I think one of the jobs that I'd be happy to do for the rest of my life would be being a scout on the lookout for new music from around the world. There I was, at my first Beginner Tango lesson, and what really intrigued me was not the history of the dance or what other steps we'd be learning next week. Instead, it was this piece of music by Carlos Libedinsky from his 2003 album narcotango. The song is called vi luz y subí which roughly translates as i saw the light and i entered. It's like when you're in a house and you saw this light coming from a room and you decided to enter that room.

As always, that discovery of great new music always led me to a mad dash of DC's CD stores... and as always, none of the stores had the cd! What is wrong with these retails with supposedly extensive collections. Hmm... perhaps the question should be about me, "how come I always ended up liking these obscure, esoteric, artists?" But from what I've found out, this new movement in tango music is not exactly unheard-of.

According to Horacio Ferrer, a well-known tango historian, "Tango undergoes evolutionary cycles." Which is probably true, first was the arrival of big orchestral tango, followed by the introduction of lyrics to the music. Then come the nuevo tango with its jazz influence and it's only a matter of time indeed before another genre of music decided to have its take on the argentinean dance. As quoted from Pablo Farba, a well-noted festival producer, "in the new millennium, yet another revolution has taken place in Buenos Aires." Tango electronico is here. Perhaps the most significant acknowledgment of this movement would be when the DJs spinned their electronica-infused tango at the city government-sponsored 6th International Tango Festival of Buenos Aires in 2004.