Booka Shade
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- Profielbezoeken: 8.920
- Profiel gecreëerd: February 2007
- www.bebo.com/bookashade
- Genre:
- Label:
- Get Physical Major label
- Plaats:
- Europe Ierland
- Me, Myself, and I
- The studio partnership of producers, remixers and live act Booka Shade aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier has come a very long way since its incarnation in the early 90s. Back then, Arno and Walter were a synth pop act signed to a major label. They released two albums and did a number of tours, but at the same time they were being seduced by the emerging trance and techno sounds they heard in Frankfurt clubs like The Omen. - (Continued in blog.)
RESIDENT ADVISOR POLL 2006
'Booka Shade' no. 1 Live Act of 2006
'Movements' no. 1 Album of 2006
'Get Physical' no. 2 Label of 2006
'In White Rooms' no. 4 Track of 2006
see www.residentadvisor.net for more info.
"GROOVE" READER POLL 2006
Get Physical # 8 label
Movements # 6 album
Booka Shade # 2 producer
Booka shade # 15 live act
Body Language Vol. 2 # 20 compilation
Big thanks again for voting for us. Arno & Walter.
www.bookashade.com/
www.myspace.com/getbookashade
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Tripod!!!! Friday 18th of May!!!!!
POD Concerts presents:
GET PHYSICAL ANNIVERSARY TOUR
Tripod / 15 euro / 11pm0 Commentaren 950 dagen
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New Single!!!!!!!!
Check out the two new tracks from Booka Shade!!!! Tickle/Karma Car!!! To be released on the 16th of May 2007 on vinyl. (Watch out for the beatport exclusive additional track "Platypus")0 Commentaren 953 dagen
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From Introduction
Subsequently, Arno and Walter changed their focus to club projects and released trance records on R&S, Tommy Boy and Sven Vath’s Harthouse imprint. However, it was on Dutch label that Booka Shade scored their biggest releases with the progressive ´Kind of good´ and ´Silk´.
By the end of the 90s, Booka Shade had tired of the trance-techno scene and again needed a new direction to focus on. At this stage, they decided to found their own label. By chance, they met with Thomas Koch, aka DJ T, one of Germany’s most experienced DJs. Arno and Walter’s old friends Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung, aka M.A.N.D.Y., whom they knew from the 90s in Frankfurt’s club scene, completed the new partnership.
By 2002, the Get Physical label was launched, with Booka Shade responsible for all of the productions and remixes by M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T., Sunsetpeople and Chelonis R. Jones. In just a few years, the label won supporters from a wide spectrum of DJs because its releases covered a broad brush stroke of electronic styles, including trance, electro and techno, within its club-friendly grooves.
In 2004, with Get Physical established as one of Europe’s most respected new electronic music labels, Booka Shade decided to step from the shadows and pursue their own solo career again.
Get Physical was home to Booka Shade’s widely acclaimed and admired 2005 debut album ‘Memento’, which saw Walter and Arno use the experience that they had gained working in the pop and trance spheres during the 90s to stunning effect. Slivers of pop melody and shiny trance euphoria are underpinned with twitchy, stripped bare beats. The end result was an ultra-modern, occasionally menacing and evocative but always rewarding work.
The label was also the outlet for their huge 2005 club hit, ‘Mandarine Girl’ and ‘Body Language’ - both firm favourites in their live show - with the latter track, a collaboration with M.A.N.D.Y, winning the DJ award ‘Ibiza Track of the Season 2005’ and gaining support from big league DJs as well as underground house and techno names.
Last year also saw Booka Shade hit the road, and their rocking live show earned them a reputation as one of Europe’s most exciting live electronic music acts. This status was confirmed by their electric performance at the 2005 Sónar festival in Barcelona, and dates supporting Royksopp on tour and Mylo in London.
They also remixed Moby (Mute), The Juan McLean (DFA) and Yello’s electro pop classic ‘Oh Yeah’. The culmination of a fantastic year was the honour of Get Physical being voted as ‘label of the year’ in DJ Magazine.
