Interviewed by DJ Super Sabino
DJ Super Sabino’s interview of DJ Jens-Ingo, the interview has been published on his blog and you can read it here: http://supersabinotango.blogspot.be/2013/05/jens-ingo-brodesseri-like-to-think-of.html
I write here as a tango DJ, dancer and listener, exploring how tango music lives between old recordings, today’s tools and the dance floor. These notes bring together reflections on tango history, sound and DJing practice.
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Inspiración
While I was djing at a local milonga in Amsterdam a girl came to the DJ desk and told me: “I know this tango!” So I said: “Yes, it’s Melodía del corazón interpreted by Edgardo Donato and his orchestra.” She then explained that she didn’t really mean to know it from the milongas but from…
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Touched by tango
As a tango DJ I spend a lot of my time extending my collection and listening through different repertoires. It’s like a journey through time and styles. Often I recognise that I’m missing some recordings while digging further into one direction. Like very recently I had to admit that my combination possibilities for Fresedo Instrumentals…
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Darienzando
I finally have some time to put all these D’Arienzo records I received over the past months into the digital form. They are all in a perfect state. No comparison to the CdT Vol. 26 – 48 compact discs which also cover the years 1957-1975 of the Juan D’Arienzo Orquestra and which I process in…
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Tubatangueando
A couple of months ago I had the pleasure to assist a live concert of La Tubatango at a local milonga. After half of their performance they just settled down in the middle of the dance floor and had the dancers dancing around them. Quite some fun to a fresh and happy sounding orchestra. La…