I don’t know if you remember Deep Forest, who mixed pygmy chants with cheesy dance music… It was pretty horrible. “Because before, the projects that tried to mix dance music with other sounds from around the planet, were made without soul, without purpose.
“In the dance music I would say… maybe we were the first,” he continues. So I think they were the first."Ĭhange the scope of the comment so that it concerns the fusing of traditional music with dance, however, and Phillippe is willing to accept the distinction. They brought elements from various traditions all over the world, and mixed it with electronics and sequencers. “ an album that was very inspirational to me, an album that may explain the sound of the Gotan Project, was one that Brian Eno and David Byrne made in 1980 called My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. On the one hand, he isn’t pretentious enough to accept the claim, made by one critic, that The Gotan Project were ‘the first group to successfully bring the folkloric and the traditional into the electronic realm’, instead deferring that honor to some of his own heroes. Solal speaks very matter-of-factly about his group’s significance in the music world. When we started the band, I said to Eduardo: ‘Let’s just do the music that we love, and maybe other people will love it.’ Ten years later we’re still doing that.” And it’s not very heavy, because we think that the best way to do an album is the same way we’ve been doing them from the very beginning: 100% sincere, not trying to make a commercial hit, or please the market. “We don’t feel pressure from the outside,” the Frenchman says in precise (if heavily accented) English. By mixing the Latin dance music with modern club beats (and, as things evolved, with other eclectic styles of music) the group have claimed for themselves a unique position at the crossroads of dance and world music, the traditional and the cutting-edge.ĭespite becoming indisputably influential over the last decade, Phillippe Solal casually dismisses any idea the group felt any pressure to meet expectations with their latest release Tango 3.0. Few groups can claim credit for making a genre of music sexy again, but this is precisely what The Gotan Project – the collective name for French DJ and composer Phillippe Cohen Solal, Swiss programmer Christoph Muller and Argentinian guitarist Eduardo Makoroff – have achieved for tango.
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