However, Booka Shade didn’t rest on their laurels: in between gigs to promote ‘Memento’, the duo worked on material for the 2006 follow up album, ‘Movements’. Released in April, it maintained Arno and Walter’s love of soaring basslines, epic melodies and club-friendly arrangements, but it also showed that they were not afraid to experiment with other styles, like slow motion hip-hop, electro and chilled Balearic house music.
‘Movements’ is a more varied and possibly more mature work than ‘Memento’, but the two singles to date from the album, ‘Night Falls’ and ‘In White Rooms’, show that Booka Shade still know how to write emotive, powerful dance tracks. It’s not just club DJs who have picked on their material: Booka Shade’s music features regularly in the top 5 genre charts on iTunes all over the world.
Since the album’s release, Walter and Arno have been touring continuously around Europe - most recently, they had the somewhat nerve-wrecking pleasure of doing the warm up slot for synthpop legends Depeche Mode on the Berlin date of their world tour – with performances at festival and club goers alike won over by their powerful live act, including the audience at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Arno and Walter are now getting ready for their second US tour, having already visited the States in Mar0 Commentaren 1047 dagen
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- Tickle Toevoegen aan playlist
- Karma Car Toevoegen aan playlist
- Yello - Oh Yeah Oh Six (Booka Shade Remix) Toevoegen aan playlist
- S.T.A.R.R.Z. (Booka's Catwalk Remix) Toevoegen aan playlist
- M.A.N.D.Y. Vs Booka Shade - Body Language (Tocadisco Remix) Toevoegen aan playlist
- Pong Pang Toevoegen aan playlist
- In White Rooms Toevoegen aan playlist
- Tahiti 80 - Big Day (Booka Shade Remix) Toevoegen aan playlist
- Darko (Le Grand Noir Club Mix) Toevoegen aan playlist
- Live At Mayday Toevoegen aan playlist
Sneaky Sound System will be playing with Booka Shade at Get Loaded!
WIN TICKETS on their MySpace page!
myspace.com/sneakysoundsystem
This is my new mix for "MAY 09" its a load of added loops and edits from yours truly ME....Have a listen and tell me what ya think,just follow the link!?.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/c4b4...
Hows it goin Booka Shade
KALEIDA PRESENT
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D’JULZ [Ovum/Poker Flat/Circus Company/20:20 Vision]
FIDO
COOKIIE & MELZ
DANNY SIMPSON
GARY MOORE
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friday 8th May
the warehouse
boucher road, belfast
10pm – 5am
£10 [advance Guestlist available]
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leave full names on bebo fan page for £6 G-list
KALEIDA
Seen them in The Clarence in Sligo Last Night and They Were Fuckin Brilliant
tripod 2nite !!!!! goin be savage !!
TRIPOD FRIDAY NITE CANNOT WAIT!!
Booka Shade
KALEIDA
FRI 24/04 @ THE WAREHOUSE
PRESENT
MEAT [Get Physical/Freebase Records/La Peña]
THE 4TH LOOP
JAY-MC
COOKIIE & MELZ
MEAT (Carsten Schuchmann) started out in 1991, getting his merits playing on unlawful parties in closed motorway service areas, ruins of houses & under bridges and emerging from a backyard-DJ into a real professional.
Meat is the weight-bearing column under the famous Freebase Records Shop,founded in 1994.
