Hey, this is a hail mary post, as I'm not fully ready but really wanted to put this out in the world before 2025 (still 1h44mn left here). If you ever wondered about (re)discovering, say "90s rap from QueensBridge" or "70s rock from Liverpool", you may like my project https://ticktrack.tv .

I've been working on it for the last 3-4 months as a side project. The idea is to make it possible to listen to music through space and time, and make it so that you can skip the tracks every x seconds (tick) to get a quicker idea of a genre or time period.

The website is still janky and there's still the occasional big mistake on the places and times but personally, I've been using it for a few weeks now, daily, for hours. Let me know what you guys think. This is a one-man passion project. I know there's still a lot to do.

https://on.soundcloud.com/cRT88xY1Z8JsWURZ9

For example. I want more similar to this, thank you !!!

https://preview.redd.it/z5v037mxdu7e1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=664d46a8d767035e2678c8c20eec5f4bcc192c6a

What happened in Argentine music in the 1960s? What was there before Los Gatos' hit in 1967? How did we go from Los Cinco Latinos in 1960 to Manal in 1969?

For many years these enigmatic mysteries were black holes, missing pieces in the puzzle to reconstruct the history of Argentine rock since its beginning in 1956. Researchers of the history of Argentine music have had to do real detective work with scarce information, scattered and hidden after almost 7 decades of oblivion, to decipher what happened at that crucial moment in the 1960s.

Now that the entire decade of the '60s has been completed in the Argentine Rock Awards, with 10 editions and 1 archedition, we can see that:

• 1960 was a continuation of the jazz and blues trends that came from the 50s.
• Between 1961 and 1964 it was the reign of the nueva ola and the Club del Clan.
• From 1965 the reign of the beat began (although the Argentine beat had already begun the previous year with the recording debut of Los Búhos), and it would continue like this for the rest of the decade.
• The different trends from 1965 onwards follow the evolution of The Beatles and other Anglo-Saxon bands through their records and proposals.
• Rock, in all its genres, trends and expressions, always throughout the 60s bothered and irritated the older generations, who were followers of tango, folklore, classical music, jazz and typical music from the countries where the immigrants came from.
• In the first half of the decade, the influence of Italian artists predominates.
• In the second half of the decade, the influence of English artists predominates.
• In all the years of the decade there is a great cultural diversity and proposals, with a great variety of songs: originals in Spanish or English, versions in various languages, instrumentals, hits, experimental, and all the genres of the time: jazz, R&B, rock and roll, pop, twist, surf, beat, folk, hard, psychedelic, etc.

These are the conclusions I have drawn from these studies. Now it is up to you to draw further conclusions. And to explore on your own more songs and artists from that period, using the project I have made as a basis or backbone. That was the intention, that it would be like an introduction to a new world. A handful of first songs to which you would add more songs that you would discover for yourself. Or like a main avenue, from which you would open in various directions, creating new streets.

The Argentine Rock Awards are on pause for an indefinite period of time. There have been major changes in my personal life lately, which means I can no longer dedicate as much time to the channel as before, or to preparing projects as titanic as those of my videos. I'll leave it up to you to delve into what other songs and artists there were in those years, and to continue the research in the following years. I've done my part, now it's up to you to continue the legacy.

And remember: if you want to talk to me or make proposals, please contact me via direct message.

Have a happy end of the year everyone.

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MusicaArgentina — 2024