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[[File:Aviador Dro-Sala BeCool-BCN-4 (20-06-2015) 03.jpg|thumb|Aviador Dro at BeCool in Barcelona, 2015. Photo by Wikipedia user Teodoromix]]
Aviador Dro, short for El Aviador Dro y sus Obreros Especializados (Aviator Dro and His Specialized Workers), is a synthpop and electronic music band from [[:Category: Spanish Profiles|Spain]], formed in Madrid in 1979.<sup>[1]</sup>

== Biography ==
The group was founded by schoolmates from the Santamarca high school in Madrid, Arturo Lanz and Servando Carballar in 1979, when they published an ad in a magazine requesting musicians who liked Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and The Residents to join them. The band's name was chosen as tribute to the opera L'aviatore Dro (1915), a tragic poem in three acts by the Italian composer and musicologist Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955).

They were part of the [[Movida Madrileña]]. In 1982 they created Dro Records, a Spanish independent label. Some of their best known songs are: Nuclear, sí (Nuclear, Yes), La televisión es nutritiva (TV is Nutritious), Selector de frecuencias (Frequency Selector) or La zona fantasma (The Phantom Zone)

In 1981, Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre went on to found the band [[Esplendor Geométrico]].

== Band members ==
* Biovac N (Servando Carballar): Vocals, synthesizer, programming
* Arcoíris (Marta Cervera): Keyboards
* ATAT (Ismael Contreras): Keyboards, guitar
* CTA 102 (Alejandro Sacristán): Vocals
* Genocider/Genocyber F15 (Mario Gil): Keyboards

== Discography ==
* Alas sobre el Mundo (1982)
* Síntesis (1983)
* Tesis (1983)
* Cromosomas Salvajes (1985)
* Ciudadanos del Imperio (1986)
* Ingravidez (1988)
* Héroes de los 80 (1990)
* Trance (1991)
* Cyberiada—Live (1997)
* Materia Oscura (1998)
* Ópera Científica (1999)
* Vano Temporal (1999)
* Mecanisburgo (2001)
* Ultimátum a la Tierra (2004)
* Confía en tus Máquinas (2004)
* Candidato Futurista (2007)
* Yo, Cyborg (2009)
* La voz de la Ciencia (2012)

== External links ==
* [http://www.aviadordro.com/ Official website]

== References ==
# [http://www.aliencenter.de/nuclearsi/en_biografia.htm Bio of Aviador Dro]

''Text adapted from Wikipedia''
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQR-vuL63Y</youtube>
[[Category: Spanish Profiles]]

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	Since their inception, the group developed a clear and minimalist sound influenced by Kraftwerk, the Residents and Devo. The structures of the pieces are deliberately simplistic and stripped down: in a word, mechanical. Synthesizers and vocals, sometimes filtered by a vocoder, are front and center, and rock'n'roll elements were still present in the first stage of the group, like the surf guitar which runs through "Nuclear si" or the garage riff which supports "Gestalt".		Since their inception, the group developed a clear and minimalist sound influenced by Kraftwerk, the Residents and Devo. The structures of the pieces are deliberately simplistic and stripped down: in a word, mechanical. Synthesizers and vocals, sometimes filtered by a vocoder, are front and center, and rock'n'roll elements were still present in the first stage of the group, like the surf guitar which runs through "Nuclear si" or the garage riff which supports "Gestalt".

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 == Biography ==
 The group was founded by schoolmates from the Santamarca high school in Madrid, Arturo Lanz and Servando Carballar in 1979, when they published an ad in a magazine requesting musicians who liked Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and The Residents to join them. The band's name was chosen as tribute to the opera L'aviatore Dro (1915), a tragic poem in three acts by the Italian composer and musicologist Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955).
-They were part of the [[Movida Madrileña]]. In 1982 they created Dro Records, a Spanish independent label. Some of their best known songs are: Nuclear, sí (Nuclear, Yes), La televisión es nutritiva (TV is Nutritious), Selector de frecuencias (Frequency Selector) or La zona fantasma (The Phantom Zone)
+Describing themselves as "scientific punks", often appearing on stage wearing industrial or space suits, they were part of the [[Movida Madrileña]].
-In 1981, Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre went on to found the band [[Esplendor Geométrico]].
+Each of its members used a "technological" pseudonym:
 == Band members ==
 * Biovac N (Servando Carballar): Vocals, synthesizer, programming
 * Arcoíris (Marta Cervera): Keyboards
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 == References ==
 # [http://www.aliencenter.de/nuclearsi/en_biografia.htm Bio of Aviador Dro]
 ''Text adapted from Wikipedia''
 <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQR-vuL63Y</youtube>
 [[Category: Spanish Profiles]]