An old Tango
“Haven’t you got anything… younger than me?” A dancer’s request at a milonga opens a reflection on old tango, our desire for novelty, and what happens when a recording from another time becomes part of our lives.
I write here as a tango DJ, dancer and listener, exploring how tango music lives between old recordings, today’s tools and the dance floor. These notes bring together reflections on tango history, sound and DJing practice.
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What Is the Real Thing?
At a tango event last weekend, I found myself having two separate conversations about the restoration work we do at Tango Time Travel. Interestingly, both ended with almost exactly the same question: “Will you use AI to make historic recordings sound as if they had been recorded today?” Neither seemed to doubt that such a…
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The Sound of Tango
HighRes, CD-quality and MP3. How do they compare and how can tango DJs make informed decisions? Digital audio discussions can become surprisingly ideological. Yet tango listening raises slightly different questions than traditional audiophile culture. A milonga is not a laboratory, nor a solitary headphone experience. It is a collective physical situation where sound, movement, memory…
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Tanguango with Aníbal Troilo, the short story of the record label Discos T. K.
“We know, and we cannot explain the cause, that many típicas have recorded up to five versions onto wax, and despite the time elapsed these works have not been released, nor have they gone on sale. And on the other hand, interpreters who were not part of our middle recorded yesterday, and only a few…
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Argentine All Time Bestseller Records (1962)
Source Cash Box of 11 August 1962