Aviador Dro
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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 Spain, formed in Madrid in 1979.[1]
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)
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References
Text adapted from Wikipedia