Let the embrace do the talking
By yy on Feb 24, 2010 in Music, Videos | 2 Comments
A very interesting documentatary on the production of records (the three stages: master, mother matrix and stamper), made by who but RCA Victor! How is this related to tango? Well, it just so happens that RCA Victor was and still is a major player in tango music and I enjoy these old documentaries…
Production of records [...]
By yy on Feb 2, 2010 in Music | 3 Comments
This is the first of a series of follow-ups to previous post on DJing.
I had mentioned that a requisite for a tango DJ is the ability to play music which is danceable. The point here is that what makes for great listening is not necessarily what makes for great dance music. In general, what most [...]
By yy on Jan 26, 2010 in Music, Social Dancing | 1 Comment
With the recent increase in milonga venues locally, I foresee a demand for more DJ’s who can arrange decent and danceable music. Now, drawing on my personal experiences and from reading sources online, here’s a basic list of skills I consider necessary for anyone starting out*:
Understand the role of a DJ.
Awareness of pros and cons [...]
By yy on Aug 27, 2009 in Music | 2 Comments
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 [...]
By yy on Aug 12, 2009 in Music, Videos | 0 Comments
The background music of this clip is by Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro, one of the many modern Tango orchestras in Buenos Aires to consist of only young musicians. Nice sounds, although it seems that their later pieces are tending towards heavy “tangoish” rock music.
