Everything comes together here - great venue; great presentation and comfort; great hosts who set the atmosphere; great crowd - friendly, relaxed and chatty; and the best floorcraft in or around London.
But it's the music that makes or breaks a milonga. It's in tandas with a cortina and you see projected a note telling you what the current and next tandas are - a great idea. It's varied but always danceable. It's a good mix of the classics we all love, and some lovely discoveries too, but always danceable.
I'll say that again - danceable. There is great music from the annals of tango history for listening to. And there is great music to dance to. And amazingly, not all DJ's appreciate this. Great tango music for dancing gets into your body and mind and inspires you. You surrender half your conscious acts to it. And it moves you with an invisible hand. It takes you and gives you no choice but to swoosh to a slow melody, to step in double-time, to pause, breathe and savour the moment.
With great dance music - you don't expend mind and heart struggling to interpret it physically - that's precious mind and heart that should be for your partner.
And if it all works as it should - you'll find total surrender to the music and your partner - with no annoying conscious voice trying to pollute your tango episode with thoughts of what steps to plan next.
My hat off to the organisers - they've created a beautiful milonga experience.