Paket aranžman (transl. Package Deal) is a new wave compilation album released in 1981 by Jugoton. Featuring eminent Belgrade acts Šarlo Akrobata, Idoli and Električni Orgazam, it is considered to be one of the most important and influential records ever made in SFR Yugoslavia. In addition to critical praise, it reached a cult status among the audiences and continues to be popular across the countries that emerged after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The album was voted the second best Yugoslav rock album of all time by the music critics in the book ". It is second only to "Odbrana i poslednji dani" by Idoli.
The record was produced by Enco Lesić who initiated the entire project.
Background and recording.
During autumn 1980, Belgrade record producer Enco Lesić decided to assemble several young acts from the city's emerging new wave scene in order to come up with a split album that would present and promote the work of these young bands. He brought in three bands consisting of young musicians in their early twenties—Šarlo Akrobata, Idoli and Električni Orgazam—all three of which barely existed for several months in their current format at that point and virtually had no prior recording experience.
Lesić gave them free recording time in his Druga Maca Studio, as well as complete artistic freedom.
The sleeve was designed by Branko Gavrić, while the photographs used on it were shot by Milinko Stefanović (the wide shot of Belgrade streets on the cover) and Goran Vejvoda (photos within the sleeve). The main sound engineer was Dušan Vasiljević.
Reissue.
Box set reissue
In March 2007, Jugoton's successor Croatia Records reissued the compilation as a box set release, featuring its remastered version on CD 1, while CDs 2 and 3 featured "Električni orgazam" by Električni Orgazam and "Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad..." (1981) by Šarlo Akrobata, respectively. The track listings and album covers used were the same as on the original releases. On 5 July 2007, Croatia Records re-released all Idoli releases on "VIS Idoli" box set.
2021 Vinyl reissue
Once again, the compilation album "Paket aranžman" (Šarlo Akrobata &amp; Idoli &amp; Električni orgazam) as well as the debut album of Šarlo Akrobata ("Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad…"), Haustor ("Haustor"), Električni Orgazam ("Električni orgazam"), as part of the celebration of 40 years of new wave.
The four aforementioned vinyl records came in a gatefold packaging with additional texts, photographs, and memorabilia. All songs have been remastered at the Croatia Records Studio by Goran Martinc, and each edition comes with a download code for obtaining mp3 versions of all the songs. All vinyl records are colored, and the remastered albums are also available on all streaming services. Alongside these releases, CMC Television, in collaboration with Croatia Records, has produced a documentary film titled “Novi val – 40 godina nakon” (New Wave - 40 Years Later), which was screened throughout the region, with an exclusive premiere held at the Youth Center in Belgrade.
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