Tango-DJ.at Tango Argentino

TANGO-DJ.AT
Association for the preservation
and provision of Argentine tango

Newsletter December 2017

by Bernhard Gehberger

20 December 2017

Dear tango enthusiast,

long time no read... This is Bernhard Gehberger from TANGO-DJ.AT, Association for the preservation and provision of Argentine tango with my newsletter about our international tango events, tango music and new membership options! In case the pictures do not display correctly in the e-mail, please visit the online version instead. Enjoy!

Introduction

Tango Events

Tango Music

 

TANGO-DJ.AT Membership Options

 

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.

 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

 

Bernhard Gehberger

TANGO-DJ.AT
Association for the preservation
and provision of Argentine tango

 


Tango events

INTERNATIONAL MILONGAS VIENNA 2018

If you are planning to visit Vienna, or living in Vienna, we look forward to welcoming you at our International Milonga taking place once in every season. We invite renowned DJs from all over Europe offering you best music. The 300m2 venue features air conditioning and a perfect soft parquet floor for you to enjoy dancing!

The dates in 2018 are going to be:

 

SPRING: 14 April 2018

SUMMER: 18 August 2018

AUTUMN: 20 October 2018

WINTER: 8 December 2018

 

Please find details and updates on our website https://tango-dj.at/events/IM.

International Milongas 2018

 

 

 

 

VIENNA CALLING TANGO MARATHON 2018 SPRING EDITION!

We are excited to organize VCTM during lovely Spring time in Vienna:

11 - 13 MAY 2018

Registration is mandatory and will start 18 January 2018, 18h (CET).

Check out the VCTM video by Stefan Ludwig to get an idea of the nice atmosphere of the last edition:

 

We are looking forward to spending another 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.

Vienna Calling Tango Marathon 2018 Spring

TANGO MUSIC

CTA CD and LP Releases

Before publishing 78 RPM transfers on CDs, Akihito Baba published his transfers on LPs for Club Tango Argentino (CTA). In case you are interested in the scope of his complete works, we have updated our graphic of CTA releases and added the CTA LPs which have been published prior the CTA CDs.

CTA CD and LP Releases

As you can see the first three LPs have been published as early as 1982, being followed by 129 LPs summing up to 132 LP releases between 1982 and 1991. The LP releases cover a number of 1984 tango recordings, all of which can be found in our tango database.

In 1992 the first 9 CD compilations have been published and were followed by 267 CDs until 2015. The CD releases cover a number of 5472 recordings, all of which can be found in our tango database as well.

In total Akihito Baba published the incredible number of 7456 recordings on LPs and CDs. Lots of tango music would be missing in our tango community nowadays without this amazing contribution.

We are very happy that we were able to complete this collection and eventually found the means to process and add it to our tango database.

We produced LP front and back cover fotos, post-processed them, digitized the LPs, cut the raw transfers, ripped the CDs, scanned the CD front and back covers and researched the meta data for almost all of the recordings in order to be able to make this information available to you.

In the new version of the database you are going to be able to listen to extensive sound samples of all of those recordings and flip through the complete art work of LP and CD front and back covers. The basic meta data information will remain free to public access, the exciting new features will be made available to our members only. We plan to release the new TANGO-DJ.AT database version in January 2018.

We hope that you find our work helpful. If you choose to subscribe to one of our membership options you support us to process more collections and to provide extensive information about tango music to the tango community.

Sadly no re-prints of CTA LPs or CDs are produced by Akihito Baba, so if you are interested in those you have to look out for some remaining stock, or 2nd hand offerings. We still have a few original CTA CDs and LPs in stock, please take a look if you are interested in those.

 

TANGO RECORDS

Tango Records is a music label founded by Bernhard Gehberger in 2015. Tango Records publishes special and hard to find tango recordings for tango DJs and collectors based on the collection of Bernhard Gehberger. Every recording is carefully restored by hand, remastered and published as compilations of tango orchestras or tango tandas.

The compilations of tango orchestras are based on discographic research of those orchestras. The recordings are presented in chronological order of their recording date sorted by matriz numbers where possible. But keeping in mind that it should be attractive for tango DJs the focus lies on recordings suitable for tango DJ-ing. Therefore only some of the genres are featured - mainly tango, vals and milonga. We try to cover less known orchestras, and/or orchestras for which it is difficult to find recordings on commercial offerings.

The compilations of tandas take into consideration the experience of tango DJ-ing and try to combine special recordings which work together for various reasons. Tanda compilations will consist of 3 to 6 recordings. Sometimes there are only a maximum of three suitable recordings available which could work fine for milonga or vals tandas. Normally a tanda will consist of 4 matching tracks, but we might include one or two more so there is a possibility to make variations of that tanda. Again we will focus on special, or hard to find or combine tracks.

