Booka Shade

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Frankfurt, Germany (early '90s – present)

Booka Shade is a German electrohouse duo, made up of Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, both described as veterans of the Frankfurt electronic music scene. They have released three albums, memento, Movements and The Sun & The Neon Light. Their 2005 singles

Mandarine Girl and

Body Language (with M.A.N.D.Y.) were widely played in clubs and licensed on many mix CDs; Resident Advisor called “Body Language” “one of the biggest releases of the year.” Running their own production company and studio for the past 15 years, they have applied their wide range of talents not only to the realm of electronic music, but also many other media productions.

After two early ’90s synthpop album releases and a number of live tours, they switched their attention to club projects for established labels like R&S, Harthouse and Tommy Boy. But it was their early incarnation of Booka Shade on illustrious Dutch label Touché which hit the zeitgeist, triggering excitement and enthusiasm in clubs all across Europe.

2004 saw the release of Booka Shade’s acclaimed debut album, memento on Get Physical. This LP was met with a great deal of praise, but it was their seminal collaboration with M.A.N.D.Y, Body Language, that launched Booka Shade into the stratosphere.

At the end of 2006 the UK’s leading electronic music website, Resident Advisor crowned Booka Shade Best Live Act as well as awarding them with the title of Best Album for their second long-player, Movements. The band’s most coherent and engaging work yet, Movements was released in May 2006 and featured the massive club hits

Mandarine Girl and

Body Language, alongside new club anthems

Night falls, In white room and

Darko

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Top Tracks

1	Night falls full track	1,555
2	In white rooms full track	1,248
3	Charlotte full track	1,192
4	Darko full track	1,023
5	Paper moon full track	981
6	Outskirts full track	865
7	Dusty Boots full track	812
8	Duke full track	780
9	Pong pang full track	757
10	Mandarine Girl full track	734
11	Control Me full track	709
12	Solo City full track	681
13	Sweet Lies full track	601
13	Wasting time full track	601
15	Hallelujah USA full track	591

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NoisyBeats wrote:
Sunday morning

yeah!

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yosunn wrote:
last week

delicious..

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ciaougoku wrote:
last week

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lillepott wrote:
last week

not bad...not bad at all

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jorgekasas wrote:
11 days ago

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hlllavka wrote:
last month

hah this is big boss duo /// RESPECTTT

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gefen00 wrote:
last month

excellent

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oskart wrote:
last month

If you like Booka Shade check out Boeoes Kaelstigen

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GetPhysical wrote:
last month

Download "In White Rooms Live" ! Here's a thank you to all our friends and fans for the great support we've had this year on the Sun and the Neon Light World Tour. We've played many of the biggest festivals, including Glastonbury. Go to this link to download 'White Rooms live at Glastonbury' for free. http://www.physical-music.com/#news.pl?id=179;releases The tour continues into the winter with shows in South America, Australia and London. See you soon. Arno and Walter

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k2core wrote:
last month

good group, but wtf boy band hair!!!

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cesilho wrote:
last month

Night falls....impressive.

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marek_k wrote:
last month

silk is not their latest, it's from 1996

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jorgekasas wrote:
last month

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oskart wrote:
last month

Yep, Memento and Movements were way better than The Sun & the Neon Light. But their latest Ep, Silk, sounds kinda cool though.

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herrkroll wrote:
last month

uhhh! this is the right sound for my (old)[kraftwerk] head. thank you, thank you!

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DonRoberto wrote:
last month

Like catacombs says: They were great @ Lowlands fest :D awesome performance I totally agree!

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luiscanelaMX wrote:
last month

totally agree with spacemanBOSE

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NiKoMaN wrote:
last month

coming to I Love Techno w00t

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jorgekasas wrote:
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spacemanBOSE wrote:
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The old albums are better than the new one

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