[TANGO-L] Tango DJs

[Rick McGarrey <rickmcg @FLASH.NET>]

Pichi mentioned some good Buenos Aires DJs.  I'd like to ad that Osvaldo
Natucci at Monton de Tango does a great job (now in El Beso), and it might help
to mention where the others play.  Daniel Borelli is at Lo de Celia (and
Gricel?), and I think Frederico Rodriguez is at Canning and Maracaibo.  Mario
Orlando is at Nino Bien.  My only complaint about him is that he has played the
same depressing cortina (short breaks between tango dance music) for a long
time.  I've heard other people complain about it also.  The guys at Afiche, and
Saraza are also good.  The La Viruta DJ is creative and pushes the limits for
his younger audience.

For those very amateur DJs like me who don't want to spend a lot of time
fooling with the music, most of the pros sell CDs with tandas and cortinas that
are very good.  Natucci has a 20 CD set that is excellent (and so cheap that I
felt guilty buying it from him), and some of the U.S. DJs also have some great
stuff that they sell.

Type of music:  It's always the same.  The experienced dancers who've been to
BA want the traditional dance music that is played there, and newer dancers
want a lot of Piazzolla and Seal and everything else.  I think a solution is to
give the newer dancers what they want early or late in the evening, but to stay
with mainstream BA milonga music most of the time.

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