Re: [TANGO-L] DJing in smaller communities

[Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown @DAL.FRB.ORG>]

Dan Boccia wrote:
>My strong belief is that a new DJ is going to be way ahead by visiting a
>mature community nearby to hear more experienced DJs and get a chance to
>learn from them.

I agree completely with Dan's comments.  In a big tango community, one has
the opportunity to hear 5-6 different DJs play music over the course of a
week.  In Buenos Aires, you can hear several different DJs on the same
night.  Also the tango weeks and weekends are getting into the act, by
using a variety of some of the best DJs.  At the milonguero weekend in
Denver last Labor Day Weekend, there were six different DJs playing music
plus a live orchestra.

A little bit of advance preparation may be useful for such a trip...  It
would be very helpful to familiarize oneself with the music of the
different orchestras whose music are used for social dancing.  Recognizing
what one is hearing can be very helpful.  As Dan wrote, the Tejas Tango
webpage <http://www.tejastango.com/> has a number of guides to tango music for social dancing.  I consider
the guide, Classics of Tango Dance Music to be particularly helpful <http://www.tejastango.com/classic_tangos.html>.  More than a dozen DJs and dancers contributed to the list.  Although I
assembled the list and consider myself to know a fair amount tango music,
I used the list as a point of departure, when I put together my set of
pre-assembled tandas on CDs to play at milongas.

With best regards,
Steve

Stephen Brown
Tango Argentino de Tejas
http://www.tejastango.com/

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