Gotan Project Tickets

Short Biography
Gotan Project bring their vibrant, eclectic sounds to Australia this December in a series of dazzling shows, sampling their unique blend of electronica - meets - tango.

Paris-based musicians and Gotan Project founders - French DJ Philippe Cohen Solal, Swiss programmer Christoph H Müller and Argentinean acoustic guitarist Eduardo Makaroff - offer an arresting celebration of tango combined downbeat ambient electronica, with guest musicians and a striking video backdrop by multimedia artist Prisca Lobjoy.

Tickets go on sale 9am, Thursday October 21.

In 2000, Gotan Project released their million selling debut album ‘La revancha del tango' and delivered the ...

Short Biography
Gotan Project bring their vibrant, eclectic sounds to Australia this December in a series of dazzling shows, sampling their unique blend of electronica - meets - tango.

Paris-based musicians and Gotan Project founders - French DJ Philippe Cohen Solal, Swiss programmer Christoph H Müller and Argentinean acoustic guitarist Eduardo Makaroff - offer an arresting celebration of tango combined downbeat ambient electronica, with guest musicians and a striking video backdrop by multimedia artist Prisca Lobjoy.

Tickets go on sale 9am, Thursday October 21.

In 2000, Gotan Project released their million selling debut album ‘La revancha del tango' and delivered the sweetest revenge for Tango, bringing the sexy music and the sound of Argentina to the world.

Now the sound of Gotan Project is synonymous with cool and chic from the clubs of New York to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

With their second album ‘Lunático' (2006) Gotan Project breathed more live recording and jazz influence into their sound. Much imitated, Gotan Project has learned to appreciate the compliment and after two million sales and more than 400 concerts, in April this year they returned with their third studio album the magnificent ‘Tango 3.0' (through Remote Control).

‘La revancha del tango' was listed amongst The Guardian top 100 albums of the decade and now ‘Tango 3.0' will lead the way into a new decade with its cinematic vision and its invocation of not only Buenos Aires but also Mississippi delta blues from New Orleans to Nashville to the back streets of New York. ‘Tango 3.0' is Gotan Project's new world order - get on board!

In-depth Biography
Before they perfected the electronica-meets-tango sound of the Gotan Project, Paris musicians Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. Mueller worked together in the Boys from Brazil and Stereo Action Unlimited as early as 1996. Releasing their music on Solal's Ya Basta label, the two quickly caught the ears of Jazzanova, Gilles Peterson, Mr. Scruff, and other electronica tastemakers, while Coca-Cola picked a Boys from Brazil 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 Ya Basta 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 Carlos Gardel'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. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi