Modern Tango World N° 4 (Bucharest, Romania) | Page 45

Enrique Lomuto shared the stage with Rene Varela
and Anibal Troilo played with Oscar Aleman
(scan by M. Krugman)
Coincidentally or maybe not, it is this same year that
the job of a victrolera was established. The account
of events of 1929 is sufficient to believe that at least
some of the victroleras were indeed playing in smaller
milongas for the dancers, pretty much like the modern
DJs. Yet, I cheerfully admit that I lack any tango letras
to prove this claim. But whenever it happened, be it
in the 30s or in the mid-40s, as the last image proves,
the early DJs had no choice but to follow established
1929 pattern of the live orquestas to play the music in
tandas with either silent or musical cortinas.

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