Gotan Project (FRA)

Gotan Project is a beauty of the Argentinean tango, augmented by modern sound and innovative technologies. The French musicians have approached their music as fashion designers and barmen - which their homeland is well-known for. Gotan Project took all the traditional tango instruments - a violin, an accordion, a comb and a guitar - put them into a blender and gave them a good mix up with pieces of radio programs, solo parts from famed musicians, rap spices and all the rest they found in the fridge.

Traditionally for the trio, the result was unpredictable. In a new DJ mix from Gotan Project, for instance, go naturally side by side musical parts from accordion player and luminary of the genre Astor Piazzolla, mixes a la James Bond from the creative Calexico, hot percussion parts from Domingo Cura, as well as works from dozens of other musicians, whose fans could hardly imagine such neighborhood: Peter Kruder, Anibal Troilo, Antipop Consortium, Pepe Bradock, Al Shid, and GP themselves.

This resulted in the tango of all the colors of the rainbow - Argentinean hot, stylish genteel, club downtempo, and sample-rap hues+ The tango of such beauty and integrity that you don't even seem to be interested in what the originals sound like. Who'd like to listen to the source when he has mixes of such caliber?