Sharing ideas and ressources about Tango-DJing
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.
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…
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…
“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…
Source Cash Box of 11 August 1962
While I was browsing through a pile of Argentine Discomania revues from the early 1950s, I found this interesting interview with Carlos Di Sarli which I would like to share here. It was made during the rehearsals of the orchestra to prepare the first recordings at the brand new record label Music-Hall and it gives…