Comments on: Why do I love Cortina? http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:26:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Hayoung http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/comment-page-1/#comment-23986 Hayoung Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:13:55 +0000 http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/#comment-23986 I love cortinas too. I started DJing at least twice a month at a local milonga in Seoul earlier this year, so I'm just a newbie. I'm currently in the US to take care of some paperwork issues, and I was a little appalled by the level of DJing here, so I offered to guest DJ one night. They gladly accepted, in exchange of free wine and empanadas. I had never received any complaints about my cortinas, but last Friday the organizer relayed some complaints that I should play calmer cortinas. I never play the same cortina throughout the night. Instead, I choose the cortinas based on what kind of tanda is coming up. So I played an ultra-fast instrumental guitar track as a 'warning' that a very fast milonga tanda was coming up, as it was earlier in the night (to the local standards... meaning 23:30-midnight). But there is an older crowd here who is judgmental yet don't know crap. Whatever. Back in Korea, maybe people complained behind my back, but people were generally receptive to even my weirdest cortinas, in preparation for a wacky tanda, like a D'Arienzo Echague of the early 50s, such as Bien Pulenta, Nene del Abasto, Hipo, etc. Maybe I should start following your advice and just concentrate in keeping up the dancing mood! I love cortinas too. I started DJing at least twice a month at a local milonga in Seoul earlier this year, so I’m just a newbie. I’m currently in the US to take care of some paperwork issues, and I was a little appalled by the level of DJing here, so I offered to guest DJ one night. They gladly accepted, in exchange of free wine and empanadas.
I had never received any complaints about my cortinas, but last Friday the organizer relayed some complaints that I should play calmer cortinas. I never play the same cortina throughout the night. Instead, I choose the cortinas based on what kind of tanda is coming up. So I played an ultra-fast instrumental guitar track as a ‘warning’ that a very fast milonga tanda was coming up, as it was earlier in the night (to the local standards… meaning 23:30-midnight). But there is an older crowd here who is judgmental yet don’t know crap. Whatever. Back in Korea, maybe people complained behind my back, but people were generally receptive to even my weirdest cortinas, in preparation for a wacky tanda, like a D’Arienzo Echague of the early 50s, such as Bien Pulenta, Nene del Abasto, Hipo, etc.
Maybe I should start following your advice and just concentrate in keeping up the dancing mood!

]]> By: Eran Braverman http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/comment-page-1/#comment-23162 Eran Braverman Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:32:33 +0000 http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/#comment-23162 Hi Excellent information re cortinas! Loved it! Please also see www.tangoinfo.com.au - lots of tango articles including tango history, milonga and vals history, milonga etiquette, embellishments, tango photos and many others! Warm regards, Eran Braverman Hi
Excellent information re cortinas! Loved it!
Please also see http://www.tangoinfo.com.au – lots of tango articles including tango history, milonga and vals history, milonga etiquette, embellishments, tango photos and many others!
Warm regards,
Eran Braverman

]]> By: la nuit blanche http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/comment-page-1/#comment-15032 la nuit blanche Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:53:22 +0000 http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/#comment-15032 this is such a good post! thank you for sharing your thoughts on the cortina. i agree with emily about latin/cuban music being a good choice! well, maybe swing or jazz is my personal favorite... :) there is one milonga here in new york city that often plays bluegrass or country music during the cortina. i can't stand it. it's too much of a mood break, and the difference between the music is so marked, that it washes the tango out of me. this is such a good post! thank you for sharing your thoughts on the cortina. i agree with emily about latin/cuban music being a good choice! well, maybe swing or jazz is my personal favorite… :)

there is one milonga here in new york city that often plays bluegrass or country music during the cortina. i can’t stand it. it’s too much of a mood break, and the difference between the music is so marked, that it washes the tango out of me.

]]> By: Lucas http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/comment-page-1/#comment-2249 Lucas Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/#comment-2249 Hi Royce, I like you wrote. It' very good to discuss this. Cortina is not only cortina. Cotina changed emotion. To Emily, Last year I went HK in summer, I danced very happy when you were the DJ. It's give me wonderful memorize. Thank you~ Hi Royce,
I like you wrote. It’ very good to discuss this.

Cortina is not only cortina. Cotina changed emotion.

To Emily,
Last year I went HK in summer, I danced very happy when you were the DJ.
It’s give me wonderful memorize. Thank you~

]]> By: Emily http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Emily Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:51:13 +0000 http://www.loksze.com/thoughts/2007/01/09/why-do-i-love-cortina/#comment-2236 hahaha, you have written almost all I think....100 percent agree! one thing I want to add is, cortina can also be a trademark of a milonga in Buenos Aires. When I was in BsAs in the mid of 2005, Porteno y bailarin always play the soundtrack of Mission Impossible - it has become a trademark of PyB. I don't know if their cortina has been changed (please tell me, royce), but during the 5 weeks that I stayed, the dj always played the same cortina, which played an important role of the identity of the milonga (which is so differernt from El Beso!). But i think this can't work in HK (with so a lot less tango events), since there is so many milongas in BsAs (at one night!), so the cortina stands out more as the identity of the milonga there. My trademark (favourite cortinas) is latin/cubin music like those of Xavier Cugat!!! I guess not a lot of ppl notice this... = P I also have an special practice - I don't play cortina at the very beginning of a milonga, cos I want to drive more ppl to the dance floor and there are just too little dancers to clear from the dance floor. But I will carefully select the music, which the style are really very similar to make the mood as smooth as possible. i also experienced to use a series of cortinas of the same melody but of differernt mood to match the flow of a milonga, (a more enegetic cortina at the beginning and the a slower cortina towards the end) but I still prefer one cortina for the whole event. I remember when I danced in a milonga in Rome, the dj chooses very very good tango, but he uses differernt songs for each cortina, which is, for me at least, quite disturbing. hahaha, you have written almost all I think….100 percent agree! one thing I want to add is, cortina can also be a trademark of a milonga in Buenos Aires. When I was in BsAs in the mid of 2005, Porteno y bailarin always play the soundtrack of Mission Impossible – it has become a trademark of PyB. I don’t know if their cortina has been changed (please tell me, royce), but during the 5 weeks that I stayed, the dj always played the same cortina, which played an important role of the identity of the milonga (which is so differernt from El Beso!). But i think this can’t work in HK (with so a lot less tango events), since there is so many milongas in BsAs (at one night!), so the cortina stands out more as the identity of the milonga there.
My trademark (favourite cortinas) is latin/cubin music like those of Xavier Cugat!!! I guess not a lot of ppl notice this… = P I also have an special practice – I don’t play cortina at the very beginning of a milonga, cos I want to drive more ppl to the dance floor and there are just too little dancers to clear from the dance floor. But I will carefully select the music, which the style are really very similar to make the mood as smooth as possible. i also experienced to use a series of cortinas of the same melody but of differernt mood to match the flow of a milonga, (a more enegetic cortina at the beginning and the a slower cortina towards the end) but I still prefer one cortina for the whole event. I remember when I danced in a milonga in Rome, the dj chooses very very good tango, but he uses differernt songs for each cortina, which is, for me at least, quite disturbing.

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