I once went to a milonga that celebrated Canaro’s 120-year birthday by playing Canaro all evening. Earnestly… what a boring evening! After one enthusiastic tanda, and one more because I can never have enough of something good, my brain slowly degraded into some kind of tango-porridge. It got stiff, so did my dancing.
A few years previous to this I visited a milonga in Sydney - Australia, and the DJ played Piazzolla almost all evening and after feeling sorry for myself for quite a while I gave up and went to the bar to get drunk in good and well chilled australien white wine.
Luckily those kinds of extreme experiments are
few, unfortunately it does not have to be that extreme to have a bad influence
on my mood and capability of dancing a nice tango.
Many DJs tend to label their style e.g. modern or classical. This, of
course gives an idea about the music to expect from the DJ and guides the DJ in
his work, but if the DJ, consciously or unconsciously, also gets stuck in a
specific time period or style; rhythmical or lyrical, it glues my feet to the dance floor, and I
stop dancing and talk with friends and drink wine or beer instead.
