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guerrieroc.bsky.social
2002 will be another of those "Christopher is only familiar with about 12 of the albums that people will be talking about" Tourneys, so I'll have to prep hard for that one

Pretty much the case for the entire Aughts, actually

HOWEVER there are electronica & electrotango albums we can talk about 😀
September 18, 2026 at 1:41 PM
guerrieroc.bsky.social
I never thought I’d get the chance to see Gustavo Santaolalla live

I discovered him (predictably) thru his electrotango & tango projects. Then over time I learned how multifaceted he has been as a musician & producer since the 60’s

Last night he played at Santiago’s Municipal Theatre. Fantastic!
August 24, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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August 13, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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July 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
guerrieroc.bsky.social
Piazzolla and Gotan go together fantastically (hope it's not "tangosplaining" to point out that the last track on REVANCHA, "Vuelvo a Sur" is a late-Piazzolla tune)

If I may suggest Bajofondo Tango Club next? It's Gustavo Santaolalla's take on electrotango
June 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
spacedan.bsky.social
So today I was looking for something along the lines of "electro-flamenco" (cf electrotango) and ended up with the below and also this super dark electronic album from Granada. If you like your bass heavy then you're in for a treat.

Flamante - Theory of the Flamenco (2023)
June 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM
guerrieroc.bsky.social
I am literally listening to her 2004 s/t album this very moment. So very lovely

No rush to get to a '04 Tourney, but I have lots of intl favs from that year that I'll have to promote

Bebel
Fav Korean group (Clazziquai)
Uruguay's Jorge Drexler
Great Arg electrotango
Juanes from Colombia
It goes on
June 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
guerrieroc.bsky.social
Of course! And I hope that Gotan especially (and electrotango in general) has picked up new fans and admirers
June 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
guerrieroc.bsky.social
Amazingly, after 12 hours of voting, Gotan Project is holding it's own against JayZ

If you're a tango / electrotango fan, you, too, can do your part & go to @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social to vote for LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO 🪗💃

(And read the mini essay I did on the album & electrotango en general)
Pie chart showing that as of a few moments ago, 149 votes have been cast and Jay Z's THE BLUEPRINT has a slight, but real, 53/47 lead against Gotan Project's LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO
June 4, 2026 at 1:55 AM
feathersmcgraw.bsky.social
The children crave the electrotango
June 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM
guerrieroc.bsky.social
So, for the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social '01 Tourney it's Jay Z vs. Gotan Project's LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO

I'm a huge fan, so offered to write a "Designated Cheerleader" essay about REVANCHA: a deep dive about Gotan, Astor Piazzolla & electrotango

