![]() Gotan are not just for 21st century hipsters we'd wager that any Buenos Aires resident circa 1930 would hear the band and simply get it. ![]() Overused words like "seamless" and "organic" were made for this project. Singer Christina Vilallonga's voice is a thrilling, guttural instrument, and the marriage of electronics and live instrumentation is a testament to the skill of the musicians involved. The sound is hip and slightly tense, and that's its beauty. The project takes trip-hop's trademark cool and tango's visceral excitement and makes together. The Gotan Project - named after the Buenos Aires slang for tango - have quite possibly rescued the genre from those twin ghettos of musical obscurity: classical and world music. ![]() It took a couple of French beatmakers, Philippe Cohen-Solal and Christoph Mueller, and a handful of Argentinean expats to finally make the connection in 2001. are most likely acquainted with the electronic tango of Paris's popular Gotan Project. In the techno age, setting tango to electronic beats should have been an obvious project -but it wasn't. Argentine Tango Instrumental Music Kacey Link, Kristin Wendland. ![]()
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