Gotan Project

Before they perfected the electronica-meets-tango sound of the Gotan Project, Paris musicians <a href="spotify:artist:0EFmOtI513PheI6td8B5WV" data-name="Philippe Cohen Solal">Philippe Cohen Solal</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1SfG2EaOjpp24lnk1pRywx" data-name="Christoph H. Müller">Christoph H. Müller</a> worked together in <a href="spotify:artist:760LPk3SOlzQ3YUFjnDZas" data-name="The Boyz From Brazil">The Boyz From Brazil</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5c1Vhs9j1WTuPRjliPMKJ2" data-name="Stereo Action Unlimited">Stereo Action Unlimited</a> as early as 1996. Releasing their music on Solal&#39;s ¡Ya Basta! Records, the two quickly caught the ears of Jazzanova, Gilles Peterson, Mr. Scruff, and other electronica tastemakers. 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 <a href="spotify:artist:1U0xIHfJBYTtu4W9oG1ZEX" data-name="Eduardo Makaroff">Eduardo Makaroff</a> in 1999, they formed the Gotan Project and released their first of four 10&quot;s <a href="spotify:track:0znL3d7w3EQ0LlmjuN1BR5" data-name="Vuelvo al sur">Vuelvo al sur</a> on Ya Basta in February 2000. The band had drummed up quite a buzz in the U.K. and European press, soon XL Recordings snagged the group. Their first album, <a href="spotify:album:2riLhxE3UzS3evEXAwjEJq" data-name="La revancha del tango">La revancha del tango</a>, was released in 2001, and the self-proclaimed &quot;top Argentinian musicians exiled in Paris&quot; toured to support the album, with guest musicians and a video backdrop by artist Prisca Lobjoy. <a href="spotify:album:0T8nMuHvA1CKt2HKmVSqGX" data-name="Lunático">Lunático</a>, their second studio album, was named after tango legend Carlos Gardel&#39;s champion racehorse, featuring guests <a href="spotify:artist:1OmdWpAh1pucAuZPzJaxIJ" data-name="Calexico">Calexico</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2PH8EDFFaImOaGSe0yXVVu" data-name="Gustavo Beytelmann">Gustavo Beytelmann</a> recorded between Buenos Aires and Paris. <a href="spotify:album:3rII5jVhcZdgz4itaYn7vX" data-name="Tango 3.0">Tango 3.0</a> appeared in 2010. 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 <a href="spotify:album:7sVNUtMWVi1SQ76XQE9V3W" data-name="La Revancha en Cumbia">La Revancha en Cumbia</a>. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi