Dance of the champions
This is a clip of the dance by current and previous champions at the recently concluded Salon section of the annual World Tango Championship held in Buenos Aires. The Japanese couple seen towards the end of the clip is the champion for 2009, and they will no doubt become household names in some dance circles in no time. However, the uniformity of the dance styles and music interpretation seen on this stage does seem worrying to me…
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Curious about music
According to the logs, occasionally I seem to get a lot of hits on the lists of CDs that I maintain on this blog:
Well, just to satisfy my curiosity, if you are one of those who has gone through many of the links, perhaps you can leave a comment or two and let me know what you were looking for exactly? 
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All about Tango in Singapore
With increasing ease plus a zero-cost(!) set-up provided by many free social networking tools currently available, there is suddenly a number of useful online sources (not necessarily overlapping) to tango happenings in Singapore. Together they will be more accurate than the once-reliable website which has been slow to keep up with the updates in recent months. Well, here are all of them in one place:
- Facebook: Tango Singapore
- Facebook: Bailamos Tango en Singapur
- Private domain: Tango Singapore
Of course, there is also the long-standing list of milongas and practicas in Singapore in this blog which I will try to keep up to date.
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Foobar as a DJ software
Although I have been using iTunes for DJing for the past two years, I have tried using WinAMP before that and currently revisiting using a free software called foobar2000. Now, despite the rather innocuous name, it is actually a very powerful piece of software which works not only in Microsoft Windows but also under Linux (using Wine). The advantages of using foobar2000 include wide range of file formats (for example I have most of my collection in flac, but occasionally I will receive files in aac and mp3), plethora of customisation options, to name a few.
Here are some resources that I have personally found to be extremely useful, for anyone also seeking an alternative player.
- Tips for customising foobar2000 for Tango DJs
- Using foobar2000 for mass tagging of music files
- A forum thread for using foobar2000 under Linux
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