Both series do not mean to replace the main stream tango music a tango DJ will need to obtain from commercial sources. The expenses and work load to find, obtain, transfer, process, restore, remaster, compile and publish those recordings for a very small niche market makes it very difficult to finance. So for now TANGO RECORDS releases are being made available to supporting TANGO-DJ.AT members only.

Again as for the tango database, our work greatly depends on the contribution of the tango community itself, so we appreciate your support by subscribing to one of our membership options enableing us to continue and intensify our work for you. We are looking forward to providing you with more and more hard to find tango music in bet possible quality!

A few of our latest releases:

Enrique Rodríguez – Milonga Candombe – Tango Records Tanda Line (TDJ-3001)

This tanda by Enrique Rodríguez is defenitely not a main stream tanda and should be used carefully by experienced tango DJs for an experienced tango crowd familiar with milonga candombes and in a suitable situation. It covers three special Milonga Candombes by Enriqe Rodríguez, each one having its own very unique moment, rhythm or feeling. As you can see the recording dates range from 1943 to 1967, which is another no-go under normal circumstances. In this case however the idea is to create a journey through three very special, hard to find and hardly known recordings by Rodríguez ending with the most powerful one.

The tanda was build around the last track Color punzó which is almost unknown and very hard to find. But surprisingly the quality of that recording is outstanding, so the other two recordings were carefully selected to build up to this last one. However, please keep in mind that not every dancer / community favor Milonga Candombes for dancing..

You can pre-listen this tanda by using our tango database!

01. El tucu-tun – Milonga Candombe – Orquesta Enrique Rodríguez con Armando Moreno – 2:32 – 18/02/1943
02. Tamboriles – Milonga Candombe – Orquesta Enrique Rodríguez con Omar Quirós y Oscar Galán – 2:21 – 30/10/1956
03. Color punzó – Milonga Candombe – Orquesta Enrique Rodríguez con Armando Moreno y coro – 2:24 – 14/09/1967

Available as zipped FLAC download for members.

 

Juan Maglio "Pacho" Vol. 3 - 1927 (TDJ-1008)

You can pre-listen the whole album by using our tango database!

01. Consejos de madre – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:39 – 05/09/1927
02. Sonia – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:48 – 05/09/1927
03. Frente a frente – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:19 – 05/09/1927
04. Caminito – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 3:06 – 05/09/1927
05. Leguisamo solo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza y coro – 2:54 – 10/10/1927
06. Cotorrita de la suerte – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:48 – 10/10/1927
07. Cuando llora la milonga – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:44 – 10/10/1927
08. Campanita – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 3:00 – 15/10/1927
09. Reca – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:44 – 15/10/1927
10. Barrio alegre – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:47 – 15/10/1927
11. Perfume de mujer – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:47 – 15/10/1927
12. Caído del cielo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:47 – 15/10/1927
13. Noche de reyes – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza – 2:54 – 21/10/1927
14. Río de oro – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:52 – 21/10/1927
15. Sangre azul – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:54 – 21/10/1927
16. El mal que me hiciste – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 3:07 – 20/10/1927
17. Lagrimeando, lagrimeando – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:51 – 20/10/1927
18. La quema – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:49 – 21/10/1927
19. Amurado – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza – 2:51 – 06/12/1927
20. Tuito es mentira – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:48 – 06/12/1927
21. Queja indiana – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:44 – 07/12/1927
22. Suerte maldita – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza – 2:47 – 07/12/1927

Available as zipped FLAC download for members.

 

Juan Maglio "Pacho" Vol. 4 - 1928 (TDJ-1009)

Just in time for christmas, JUAN MAGLIO "PACHO" VOL 4 is finished. And as a special treat for this "christmas edition" this compilation happens to include the infamous, beautiful and super hard to find vals "Recordando tus promesas" together with two other valses!

You can pre-listen the whole album by using our tango database!

