Milonga Sin Nombre playlist - Aug 2015

The August 22 Milonga Sin Nombre was organized as a special thank-you celebration for the volunteers of the Mountain Milonga Retreat 2015 

Volunteer Appreciation night at the Milonga Sin Nombre
 "with the roaring comeback of the banana empanadas"
There are dark clouds of uncertainty about the future use of our beautiful venue -
let's hope that this twentieth Sin Nombre won't be the last one...

Mountain Milonga Retreat 2015, the largest one of the many annual retreats traditionally organized by the Wasatch Tango Club in the historic 1929 ski lodge high above the Salt Lake Valley, was a lot of fun - and whole lot of work. Hats off to our fantastic volunteers and staff, to our wonderful instructors and musicians and DJs, and kudos to all the tangueros who helped at every turn of this amazing tango weekend! Thank you for your generosity, thank you for the openness and friendship, thank you for the magic of the connections between souls - this is what makes the M2 so special and unique. See you again next year - please mark your calendars for August 12-15, 2016!

001. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Poliya" 1939 2:31
002. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "El Once (A divertirse)" 1945 2:43
003. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Arrabalero" 1939 2:32
004. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
005. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El flete" 1936 2:58
006. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Derecho viejo" 1939 2:24
007. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El Cencerro" 1937 2:40
008. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
009. Anibal Troilo - Alberto Marino/Floreal Ruiz  "Palomita Blanca (Vals)"  3:22
010. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz  "Romance de barrio" 1947 2:36
011. Anibal Troilo - Instrumental "Un Placer (Vals)"  2:19
012. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
013. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Llorar por una mujer" 1941 2:51
014. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "En la buena y en la mala" 1940 2:26
015. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "No te quiero mas" 1940 2:18
016. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
017. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podesta "No esta"  2:45
018. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podesta "Vamos!..."  2:48
019. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podesta "Al compas del Corazon"  3:19
020. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 2" 1980 0:18
a tanda of gentle milongas
021. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama  "Milonga sentimental" 1933 3:10
022. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Tangon (slow milonga)" 1935 3:17
023. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama  "Milonga del 900" 1933 2:55
024. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
025. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Ricardo Malerba - Embrujamiento" 1943 2:52
026. Ricardo Malerba - Antonio Maida "Encuentro" 2:20
027. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Gitana rusa" 1942 2:47
with the summer night of just 26 people, I feel that it's time to try four-tango tandas at last. It is a format I have virtually no experience with, but it just makes sense to play fewer, longer tandas on a night like this
028. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
029. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "A media luz" 1941 2:31
030. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "A oscuras" 1941 2:48
031. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Se va la vida" 1936 2:39
032. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Lagrimas" 1939 2:50
033. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
favorite valses of Firpo's quartet which he convened after losing the big orchestra during the Great Depression years
034. Roberto Firpo "Olga (vals)" 2:10
035. Roberto Firpo "Para Las Chicas (vals)" 1942 2:14
036. Roberto Firpo "El Aeroplano (vals)" 2:14
037. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
August is the birth month of Demare, and I already started to celebrate it with a Demare-Quintana tanda 3 weeks back, Continuing now with a set of Demare's hits with the voice of Juan Carlos Miranda:
038. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Malena" 1942 2:57
039. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
040. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Sorbos amargos" 1942 3:22
041. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
042. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
043. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Recuerdo Malevo"  2:33
044. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Decile Que Vuelva" 1942 2:33
045. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Así Se Baila El Tango"  2:34
046. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "La vida es corta" 1941 2:25
047. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 2" 1980 0:18
048. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40
049. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Cuando un viejo se enamora" 1942 2:14
050. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Yo Soy De San Telmo" 1943 2:20
051. "Palolo - Charlie Wilson" 0:27
052. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Paciencia" 1938 2:31
053. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Alma del bandoneon" 1935 2:46
054. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
055. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Invierno" 1937 3:26
056. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
057. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras" 2:31
058. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Trasnochando" 1942 3:04
059. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44
060. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Lejos de Buenos Aires" 1942 2:54
061. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
062. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Quien Sera - vals" 1941 2:15
063. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Con Tus Besos (vals)" 1938 2:23
064. Edgardo Donato - Félix Gutiérrez "La Tapera - vals" 1936 2:54
It's always a question if it is a better idea to run a few alternative / unusual tandas back to back, or to spread them evenly in the milonga flow. I guessed that increasing energy and then transitioning to D'Arienzo will keep the dancers on the floor throughout this block of tandas, and it worked very well
065. Carmen Piculeata  "Egy kis cigainy dal" 2013 0:29
066. Kayah & Bregovic  "Ta-Bakiera [This Tabakeria]" 1999 4:17
067. Kayah & Bregovic  "To Nie Ptak [Not a Bird]" 1999 4:40
068. Goran Bregovic  "This Is A Film (feat. Iggy Pop)" 2003 4:18
069. Leonid Bykov  "Smuglyanka"  0:33
070. Fool's Garden  "Lemon tree" 1995 3:09
071. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole  "Over The Rainbow" 2001 3:32
072. Souad Massi  "Ghir Enta" 2008 5:06
073. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 2" 1980 0:18
The final tanda of "the trio of the unusuals" are the Golden-Age foxes
074. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Suavemente"  3:05
075. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "No Te Apures Por Dios Postillon "  2:59
076. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Contando las estrellas"  2:23
077. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
078. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Pensalo bien" 1938 2:27
079. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Que importa" 1939 2:17
080. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Ansiedad" 1938 2:42
081. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "La bruja" 1938 2:18
082. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
083. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Marejada" 1941 2:32
084. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El ingeniero" 1952 3:25
085. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Cara sucia" 1957 2:48
086. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El amanecer" 1951 2:30
087. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
088. Rodolfo Biagi - Andrés Falgás "El Ultimo Adios (vals)" 2:08
089. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Pajaro Herido (vals)" 2:18
090. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Lagrimas Y Sonrisas (vals)"  2:41
091. Anzhelika Varum  "Autumn Jazz"  0:20
My all-time favorite Laurenz hits are with Alberto Podesta, which, of course, means that I may be playing other Pedro Laurenz great tangos too seldom. Trying to fix it now (and switching back to 3-song tandas because we are almost out of out time and I still want to play the crazy late D'Arienzo instrumentals and the must-have Pugliese):
092. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Vieja amiga"  3:13
093. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Al Verla Pasar"  3:23
094. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "No me extrana"  2:44
095. "Na Pua O Hawaii - George Ku Trio" 0:22
096. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La torcacita" 1971 2:31
097. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Zorro gris" 1973 2:03
098. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Este Es El Rey" 1971 3:10
099. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
100. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel  "Farol" 1943 3:22
101. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes Y Esmeralda" 1944 2:49
102. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel  "Rondando tu esquina" 1945 2:48
103. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1961 3:33
104. 17 Hippies  "Marlène" 2005 3:54
105. Eendo  "Eshgh e Aasemaani" 2011 3:31

Thank you! We couldn't hve done it without you! Share the memories, share the embraces, and see you up in the mountains next August!

Mystic Milonga playlist - Guest DJ Michael D'Elia

The 2nd annual Mystic Milonga Afterparty Tour gathered 24 of the craziest tangueros who just wouldn't part ways after the last Cumparsita of the Mountain Milonga Retreat 2015! We drove South to the Fremont Indian State Park to see its famous petroglyphs (some accessible from the pavement, others requiring ascending the airy Cliff Edge trial), checked into the antique log cabins and refurbished 1970s vintage school buses of Mystic Hot Springs, and reconvened in the Monroe City Park for an asado and a pavilion milonga, before retreating to the hot springs to soak under the glow of the Milky Way and  shooting stars of the Perseid flow. And capped the adventure by a hike in Bryce Canyon National Park the following day!

