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This album forms a pretty recent addition to the rapidly growing lounge/electronic tango scene in Buenos Aires. Hybrid Tango skillfully mixes bandoneon, piano and spanish guitar with a smooth but driving electronic beat. Fans of Tanghetto, the Gotan Project and/or the Bajofondo Tango Club are sure to love this one too!

Until very recently, nearly all of the music used for dancing today's social tango was taken from old recordings of the so-called Golden Age orchestras. Even now, most young tango bands still tend to fill their repertoire with compositions from that period.

But our times are different from those of the Golden Age of tango in Buenos Aires, the 1930s, '40s and '50s of the 20th century. Today, we have different musical instruments and technologies, different social venues, different styles of dress, etc. etc.

All of these things inspire today's tango dancers and musicians to play and improvise in new ways - to carve new paths...

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One thing, however, stays the same, regardless of place and time. Call it the creative urge, or whatever... but it's an undeniable fact that invention and experimentation have been at the very root of the tango tradition. In the early 1900's, hopeful immigrants from Italy, Germany, Eastern Europe, Africa, and various South American countries all converged on Argentina's main port, Buenos Aires, bringing with them not only their dreams and aspirations, but also their portable instruments and their cultural traditions.

Just like today, there was an atmosphere of discovery, conflict, and social adjustment. The tango was born where the disparate members of Buenos Aires' early century melting pot gathered together, and today, we witness its re-birth. Creeping into the souls of enthusiasts around the globe, the tango is searching for a contemporary musical context.

This is why modern and culturally relevant music is so essential to effectively renew the spirit of the tango. The Neo Tangos produced by groups like Tanghetto, the Gotan Project, the Bajofondo Tango Clubs, etc. are all hybrids of traditional instrumentation and electronic sound, artistically bridging the gap between the Golden Age and the new millenium. This hybrid tango music strikes a chord with mass audiences, and its vibration have the potential to generate not only small gatherings of aficionados, but an international social and artistic movement.

Neo Tango cannot be dismissed as the latest addition to the thriving 'world music' genre because it is not limited to the fusion of electronic music with traditional instruments. On the contrary, so deep is the need for new tangos that adventurous dancers of today are claiming music from genres across the board: blues, rock, disco, fado, and countless world music sub-categories. Phrases like 'alternative tango' and 'non-tango' are already standard lingo.

In recent trend developments, the actual electronic influences may be anything from very subtle to rather dominant. It all depends on where it is, that you happen to put your ear to the ground... If that's near Tanghetto or Carlos Libedinsky, then you're in for some good examples of the more subtle use of electronic elements; this music still maintains its tango feeling - that very specific and complex rhythmic as well as melodious entanglement which lays at the heart of tango, and which makes is so stunningly unique.

A group like the Gotan Project (yes...look out for their albums at AvaxHome too!!) kind of holds the middle ground between very subtle and exceptionally outrageous. Yet, they already make extensive use of electronic elements like samples, beats and sounds, cunningly stacked on top of a distinctive tango groove.

But still, even with them, the rhythmic elements are more complex than in some of the other electro tango pieces that have appeared since Gotan's now famous La Revancha del Tango in 2001. The Bajofondo (= Underground) Tango Club collection album is a good recent example with much more electro feeling than the Gotan Project - A more regular, more dominant beat, less complex rhythms — but still with a lot of tango feeling in it.

Tango dancers around the world have meanwhile embraced this music, although many of the more traditional dancers regard it as a definite break in style and tradition...

I've now first brought you two influential albums by Tanghetto, as to smoothly ease you into the more hardcore stuff which I'll soon make available from here... Keep your eyes peeled to the screen!

For now, first enjoy Tanghetto's Grammy Award winning album Hybrid Tango. If you'd ask me, I'd say the best tracks on this album are Más de lo Mismo, El Deseo and El Solitario. See if we agree... Share your thoughts!

Tanghetto are:

Diego S. Velazquez guitar, synthesizers, programming, piano

Max Masri synthesizers, programming, piano

Daniel Ruggiero bandoneon

Juergen Koechel programming

Their (Flash) Website: .

Below you will find links for both parts of Tanghetto's Hybrid Tango as well as both parts of their Emigrante (Electrotango), which I published here earlier amidst a terrible mix-up of working and non-working links. Therefor I give you the correct links once more... just to make sure... :)

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