Barbara D’Agostino
Italy
Barbara discovered her passion for tango in 2003. In 2004, with other tango enthusiasts, she founded the Amotango Association in her hometown of Asti (Piedmont, Italy), which, since 2007, has been known as Astintango.
From 2009 to 2019, she organized the Astintango Festival, a major event in the Italian tango scene.
In 2015, she began working as a musicalizador and, since then, has continued to deepen her knowledge of orchestras and pieces from all eras, although she favors the 1940s, the golden age of tango.
During her evenings, she enjoys a variety of performances, featuring mostly traditional orchestras, but with some contemporary touches, and always with an eye on the dance floor and the dancers’ needs. He has curated the musical selections in many Milongas in Northern and Central Italy and in so many Festivals, Marathons and Encuentros, throughout Europe, that it is difficult to remember them all.
Jack Rombauts
Belgium
Jack, organizer of Encuentros Boca Antwerp, Sélys Milonguero, and Xmas in Embrace, as well as Milonga Milonguero Nieuw Kwartier in Antwerp, has been immersed in tango for 25 years. Over time, he evolved towards the Milonguero style.
With more than 17 years of DJing experience, he has played tandas at milongas, festivals, and encuentros across Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Latvia, and Spain. His selections always feature danceable, energetic, and feel-good music from the Golden Age Orchestras, carefully chosen to enhance the dancers’ experience on the pista.
Paola Rossi
Italy
My tango discovery began in 2010, and my approach to the consolle came about five years later. Fascinated and intrigued by this world, I particularly loved to listen for hours this kind of music. I began to discover the defferent orchestras with a particular focus on the “golden era.”
When I’m in consolle I enjoy to play with the dance floor energy and with the right mix of fast and slow rhythms, trying to get a good wave, observing and trying to capture the dancers’ mood. I prefer tango from the 1930s and 1940s, but I certainly don’t disdain good tango from the 1950s.
Tomaž Leskovšek
Slovenia
Knowing and feeling the music is a very important part of dancing tango for me. And that led me on my path to DJing. I had the honour to DJ at popular encuentros and marathon in Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Albania, Spain, Poland, Portugal, The Netherlands and Germany.
I try to convey the beauty of mainly Golden age era tangos to the gentle embrace and smooth movement of the dancers. If the moment is just right, I like to carefully cross this golden border a little bit. I like to create happy vibes milonga, including carefully selected cortinas, with some moments for deep and sweet emotions too.
Sam Joachim
Germany
I have been involved with tango music and tango DJing since 2014. My music selection ranges from the beginnings of the Guardia nueva in the 1920s to the Epoca d’Oro, which I see as beginning in 1935 and ending in the mid-1950s.
My focus is on a varied sequence of consistent tandas with a certain micro-dramaturgy to achieve an optimal flow and emotional energy on the dance floor. I place an extremely high value on good quality and optimal sound, both in my choice of music and in my technical setting, and am constantly on the lookout for the best recording – for me, authentic sound with minimal hiss or playback noise.
As a result of my intensive involvement with the subject matter, I also started giving lectures on the topic of the main tango orchestras in 2019 and as a supplement, I also run the internet radio Tango-Radio-Berlin.