I am very pleased that DJ Johan Steyn in Dublin has agreed to share his setlist publicly. He told me he used to provide a paper version of his sets in the days before he improvised. Johan DJd at the recent Edinburgh International Tango Festival and this set is the one from the Saturday night there. You can also hear Johan in interview here.
My hope is that more DJs will share their sets too and combat the needless and counter-productive culture of secrecy there is around music which is after all very familiar. There are several reasons why it useful to share any set: dancers who are considering travel to a distant milonga can see what kind of music a DJ there plays; dancers can learn more about music and it lets new DJs in the community see tandas and consider whether those tracks and tandas have that dancing feeling that makes them more popular with people on the floor than tandas that don't.
It is a good thing for dancers, organisers and DJs when there are more DJs playing in more milongas with more good music around. More local milongas clustered together at a weekend means more people without that healthy local growth coming to those milongas at weekends instead of say, disappearing off to more expensive, rather artificial, pre-book-only European encuentros. And of course it means more people staying local where there is music and dancing worth staying locally for, instead of travelling away to find it.
It is a good thing for dancers, organisers and DJs when there are more DJs playing in more milongas with more good music around. More local milongas clustered together at a weekend means more people without that healthy local growth coming to those milongas at weekends instead of say, disappearing off to more expensive, rather artificial, pre-book-only European encuentros. And of course it means more people staying local where there is music and dancing worth staying locally for, instead of travelling away to find it.
Seeing a set is not useful for the purposes of copying tandas wholesale because there would be no engagement with the music that way and you would learn nothing. But this argument is obviously an insufficient one against sharing. Good sets can give you ideas and pointers. Having a set is better than not having a set. All you need to apply to any set is your own judgement.
I must have started to listen properly to the music pretty early after starting classes because I listened to 24/7 trad tango radio for months and I find a note that tells me within six months of beginning classes I had moved on from that to using an online music provider that someone had told me about. I used that to listen to everything available there by the most famous orchestras, starring the tracks I thought were good. Some I'd heard before, some I hadn't. I realised later that most of what I'd starred is conventionally seen as good and popular trad, heard often in milongas, even in poor ones that may not play tandas or cortinas. It's not a hard exercise. You just pick out the tracks that you know and that really make you feel like dancing. I think anyone who listens can do it. After that if you're interested in DJing the next step is to make tandas, and that's where published sets can be most helpful although they're not absolutely necessary. I was very lucky at around that point to find Chris's published sets and spent hours working through them, track by track, tanda by tanda. You just keep on applying your own judgement to the tandas you see and matching those against the tracks you've already considered are good for dancing, grouping tracks into families with similar feel so you can then start to make your own tandas.
There's more after that, but that's how I started to be interested in the music. What puzzles me is that often DJs pick tracks I find not very danceable yet match them very well with similarly undanceable tracks when really it is the matching that ought to be harder than the choosing tracks in the first place. For that you need only listen to the music and the feeling it produces in your own self.
There's more after that, but that's how I started to be interested in the music. What puzzles me is that often DJs pick tracks I find not very danceable yet match them very well with similarly undanceable tracks when really it is the matching that ought to be harder than the choosing tracks in the first place. For that you need only listen to the music and the feeling it produces in your own self.
Ask your DJ if they will publish their sets. If not, ask why. Answers - or lack of them - can be revealing.
So without more ado here is Johan's set...
