Dopádromo es un álbum de Babasónicos lanzado en 1996. Grabado en Estudios Panda y Estudios Del Cielito, Buenos Aires. Producción a cargo de Babasónicos y Martín Sito. Escuchalo completo en LyricStream.
Dopádromo marked a turning point in Babasónicos' career, being their first work with a more professional and careful production. Recorded between the Panda and Del Cielito studios, the album shows a band that had matured compositionally and was beginning to explore the limits of their sound with greater freedom. The title, a contraction of 'doping' and 'velodrome', suggests speed, substances, and a futuristic, decadent world.
Songs like 'El loco' and 'Yegua' became classics in the band's live repertoire, with lyrics that alternate between the cryptic and the direct. The incorporation of synthesizers and samplers gave a more modern texture to the sound, anticipating the direction they would take in later albums. The album was one of the best-selling of Argentine independent rock that year, leading the band to play on increasingly larger stages.
Dopádromo is considered by many fans to be one of the best albums from Babasónicos' early period. It represents the exact moment when the band found its balance between the aggressiveness of the underground and the accessibility of pop. Its legacy is that of an album that demonstrates that one can be experimental without losing the power of musical seduction.