El Librillo – Producer – Tango Jockey – Video Jockey Music Label

Dance, Music and Visuals for Argentine Tango and beyond.

Discover a universe where art converges.

El Librillo is a multidisciplinary tango artist moving effortlessly between dance floor, studio, booth, and screen. As a dancer, DJ, music producer, organizer , and VJ, he explores art (and tango) not as fixed traditions, but as a living language — one that constantly evolves through emotion, experimentation, and connection.

Deeply rooted in the culture of Argentine tango while open to contemporary influences, El Librillo is known for creating immersive artistic experiences that blur the boundaries between music, movement, and visual art. His DJ sets carefully guide audiences from beloved classics into unexpected sonic territories, expanding the possibilities of listening, dancing, and feeling.

As a producer and label artist, he combines traditional tango sensibilities with modern textures, cinematic atmospheres, electronic influences, and experimental sound design — always searching for new emotional spaces within the embrace of tango. His work resonates with dancers and listeners alike: intense, elegant, intimate, and deeply atmospheric.

His VJ performances extend this vision into the visual realm. Mixing self-created digital and analog imagery, live manipulation, filmed light, textures, glitches, and generative visuals, El Librillo transforms projections into a breathing part of the performance itself — an emotional light show that interacts with music, architecture, and human presence in real time.

Whether behind the decks, in the studio, on the dance floor, or shaping immersive visual worlds, El Librillo stands for a contemporary tango culture that honors its roots while fearlessly reinventing its future.

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Video Animations (VJ)

Illuminating (Tango) Events with Light- und Video Projections. Combining and mixing analog and digital souces into immersive and emotinal light shows that take events to a whole new level.

Every image carries a memory.

Some originate in the physical world: flowers and trees, sky and clouds, weathered walls, fleeting reflections, forgotten objects, fragments of landscapes. Others are born entirely in the digital realm—fractals, abstract structures, generative motion, mathematical patterns. Some come from fellow artists whose work has become part of this shared visual conversation.

None of them remain unchanged.

I am interested in the space where the analog and the digital begin to contaminate one another. Familiar photographs slowly dissolve into abstraction. Perfect digital forms acquire scratches, textures, dust, and organic imperfections. Reality becomes uncertain; the artificial becomes strangely alive. I deliberately blur the distinction between what was captured and what was created.

The individual images are never the final work.

The artwork emerges only in performance, where hundreds of visual fragments become an instrument of improvisation. Like a tango musician responding to the orchestra or a dancer responding to a partner, I mix, layer, distort, reveal, and conceal these elements in real time. The visuals follow the music, but they also converse with the architecture, the light, and the people who inhabit the space.

No two performances are ever the same.

Rather than illustrating the music, I try to uncover its hidden atmosphere—the emotions between the notes, the memories between the movements, the stories that remain just out of focus.

The examples below are not finished works. They are fragments of a living visual vocabulary: raw material waiting to be transformed, recombined, and reimagined in dialogue with the music and the moment.

See here by example how I create from a simple source video to a base of a selection of base materials to how it might (or might not) be used in a live performance.

Shifting Colours

Music: El Cartel – La Forma del Otro (inspired by Clara Westhoff)

Camera & Visual Art: El Librillo

Paula

Music: El Cartel

Camera & Visual Art: El Librillo

Flowers on the Wall

Music: El Cartel – Ecos de Otro Mundo

Camera: Heidrun, Visual Art: El Librillo

Jarrango

Music: El Cartel – Jarrango 23 & Jarrango 24

Camera & Visual Art: El Librillo

ខ្យល់ (Wind)

Music: El Cartel – Damnaer Khyal & Khyal knong Roussey

Camera: Heidrun, Visual Art: El Librillo

Contigo Cerca

Music: El Cartel – Contigo Cerca (Tango Milonga – 8:30)

Pictures: Ix Hun, Visual Art: El Librillo

El Cartel – Desfase

Music: El Cartel – Desfase

Camera: Heidrun, Visual Art: El Librillo

Blütenvariationen

Music: Rock-Tango-Fusion

  • El Cartel y Toxorhynchites – Blues del Andarín
  • El Cartel y Toxorhynchites – Amor de Madrugada
  • El Cartel y Toxorhynchites – Amor y Rock’n Roll
  • El Cartel y Toxorhynchites – Bango

Camera & Visual Art: El Librillo

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News

New Production Project: Arthur aus den Gründen

El LIbrillo has been asked to produce a new and different project. The production of El Cartel has made an impression and and reputation in artistic circles. „Arthur aus den Gründen“ is a poet turned musician that recites his own poetry with his amazing voice and minimalistic (but impressive) music. Something between H.R.Kunze and Rag’n’Bone …

4x El Librillo @ NTR

Ich habe einen Slot am Sonntag beim NTR hinzubekommen: Sonntag 19-20 Uhr. Damit bin ich zu hören und zu sehen beim NTR: Hier das gesamte Line-Up:

Tango DJ (TJ)

El Librillo loves – as a dancer as well as a TJ – the integrative and innovative potential of Tango. He transports it to his audicence by catching them with well known music and moving them carefully to less well known material to expand the limits of hearing, dancing, feeling and connection.

His programms reflect the variety of Tango and music you can dance Tango to. But they are also conceptional units that makes dancers transparent what music to expect and prevent an (always tempting) arbitrariness. If he announces „traditional“, he plays only traditional.

Programs are never meant in a sense that theses are fixed playlists, but as ideas with a wide pool of eligible songs that are always played based on the occasion, the room, the audience, the space on the dance floor and the the mood of dancers.

Existing programs you may ask for (click for more infos):

Want a different soundtrack for your event?

Something unusual. Something unexpected. Something designed specifically for your dancers?

Challenge me.

El Librillo is available for innovative musical concepts, custom DJ sets, and thematic tango events.

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