I love music that inspires dancing. Music, with energy, that evokes emotions. Constantly in search of new discoveries in the world of tango music that encourage the mood of the pista. The focus is on the 40s, but happy with the excesses of previous and recent decades. I have been playing for different arrangers since 2014.

I fell in love with tango (dance and music) in 2010 and I have been listening to and collecting tango music ever since. Over time my love and passion for the music grew even more, and I started DJ-ing in 2013.

My style is rooted mostly in the traditional Golden Age of tango, but I am open to playing almost anything that fits the mood. My goal as a DJ is to play beautiful and danceable music that is well balanced in rhythm and melody, and hopefully makes everyone want to dance.

When I play music I draw on the richness of the traditional tango music: on the richness in styles, with rhythmic, romantic, complex, dramatic tangos; and on the richness of rhyhtms, melodic lines, phrasing, timbres, and colours within each tango. I play for the dancers from a broad spectrum of music, with contrasts from tanda to tanda, in order to keep their inspiration alive during hours, always observing the mood and the energy on the floor.

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My stylistic focus is on the subtle and sophisticated side, as opposed to bombastic or big drama stuff; mainly from 1930 to 1955, and also from the 20ies, and in smaller doses dramatic and super sweet music from later years. Of the big orchestras I love especially Aníbal Troilo, there will be no milonga without his music.

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This is my motto: Music that is upbeat but not hectic, calm but not monotonous, romantic but not overblown - music that gets directly into the feet!

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I started to DJ in 2004, and I founded my own milonga in 2005, it was the first milonga in Munich with 100% traditional music, and it still exists. And in these 20 years I played in many events in Germany and other European countries.

”Music was my first love, and it will be my last”

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These words, from my favourite song during the 1970’s – the powerful rock ballad “Music” with John Miles – became for many years of my youth a kind of life motto. I remember how passionate I felt about it, both the words and the song. And I think that this passionate relation to music is what has brought me, so many years later, first of all into tango, and now also into TDJ-ing.

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Dancing tango since 2008, teaching it since 2011, playing it since 2018, I still feel like a baby TDJ. There is so much to learn about this complex, wonderful music & tradition! And so much to love. And the more I learn and discover, the more I love. I guess I am quite polyamorous in this 😊.

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I have a growing faiblesse for the old “guardia vieja” music from the early 1930’s (Canaro, Firpo, Fresedo, OTV…), and I always like to start a milonga set with some of these beautiful, simple and grounding tandas. After that I mostly play tangos from the Golden age. On top I also like to add a few modern and/or alternative tandas, but usually then as vals and milonga.

Playing music in milongas started when establishing my local tango community 2005. I mainly DJ in milongas around Finland, but also internationally. I play traditional music from late 20-ies to mid 50-ies and I play in classical tandas with cortinas, trying also to give special attention to the cortinas.

I see the milonga as an event where people come together to dance, but also to socialize. I try to build my set to be rewarding for the dancers and to grow more intensive towards the end of the milonga. I think that the DJ is there for the dancers, and I enjoy DJ’ing most when I feel that the communication with the dancers works and the atmosphere is good.