It was the guest DJ Michael D'Elia's first stint in our state, and the second-ever milonga in the vast Central Utah! Michael graciously shared his playlist for the night, which I reformatted here more or less along the lines of the rest of the playlist posts. See you again at Mystic next August! We shall go to see Goblins or Arches next time - it was great to see the hoodoos of Bryce twice, but now I think we'll need a new adventure!

01. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Alberto Gómez 1932 "Rodríguez Peña" Tango
02. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Alberto Gómez 1932 "Don Juan" Tango
03. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Alberto Gómez 1933 "Ventarrón" Tango

04. The Black Crowes -  1992 "Thorn In My Pride" Cortina
05. Francisco Lomuto -  1942 "Sentimiento Gaucho" Tango
06. Francisco Lomuto -  1943 "Catamarca" Tango
07. Francisco Lomuto - Fernando Díaz 1940 "Quiero Verte Una Vez Más" Tango
08. Radical Face -  2006 "Welcome Home" Cortina
09. Rodolfo Biagi -  1942 "Bélgica" Tango
10. Rodolfo Biagi -  1950 "Racing Club" Tango
11. Rodolfo Biagi -  1952 "El Recodo" Tango
12. Blind Melon -  1995 "Mouthful Of Cavities" Cortina
13. Francisco Canaro -  1936 "Dolores" Vals
14. Francisco Canaro -  1938 "Corazón De Oro" Vals
15. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida 1938 "Romántica" Vals
16. The Be Good Tanyas -  2000 "The Coo Coo Bird" Cortina
17. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo 1942 "Muñeca Brava" Tango
18. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo 1942 "Cuatro Compases" Tango
19. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo 1941 "Recuerdo Malevo" Tango
20. Gnarls Barkley -  2006 "Crazy" Cortina
21. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá 1944 "El Criollito Oriental" Milonga
22. Pedro Laurenz -  1944 "Milonga De Mis Amores" Milonga
23. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá 1943 "Yo Soy De San Telmo" Milonga
24. Beirut -  2006 "Postcards From Italy" Cortina
25. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino 1941 "Cascabelito" Tango
26. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino 1941 "Griseta" Tango
27. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino 1942 "Mañana Zarpa Un Barco" Tango
28. Kevin Johansen -  2002 "Sur o No Sur" Cortina
29. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno 1940 "No Te Quiero Mas" Tango
30. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno 1944 "Dicen Que Así Soy Yo" Tango
31. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno 1940 "Danza Maligna" Tango
32. Luminescent Orchestrii -  2005 "Amaritsi" Cortina

