"We didn’t want to use a tango sample on a permanent loop, or simply add the sound of a bandoneon over electro backing,” Gotan Project insist.
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How were the contemporary mixing techniques of the home studio to be worked into the traditional world of tango? How to approach the classic tango repertoire without falling into simple pastiche and cliché? This debut burst of electro-tango marked the trio’s first steps on a musical obstacle course strewn with risks and conundrums. Appropriately enough, the trio’s first collective effort was a cover of a Piazzolla classic, Vuelvo Al Sur. The group came into existence in 1997 when the Argentinian guitarist Eduardo Makaroff teamed up with Philippe Cohen-Solal and Christoph H Müller, a pair of trendier music figures more in tune with what was happening on club dancefloors. In short, you have to fire both musicians and their audience with enthusiasm, not bore them to death – but the music you’re playing must never stop being tango!" The legendary accordionist Astor Piazzolla managed to sum up the essence of tango in a nutshell and Gotan Project have applied his words of wisdom ever since their debut. "You have to peel away the monotony tango is wrapped up in, as much on a harmonic, melodic and rhythmic level as on an aesthetic one.
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