Dynamo (album)

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Dynamo

Studio album by Soda Stereo
Released	26 January, 1992
Recorded	Buenos Aires, 1991
Genre	Pop / Rock
Length	56:27
Label	CBS
Producer(s)	Gustavo Cerati, Zeta Bosio
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Soda Stereo chronology
Rex Mix (1991)	Dynamo	Zona de Promesas (1994)

Dynamo is an album recorded by Argentine Rock band Soda Stereo. It is their seventh full-length album and it was first released by CBS in Argentina in 1992. A highly experimental record, it failed to reach its predecessor's popularity due to many factors, including lack of support from the band's label. It also alienated many fans, who had a hard time trying to cope with the unexpected shift in the band's musical style. Nonetheless, a few songs received a fair amount of radio airplay, including "Primavera 0" and "Luna Roja".

The release of Dynamo prompted a nationwide tour, including a six night residency at Obras Sanitarias stadium, then known as the "Temple of Rock" by the local press. The band invited several up-and-coming bands from the alternative scene such as Babasónicos, Juana La Loca and Martes Menta to fill the support slots at those concerts, thus giving exposure to a scene that would become influential (and in some cases comercially successful) over the years. In this respect it can be argued that in spite of an apparent commercial failure (it went Double Platinum within a few weeks), Soda Stereo were never as influential on the development of new bands as in the Dynamo era. It also established the band as a sort of forefathers of the 90s alternative scene in Argentina, even when their role was mostly as propagandists of sorts.