Got Moves?

Have you ever had the experience of a "sexy" type of music? I mean, sexy to a point that you will be visulaizing yourself dancing, with a super-hot partner, even though you don't know any moves for the kind of dance. The music itself is seducing you, to a point that you feel like you are cheating, even though you are single. This is the feeling (or rather, sensations....) I get when i listen to Gotan Project, an Electronica mixed with Tango sound production trio of Philippe Cohen Solal, Christophe H Mueller and Eduardo Makaroff. In terms of their mood and style, they kinda sound like the tango version of Jazzanova or St. Germain, although this is an underestimation because Gotan Project uses A LOT of live instrument fused with their electronic sounds. They even invited Astor Piazzolla -- the Godfather of Tango and the ultimate master of accordion -- for a collaboration in their last remix album Insipracion-Espiracion, so that just shows you they are not your normal electronica group, in fact, what they are to tango is like what Outkast is to HipHop. (and by the way, Astor Piazzolla is cool cause his music will constantly appear in Wong Kar Wai's movies as soundtracks, especially in his 90's productions such as Happy Together and In the Mood For Love, if i am not mistaken.) Best approach: get their CD and listen to it at night. Don't ask me why, but it doesn't work for me if i listen to it during the day. (well, i assign a certain time to a certain genre of music.... have you ever tried that? it's fun.) Their first album La Revencha del Tango (2003) is just "sexy" and a classic in its field. (In fact, you will hear some of the songs in the lounges or bistro that plays electronica, if they are ... uh... hip.) And 4 years now, the Gotan Project got new moves: The new Studio Album of Gotan Project --- Lunatico, out now in Europe and N. America but not Asia (yet). In this album they try to move forward from where they left off in their last studio album, using even more instruments besides accordion, especially strings and pipes, to give a more complete taste of "South America" (or Argentina, i am not exactly sure if this is correct since i have never been there). And according to the reveiws, they have teamed up with a lot of local musicians from Buenos Aries. But afterall, it's the accordion that makes the whole album "sexy". Most of the songs in this album are still very progressive, but much shorter than those in their first studio album (about 5 min as compared to 7-8 on average), which to me is a little "unsatisfying": i enjoy their first CD 'cause all the songs are long enough for you to be "in" it before they give you a nice development in sounds and before they end. Now, in the new album, every songs got a good intro and progresses well and deep and all of sudden starting to wrap up and you are like... "that's it?" Nonetheless, the songs on this album will still either move your feet (even while you are not on the dance floor) or blow your mind (I'm serious, i didn't even know there were musicians who can make sounds like that). And thanks to Harris for introducing me to Gotan a couple of years back. This is quality music, man. Word.