Tanda of the Week 43/2026 revisits a tanda I first posted in 2012: Ángel D’Agostino with Ángel Vargas. Fourteen years later, one track is out, another is in, and the keys determined the new order.
Tanda of the Week 42/2026 is free to read: a milonga tanda by Cuarteto SolTango, a German chamber quartet playing D’Arienzo’s milonga book on four instruments. It still fills a traditional floor, and I’ll tell you where in the night I put it: https://t.co/WqC65Zte8Y
Everyone knows Roberto Rufino as the teenager on the Di Sarli records. This week's tanda is the other Rufino: forty-one, with Aníbal Troilo, 1963 to 1965, in a sound I'd say most DJs skip. Built for the last hour of the night. Get the full story: https://t.co/ii80sR2gc9
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Pedro Laurenz and Pedro Maffia shared a music stand in Julio De Caro's sextet. One is played at every milonga, the other almost never. Tanda of the Week 40/2026 goes to Maffia's own orchestra, 1930-31, with three singers taking turns on the refrains.
https://t.co/z9He7V6lWz
Valses from the 1950s do not turn up in many milongas. This week's tanda puts three orchestras side by side: Osvaldo Pugliese with Alberto Morán, Roberto Caló, and Francisco Rotundo. Five voices, three valses. See why they belong together. https://t.co/zqBuLsuzYi
Domingo Federico wrote a shelf of tangos everybody plays. Almost all of them reached the floor in another orchestra's recording. Seventy-seven tandas into this series, his own band finally gets one. Week 38/2026 is up. The full story: https://t.co/9knOHDE4xz
This week's tanda is José Basso in 1949, his very first year on record, with Oscar Ferrari, Francisco Fiorentino and a closing duet with Ricardo Ruiz. Titles every floor knows by heart, in versions it has almost never danced. See how it works: https://t.co/MSZc3ET5AJ
D'Arienzo's run of milongas has a Montevideo story behind it. This week: three recordings with Alberto Echagüe, 1938 and 1939, that placed side by side seem to trace one man's life. The middle one nobody else has ever recorded. Week 36/2026.
https://t.co/RxQAGxOXGj
1926 was the year electrical recording reached tango, and this week's tanda plays it straight: four instrumentals from Orquesta Típica Victor, cut within months of that shift and turning 100 this year.
Three valses in a De Angelis tanda, and one composer wrote two of them.
His name is Juan Larenza, and he keeps turning up in my weekly series, always attached to someone else's orchestra.
The best vals composer nobody talks about.
Week 33/2026 is a vals tanda, and there was only ever one orchestra it could come from. Alfredo De Angelis, with the Dante and Martel duo, and a young Floreal Ruiz on the closer. Three valses for a floor that already wants to turn.
https://t.co/JySOMqmXxm
Ask ten DJs for a Ricardo Malerba tanda and nine reach for the same six recordings. Fair enough, it works. But the catalogue holds more. Week 32/2026 brings two tandas with Orlando Medina: the one everyone plays, and one you will not find ready-made.
https://t.co/t553otIYXo
One year of Weekly Curated Tandas, and the Week 31/2026 tanda marks it with Carlos Di Sarli - four instrumentals from his 1951 return, the sessions most DJs still walk past. Why they belong on a warm floor: https://t.co/qjbwLOeSw3
Every 11 July, Argentina toasts the bandoneón on Aníbal Troilo's birthday. For Week 30/2026, my own toast comes from an unexpected corner of his discography: the milongas, with Francisco Fiorentino at the microphone. Get the full story: https://t.co/2GzpANL6X1
This week's tanda belongs to the two Ángeles — D'Agostino and Vargas, a voice that plays like an instrument of the orchestra. It opens with something you love and lands somewhere deeper. Find your next favorite: https://t.co/heCA9V1SVV
Before Quinteto Pirincho, there was Quinteto Don Pancho — Canaro's leaner, faster studio quintet, built to answer D'Arienzo's rhythm-driven tango. This week's tanda pulls four bright, driving instrumental tangos from that short-lived project. Full story: https://t.co/DFv63iKHZ3