T 1928 Quemá esas cartas Osvaldo Fresedo Ernesto Famá
T 1928 Llevátelo todo Osvaldo Fresedo Ernesto Famá
T 1928 Alma en pena Osvaldo Fresedo Ernesto Famá
T 1928 Esta noche me emborracho Osvaldo Fresedo Ernesto Famá
T 1935 Elegante papirusa Edgardo Donato
T 1938 Cantando bajito Edgardo Donato
T 1938 Tiempos bravos Edgardo Donato
T 1938 El estagiario Edgardo Donato
V 1938 Dime que sí Francisco Lomuto Jorge Omar
V 1937 Ay, mi nena Francisco Lomuto Jorge Omar
V 1938 Ti pi tin Francisco Lomuto Jorge Omar
V 1938 Valse de la fisarmonica Francisco Lomuto
T 1945 Ivón Ricardo Tanturi Enrique Campos
T 1945 Cuatro lágrimas Ricardo Tanturi Enrique Campos
T 1945 De seis a siete Ricardo Tanturi Enrique Campos
T 1945 La uruguayita Lucía Ricardo Tanturi Enrique Campos
T 1936 El amanecer Roberto Firpo
T 1937 El compinche Roberto Firpo
T 1937 Didí Roberto Firpo
T 1937 La murra Roberto Firpo
M 1935 De pura cepa Juan D'Arienzo
M 1937 La puñalada Juan D'Arienzo
M 1938 El esquinazo Juan D'Arienzo
T 1930 El gavilán Francisco Canaro
T 1930 Pajarito cantor Francisco Canaro
T 1931 El opio Francisco Canaro
T 1931 Tipo loco Francisco Canaro
T 1943 Ya sale el tren Miguel Caló Jorge Ortiz
T 1943 Barrio de tango Miguel Caló Jorge Ortiz
T 1943 A las siete en el café Miguel Caló Jorge Ortiz
T 1943 Pa' que seguir Miguel Caló Jorge Ortiz
V 1941 Qué me pasará Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
V 1942 Esquinas porteñas Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
V 1942 Yo tengo una novia Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
V 1944 El espejo de tus ojos Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
T 1929 Belén Carlos Di Sarli
T 1929 Pobre yo Carlos Di Sarli
T 1929 El calabozo Carlos Di Sarli
T 1929 No te aguanto más Carlos Di Sarli
T 1942 La tablada Aníbal Troilo
T 1942 C.T.V. Aníbal Troilo
T 1942 La maleva Aníbal Troilo
T 1943 Pablo Aníbal Troilo
M 1937 Milonga de mis amores Francisco Canaro
M 1936 Silueta porteña Francisco Canaro Roberto Maida
M 1937 Milonga de antaño Francisco Canaro
T 1942 Junto a tu corazón José García Alfredo Rojas
T 1943 Farolito de papel José García Alfredo Rojas
T 1943 Esta noche de luna José García Alfredo Rojas
T 1942 Fea José García Alfredo Rojas
T 1940 No te quiero más Enrique Rodríguez Armando Moreno
T 1940 En la buena y en la mala Enrique Rodríguez Armando Moreno
T 1940 Contigo pan y cebolla Enrique Rodríguez Armando Moreno
T 1940 Al mal tiempo, buena cara Enrique Rodríguez Armando Moreno
V 1939 Déjame amarte aunque sea un día Rodolfo Biagi Andrés Falgás
V 1939 Dichas que viví Rodolfo Biagi Andrés Falgás
V 1938 Loca de amor Rodolfo Biagi Teofilo Ibañeez
V 1941 Lágrimas y sonrisas Rodolfo Biagi
T 1944 Saludos Domingo Federico
T 1944 Tu melodía Domingo Federico Carlos Vidal
T 1944 Yuyo verde Domingo Federico Carlos Vidal
T 1944 La culpa la tuve yo Domingo Federico Ignacio Díaz
T 1937 El porteñito Juan D'Arienzo
T 1937 El baquiano (El baqueano) Juan D'Arienzo
T 1937 El africano Juan D'Arienzo
T 1937 El apronte Juan D'Arienzo
************ Dance Performances ************
M 1932 Milonga sentimental Mercedes Simone Mercedes Simone
M 1933 Cacareando Orquesta Típica Victor Carlos Lafuente
M 1941 Mi vieja linda Emilio Pellejero Enalmar De Maria
T 1941 Mishiadura Edgardo Donato
T 1939 Sinsabor Edgardo Donato Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales
T 1940 La melodía del corazón Edgardo Donato Romeo Gavioli
T 1940 Mi serenata Edgardo Donato Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli
T 1943 Garúa Pedro Laurenz Alberto Podestá
T 1943 Que nunca me falte Pedro Laurenz Alberto Podestá
T 1944 Como el hornero Pedro Laurenz Alberto Podestá
T 1943 Todo Pedro Laurenz Alberto Podestá
V 1945 El mismo dolor Miguel Caló Raúl Iriarte
V 1942 Pedacito de cielo Miguel Caló Alberto Podestá
V 1942 El vals soñador Miguel Caló Raúl Berón
V 1941 Bajo un cielo de estrellas Miguel Caló Alberto Podestá
T 1954 Nueve de julio Osvaldo Pugliese
T 1953 Seguime si podés Osvaldo Pugliese
T 1954 Mi lamento Osvaldo Pugliese
T 1952 La Tupungatina Osvaldo Pugliese
T 1943 El cornetín del tranvía Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
T 1943 El cardo azul Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
T 1943 Me llaman tango Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
T 1943 Madre hay una sola Angel D'Agostino Ángel Vargas
T 1940 Pinta orillera Rodolfo Biagi Jorge Ortiz
T 1940 Todo te nombra Rodolfo Biagi Jorge Ortiz
T 1940 No le digas que la quiero Rodolfo Biagi Jorge Ortiz
T 1940 Quiero verte una vez más Rodolfo Biagi Jorge Ortiz
T 1941 El recodo Carlos Di Sarli
T 1941 Germaine Carlos Di Sarli
T 1941 Don Juan Carlos Di Sarli
T 1942 El amanecer Carlos Di Sarli
T 1955 La cumparsita Carlos Di Sarli
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