Create community music
Since the early days in my forays into the world of Tango, I have always had a keen interest in Tango music and learning the DJ’ing aspects. In fact, I do DJ often at practicas and can boast one of the larger music collections in our small community. Recently, the Tango DJ Blog (which is a rather provocative title for a site in my opinion…) had a story about creating community music. The rationale is that instead of having only a handful of people doing the hard work of collecting the music and then compiling playlists, an old Mac G4 has been made available as part of the DJ station. Now everyone can leave his/her playlists on one machine which can then be shared and critiqued.
Improvisation experiment
Instead of following the pattern adopted over the past month of concentrating on one specific technique during the Friday guided practicas, I decided to try something different last Friday. As a matter of fact, this “experiment” was something conceived as far back as the Porridge Club days (over 3 years ago)! I suppose the History Museum in the end provided the more appropriate venue and context!?
Training log
While in the shower (where else?? :-)) felt inspired to create an ongoing record – the
Music for the not-so-musical
A few days ago, an interesting question was discussed on the Tango DJ list:
Suppose you are a Tango DJ with a repertoire consisting of mostly the Golden Classics of the ’40s and earlier, how should you handle requests for some more lively and sophisticated-sounding – meaning: modern and dramatic but having a generally less pronounced beat – stuff?
There was also a little sub-text that these requests were frequently made by a portion of the dance community that seems to have problems with rhythm.