Tanda of the Week is a weekly Patreon publication. Every Monday a new tanda goes up: four tangos, or three valses, or three milongas, with notes on why exactly these recordings, in exactly this order.
The notes are the product. Each track comes with composer, lyricist, recording date, and what the lyric says. Each tanda comes with where it belongs in the night, what it does to a full floor, and the orderings that were tried and dropped. When sources disagree, the text says so.
One number for scale: the D’Arienzo tanda with Echagüe has passed 2.5 million plays online. As far as I know that makes it the most heard tango tanda on the internet, though I’d be glad to be corrected.
The monthly rhythm
Every Monday: the weekly tanda, with full notes. The one that falls on the second Monday of the month is public.
Every Wednesday: Liner Notes, a short public piece on what the week’s research turned up but the article didn’t use.
The 15th: a special tanda that goes nowhere else.
The 25th: From the Booth, a long piece on DJ craft, usually built around one orchestra.
From time to time: a full milonga set, tanda by tanda, with booth notes.
Tiers
Three cumulative tiers. Abrazo carries the weekly tandas and the full archive. Corazón adds the monthly special tanda. Oro adds From the Booth and the occasional milonga set. Some of it is free to read: one tanda every month and every Liner Notes are public.
The series started on the blog in 2012 and moved home to Patreon in 2025. The 94 tandas from the blog years are being re-evaluated one by one; the ones worth keeping return as new tandas, written to the current standard.