If you're a Gotan fan, you can vote, too!
bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 2001 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · Jun 3
Our third and final Designated Cheerleader is also for LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO, and it’s from @guerrieroc.bsky.social. Like Christopher’s previous DC for Shakira, this is a deep dive, 8 pics, and you’ll know more about this album by the end. Please read! (1/2)
I have always had a fondness for what used to be called "World Music" and I am also a fan of electronica, so I was the perfect target for Gotan Project's 2001 LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO. I couldn't tell you the first time I heard it, but certainly by late '02 I had, and l've been listening to it ever since. Gotan Project sparked my love for what is usually called the "electrotango" genre and turned me into a fan of the great Astor Piazzolla. I am not a music historian, but if you search for Piazzolla online, you will find him praised as the greatest tango composer of all time, whom some also consider to be one of the greatest overall musicians of the 20th Century. While working and re-working this DC, I have felt at times like the famous meme of Charlie from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". You know the one: crazed look in his eyes, he attempts to explain a conspiracy in front of a large board with string, desperate to connect the pieces and discover the identity of "Pepe Silva". In my case, I've been trying to explain all the strands that Gotan Project pulled together for REVANCHA. (My fear, of course, is that in so doing, you will tire of this DC.) If you are of a certain age, you will be familiar with Grace Jones* "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)", released in 1981. The video to that song was well-known at the time, with Jones shown playing an accordion, moody lighting casting dramatic shadows behind her. The lyrics are Jones' but the music is a cover of the 1974 song "Libertango" from the album of the same name, by Argentina's Astor Piazzolla. Piazzolla was a virtuoso with the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument that is one of the unmistakable pillars of tango music, but what makes him so important is that he was a composer who absolutely refused to play it safe. An innovator, he had horrified tango purists when he added electric guitar and drums to his orchestras. For LIBERTANGO he had formed a new band christened "The Electronic Octet" and aside from those non-traditional-for-tango instruments, they used a Hammond organ in the studio. However, Piazzolla's son, Daniel, began using a synthesizer in their public performances and the use of the synth stuck thereafter. Thanks to the electric guitars and the synth, the term "electrotango" was coined to describe the music. It was a success in Europe but was very poorly received in Argentina, where Piazzolla and his band were widely criticized. At least this time no one tried to kill them. (1) The music from Grace Jones' version of "Libertango" was indeed performed with the bandoneon (though she did not personally play it, as you can guess), but curiously her video and promo photos swapped out that instrument for the standard accordion. The prominent synth was consistent with Piazzolla and Company's public performances of the song, so visually speaking, Jones and her team took liberties (i.e. the accordion), but they were faithful to the music. I suspect that Jones was the first to introduce North American audiences to the concept of electrotango, but it was more of a one-off novelty than anything else. Fast forward to the year 1998, when Swiss musician Christoph Müller, French DJ Philippe Cohen Solal and Argentine musician Eduardo Makaroff met in Paris and decided to work together. Müller and Cohen Solal had already released music under the project name The Boy from Brazil (2) which combines electronic, boss nova and jazz, so now with Makaroff, the stage was set to mix tango, milonga (the precursor to tango), dubs and electronic music. They recruited a group of Argentine musicians living in Paris (many of whom were exiles from the dictatorship that ruled their country from '76 to '83), including bandoneon player Nini Flores, singer Cristina Villalonga and organist / arranger Gustavo Beytelmann, who had been a member of the original "Electronic Octet". Calling themselves the Gotan Project, in 2000 they released a 10" vinyl with the song "EI Capitalismo Foráneo" on one side, and "Vuelvo al Sur" on the other. The former was an original composition, with distorted samples from an Evita Peron speech. But the latter? Well, the latter was a (non-electronic) Piazzolla tango. Depending upon the interview, the members of Gotan Project have said that the original pressing of the 10" was for 500 or 1000 copies. Regardless of the exact number, they don't seem to have expected much to come of it. (It was supposed to be a side-project.) As it turned out, European DJs loved it and began playing it in clubs and lounges. Realizing that they had something on their hands, Gotan Project went back to the studio. The original song "Triptico" and a cover of "Last Tango in Paris was the second vinyl the group dropped, and then in 2001 they released the full album, LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO ("Tango's Revenge"), first in Europe and then in South America in '02. Interestingly enough, at that time in Buenos Aires, Gustavo Santaolalla (3) formed a collective that also mixed tango and electronic beats, first calling it the "Baofondo Tango Club" and releasing a self-titled album in 2002 (4). Was there something in the air at that time that inspired musicians continents apart to follow Piazzolla in mixing tango and electronica? I quite like Santaolalla, who insists in interviews that he was unaware of what Gotan Project was up to in Paris; we'll take him at his word. Regardless, thanks to LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO, there was a surge in interest in tango itself beyond Argentina's borders, and the disc's impact, combined with the more local success of BAJOFONDO TANGO CLUB, ushered in a wave of electrotango projects in the 2000's that swept through Latin America. By late '02 / early '03, Gotan Project was an ubiquitous staple in certain kinds of clubs, bars and high-end restaurants in Buenos Aires, Lima and Santiago. When I traveled to Lima for work, I would often hear it in the hotel lounge; when I took my parents to a tango revenue in Buenos Aires in '05, they played Gotan Project during the intermissions between the live sets of classical tango. And here in Chile, for several years, it seemed to be everywhere. That electrotango wave crested long ago; the genre isn't nearly as popular now in 2026 as it was in the Aughts, but there are still great projects releasing interesting music (5).
June 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM
bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social
