I love Gotan Project's remixes of their combining their native Argentine tangos with house music beats. Gotan is an ongoing remix project of two deejays Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. Mueller who proclaim themselves as "the top Argentine musicians exiled in Paris." Gotan sells millions of records in South American and Europe and but in the United States nobody's ever heard of them, except for a few deejays in underground dance clubs in New York, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles.
The tango was first performed as erotic entertainment in the 19th bordellos of Montevideo, Argentina and the dance spread to Buenos Aires. The tango became the rage of Paris and many other European cities following a 1912 tour of the first professional troupe Argentine tango dancers.
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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt
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