Perpetuum Fritule is the fifth album by the Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 / rap rock

Rap rock

Rap rock is a cross-genre fusing vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rock is often confused with rap metal and rapcore, subgenres that include heavy metal-oriented and hardcore punk-oriented bands, respectively....

 band The Beat Fleet

The Beat Fleet

The Beat Fleet, also known by initialism TBF, is a rap-rock band from Split, Croatia, founded in 1990. Members of the band are: Mladen Badovinac , Luka Barbić , Aleksandar Antić , Ognjen Pavlović , Nikša Mandalinić, , Janko Novoselić .The Beat Fleet are widely considered to be one of the...

 and their first live album. It was recorded at the Močvara club in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

 on 7 November 2009 and the album was released in July 2010. It was their first release for Dallas Records

Dallas Records

Dallas Records is a Croatian record label. It was established in 1987, and is owned and run by Goran Lisica - Fox, a music producer and manager who started his career in the 1970s as a music journalist....

 label, after they left Menart Records and signed for Dallas in 2009.

The album's title is a humorous pun on the musical term Perpetuum mobile

Perpetuum mobile

Perpetuum mobile , moto perpetuo , mouvement perpétuel , movimiento perpetuo , literally meaning "perpetual motion", means two distinct things:#pieces of music, or parts of pieces, characterised by a continuous steady stream of notes, usually at a...

(literally meaning "perpetual motion"), in which the second word is replaced by fritule

Fritule

Fritule is a festive Croatian pastry resembling little donuts, made particularly for Christmas. They are somewhat similar to Italian Zeppole, but are usually flavored with brandy and citrus zest, containing raisins, and are topped with powdered sugar....

(also known as "fritula" in singular), a type of traditional sweet pastry popular in Dalmatia

Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....

. In line with the pun, the album cover depicts a drawing of a fritula and the CD notes include a recipe for preparing fritule.

The album serves as a kind of greatest hits compilation recorded unplugged

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 and was released in two versions - a double CD release with 21 tracks and a single CD version containing 13 tracks. It was met with considerable critical acclaim, with Marko Podrug of Nova TV giving it 10/10, D. Jagatić of T-Portal website giving it 9/10, and Zlatko Gall

Zlatko Gall

Zlatko Gall is a Croatian journalist, commentator and rock critic.Gall was born in Split, and he graduated in art history and archeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb....

 of Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split.The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time. The paper was later published in various...

giving it four and a half stars out of possible five.

Track listing

The following is the track list as they appear on the double CD version. Tracks marked with † are excluded from the single CD release.

1. "Slobodni stil" †
2. "Fantastična"
3. "Tobogan"
4. "Ye'n, dva" †
5. "Malo san maka"
6. "Data"
7. "Pljačka"
8. "Nostalgična"
9. "3logija"
10. "Heroyix"
11. "Bog i zemljani" †
12. "Lud za njom" †
13. "Šareni artikal"
14. "Guzice i sise"
15. "Papilova"
16. "Alles gut" †
17. "Smak svita"
18. "Život je lijep" †
19. "Genije" †
20. "Odjeb je lansiran" †
21. "ST stanje uma"

External links

• Article about Perpetuum Fritule at MTV Croatia