carretti (guitar, bass guitar) Max Collini (lyrics, vocals) and Enrico Fontanelli (bass guitar, keyboards). They have defined themselves as a ''collettivo neosensibilista contrario alla democrazia nei sentimenti'', roughly "neosensitivist collective against democracy in feelings". ODP's songs are not sung, but rather recounted by Collini, resembling a

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performance. Lyrics, defined by the band as ''ideologia a bassa intensità'' (low intensity ideology) are often related to the Italian years of lead, with recurrent references to the

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and

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prominent figures at the time. Their lyrics typically deliver a nostalgic portrait in first person of a past political scenario, the one of Cold War and communism in Italy, which does not exist as such anymore. Musically, their records have elements of

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, typically by means of retro analogue

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s. They have been paired to bands formed in the late 1970s and the 1980s such as

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. Their most significant resemblance in attitude is to now defunct Italian band CCCP Fedeli alla linea. Their debut album '' Socialismo tascabile (Prove tecniche di trasmissione)'' was released in 2005. Its follow-up, '' Bachelite'', was released on February 8, 2008, and Gioco di Società in 2012. Enrico Fontanelli died April 4, 2014. Following his death, the other two members of the band embarked on different projects, citing that Offlaga Disco Pax was a shared project between three people and without Fontanelli they did not see any future for it.

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{{Authority control Italian musical groups Musical groups from Emilia-Romagna