{"id":532,"date":"2022-09-24T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2022-09-24T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:59:12","slug":"tango-dj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/contact-us\/tango-dj","title":{"rendered":"Tango DJ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is obvious that disc-jockeys, as a class, are essentially parasitic.<\/strong>
\n We are, with lamentably few exceptions, neither creative nor productive.<\/strong>
\n We have, however, manipulated the creations of others (records)<\/strong>
\n to provide ourselves with reputations as arbiters of public taste.\u201d
\n<\/strong>John Peel, british DJ-legend.<\/p>\n

From the point of view of most milonga visitors, a tango DJ plays a rather minor role.
\nThere are many factors that make a tango event attractive.
\nThe hall, the ambience, the community, feeling part of the scene, meeting friends,
\na wide choice of dance partners, convenient location, good floor, etc.
\nNothing attracts more than nice, well-filled rooms, no matter what music is being played.
\nMay sound bitter to us traditionalists, but it is so in my experience:
\nDancers rarely come for good music, and certainly not for a good DJ!<\/p>\n

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I can’t blame any organizer who doesn’t care about the quality of the music.
\nNo one can make a living from dance evenings, on the contrary,
\nbut they are often an important customer service, an important
\naddition to the course program. So the question of what a tango DJ is,
\nfrom the point of view of the still(?) overwhelming majority of dancers
\nand organizers, could be easily answered:
\n“The guy who plays some CDs”.<\/p>\n

I play the following role:
\nGifted artists<\/a> of long gone days are presented with suitable technique<\/a>
\nand a varied programming, so that their music touches the dancers,
\nand let them feel the soulful liveliness that characterizes the tango.
\nFor me, tango comes from tangere and means “I touch.”
\nThe music expresses movement and touch and makes their energies audible.
\nThe movements and touches of the dancers in turn make the music visible.
\nIn this, I see myself as a medium, a pipeline, so to speak,
\nthrough which energy flows. It is not my energy, I can only channel it
\nand let it work in such a way, that it makes as many dancers as possible happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is obvious that disc-jockeys, as a class, are essentially parasitic. We are, with lamentably few exceptions, neither creative nor productive. We have, however, manipulated the creations of others (records) to provide ourselves with reputations as arbiters of public taste.\u201d John Peel, british DJ-legend. From the point of view of most milonga visitors, a tango […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions\/537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangopeter.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}