It grew arms and legs

everything that's landed, newest first.

it started as a way to build tandas and share them. that part still works, but it is no longer the only part.

every tango in one place

tangos has its own home now and lists every tune in the catalog, not just the famous ones. open one to see every recording of it on a single timeline, read the lyrics, and meet whoever wrote it.

mood map

every tanda family on one grid: rhythmic, lyrical or dramatic against how hard it pushes. tap a family to hear it, then move it to where your ear puts it. those tags then feed the mood of your sets, and you can share the map with a link.

mood on the wave

the wave over a set can show mood instead of energy, so an hour of drama in a row is obvious before you play it. the breakdown gets a mood balance panel to match.

the shape of a night

the builder marks the phases of a milonga on the wave: warm-up, build-up, climax, breather, closing. switch on a target energy line to plan against, and drag tandas along the wave to reorder them.

alternate tandas

keep the tandas you almost picked for a slot instead of losing them. they wait under the tanda in the builder, and on the set page you can play one in its place.

import a whole milonga

paste the full list of a night you played and it becomes a private set. any tanda that matches one already in your library links back to it instead of making a copy.

my sets

your sets get the same workspace as your tandas: sort them into crates, rate them, log when you played them, and duplicate one to start the next night from it.

bring your tandas in

paste a list, drop a csv, copy cells straight out of a spreadsheet, or hand it a spotify or apple music export. it matches every song against the discographies and shows you what it found before anything saves.

feel and difficulty

mark a tanda lyrical, rhythmic, dramatic or romantic, and easy, medium or hard. then filter your library down to exactly that, or by genre.

fix a song

if an import grabbed the wrong recording or a song has no video, fix it right there on the tanda. a video you add goes on the recording itself, so every set using it gets it too. and tandas can have names now, so they stop all being called orchestra - singer.

favorites

heart a recording while it plays and it lands on one list you can come back to.

random tandas

one press rolls six tandas from the catalog, ready to play. random, but planned like a night: an easy start, a peak, a gentle close.

tango tea

an ai reads the letra and files a report: what the song is actually about, who did who wrong, and a toxicity score nobody asked for.

a page per tango

every composition has its own address now. tandabase.com/caricias, and there it is: who wrote it, every orchestra that cut it, the letra if there is one.

my tandas

a tanda can be its own thing now, not four songs stuck inside a set. save it, tag it, rate it, drag it into whatever you build next. fork someone else's and it remembers whose it was.

tanda lab

a classroom for tandas. hand out a code, everyone submits their attempt, you curate the good ones into a live session, and the whole thing comes out the other end as a report you can send round.

musicians and eras

who was actually in the room. the bandoneon line, the pianist who changed everything, laid over each orchestra's timeline.

coverage

an honest look at the gaps: which orchestras are filled in, which recordings still have no video, how far off complete this all is.

sources & thanks

almost none of this is mine. the archives, catalogs and lifetimes of work it's built on, in one place.

party mode

a playlist of just the good bits, then fullscreen it and let people sing. the cortina is a vinyl scratch.

people: singers, composers, orchestras

every name on a recording is a page now. who sang it, who wrote it, who they played with.

drag in your own audio

drop an mp3 straight onto a set. it reads the tags and matches the recording, orchestra and singer for you.

karaoke mode

lyrics, big, in time. sing along at 2am, nobody's watching.

lyric syncing / play-along

each line lights up in time with the recording. good for actually learning a song.

lyrics

words on screen while it plays. started simple, same week it learned to sing.

compare orchestras

the same tango, side by side, so you can hear how di sarli and pugliese disagree.

compare sets + reports

put two sets next to each other, see what they share and where they diverge, then save it as a little report to send.

set breakdown

a live x-ray of the set you're building: orchestras, genres, decades, repeats, all updating as you go.

games

guess the orchestra, the singer, the decade. train your ear by getting it wrong a lot. or play live in a room with friends.

musicality encyclopedia

concepts, singers, orchestras, each pinned to a real moment you can loop.

explore orchestras

every orchestra's recordings laid out across the years. search, filter, play any of them.

import a playlist

paste an apple music export or a csv. it finds the tandas and the videos for you.

build + share sets

group songs into tandas, name the set, send someone a link. the whole point, and where it all started.

Still on the workbench