Our third and final Designated Cheerleader is also for LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO, and it’s from @guerrieroc.bsky.social. Like Christopher’s previous DC for Shakira, this is a deep dive, 8 pics, and you’ll know more about this album by the end. Please read! (1/2)
I have always had a fondness for what used to be called "World Music" and I am also a fan of electronica, so I was the perfect target for Gotan Project's 2001 LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO. I couldn't tell you the first time I heard it, but certainly by late '02 I had, and l've been listening to it ever since. Gotan Project sparked my love for what is usually called the "electrotango" genre and turned me into a fan of the great Astor Piazzolla. I am not a music historian, but if you search for Piazzolla online, you will find him praised as the greatest tango composer of all time, whom some also consider to be one of the greatest overall musicians of the 20th Century. While working and re-working this DC, I have felt at times like the famous meme of Charlie from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". You know the one: crazed look in his eyes, he attempts to explain a conspiracy in front of a large board with string, desperate to connect the pieces and discover the identity of "Pepe Silva". In my case, I've been trying to explain all the strands that Gotan Project pulled together for REVANCHA. (My fear, of course, is that in so doing, you will tire of this DC.) If you are of a certain age, you will be familiar with Grace Jones* "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)", released in 1981. The video to that song was well-known at the time, with Jones shown playing an accordion, moody lighting casting dramatic shadows behind her. The lyrics are Jones' but the music is a cover of the 1974 song "Libertango" from the album of the same name, by Argentina's Astor Piazzolla. Piazzolla was a virtuoso with the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument that is one of the unmistakable pillars of tango music, but what makes him so important is that he was a composer who absolutely refused to play it safe. An innovator, he had horrified tango purists when he added electric guitar and drums to his orchestras. For LIBERTANGO he had formed a new band christened "The Electronic Octet" and aside from those non-traditional-for-tango instruments, they used a Hammond organ in the studio. However, Piazzolla's son, Daniel, began using a synthesizer in their public performances and the use of the synth stuck thereafter. Thanks to the electric guitars and the synth, the term "electrotango" was coined to describe the music. It was a success in Europe but was very poorly received in Argentina, where Piazzolla and his band were widely criticized. At least this time no one tried to kill them. (1) The music from Grace Jones' version of "Libertango" was indeed performed with the bandoneon (though she did not personally play it, as you can guess), but curiously her video and promo photos swapped out that instrument for the standard accordion. The prominent synth was consistent with Piazzolla and Company's public performances of the song, so visually speaking, Jones and her team took liberties (i.e. the accordion), but they were faithful to the music. I suspect that Jones was the first to introduce North American audiences to the concept of electrotango, but it was more of a one-off novelty than anything else. Fast forward to the year 1998, when Swiss musician Christoph Müller, French DJ Philippe Cohen Solal and Argentine musician Eduardo Makaroff met in Paris and decided to work together. Müller and Cohen Solal had already released music under the project name The Boy from Brazil (2) which combines electronic, boss nova and jazz, so now with Makaroff, the stage was set to mix tango, milonga (the precursor to tango), dubs and electronic music. They recruited a group of Argentine musicians living in Paris (many of whom were exiles from the dictatorship that ruled their country from '76 to '83), including bandoneon player Nini Flores, singer Cristina Villalonga and organist / arranger Gustavo Beytelmann, who had been a member of the original "Electronic Octet". Calling themselves the Gotan Project, in 2000 they released a 10" vinyl with the song "EI Capitalismo Foráneo" on one side, and "Vuelvo al Sur" on the other. The former was an original composition, with distorted samples from an Evita Peron speech. But the latter? Well, the latter was a (non-electronic) Piazzolla tango. Depending upon the interview, the members of Gotan Project have said that the original pressing of the 10" was for 500 or 1000 copies. Regardless of the exact number, they don't seem to have expected much to come of it. (It was supposed to be a side-project.) As it turned out, European DJs loved it and began playing it in clubs and lounges. Realizing that they had something on their hands, Gotan Project went back to the studio. The original song "Triptico" and a cover of "Last Tango in Paris was the second vinyl the group dropped, and then in 2001 they released the full album, LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO ("Tango's Revenge"), first in Europe and then in South America in '02. Interestingly enough, at that time in Buenos Aires, Gustavo Santaolalla (3) formed a collective that also mixed tango and electronic beats, first calling it the "Baofondo Tango Club" and releasing a self-titled album in 2002 (4). Was there something in the air at that time that inspired musicians continents apart to follow Piazzolla in mixing tango and electronica? I quite like Santaolalla, who insists in interviews that he was unaware of what Gotan Project was up to in Paris; we'll take him at his word. Regardless, thanks to LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO, there was a surge in interest in tango itself beyond Argentina's borders, and the disc's impact, combined with the more local success of BAJOFONDO TANGO CLUB, ushered in a wave of electrotango projects in the 2000's that swept through Latin America. By late '02 / early '03, Gotan Project was an ubiquitous staple in certain kinds of clubs, bars and high-end restaurants in Buenos Aires, Lima and Santiago. When I traveled to Lima for work, I would often hear it in the hotel lounge; when I took my parents to a tango revenue in Buenos Aires in '05, they played Gotan Project during the intermissions between the live sets of classical tango. And here in Chile, for several years, it seemed to be everywhere. That electrotango wave crested long ago; the genre isn't nearly as popular now in 2026 as it was in the Aughts, but there are still great projects releasing interesting music (5).
June 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
luchojanobello.bsky.social
El electrotango estuvo en boga por unos años...no fue algo fácil de tragar, pero Cerati ayudó a ello. ¡Buena interpretación!
May 21, 2026 at 7:49 PM
avenidacorrientes.bsky.social
“El último tango” es el nuevo tema de #AvenidaCorrientes.
Ya disponible en todas las plataformas digitales.
#electrotango #buenosaires #newmusic #nuevamusica
#newmusicfriday #ultimotango

