In 2004, they recorded a little-known Piazzolla piece with Brigitte Fontaine: 'Rue Saint-louis-en-l'île'. Their music has been featured in American television shows Nip/Tuck, Sex and the City, Brothers & Sisters and Chuck, as well as the 2003 Swedish documentary on consumerism, Surplus, and the 2004 documentary on worker-led factory occupation in Argentina, The Take. American gymnast Alicia Sacramone used an excerpt of the piece for her floor routine in international competition, including the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, while teammate Samantha Peszek set her routine to their rendition of 'Whatever Lola Wants'. The song 'Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)' from the album La Revancha del Tango was featured as the music for the main dance sequence in the 2004 movie Shall We Dance?, with Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere. Members of Gotan Project performing in Brasilia in 2007. Thus, the word Tango becomes Gotan, the name the trio have chosen for their project. 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). 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. Müller and Philippe Cohen Solal formed a duo called Boyz from Brazil. Before Gotan Project Įduardo Makaroff arrived in France in the early 1990s to develop Argentine tango music, he performed with his band 'Mano a Mano'.Ĭhristoph H. In 2006 they released a second studio album called Lunático, and in 2010 Tango 3.0, their last studio album to date. 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. This album is a compilation of classic tangos from the likes of Aníbal Troilo, Ástor Piazzolla and Gotan Project remixes.

The band has also released a DJ set: Inspiración Espiración - A Gotan Project DJ Set Selected & Mixed by Philippe Cohen Solal (2004). Live material was also broadcast on Gilles Peterson's world music show Worldwide on BBC Radio 1 in May 2004. Their music is based on Argentinean tango, but also uses elements such as samples, beats, and breaks. Their first release was 'Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foráneo' in 2000, followed by the album La Revancha del Tango in 2001. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab. Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. The Boyz from Brazil, Radiokijada, Plaza Francia

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