Cat magic
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.
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Experience of a “superset”
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 bar were down to the minimum. Quite an experience, although I was not dancing at the time.
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Music and flow
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 to make more sense as I started to recall a few instances where the inability to connect with the music meant things just “weren’t right” for the whole night. By way of an illustration, I attended a milonga a couple of months ago where no tandas** were used. Granted that there was a “legitimate” explanation for this particular community to dispense with tandas, I discovered that it was very difficult to relax and dance into a comfortable rhythm. Another example, perhaps less extreme, has already been described in vortex of hell before.
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Slow and steady valses
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.
- Francisco Canaro – Ronda del Querer
- De Angelis – Sonar y nada. Not too quick and fairly steady, but has some nice different phrases (rhythmic – lyric) alternating.
- Roberto Firpo – Olas Nocturnas
- Roberto Firpo – Nunca Me Olvides
- Roberto Firpo – Horas De Pasion
- Lucio Demare-Sus Éxitos con Miranda, Berón y Quintana – Dos corazones
- Lucio Demare-Sus Éxitos con Raúl Berón – Al pasar
- Lucio Demare – No Nos Veremos Mas
- Lomuto Francisco – Un vals
- Lomuto Francisco – Congojas que matan
- Lomuto Francisco – A su memoria
- Pedro Laurenz-Creaciones inolvidables con Podestá y Bermudez – Paisaje
- Pedro Laurenz-Creaciones inolvidables con Podestá y Bermudez – Temblando
- Pedro Laurenz – Mendocina
- Anibal Troilo – Troilo-Fiorentino Vol2 – Pedacito De Cielo
- Troilo – Un momento
- Troilo _Glorias De Tango Vol. 2 – Romance de Barrio
- Canaro-Glorias de Tango Vol.1 – Sonar y nada mas
- Canaro-Glorias de Tango Vol.1 – Bajo el cielo
- Francisco Canaro – Tres Jolie (Muy Lindo)
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