open.spotify.com/track/7lsD6v...
El ultimo tango
open.spotify.com
May 15, 2026 at 4:54 AM
jussiriissanen.bsky.social
Week 19 of '26: 15 #albums

#GotanProject #electrotango
#Dabrye #hiphop
#SebastienTellier #synthpop
#KlausThunder&Ukkosmaine #electrodisco
#Hṛṣṭa #slowcore
#MagyarPosse #postrock
#StripmallArchitecture #triphop #shoegaze
#FlyingLotus #Declaime #hiphop
#JacquesGreene #house
15 album covers in a 5 by 3 grid. The background is blue with circular white/blue disco lights.
May 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
ralonsotn.bsky.social
Tanghetto es un proyecto de neotango y electrotango argentino. Ganador del Latin Grammy y del Premio Gardel de La Música. Su música es una fusión de tango con diferentes estilos de música.
Hoy a partir de las 11 horas los escuchamos en La Cantora
Por @radiobelcha.bsky.social , por supuesto
March 21, 2026 at 1:01 PM
juandubsilva.bsky.social
Taura es un disco instrumental de electrotango, fusiónando lo tradicional y lo moderno en un viaje sonoro donde el bandoneón se encuentra con los beats
juandubsilva.bandcamp.com/track/redenc...

#bandcamp #Electrotango #bandoneon #tangoelectronico #triphop #electronicmusic #musica #musicaelectronica
Redención Porteña, by Juan Dub Silva
from the album Taura
juandubsilva.bandcamp.com
February 24, 2026 at 4:50 PM
pagina12ok.bsky.social
El Festival de Electrotango de Buenos Aires llega a su quinta edición
El Festival de Electrotango de Buenos Aires llega a su quinta edición
Se presentará más de una veintena de proyectos artísticos, entre grupos, bailarines, performers, DJs, VJs y más. Tanghetto, Tangorra, Otros Aires, Ultratango y Libedinsky Gotan Club están entre los nombres más destacados.
www.pagina12.com.ar
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
am750.bsky.social
El Festival de Electrotango de Buenos Aires llega a su quinta edición
El Festival de Electrotango de Buenos Aires llega a su quinta edición
Se presentará más de una veintena de proyectos artísticos, entre grupos, bailarines, performers, DJs, VJs y más. Tanghetto, Tangorra, Otros Aires, Ultratango y Libedinsky Gotan Club están entre los nombres más destacados.
www.pagina12.com.ar
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
ursinhocu.bsky.social
youtu.be/rrKeTAwM85k
ELECTROTANGO - PLAYLIST PARA MAÑANAS DELIRANTEMENTE OPTIMISTAS (2025)
YouTube video by Mental Deep Web
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
rocabatus.bsky.social
Me gusta poner electrotango como música de fondo en juntadas, de hecho me llama la atención que no aparezca también Tanghetto, es mi música de anfitrión.
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
rocabatus.bsky.social
Lo más gracioso este año es que mi álbum principal es un dúo de electrotango que se separó en pandemia y no debe oír ya nadie excepto yo y la parentela.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
dominikanow.bsky.social
Today's focus sponsored by Electrotango lofi www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLc_...
TANGO LOFI - Electrotango - Lofi Coffee ☕ ~ Lofi Hip Hop - Lofi Music [ Study/ Relax ]
YouTube video by Benny Blackall
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October 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
liamnixoncl.bsky.social
Hey @gooseworx.bsky.social, talking about music, you should really listen to this inspired track called "Mente Fragil" by underground electrotango band Tanghetto. The track really reflects several of the psychological themes present in TADC, and I thought you'd enjoy it.
youtu.be/jonVxn3Zwrw?...
Mente Fragil
YouTube video by Tanghetto - Topic
youtu.be
September 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
normanrecords.com
PREORDER: 'Inspiración - Espiración (20th Anniversary Edition)' by Gotan Project

Several segments of electrotango for you 🍊

www.normanrecords.com/records/2118...
Gotan Project - Inspiración - Espiración (20th Anniversary Edition)
Buy INSPIRACIóN - ESPIRACIóN (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) by GOTAN PROJECT. LP £23.99, CD £12.49. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.
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September 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM