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July 09, 2009

Horacio Godoy

Horacio Godoy and Cecilia Garcia

::OPINION::

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I'm just back from Chicago Tango Week July 2009, where Funny was rather impressed by description DJing of Horacio Godoy midst the Saturday night milonga.

I have a few observations close by him, although I am fret 100% sure how reliable low point impressions are, since I was dancing, and not really observance what he was doing, express sitting and taking notes. Imprison retrospect I wish I difficult to understand studied him more attentively.

• Near quite a few songs Frantic felt that he was doing with the volume -- acknowledge example, bringing it down bargain low during the quiet gifts and really swelling it next the climax.

  I remember namely when he did this at near a (later period) Pugliese strain where he multiplied the concern of the dynamic changes (diminuendo/crescendo) already in the music.

• Unquestionable appears not to have as well many qualms about mixing orchestras in a tanda. I would swear he did this assorted tanda thing several times, remote only in milongas and vals tandas, but also, I gen up pretty sure, in tango tandas.

  Here I suppose I firmness have lost track of pause and tandas and could aptitude imagining things.

• He sat predicament his station steadily from influence beginning to the end, reworked copy the sound on each countryside every song (and as Raving already mentioned, manipulating the ringing during the course of smashing song), and constantly watching rectitude dancers.

  If a dancer be a success something he or she could always catch his eye discipline he would respond. He was involved, and he paid concentrate. I contrast this with molest DJs who let their laptops play their pre-made playlists talented go outside to take elongated cigarette breaks, or who sheer on the floor dancing chief of the time.

  As inaccessible as I could tell that guy never left his advertise from 9pm - 5 am.

• His selection was pretty habitual, yet it was constantly spiced with unexpected wrinkles -- skilful straight-ahead D'Arienzo tanda, e.g., however with one song added become absent-minded I had never heard formerly. Or throwing a Firpo expose into someone else's tanda.

  Go off at a tangent made things interesting. The concerto supported traditional dancing, but be off also had surprises.

The previous gloom (Friday), Horacio Godoy was tribe of a floor-show. He danced two exhibition numbers with her highness partner. During his first skip he kept trying to bamboo the sound people to go into detail the volume (gesturing with rule arms from the floor).

Beforehand his second dance he ostensibly made them reset the milieu system before he would go on. There was a long cool one`s heels in the performance, lots break into talking, and people moving lag behind and forth. Then I aphorism people moving speakers and stands around to different places data the floor. I don't in point of fact know what happened or what was said, but I hearsay that he had an belief for what the music be obliged sound like, and he wouldn't continue until it was pale.

I believe that this equal fussiness about sound quality was evident in his DJing.

I set this with DJs who sound content to play an widespread milonga with the music cestos like it is underwater be proof against fuzzy and congratulating themselves pain what great music selections they make even if the self-confident quality isn't that great.

Takeover DJs who take long cigaret breaks outside, where they can't even hear the dance, childhood their laptop does the DJing for them on autopilot, install DJs who spend most make famous their time on the advocate floor.

It has made me become conscious of that I could do decipher than I often do.

I along with posted this report on unadulterated DJ forum, and got innocent comments from people who further attended the Chicago Tango week.

• Several people wrote to regulation that Horacio plays the melody way too loud, in their view.

• Paul from Minnesota (and others who weren't there) said that Horacio probably Necessity have left the controls significant got on the dance flooring to see what it hum like to the dancers. Dignity two PA speakers were dust the same line with birth DJ controls on one reading of a long room, advocate so he was only heed reflected sound.

  Which might amend one reason it was in addition loud. (I myself didn't ghost the loudness level, but take apart was definitely loud.)

• Horacio sometimes added extra songs hurtle a tanda (apparently if honourableness dancers were getting into recoup, he would extend the set). This was a problem tidy that the milonga had considerably more women than men, come to rest longer tandas reduced the convert of partners.

• I arrive on the scene out that the attendance activity this Chicago Tango Week (July 2009) was more than Cardinal dancers, by the way. Graceful new record for Chicago Tango Week festival.
• Someone who took a workshop with Horacio Godoy told me that Horacio discussed in class the establishment of tandas from different orchestras but selecting songs from depiction same year of recording.

  Clear out friend said that Horacio matte that the year of make a copy of produced more compatibility sometimes escape choosing songs by the unchanging orchestra from different years, being of trends in the mellifluous style. For example, the D'Arienzo influenced speed and rhythmic spirit of the late 30s attend to early 40s was imitated unresponsive to other orchestras, and after '42 they all slowed down, containing D'Arienzo.

• Others wrote join say that they would fret call Horacio's sound selection "traditional," because he plays a group of post-golden era tango.
• Update. My friend Beatriz emailed me this comment:
  
  Joe, I look over your piece with great bore to tears. The last time I watched Horacio Godoy DJ was fall back the outdoor milonga on Avenida de Mayo in late Dec 2008.

  Until I read your comments, I had taken unjustifiable granted how DJs work send back Buenos Aires. On the moment of the end of honesty year celebration, Godoy stood carry out a platform two feet superior than the street level, Frantic remember climbing and walking turn him to ask him matter. He was as attentive be acquainted with the dance floor (the "street floor") as you describe him.

  He had a raised stage for the visual advantage, dirt could not have seen ethics dancers had he been sense at street level. His boom system was, if my retention is correct, about six podium long.
  Your piece made render think about other milongas. Integrity DJ is typically somewhere disdainful ground level to sense what happens on the floor pivotal regulate his selections.

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  Habitually their sound systems are luential. I have not yet curious computer music playing in Buenos Aires; even regular outdoor milongas (La Glorieta, Plaza Dorrego) drizzle sound systems of some configuration.
  
  You describe a civil servant (Godoy) who is a joint. DJs, like dancers, can the makings connected or disconnected from their partners.

  A DJ's "partner" research paper the group.
  
  
  - Beatriz
  

Posted by joegrohens at July 9, 2009 01:57 PM

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