Orquesta Disco Latino - Disco Tango (Ric Piccolo Rework)

Taken from the forthcoming compilation, Danza Secreta: Hidden Grooves from Argentina (1970-1980), Disco Tango is a driving slice of dancefloor rebellion taken from the Argentinian underground music scenes that bloomed as a response to the dark period of the oppressive, military Junta government that took power in the land of silver in 1976.

Representing a hybrid between Black, Hispanic and Queer NYC disco sensibilities and culturally Argentinian Tango rhythms’ Orquesta Disco Latino married the new to the traditional and the wider world to the domestic and none more so with the joyous Disco Tango. Given the rework treatment here by co-compiler of Danza Secreta Ric Piccolo, Disco Tango reaches the parts that militarist fascism can not reach and stands as a beacon of cultural exchange to those who danced to its infectious groove.

Founded by native Cordoban Daniel Homer in the late 1970s, Orquesta Disco Latino was always designed to be a musical project that would fuse Disco music and Tango alongside other uniquely Latin-American and Afro-Latin genres in a truly mestizo blend of cultural styles. Something that absolutely caught the imagination and dancing feet of the Argentinian youth and the free of spirit and mind.

Danza Secreta: Hidden Grooves from Argentina (1979-1982) is co-compiled by Ric Piccolo and Ariel Harari and released on BBE Music as a double vinyl LP and digital download. Orquesta Disco Latino – Disco Tango is the first single from the compilation and will be available as a digital download.