In April of 2011, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of La Revancha del Tango, the Gotan Project enlisted the stars of the nueva cumbia scene to remix the album and retitled it La Revancha en Cumbia. Lunatico, from 2006, was named after tango legend Carlos Gardel's champion racehorse. XL issued their full-length debut, La Revancha del Tango, in 2001, and the self-proclaimed "top Argentinian musicians exiled in Paris" toured to support the album, with guest musicians and a video backdrop by multimedia artist Prisca Lobjoy. and European press, and soon XL Recordings snagged the group. The band had drummed up quite a buzz in the U.K. With the addition of Eduardo Makaroff in 1999, they formed the Gotan Project and released their first of four 10"s on Ya Basta in February 2000. Feeling that both tango and dub had a subdued and melancholic sound, they decided to combine the genres. Despite all the success, the duo wanted a project that had a more consistent mood. Scruff, and other electronica tastemakers, while Coca-Cola picked a Boys from Brazil track for a European television commercial. Releasing their music on Solal's Ya Basta label, the two quickly caught the ears of Jazzanova, Gilles Peterson, Mr. Mueller worked together in the Boys from Brazil and Stereo Action Unlimited as early as 1996. In April 2012, the band appeared for the first time on US network television on Dancing With The Stars, taking part in the "Results Show".Before they perfected the electronica-meets-tango sound of the Gotan Project, Paris musicians Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. In this same movie, "Diferente" from their 2006 album Lunatico was also used in a scene where Roy & June (portrayed by Cruise & Diaz) are evading local police through city streets. In 2010, "Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)" was again featured in a motion picture: Knight and Day, an action comedy film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The song "El Capitalismo Foraneo" starts playing at the end of the scene where Catherine Zeta-Jones' character interrogates "Matsui", played by Robbie Coltrane.
In 2004, another track from the album La Revancha del Tango was featured in a motion picture, this time in the movie Ocean's Twelve. "Epoca" has also been used as the background music for the Finish dishwasher detergent brand in much of the world (known as Calgonit in continental Europe), with the tagline 'The Diamond Standard'.
Their music has also been featured on several episodes of the UK hit TV show, Top Gear.
Epoca has also featured in the Portuguese Fox Broadcasting Company series commercials. In late 2006, the track "Epoca" from the album of La Revancha del Tango was featured in The Truth About Charlie and also UK television advertisements for Boots, directed by David LaChapelle. 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. 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 Argentine 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.