What are DJs doing wrong

[opendoor]

..And I'm fairly sure that the musical atmosphere swirling round me is much wider than someone in Argentina could experience in the Golden Age of Tango..

Well said!

 

[opendoor]

..in the so-called GA... It was practically impossible to select a specific track or even listen to the same one twice in a row..

Well, there certainly were a lot of record stores in Buenos Aires. The photo shows the flagship store of Pathé —the predecessor to sello Odeon— in 1915. Judging by their clothing, the people in the photo were certainly there for classical music—after all, tango didn't become a mass phenomenon until twenty years later. Furthermore, people back then wouldn't have listened as analytically as we do now. That is precisely why Christine Denniston described the Golden Age as the low point of tango history.

 

[Rabbit]

I'm not quite so pessimistic ...

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I also dance contemporary, please don't insult it with this comparison

 

[ArbeeNYC]

I suppose I am spoiled by dancing a lot in Europe (I am UK based) and can choose to travel to events with large orchestras - which I do. So far this year I have danced to large live orchestras seven times. This includes Sexteto Cristal, Hyperion Ensemble, La Juan D'Arienzo and El Cachivache.

Yeah, nothing like that over here. We did have one medium size orchestra perform here; I think they've been here twice. But I missed them. It's expensive to travel here between airplane tickets and visas, not to mention food and lodging. I'd have to go to B.A. to hear the modern orchestras perform.