33. Francisco Canaro -  1938 "Retintín" Tango
34. Francisco Canaro -  1938 "La Maleva" Tango
35. Francisco Canaro -  1939 "Quiero Verte Una Vez Más" Tango
36. Diego's Umbrella -  2007 "Das Borjka" Cortina
37. Edgardo Donato - Félix Gutiérrez 1936 "La Tapera" Vals
38. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos 1938 "Con Tus Besos" Vals
39. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, y… 1940 "Estrellita Mía" Vals
40. M. Ward -  2003 "Duet for Guitars #3" Cortina
41. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray 1933 "Vida Mía" Tango
42. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray 1937 "Sollozos" Tango
43. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray 1937 "No Quiero Verte Llorar" Tango
44. Lhasa De Sela -  1998 "Desdenosa" Cortina
45. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos 1938 "Sácale Punta" Milonga
46. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos 1938 "Ella Es Así" Milonga
47. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos 1940 "Campo Afuera" Milonga
48. Laura Marling -  2008 "Ghosts" Cortina
49. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón 1942 "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes" Tango
50. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón 1942 "Margarita Gauthier" Tango
51. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón 1942 "Corazón No Le Hagas Caso" Tango
52. CocoRosie -  2010 "Smokey Taboo" Cortina
53. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino 1942 "Malena" Tango
54. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino 1941 "El Bulín De La Calle Ayacucho" Tango
55. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino 1942 "Pa' Que Seguir" Tango
56. Radiohead -  2007 "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" Cortina
57. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo 1941 "Mi Romance" Vals
58. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo 1941 "La Serenata (Mi Amor)" Vals
59. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo 1941 "Recuerdo" Vals
60. Neko Case -  2006 "Dirty Knife" Cortina
61. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas 1942 "Ninguna" Tango
62. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas 1941 "Adiós Arrabal" Tango
63. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas 1945 "El Aristócrata" Tango
64. Jenny Lewis -  2008 "Bad Man's World" Cortina
65. Francisco Canaro - Ángel Ramos y Ernesto Famá 1933 "Milonga Sentimental" Milonga
66. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida 1936 "Milonga Criolla" Milonga
67. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida 1936 "Silueta Porteña" Milonga
68. Andrew Bird -  2009 "Tenuousness" Cortina
69. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos 1938 "El Adiós" Tango
70. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales 1940 "Triqui-tra" Tango
71. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos 1937 "Gato" Tango
72. DeVotchKa -  2004 "We're Leaving" Cortina
73. Juan D'Arienzo -  1966 "9 De Julio" Tango
74. Juan D'Arienzo -  1963 "El Choclo" Tango
75. Juan D'Arienzo -  1937 "La Cumparsita" Tango

Milonga Mas Alta playlist, Aug 2015

The old lodge fills with dancers - Sandra Angel's photo

I am trying, frantically, to catch up with the August playlists, please forgive me if I'm zipping by too fast for this incredibly eventful month, marked by Wasatch Tango Club's signature event, the Mountain Milonga Retreat!  The days and nights of living together, of ever-strengthening connections between the like-minded souls, of group hikes and communal meals, and much, much tango in a beautiful 1929 log-house ballroom! My heart is just melting with every memory of the Retreat, and I bow low to all the volunteers and crew members and helpers who make the "M2" possible! You are so awesome!

As an organizer of the 80+-strong gathering, I know that I must put up with many 3-hour sleep nights, with many missed tanda opportunities, and with a total deficit of time ... which also means that I can't get a good chance to play my own music selections. But I still jumped at a chance to play some music at a first-of-its-kind milonga of the "M2", the Sunday outdoor milonga at the top of a ski lift (a.k.a. Krista's Peak). I scoped the location last fall - the winter cafe terrace has an even but rough floor, and I packed a blue tarp to make it more pivot friendly. From this year's experience, I know that we'll need to bring a larger tarp or plastic sheeting, and a more powerful speaker set - and to expect a good crowd. Welcome to the first-ever Milonga Mas Alta, Utah's highest elevation milonga ever, where the music was almost an afterthought - and where I chose to play a lot of oldies "from the era when people really danced on dirt and oilcloth tarps"


01. Orquesta de Roberto Firpo  "Una Noche En La Milonga" 1929 2:56
02. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá  "La estancia" 1930 3:17
03. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Belen" 1929 2:44
04. Cuarteto Roberto Firpo "El Aeroplano (vals)" 1936 2:14
05. Los Provincianos, Alberto Gomez  "Samaritana (vals)" 1932 2:58
06. Cuarteto Roberto Firpo - Carlos Varela  "Barreras de Amor" 1936 2:36
07. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas  "Solo compasion" 1941 2:58
08. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Un Tropezón"  2:34
09. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas  "Una pena" 1941 2:55
10. Orquesta Típica Víctor (dir. Adolfo Carabelli) - Roberto Díaz  "Vieja calesita" 1929 2:40
11. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. Adolfo Carabelli)  "Che, papusa, oi" 1927 2:37
12. Roberto Firpo - Teofilo Ibanez  "Ya no cantas, Chingolo" 1928 2:56
13. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Yo no se llorar" 1933 2:36
14. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ricardo Ruiz  "Si no me engana el corazon" 1939 2:31
15. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ricardo Ruiz  "Inquietud" 1939 2:28
16. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ricardo Ruiz  "Buscandote" 1941 2:49

and then we were off down the hill to make it to the final hour of DJ Serena's Tango Addicts Milonga at the lodge...