He was one of the style guiding resident DJs at the earliest incarnation of the Frankfurt down town club MONZA.From here he grooved SVEN VÄTHS colossal future vision COCOON as a resident before he initiated, together with selected guests & freebase staff the monthly FREEBASE NIGHT @ holy ROBERT JOHNSON CLUB
As a DJ, Label Generator & record shop owner he not only buys & sells the worlds best records,he produces them also on GET PHYSICAL/LA PENA
11pm – 5.30am
£9/7[NUS/advance Guestlist]
COME TO OXYGEN SOME YEAR PLEASE
CHAROLETTE
in white rooms + electrochemie remix
maderine girl
triple identity
Booka Shade
Check out the new mix:
Muzungo Sessions mixed by Melz (March 09)
Follow the link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3jv44h
1.Mario Aureo-talking drums
2.Dop - Mambo Jumbo (Guy Gerber's Hemlock Mix)
3.Ramon tapia-Mi Esposa
4.Niki B and Christian Effe and Dj Chus-Hossa (chris_soul_remix)
5.Boris Rush-Miami Push (Bart Hendrix bumppusher remix)
6.Loco Dice-How do I know
7.Mr G - Makes no sense (Radio slaves shaking the tree remix)
8.Marco Corola-The Tribe
9.Mastiksoul-Bofe de elite
10.Steve Lawler- White Pockets
11.Marco Corola-The Drumming
COME TO THE SLAM TENT PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE! BOOKASHADE ARE A CLASS ABOVE X
Yo Booka Shade,
Kaleidas next party:
Friday 13/03/09
@ The Warehouse, Boucher Rd
GARY BECK (M_nus, Soma)
MINIMINDS (Fling Recordings)
PACO BLACK (Devine Dj's)
MELZ
SIMON HAMILTON
Glasgow born Gary Beck has been producing electronic music since early 2002.
He has gone on to record for M_nus, Soma Recordings, Edit Select and many more. His tracks have received worldwide support from respected artists such as Richie Hawtin, James Holden, Laurent Garnier, Adam Beyer, and Yousef.
Belfast's very own MINIMIND's (Stevie Garrett & Gary Dickenson) will be previewing some of the music that has propelled them into the limelight under guidance of FLING! Recordings label boss Luke Dzierzek...
Completing the line-up of misfits is PACO BLACK. Recently drafted in as part of the Divine DJ's roster...
Myself and Simon will be startin the show, so get down early!
Doors 10pm - 6am
Admission - £8
Hope to see you on the Dance Floor (",)
MELZ
BODY LANAUGE WAT A FUKIN TUNE BOOKASHADE ARE ROCKN
Yo Booka Shade
THIS FRIDAY...
KALEIDA and THE U-BAHNG have been keeping this one well under wraps for some time now...
We are delighted to have secured one of the most exciting names in the techno arena to come play at THE WAREHOUSE for an exclusive FOUR HOUR SET as we bring you another DEBUT NI PERFORMANCE from...
BEN KLOCK [4hr Set]
http://www.myspace.com/benklock
http://www.berghain.de
This date will mark his very first appearance in Belfast and the timing of it couldn't have been any better coming just after the LAUNCH in BERGHAIN of his highly anticipated 'ONE EP' on Berlin based, Ostgut Ton.
Ben Klock’s record release party takes place at Berghain/ Panorama Bar on 21 February 09 with KALEIDA his very first port of call after the launch...
Get down EARLY!
It ain't OVER 'til it's OVER...(,")/
Yo Booka Shade,
Friday 13th February
KALEIDA proudly present
MARK BROOM [pure plastic, London,UK]
support -
MATT BURNS [2hr Set],
SIMON HAMILTON,
COOKIIE,
STEPHEN GARRETT and MELZ
£10/8nus
doors 10pm - 6am
Since the start of 90s, East Londoner Mark Broom has always been a name that is synonymous with the UK electronic music scene.
A truly prolific artist, he has a myriad of production credits to his name having worked with world renowned labels such as Mo-Wax, Warp, R&S, Soma, Ifach, Plink Plonk, GPR, Ferox, & Bpitch Control, Platzhirsch amongst others.
It ain't over 'til its over...(,")/
HEY COME TO MY NEW NIGHT IN THE FRONT PAGE BELFAST........
FRIDAY
DETENTION
6TH FEB
MININMINDS
(fling)
TWISTED-GROOVE
(Vinyl Pusher)
SAM MCCUNE
THE FRONT PAGE
BELFAST
HOUSE/TECHNO/ELECTRO
£5 9-2AM
body language...........classic tune
Please check out my bands page at
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for progressive uplifting music.
booka bleedin shayid!!!
charolette