The Gotan Project brought Latin/electronic fusion to a whole new level with their debut album LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO. Taking the sensuous tango as their base, they invigorate their music with a sinuous grace, creating music that's at once familiar and tremendously invigorating. The swelling accordions on 'Queremos Paz' make you feel as if you're strolling through a Buenos Aires bazaar, while the rhythmic rigor and seductive vocals of 'Epoca' are all about the ballroom. But tango isn't the only flavor on the menu: 'Chunga's Revenge' and 'Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)have hints of dub, while 'Triptico' edges into house. 'Vuelvo Al Sur' (originally written by tango master Astor Piazzolla) returns us to the pure delight of modernized tango.

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But my favorite track has to be the cover of 'Last Tango in Paris.' While the melody is straightforward, the careful layering of instruments (piano, strings, accordion) give the song a cumulative strength and a swooning elegance. While their style has been emulated a hundred times over by now, no one has quite touched their achievement.

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Mueller worked together in and Stereo Action Unlimited as early as 1996. Releasing their music on Solal's label, the two quickly caught the ears of, and other electronica tastemakers, while Coca-Cola picked a track for a European television commercial. Despite all the success, the duo wanted a project that had a more consistent mood. Feeling that both tango and dub had a subdued and melancholic sound, they decided to combine the genres.

With the addition of Eduardo Makaroff in 1999, they formed the Gotan Project and released their first of four 10's on in February 2000. The band had drummed up quite a buzz in the U.K. And European press, and soon XL Recordings snagged the group.

XL issued their full-length debut, La Revancha del Tango, in 2001, and the self-proclaimed 'top Argentinian musicians exiled in Paris' toured to support the album, with guest musicians and a video backdrop by multimedia artist Prisca Lobjoy. Lunatico, from 2006, was named after tango legend 's champion racehorse. Tango 3.0 appeared in 2010. In April of 2011, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of La Revancha del Tango, the Gotan Project enlisted the stars of the nueva cumbia scene to remix the album and retitled it La Revancha en Cumbia. It was expanded and released as a full-length on CD in October of that year.

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