Tango

Just been listening to some wicked tracks of Tango-Electronica fusion. Amazing sounds, I really liked the Paris-originated Gotan Project, and Bajo Fondo Tango Club some similar work made here in Argentina.

But what is Tango anyway? Tango goes way past a music genre in the context of Buenos Aires, Tango is musical expression born out of the desperate loneliness and harsh lifestyle for the scores of European immigrants that arrived here in the late 1800s. Tango is a mood. A mood felt by passionate men uprooted and lost in the dirty urban life of dockland Buenos Aires. Its deep sadness and melancholy, its danger and sex, pain, sorrow, betrayal and helplessness. Its tragic beauty at its best.

"Tango que me hiciste mal y sin embargo te quiero": Tango you did wrong to me but still I love you...

- Anyone who´s had their heart broken knows the feeling. That is the essence of Tango.

After many years of being side-lined as an oldies dance, Tango is now making a comeback in contemporary Argentina. More and more young people are going to the Milongas (tango ballrooms) to dance and enjoy themselves. And although Tango is more part of the soul of an older generation, young argentinians also display an extraodinary ability for sadness and melancholy.