Milonga Nuestra playlist, August 2015

DJing the Nuestra

The "house milonga" of the tango school of the DF Studio makes a roaring comeback after a two-month summer break - wow, what a turnout! The "Nuestra" crowd is as always a mix of the aspiring students and the wider local community - and my concept of a music mix for the night was "no pre-Golden age records, some accessible music, lots of passion and drive, some alternative". (Especially since I hope to land an invite to DJ another part-alternative milonga out of town soon ... gotta work on the sets :) ... I managed to squeeze 4 alt tandas in 3 hours this time). The alternative and the powerful-drive tandas drew dancers on the floor really well, but still left me with a few questions to ponder...
01. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Champagne tango" 1938 2:30
02. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El garron" 1938 2:27
03. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Alma en pena" 1938 2:46
04. "Na Pua O Hawaii - George Ku Trio" 0:22
05. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Cara sucia" 1952 2:20
06. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Don Juan" 1955 2:48
07. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "El pollito" 1951 3:22
08. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 1" 2007 0:17
09. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Valsecito de Antes" 1937 2:19
10. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echague  "En tu corazon (vals)" 1938 2:46
11. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Corazon de artista (vals)" 1936 2:22
12. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
13. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Adiós, Arrabal" 1941 3:10
14. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Mano Blanca" 1944 2:43
15. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ahora No Me Conocés" 1941 2:35
16. Gypsy Folk  "Autumn Dew"  0:30
17. Rodolfo Biagi - Instrumental "La Maleva" 1939 2:35
18. Rodolfo Biagi - Andrés Falgás "Cielo!" 1939 2:31
19. Rodolfo Biagi - Andrés Falgás "La Chacarera" 1940 2:24
20. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
21. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada" 1941 2:22
22. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Entre Pitada Y Pitada" 1942 2:33
23. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 1941 2:27
24. Adriano Celentano "Quel Punto"  0:27
The post-milonga cooldown set is an airy and mysterious alt tanda, a quality which we hardly ever get with the classic tango music.
25. Pentatonix  "Say Something (Christina Aguilera Cover)"  4:39
26. Yann Tiersen "Comptine D'un Autre Ete" 2001 2:21
27. Hindi Zahra  "Beautiful Tango" 2011 3:57

Tangueros fill the floor after just a few opening tandas.
Atakan's photo.

28. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
29. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras"  2:31
30. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Lejos de Buenos Aires" 1942 2:54
31. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44
32. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 2007 0:18
Spirited valses from the period when Federico Scorticati, an Uruguayan-born virtuoso bandoneonist, led Victor label's house orchestra. Scorticati got his first bando at 8, and soon put it to work at the silent movie theaters of Montevideo. And he kept playing the same instrument, with well-worn keys, well into his 70s on tours across Latin America and Japan! 
All three famous singers in these records started their illustrious tango orchestra recording careers with Scorticati's "OTV". But this date in history is especially linked with the name of Lita Morales. On August 6, 1941, Lita made her last record with Donato's orchestra, and apparently took a maternity leave, from which she never emerged. Exactly a year later, Edgardo Donato fired her and both of his male vocalists over some unspeakable scandal - and then his whole orchestra instantly imploded, with musicians, composers, poets leaving, to never record any more tangos again. You can read a poetic reconstruction attempt of this dark drama on El Espejero's blog.
33. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Lita Morales "Noches de invierno" 1937 2:47
34. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Ángel Vargas "Sin Rumbo Fijo (vals)" 1938 2:18
35. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Mario Pomar  "Temo" 1940 2:55
36. Leonid Utesov  "Road to Berlin (slow)"  0:27
The final piece of this alternative tanda is contagiously rhythmic yet it may actually be the hardest to interpret as tango? If you know me, you may understand how I picked it, in part, for a common theme of "trains going North", but I am not so sure now.... What do you think?
37. Feist and Ben Gibbard  "Train Song"  3:03
38. Waldeck  "Addicted" 2007 3:51
39. Valery Meladze "Vera" 2009 4:06

