Let the embrace do the talking
By Louis on Apr 6, 2009 in BsAs 09, Music | 0 Comments
Experienced my first “superset” that Royce had written about at Cachirulo (Maipu 444) last night. The DJ was Carlos Rey. As far as I could tell, the sequence was Vida Mia (Fresedo) Percal (Calo) Poema (Canaro) (Pugliese) (Laurenz) By the end of Poema, the dance floor was completely dark – even the lights at the [...]
By Louis on Feb 11, 2009 in Music, Social Dancing | 0 Comments
Not so long ago, someone on a Tango DJ mailing list commented that bad music and bad arrangement of music could lead to chaos on the floor. My initial reaction to this was: surely any chaos on the dance floor was more to do with the collective technical abilities of the daners? However, things started [...]
By Louis on Oct 7, 2008 in Music | 0 Comments
A short and quick one. Here are some suggestions for “slow and steady” valses, that are supposed to be suitable for people learning to dance to vals rhythm. As I don’t have all of these tracks (or the right versions), the usual disclaimer YMMV. However, it is sometimes rather refreshing to see other people’s choices. [...]
By Louis on Jul 17, 2008 in Music | 0 Comments
For the music lovers out there, here is one person’s (Max Valentinuzzi, who played piano for the various bands in Buenos Aires between 1946 and 1956) narrative on the history of Tango music. This is a fascinating 2-hour radio program which consists of 6 mp3s and is amply “illustrated” with many tunes. The Brief History [...]
By Louis on May 29, 2008 in Music, Social Dancing | 4 Comments
As a follow-up to my own brief remarks about a DJ’s thinking process in selecting the right music during a milonga, I will add further if a DJ isn’t playing songs that he/she can personally relate to, it will be difficult to maintain the energy on the dance floor. On the other hand, I am [...]
