The kings of the milonga
More and more places to dance the tango, and they send the DJ 's , which have become international figures
By Marina Gambier
THE NATION
little less than 15 years, Felix Picherna, who then put music to the more traditional Milonga Villa Urquiza, took the microphone and , as was his custom, gave a brief introduction to advertise the penalty remaining areas. He liked to play the role of master of ceremonies. His debut in 1958 in the North Wind Club, and nearly 60 years, and was considered the dean of the disc-jockeys tango. However, living with just a little room released by the club. "Ladies and gentlemen, is present on the runway at Sunderland Club maestro Carlos Di Sarli Cayetano," he said, assuming that all present knew the famous composer and conductor, died in 1960. But the milonga was not the same as decades ago: that night, in the audience were young. A customer who has attended a beginner dancer, looking around the audience, asked: "Where, where, che? Di Sarli What?".
The story illustrates a phenomenon that dawned in the early 90's and would take a global dimension in the years later: the children began to be interested in the music of their parents, and Picherna, almost unwittingly, opened with his style a stellar way to develop a craft that had previously gone unnoticed and recently reached a relevant unsuspected 2x4 scene. In addition to the convening power of the organizer, the quality of the floor and the bar service, the musicalizador became a cornerstone in the milonga gear. From his cabin, either the computer or with the discs, is responsible for lighting the fire of the track. In other words, should make people get out of his chair and dancing, for that, not for anything else, paid the entrance. Growth its within the circuit of the tango is a direct result of fanaticism rekindled in the dance world since the show rioplatense Argentine Tango was enshrined in the City Center to Broadway, New York, in 1986.
"There were about 15 dancers in years, and sometimes in kilos, dancing and decadent that old favorite, the tango. Four singers crying out their sentences in English and an orchestra full of bandoneon. The women came dressed in black men slicked. In the heat of the show, there were dancers around the world, "he said in an interview with La Nacion Claudio Segovia choreographer, creator of that show, involving, among others, Juan Carlos Copes, Maria Nieves, Milena Plebs and Miguel Angel Zotto, the elite of the environment.
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That success triggered a boom that lasts until today and that some have called the third globalization tango after tango sung by Gardel in the 20's, and music of Astor Piazzolla, the 60's. In Buenos Aires became more frequent the salons. The devotion of a new generation of Argentines joined the wave of foreigners who crossed the ocean (and still crossing it, aided by the devaluation of local currency) to learn the art of dance and codes, which remain the same as the beginning of time [see box]. What no one, not even the main characters, imagined is that the resurrection, which seemed so unlikely, it would create a source of work for old tango tango dancers who sustained when, in the 60's, they gave up for dead.
Those who saw the vein of the business is recycled and are now professionals in the legion of teachers through Europe, Asia and America, teaching and participating in festivals. And they even have Twitter accounts and profiles Facebook, the journal of international voyages. In the "tangósfera" room for everyone. The most traveled ensure that there are about a thousand milongas in different corners of the globe. According to the site milmilongas.com , in Berlin alone there are 35, eight in Brussels, four in Taipei and 25 in Rome, several of them scored by Picherna eternal. For 12 years he plies his trade in Italy, where he is a celebrity that has inspired books and documentary films. On weekends, take the train from Rome and visits the cities nearby with his small suitcase full of cassettes, because he did not convince the XXI century technology. Seconds before starting shoot, have, he looks rewinding tapes with a pencil.
"Thanks to him the tango DJ the way we did. Nobody invited to Europe if not for all that he went before," says Damian Boggio, to music one of the first century. This interview was done via Facebook because, as every year since 2004, Boggs spent three months on tour in Switzerland, Russia, Britain, Germany, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Holland, Turkey and Italy. "When I started in 1999, was the youngest. I am part of a generation that came to tango after rock, college, after I learned so many things ... advice of the old dancers, who were teaching me about orchestras and rhythms. After falling one by one, danced the tango became a global fashion and also a source of work. First came professors and teachers of dance, and then, of course, appeared DJs tango, "says Boggio.
Cambalache century still sounds snobbish to use the English expression d-jay to refer to pasadiscos , that operator responsible anonymous originally to support the needle on the vinyl track. The first recordings appeared on the market were pulp and used almost exclusively in family meetings because public dances are organized around the big bands that emerged during the golden age of the genre from the 40's to mid 50's. Saturday had fifteen top-level groups playing in a club of the Federal Capital. The crowd danced all night to the sound of that one band, which made two or three innings of twenty minutes. The musicians were idols, especially the singers. Sometimes nobody was dancing, so looking at them. "For example, during the carnival Hurricane hired Troilo, Independent, Di Sarli, and so on. It was a party. The whole city had begun to dance. That lasted until 1955, when there were two wounds fatal to the genre: rock and the Liberating Revolution, he had taken from the street to the common people, "says Osvaldo Natucci, of renowned DJ. Debuted at age 17 in Florida Defenders Club, where the 6 had first heard the orchestra of Anibal Troilo. Today he works in Italy half the year, playing music and giving lectures on the history of tango at the University of Bologna.
From the turbulent decade of the 60, orchestras were dissolved. As it was very expensive to hire, clubs and salons began to resort to recording. Inland, where the orchestra never arrived, and used that support. In general, the task was left to a club employee or an amateur partner. "I do not know how they would work, if you have two trays or just one, but the truth is that the club used its own records and announcing the program on a blackboard," says Gabriel Soria, vice president of the National Academy of Tango -. They placed, for example: 'This night, dance with Osvaldo Pugliese. "That was a little misleading, because Pugliese was not in person. Others clarified, but at the bottom:' Tonight we dance with Juan D'Arienzo '. And below is read 'With selected recordings. "I have several copies of pulp and vinyl seal Club Atlanta, among others."
The arrival of the long play started a revolution and eventually gave rise to the batch, a concept that until now did not exist. Once would have been impossible to integrate the production of all the bands in one night. Material is first passed one group, but changing the code according to the times of their recordings, until finally there emerged a single standard or routine, which generally consists of alternating sequences of four tangos, milongas three waltzes and three, separated by brief curtains of other musical genres, including jazz, bossa nova , boogie-woggie , rock nacional, pop and sometimes cumbias.
To make selectionsattractive, the DJ must know a lot of tango. They are about two thousand more dance songs are heard and musicalizador must baste a logical way. That background sets him apart from his colleague, DJ electronic music, in addition to better charge fees, has a homogeneous repertoire is renewed constantly. Plazaola Lucia, who learned the craft from Natucci, believes that the demand is greater when it comes to playing music in Buenos Aires. After high school, made his debut as a waitress at the milonga Kiss. The day I resigned DJ the place, she was ready to meet the job. He was 21. With 26 completed, and goes for his third tour of Europe. "From the outside it looks like a silly thing, to press buttons and you're done. But no, you have to be attentive to many things," he says, while notes in a notebook the tentative schedule night. From your cabin, on the mezzanine of the premises, watching the panorama of the track, which will mutate with the times, depending on unpredictable factors: whether there are tourists, if you earned Racing and Boca lost, missing too many men and women, if it rains or hot weather. "In addition to learning rhythms, is important to distinguish the arrangements, which vary widely among different periods in each band. We know that it sounds like one from 1955 that another 1935. I'm still very traditional in my tastes. Kiss is now younger people but not so I will break the mark of the place. It would be a betrayal and I'm not make me mad, "she says. Clarifies that" madness "would be to introduce electronic tango, for example. That goes against their ideology.
What put it, boy?An evening can be unforgettable and a perfect failure. The public is a democratic mix of doctors, taxi driver, clerks, beauticians, judges, businessmen, lawyers, writers, doctors, actresses, biologists, sheet metal workers, house painters, students and seniors, who attend with the intention of practice dance. Some people appreciate the music unconsciously. For others it is a key element. The milongueroscon many years of distinguished track, hearing the first round tango, what topics will follow. If the selection is poor, probably complain quietly or face the charge bluntly: the DJ is always in sight.
Horacio "joss stick" Godoy admit that more than once had to endure long faces. With its 38 years of age and 20 professional, strives for in their own milonga, The Chip, there is no even the slightest error. "In Buenos Aires today should be 20 good DJ tango, but not all resist A questionnaire on music, "he says, fresh from Germany. Most respects the years, times, and the singers. Pecan and too accurate. It is true that you can not innovate too much, unless you know the nearly one hundred thousand tangos recorded there, but you need to understand your audience. I already think I have the ability to understand the power of the track and some commercial sensitivity: I know there are many tango dancers who are not going to like a certain band, then, do not pass. "
In the 70's were no more than ten milongas in Buenos Aires. Today, according to the schedule published journals of the circuit, operating at least hundred. Saturday may have up to 29 rooms open. And there is something for everyone: traditional (where it should be elegant sport), other informal, but for the elderly, and others to practice the very young, in jeans and sneakers. In a few virtuoso dancers predominate. There is also a gay milonga, but not necessarily have to be gay to gain entry. In well-organized spaces, the has a DJ booth balconea on the track, when not sitting at a table. Having passed the stage
CD and Mp3, most DJs have a respectable collection of tangos stored on their computers, which sometimes allows them to do a little "trap": the playlist , ie programmed sequences of songs for that to happen by themselves. Usually they do not and are pending weather of the track. In a veiled spend about 120 items, which should satisfy the tastes of dancers of different skill. Is to learn the art of dance takes at least ten years and only then a person is able to enjoy the music over the choreography learned, as many agree.
For Ramiro Gigliotti, professional dancer and author of Poison tango, a collection of humorous stories and anecdotes from the environment of Buenos Aires, every time he takes to the track, the dancer makes a deal with DJ . "For some milongueros, is a life or death dilemma: there are orchestras with which they can not stop dancing and others that never lifted chairs. Then, it establishes a kind of tacit agreement with the DJ . When he mixes in the same batch different trends, breaks the covenant. It is with instrumental tangos, although it is more clear with sung. For example, if the first of the batch has a letter referring to the love, the second is about racing horses and the third progress ruins everything, is not a happy combination. "
Back when there were bands in the milongas live and the audience wanted to hear a particular issue, writing the title on a piece of paper and the waiter brought him closer to the musicians. Save the formalities today. "Boy, do you have such a recording?". It is assumed that a DJ awake knows what the top ten tango. These are issues that no one asks because the audience assumes that there will be plenty.
