The local milonga scene has just lost a fairly young, new DJ Ivan, to London. Ivan was playing some of the best music in Edinburgh recently and I was disappointed to miss his last two or three sets due to illness. The other good DJ is Tareq who arrived last year in Dundee for a year's course of study. He occasionally DJs in Edinburgh.
He has changed his style since he arrived. He initially played a lot of cover bands and more dramatic music when he arrived because that is popular in the milongas in his country. He was delighted to make use of these setlists for ideas, restoring my faith in human intelligence and spreading better classic music locally. So often you lead the horse to clean water it still, inexplicably, insists on drinking the brackish stuff, although actually that’s an insult to horses they don’t deserve.
The other good Edinburgh based DJ was Richard but I never hear or see him probably because I haven’t been going out much to the city and I don’t think he does either. It’s a similar story with DJ Spyros also based in Dundee/ St Andrews.
It does raise the question why some of the best DJs (and good dancers) rarely go out to dance or DJ locally.
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