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Something was missing, and whatever we tried, we just couldn’t seem to get a satisfying result.Īt one point we were about to give up, when one day I was fiddling about in the studio, twisting some knobs and such. After a couple of jams we recorded the Piazzolla track Vuelvo Al Sur (Spanish I go back to the South), but somehow it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to. Through Eduardo we met loads of other Argentinian musicians living in Paris, and we started jamming. We decided to start making music together, without thinking of trends or commercial success. One of the records I heard was this folkloric album with extremely percussive music from Argentina, and I simply fell in love with it immediately. Mueller: “Eduardo let me listen to all kinds of folk music from Argentina and other parts of South America. The cover of our first album just showed an anonymous tattoo on a bit of skin.” “We’ve never used a photo of ourselves on album covers or anything. “I dreamed to put tango again into the hearts and ears of young people who don’t know it.” Eduardo knew nothing about electronic music and hardly distinguished hip-hop from house while Müller and Cohen knew nothing about Argentina. Very soon they were lucky to meet a kindred spirit, a real Argentine Eduardo Makaroff, who dreamed of developing tango beyond acoustic concerts. Cohen and Mueller met in the mid-90s, looked at the anarchy of samplers and decided to cross Brazilian music with electronics. Mueller didn’t acknowledge anything other than electronic music until he moved to Paris in the late 80s and got to know black and Latin American music, which wasn’t far from the Argentine Astor. Cohen discovered Astor Piazzolla’s music when he was young and examined the music collection of his girlfriend’s parents. The Swiss electronic artist Christoph Mueller and the experienced French house DJ and film composer Philippe Cohen thought so too until they saw a different view of folk music from the coast of Buenos Aires. Listening to a small accordion at a young age may not be the most interesting activity. La revancha del tango is an assimilation of Argentine music and modern music. This almost trivial form of sensuality is what gives tango its force.” Gotan Project: Eduardo Makaroff, Philippe Cohen, Christoph Mueller And, just like in real life, things don’t always work out! The dancers’ bodies don’t always fit snugly into one another, but that’s what makes it interesting. A tango may only last a few minutes but in that short space of time an entire love story unfolds as the dancers approach one another, seduce one another and then make love. Tango’s the music of old cocaine-heads who didn’t need any kind of body piercing to prove their marginality! It’s a totally sensual music, like a speeded-up slice of life. In his way, he made as great an impact on the music scene as the Sex Pistols did in their day. Piazzolla really shook society up when he came along. “The tango’s fuelled by much more of a rebellious spirit, much more of a punk attitude than a lot of other music. “It isn’t a laidback, lounge kind of music, you know”, continues Cohen. It was a kind of conservative music, that the people associated with Peron liked.”
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In the 1940s the music was played by the Germans, by the Nazis, you know. “But because it was so successful in Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century, it came back with all of the chic and the glamour of Paris to Argentina – it was accepted by the bourgeoisie. But it was from the bad boys, from the harbor of Buenos Aires”, explains Cohen. And after it was mixed with Europe and immigration from Europe.
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So it actually already is a hybrid of different kinds of music. The word tango comes from an African dialect, just like the word milonga At the end of the 19th century, European and African immigrants got together in bars and brothels of Buenos Aires, and they started making music with the original Argentinians. “The roots of tango lie, as is the case with many kinds of music, in Africa. But Philippe Cohen, one third of the Gotan Project, reminds us that, in fact, in his native Buenos Aires, tango began as a punk movement of lowlifes - gangsters and cocaine junkies. There are always hotheads who want to modernise traditional music, and there are always those who get offended by that.