Gotan Project

Gotan Project
At the end of a concert in Porto (Portugal), 2003
Background information
Origin	Buenos Aires, Argentina Paris, France
Genres	Neotango, Electronica, tango
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Ya Basta
Associated acts	The Boyz from Brazil, Radiokijada, Plaza Francia
Website	www.gotanproject.com
Members	Eduardo Makaroff Christoph H. Müller Philippe Cohen Solal

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab.

Gotan Project formed in 1999. Their first release was "Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foráneo" in 2000, followed by the album La Revancha del Tango in 2001. Their music is based on Argentinean tango, but also uses elements such as samples, beats, and breaks.

Live material was also broadcast on Gilles Peterson's world music show Worldwide on BBC Radio 1 in May 2004. The band has also released a DJ set: Inspiración Espiración - A Gotan Project DJ Set Selected & Mixed by Philippe Cohen Solal (2004). This album is a compilation of classic tangos from the likes of Aníbal Troilo, Ástor Piazzolla and Gotan Project remixes. The album also includes a bonus CD with the track "La Cruz del Sur" – which was meant to be included on La Revancha del Tango, but did not make the cut in 2001.

In 2006 they released a second studio album called "Lunatico" and in 2010 "Tango 3.0" their last studio album to date.

Eduardo Makaroff arrived in France in the early 1990s to develop Argentine tango music, he performed with his band "Mano a Mano".

Christoph H. Müller and Philippe Cohen Solal formed a duo called Boyz from Brazil.

The name of the trio is a form of word play called "al vesre" that is very common in Lunfardo, an argot of Rioplatense Spanish. This wordplay involves, in the simplest cases, moving the last syllable to the beginning of the word ("vesre" itself is "revés" – the Spanish word for "reverse" – with the second syllable in first). Thus, the word Tango becomes Gotan, the name the trio have chosen for their project.