[Tango-L] There's nothing more alternative than tango.

[andres amarilla]

There's nothing more alternative than tango.

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>  Extremes are bad. Some people claim that they want to dance to
> alternative music. But if we end up dancing all the crap that the media
> force us to listen since we're kids there's no so call alternative.
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> I don't see the point in dancing tango with lobotomizing music.
> Lobotomizing music is what sounds in the FM stations all around the world.
> OK? Or commercial movie sound track like the horrible Goran Bregovic  (god
> knows if real Balkan music sound like that maybe Goran is kidding us like
> Borat) or the washed, apathic Amelie. For god sick! you can't dance tango
> with washed music!!! and you can't dance tango with something that makes you
> jump.
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>   Alternative music is alternative to tango. But also has to be an
> alternative to your every day life as tango it is. Tango has what our
> society lucks, tango has personality.  Tango has spirit. OK other musics
> has. Also has blood. Some music has. But tango has guts like no music has.
> Can someone tell me were in find the guts and the blood in the Amelie sound
> track or in somewhere over the rainbow?
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> I will dance a few rocks or blues or cumbia or zouk or a samba something
> black like tango that connects mi legs to the earth and makes my soul get
> high, Not something that makes me open my mouth with no expression. We have
> a lot of that in during the day sitting in front of the computer. When I
> dance tango I want to be alive, I want to escape but feeling powerful, not
> like a plant.
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> The point is. Do we want to have fun doing something that makes us rich as
> individuals? Or do we want to bubble gum have fun, like in the movies or the
> rave? If we need to fit everything to to the size of what we are use to, we
> can sit in the milonga and sing "take me to the tango game" while we eat a
> Hot Dog. We can also install a MC Donald's close to every Milonga in Buenos
> Aires as an alternative to the cafés. And a whole foods in every barrio
> porteño. Next time I go to Buenos Aires I'll take El Tango Guillermo to the
> health food store and I'll explain him that is a good alternative for him.
> Nuevo guys: some alternative music is hip and progre? Or more capitalism?
> I'm not socialist but a little bit of common sense is good sometimes.
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> Andrés Amarilla
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