Recent purchases, part 2
The second batch of new CDs arrived yesterday. Thanks to Vivien for bringing them back from Buenos Aires!
This lot is from the Buenos Aires Tango Club (or BATC for short). As I understand, you’d need to go through hoops and bounds to order anything remotely from BATC, so it’s good to have someone on the ground. 
- BATC Orq 286 Francisco Canaro “La milonga de Buenos Aires” (1933-1940)
- BATC Orq 287 Francisco Canaro “Estampa del suburbio” (1929)
- BATC Orq 288 Francisco Canaro “Fueye Querido” (1930)
- BATC Orq 289 Francisco Canaro “Criollazo” (1930-1931)
- BATC Orq 290 Francisco Canaro “Yo te adoro bandoneon” (1931-1932)
- BATC Orq 291 Francisco Canaro “La canción de Buenos Aires” (1932-1933)
- BATC Orq 295 Francisco Canaro “Noches De Buenos Aires” (1935)
- BATC Orq 310 Francisco Canaro “Corazon de oro” (1930-1941)
- BATC Orq 340 Francisco Canaro “Dos amores” (1932-1934)
- BATC Orq 260 Orquesta Tipica Victor (1925-1927)
- BATC Orq 276 Juan D’arienzo (1928-1929)
Next step is to digitise everything to lossless format before anything goes wrong with the CDs (they seem to be writeable CDs), as Royce has recounted here. I plan to switch my DJing collection (and ditch iTunes) eventually to flac in any case.
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Invierno: yet another hard-to-find track
Given the state of preservation (or the lack of) of recorded tango music since the 1940s, it’s little wonder that we can commonly find from the major labels like Sony-BMG, EMI, etc., are but only a fraction of all that was recorded during the Golden Age of tango. In fact, many gems are only available in the expensive editions released by private collectors.
Here is another beautiful piece from Canaro, “Invierno”, which I heard for the first time a couple of months ago. By the way, even the usually reliable resource http://eng.tango.info has no information as to the source of this song! Incidentally I really enjoyed this clip from the well-known DJ Damián Boggio as he showed off a little of his record collection.
* However, this song must be reasonably “accessible” in Buenos Aires as I have already seen 2 performances this year using this song. Once source that I have discovered is Club de Tango, but perhaps there are others?
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Recent purchases
First of the recent acquisitions to arrive!!
* Today’s parcel contains the 11-disc set of “D’Arienzo Epoca de oro” and from the famed Club Tango Argentino (CTA) collection: CTA-101 Orquesta Típica Victor Vol. 1 (1925-1926), CTA-103 Orquesta Típica Victor Vol. 3 (1926-1927) and CTA-704 Francisco Canaro (1931-1932).
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Record labels
Have been a bit quiet on this blog for a while, although this certainly does not mean a complete withdrawal from tango. In fact, quite the contrary. Regular milongas have been going steadily, plus a new milonga on Fridays, in conjunction with a guided practica. It is heartening to see the regulars putting in the effort and improving steadily, especially so when some the fundamentals that I have been emphasizing were vindicated in a workshop by visiting maestros over the past weekend!
Well, life and milongas go on. Regretfully I have been able to resist to add to my music collection with little success… 
Anyway I decided to refresh myself with the major tango record labels with the “A beginner’s guide to tango record labels” today. Here is a quick summary relevant to the music I already have or will receive in short order!
- EMI-Odeon: Reliquias, From Argentina to the World, Serie de Oro.
- Sony-BMG: RCA Victor, Tango Argentino, Solo Tango (FM Tango).
- Euro Records: Coleccion 78 RPM, Archivo RCA, Archivo Odeon, Archivo T.K..
- Collectors: Audio Park, Club Tango Argentino (CTA), Buenos Aires Tango Club (BATC).
- Others: El Bandoneon, Harlequin.
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