40. "Palolo - Charlie Wilson" 0:27
41. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Noches Del Colon" 1941 2:36
42. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Recuerdo Malevo" 1941 2:33
43. ARicardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Comparsa Criolla" 1941 2:53
44. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
45. Otros Aires dos  "Los Vino"  2:41
46. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "Largas las Penas" 2011 3:02
47. Esteban Morgado  "Morena" 2005 2:27
48. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26

Lucio Demare (Totango photo)

August is the birth month of Lucio Demare ( 8/9/1906 - 3/6/1974 ), a romantic pianist whose talent matured during his decade in Paris in the 1920s and 30s, and who often played solo or accompanied singers. His Golden Era orchestra recorded only 50 or so pieces, and the recordings with the voice of Horacio Quitana are often overshadowed by the stellar pieces with Raúl Berón ("Una emocion!") and Juan Carlos Miranda ("No te apures Carablanca"!), but they are all beautiful.
49. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintana "Solamente ella" 1944 3:15
50. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintana "Torrente" 1944 3:10
51. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintana "Igual que un bandoneon" 1945 3:02
52. "Palolo - Charlie Wilson" 0:27
53. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Germaine" 1941 2:58
54. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
55. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "La trilla" 1940 2:21
56. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 2007 0:18
57. Rodolfo Biagi "Lágrimas y Sonrisas (Vals)" 1941 2:40
58. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Por Un Beso De Amor (vals)" 1940 2:44
59. Rodolfo Biagi - Alberto Lago "Amor y vals" 1942 2:48
60. Enya & Enigma  "Delerium \ Flowers become screens"  0:27
61. Fool's Garden  "Lemon tree" 1995 3:09
62. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole  "Over The Rainbow" 2001 3:32
63. Souad Massi  "Ghir Enta" 2008 5:06
64. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
65. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Sinfonía De Arrabal" 1940 3:07
66. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "El Adios" 1938 3:09
67. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales, Romeo Gavio  "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
68. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
These candombes have an irresistible drive and the floor fills quickly ... but the inexperienced tangueros seem to have a challenging time with their beat. Need to think about "milonga tandas on training wheels" ... could one play a fun set of milongas which are also beginner-friendly? Slower-paced Canaros?
69. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Azabache" 1942 3:05
70. Alberto Castillo y su orquesta "El Gatito en el Tejado" 1957 2:37
71. Romeo Gavioli y su orquesta típica  "Tamboriles" 1956 2:56
72. Oleg Gazmanov  "Summer Rains"  0:26
73. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron" 1956 2:47
74. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi  "Hasta siempre amor" 1958 2:57
75. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi  "Queriéndote" 1955 2:49
76. "Palolo - Charlie Wilson" 0:27

"Muchacha" has a captivating vocal but may be weaker, overall, than required for the culmination tanda... The real high point here is Remembranza, another tango with a Parisian pedigree, composed in 1934 by bandoneonist Mario Melfi (best known for being a coauthor of Poema). August is Melfi's birth month (in 1905), and he sailed for Paris also in August, just shy of his 18th birthday - to never come back. On the sheet music, even the lyrics are in French!
77. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel  "Esta noche de luna" 1955 3:48
78. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel  "Muchacha" 1956 3:18
79. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
80. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
81. Goran Bregovic  "Maki Maki" 2009 3:33
We're already 15 minutes past the closing time, but the dancers beg for more and are granted two more songs while the cleanup is underway :)
82. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "Pavadita" 1958 2:55
83. Alfredo De Angelis - Instrumental  "Felicia" 1969 2:48