Berón OR colouring outside the lines

If you are into tango you have to know Raul Berón. No, he is not the fella that gave that workshop in your town a year ago, he is someone that you encounter pretty much any milonga you go. And you know what? I'm pretty sure you have danced with him.
So, by this time, whether you are very confused or you know that Raúl Berón was one of the golden age finest voices. His sweet tenor voice always trembled with emotion and laced with the music perfectly.
Some people have told me that they don't like him because he didn't sing on time with the instruments. But I think he does it on purpose, like those people that colour outside the lines on purpose. His voice prolongs and antecipates the instruments and their emotions, and involves them in a silky flow that just makes Raúl Berón one of the most beautiful voices tango has ever heard.

Here it is a demonstration of Berón's beautiful voice!
Update - check also the same track played by orquesta El Arranque, with Ariel Ardit

DJing tango - not just chucking your favourite music

This weekend was pretty hectic. I was DJing in Bristol on saturday and in Market Harborough (Leicestershire) on sunday. Both milongas went pretty well, I can say that most of the time two thirds of the people were up dancing and I got good feedback in the end of it.
However, these two milongas had completely different audiences and requirements. I know Bristol tango rather well, not a place for many of the most contemporary of sounds and La Rosa's Whiteladies milonga doesn't go out of that way. However, when I put Sin Rumbo from Otros Aires everybody stood up and went dancing. I decided to follow that with Mi Corazon from Bajofondo and the same. In the end, an Italian tanguera told me that she really likes this kind of music but nobody ever plays it. I got the impression that, allowing for some exceptions, this was the general feeling. Are DJs making a good job?
In Market Harborough there is an older crowd that likes their golden age tangoes. They are very English and it would be the last place that you'd think neotango would be danced to. Well, in fact, I was asked to put some and when Whatever Lola Wants (I was asked to put that, to be honest is not on my favourites to dance to) came on, everybody looked at each other and rose up to go dancing.
My point in this post is that what you like to dance is not necessarily what other people like to dance. My tango mentor, Ricardo Oria, told me once that the DJ's ego has to stay at home. In a milonga, the crowd is who is paying to dance and you have to be flexible enough to cater for the requirements.
The golden age will always be the golden age! I don't think we'll ever get a period like it. But, more importantly, tango is more than the golden age. The good DJ is the DJ that understands that.