01. Sábado inglés – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 3:05 – 03/02/1928
02. Tranco a tranco – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza – 3:02 – 03/02/1928
03. Orillas del plata – Vals – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” – 2:44 – 03/02/1928
04. Che papusa oí – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza – 2:57 – 06/02/1928
05. Año nuevo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 3:00 – 12/02/1928
06. Chacarera – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con José Galarza y Carlos Viván – 3:15 – 12/02/1928
07. La cuyanita – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:45 – 12/02/1928
08. Carro viejo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:46 – 12/02/1928
09. Hasta la muerte – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:44 – 13/02/1928
10. Recordando tus promesas – Vals – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:31 – 12/02/1928
11. Ando pato – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:40 – 25/02/1928
12. Adónde vas, Pierrot? – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:44 – 27/02/1928
13. Pobre gringo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:37 – 16/03/1928
14. Cocot de lujo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:53 – 16/03/1928
15. Se va la lancha – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 3:04 – 16/03/1928
16. Mueble viejo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 3:09 – 02/04/1928
17. Milonguero viejo – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 3:11 – 02/04/1928
18. Aves de media noche – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:53 – 03/04/1928
19. Poca cosa – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:56 – 03/04/1928
20. Hijos de nadie – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:55 – 16/04/1928
21. Esta noche me emborracho – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 3:12 – 16/04/1928
22. La huella roja – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 3:35 – 16/04/1928
23. Adoración – Vals – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:43 – 16/04/1928
24. Sueño eterno – Tango – Orquesta Juan Maglio “Pacho” con Carlos Viván – 2:54 – 16/04/1928

Available as zipped FLAC download for members.

 

TANGO-DJ.AT MEMBERSHIP

TANGO-DJ.AT is a non-profit association organizing tango events, maintaining a transfer studio and the largest digital accessable tango music archive in the world.

What we do:

Tango Music Archive

  • World‘s largest digital accessable tango music archive
  • Collection of tango CDs, LPs and 78 RPMs
  • Research on tango meta data and disographies
  • Public tango database of 70.000+ recordings
  • Soundsamples for every recording
  • Cover art viewer for booklets, front and back covers

Tango Music Label: TANGO RECORDS

  • State of the art record transfer studio
  • Production of high quality digital record transfers
  • Restoration, remastering and publishing of tango music

Website TANGO-DJ.AT

  • Extensive resource for tango DJs and dancers

Organization of International Tango Events

 

Benefit from our dedication to tango and get access to our work by becoming a TANGO-DJ.AT member. Some of your advantages:

  • Unrestricted access to our tango database of 70.000+ records
  • Discount on CD purchases and special offers of rare CDs
  • Access to membership area offering ~14.000 recordings
  • Reduced entrance to our tango events

And most importantly, by becoming a member you support our work and help us to provide more information and tango music to the tango community.

 

DATABASE MEMBERSHIP

Get unrestricted access to the largest digital accessable tango music archive in the world! With this database membership you gain unlimited access to our TANGO-DJ.AT database and all of its features:

  • Sound samples
    ~90 seconds in length, cut from the beginning and the middle of the recording to cover also the vocalist
  • Full cover art viewer
    flip through sull sized scans and pictures of complete CD booklets and LP front and back covers
  • Customizable table view
    you can customize the columns of the search result table to your preferences
  • Save your favorites
    you can save recordings you find during your research for easy recall later on
  • Access professional ratings and recommendations
  • Filter your search by medium or recommendations
  • Three different search options from flexible to strict search
  • High-performance, unpaginated list up to thousands of entries
  • Extended date search feature to specify date periods
  • Access to extended meta data like composer, author, disc numbers, matriz numbers and comments

We expect to be able to publish the new database version in the beginning of 2018. Look out for the 50% OFF DEAL we are going to offer in January for new DATABASE MEMBERSHIP subscriptions for a short period of time! We attach a sneak preview of the new database version:

 

FULL MEMBERSHIP

Get unrestricted access to the largest digital accessable tango music archive in the world AND benefit from a vast offering of tango music, specialized information, priority support, discount on purchases and dance events by subscribing to our TANGO-DJ.AT FULL MEMBERSHIP!

  • Get access to the membership area offering ~14.000 recordings for reasonable prices
  • Access to releases published under the label TANGO RECORDS
  • Discount on CD purchases
  • Free or reduced entrance to our tango events
  • Possibility to get state of the art digital transfers of your records
  • Exclusiv members‘ only newsletters and offerings
  • Marketplace for used tango CDs
  • Priority support for your tango inquiries
  • Unrestricted access to the TANGO-DJ.AT database:
    • Sound samples
      ~90 seconds in length, cut from the beginning and the middle of the recording to cover also the vocalist
    • Full cover art viewer
      flip through sull sized scans and pictures of complete CD booklets and LP front and back covers
    • Customizable table view
      you can customize the columns of the search result table to your preferences
    • Save your favorites
      you can save recordings you find during your research for easy recall later on
    • Access professional ratings and recommendations
    • Filter your search by medium or recommendations
    • Three different search options from flexible to strict search
    • High-performance, unpaginated list up to thousands of entries
    • Extended date search feature to specify date periods
    • Access to extended meta data like composer, author, disc numbers, matriz numbers and comments

 

By choosing one of our membership options you support our work and help us to provide more information and tango music to the tango community!

 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Bernhard Gehberger

TANGO-DJ.AT