TANGO-DJ.AT
Association for the preservation
and
provision
of Argentine tango
Newsletter April 2017
by Bernhard Gehberger
1st April 2017
Dear tango enthusiast,
long time no read... This is Bernhard from TANGO-DJ.AT, Association for the preservation and provision of Argentine tango with my meanwhile not so monthly newsletter about international tango events, DJ-ing, special tango CDs and much more. Please note that videos, sound samples and special characters might not display correctly in the e-mail. Please visit the online version instead. Enjoy!
Introduction
Tango events
- INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY MILONGAs 2017
- VIENNA CALLING TANGO MARATHON 17 - 19 Nov. 2017
TANGO-DJ.AT Database news
- NEW v3 DATABASE, 68.000+ reasons to take a look and listen!
We hope that you enjoy this newsletter. Please feel free to share our TANGO-DJ.AT newsletter or weblink with your friends or other tango enthusiasts.
Best wishes from Vienna,
Bernhard
TANGO-DJ.AT
Association for the preservation
and provision
of Argentine tango
Tango events
INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY MILONGAs 2017
If you are visiting Vienna, or living in Vienna, we look forward to welcoming you at our International Milonga taking place EVERY SATURDAY! We invite renowned DJs from all over Europe for every Saturday offering you best music. The 300m2 venue features air condition and a perfect soft parquet floor for you to enjoy dancing!
Please find details and updates on our website https://www.tango-dj.at/index.htm.
Date |
Location |
DJ |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 01.04.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Alfredo Petruzelli (Italy) |  |
| Saturday, 08.04.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Andrea Sorgo (Austria) |  |
| Saturday, 15.04.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Johan Steyn (Irland) |  |
| Saturday, 22.04.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Balázs Gyenis (Hungary) |  |
| Saturday, 29.04.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Mariano Calabrese |  |
| Saturday, 06.05.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: to be announced | |
| Saturday, 13.05.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Jo Switten (Belgium) |  |
| Saturday, 20.05.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: David xTango (The Netherlands) |  |
| Saturday, 27.05.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Bernardo BYC (France) |  |
| Saturday, 03.06.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Pierre M (France) |  |
| Saturday, 10.06.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Fabiola Loik (Italy) |  |
| Saturday, 17.06.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: to be announced | |
| Saturday, 24.06.2017, 21:00-3:00+ |
Louis Braille Saal, Hägeling. 4-6, 1140 Vienna | DJ: Matthias Bellemann (Germany) |  |
VIENNA CALLING TANGO MARATHON 2017
Our 3rd edition of VCTM will take place 17 - 19 November 2017.
Registration is mandatory and will start 7 July 2017.
We look forward to spending a great tango marathon weekend again with lots of dancers from all over the world! We are going to publish details about the program and our DJs on our website
http://viennacallingtangomarathon.com.
TANGO-DJ.AT DATABASE
Project "Tahiti" - NEW v3 DATABASE and 68.000+ reasons to take a look and listen!
We are developing a new and improved version of the TANGO-DJ.AT DATABASE. This project is called "Tahiti". It is enabled by the great effort of two developers who are working together with me for almost a year now. So a big thank you goes to DJ Lihui Zhao from Canada and DJ "Carlos Di Sarli" from France who made project Tahiti possible!
The new database version is not finished yet, but the three most important and outstanding new features have been implemented. While testing we make them available to the public for free.
- Pre-listening possibility for ALL 68.000+ recordings in the DB!
- Thumbnails of most cover arts
- Temporary FLAC download option for ALL 68.000+ recordings!
Pre-listening
Every record now has a play button. The soundsample is put together from two pieces of the original track (one part from the beginning and one part starting from the middle) and lasts for 90 seconds in most cases. The soundsample is encoded with the LAME mp3 codec using a high quality VBR setting of 190kbps in average.
You may know pre-listen any of the 68.000+ records of our database. By this you have direct access to one of the largest tango music archives. To my knowledge this is unique world wide.
Thumbnails of cover arts
For most albums a thumbnail of the cover art is shown next to the play button. We have scanned the complete booklets and covers of CDs and LPs, including the label of the records itself. Especially the production of the LP cover arts is time consuming and complicated. A small photo studio has to be set up in order to take a picture of the LP cover arts. The pictures then undergo a post-production process. DJ Theo Chatzipetros did amazing work in order to improve the quality of the photos in post-production. big thank you for that as well!
The new cover art viewer showing the complete cover art and booklet scans in 800x800px resolution will be made available to our TANGO-DJ.AT members very soon! You will be able to browse through the complete CD booklet, or LP cover arts by clicking on the cover art thumbnail.
Download option for all 68.000+ recordings
For a limited time there is a download option for all 68.000+ recordings of our music archive available. You may look up basically any track you are looking for a long time and click the pre-listening button. At the end of the soundsample a download option will be offered to you. You can download and save the track in lossless quality as a FLAC file. Pay as you wish by making a donation to TANGO-DJ.AT via paypal.
In addition to the features mentioned above we improved the old version also by
- date format changed to comply with the international date format ISO 8601
- added column for media showing various media formats as CD / LP / DG
- adding more and more information about composer (music) and author (lyrics)
- added column for disc/catalog numbers and matriz numbers
- added column sowhing the last modification date and time of every DB entry
- added column for recommended tracks indicating special tracks or versions
- new layout for DB-news, search forms and DB-status
Check out the new v3 database here: https://www.tango-dj.at/database/
Since developing and maintaining the database takes more effort than a regular full time job some of the features can be made available to supporting members only.
TANGO-DJ.AT members will have unlimited access to the database and all of it's features. In addition to that we are going to offer a database membership for less subscription fee as a smaller version of the full membership. With the database membership you help to maintain our database and you benefit from unlimited access to the database and all of its features as well.
However the full metadata of 68.000+ tracks will remain accessable for the tango community and the public for free.
If you are interested in becoming a TANGO-DJ.AT member please visit our membership subscription page.
Bernhard Gehberger