"At first it was widely criticized," he admits Silvia Ceriani, DJ of the Cathedral, on Thursday, and Salon Canning, on Monday. For some people dancing long ago and know nothing of orchestras. They like a single, not get them out of there. But they can never miss you all four parents of tango: Osvaldo Pugliese Carlos Di Sarli, Anibal Troilo and Juan D'Arienzo. If not you spend, something missing in your milonga. Today, the computer allows the playlist , but people get bored, one depends on the mood of the track, "adds Ceriani.
in that is coincidence. With two decades of occupation and an estimated collection of 20,000 recordings, Mario Orlando, which is responsible for the most prestigious areas of the circuit, find the best pieces ensuring that each retains its identity. At Marshall, the gay milonga, puts issues with suggestive lyrics to please the audience, and never Sunderland tangos gets rough, because there dancing with long steps and a kind of embrace. In April this year he traveled to Stockholm to Rio de Janeiro and was invited to participate in a festival in Dubai. "Every place has its own personality. So I put different music in each. You have to be always present. If I fall asleep or get bored, it shows immediately, click the track. And the track is the result of the night . Opening the game
In Argentina, a tango DJ earns between 100 and 300 pesos per night. Outside the dividends are juicier. The inviting, overall organizer of a milonga or a festival, bears the cost: a minimum fee of 150 euros per night, ticket and stay full. And out of the country walks DJ the red carpet, because his figure is highly valued, especially if Buenos Aires.
emerged in recent years serious competitors in Europe and the United States, as Tommaso Fiorilli, an Italian famous for making daring mixtures that do not always sound bad. That's another advantage with a featuring local DJ when working abroad, there is less pressure. The public is more receptive to new proposals. E are encouraged to tango, so resisted in the milongas of Buenos Aires, or dance with other media such as vinyl records, the latest trend worldwide. "Here it is very difficult leave everyone happy. They have a structure very orthodox, struggle to change. But listen out everything you can play-hold you Gustavo Rosas, DJ graduate of the Escuela Argentina de Oscar Calderon. At a festival in Catania, Sicily, and in Brussels, I went tango electronic, pure male, and it worked. Many teachers complain, but people that enters the electronics is an attentive ear and then begin to ask Canaro, romantics, Fresedo. That sum, will purify the taste, accelerating the move of tango, which is awesome. "
Rosas has a collection of 13,000 vinyl records. Once he traveled with 80 of them on hand for fear of dispatch in the aircraft hold. They are their treasure. "Since 2005, again used the LP. Good DJ agree that it is the best support, the quality of sound. Whatever the format, the sound must reach the public with the best quality. It also lets you work in real time, manage the effects, "he says, a few hours of starting a tour ending the Tango Festival in Belgrade, Serbia.
In any case, hardly a tango DJ dares to make a major revolution. It takes a rebellious spirit to change the paradigms of a genre filled with nostalgia and predominating idea that nobody can overcome the sensitivity of the musicians in the first half of the twentieth century. However, the brave are emerging.
"El Polaco Goyeneche Troilo took me and other composers. I got a lot to tango song, listening to Frank Fiorentino, Floreal Ruiz. I drew from the poetic point of view, because I felt reflected. As the rock, talk similar things, "says Gabriel Plaza, journalist and music critic of this newspaper and DJ since 2005. "What interests me about the profession is to have a more artistic, make a character he plays, looking beyond the musicalization, trying to make it a creative act. So I can say that my reference is Picherna, which had and has this attitude toward work. He himself is a fantastic aesthetic, "says DJ Inca, the artistic pseudonym Plaza. He made his debut at a festival in Rome and then continued in Paris, Hong Kong and New York, scoring festivals that had the pleasure to include bands alternatives, for example, La Chicana. At present, along with DJ Dujov Simcha (Balkan music producer), experience live remixing electronic tango recordings of the 40 orchestras. Suman Eastern European rhythms and sampled voices of Gardel: a risky bet, but can make history. After all, the public is ever new. "Since I have no prejudices of those already in the environment, I would like to break rules and set their own, without losing sight of the feel of the track. While we are in terms of the dancer, I also I have to entertain. So I think that is a part of this whole ritual that is very good, but the rituals must be renewed, aggiornamiento . Finally, we are of another generation, "he explains.
The Chip
Armenia 1366, Palermo Soho
www.laviruta.com.ar
Club Sin Rumbo José Pascual Tamborini
6157, Villa Urquiza
The Marshall Maipú 444
www.lamarshall.com.ar
Club Villa Malcolm Av Córdoba 5064, Palermo
Joyful Thursday in the Cathedral, Sarmiento 4006, Almagro
www.lacatedralclub.com
Salón Canning Sacalabrini Ortiz 1331, Palermo
www.parakultural.com.ar
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