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Booka Shade
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Out of 36 votes - Similar Artists: Tiefshwarz, Morgan Geist, Landshark, Claude Vanstroke
Out of 36 votes
- Location: Germany
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » House
Editor's review
Minimal music doesn't have to be click-heavy and made by emaciated dudes with slick hair and a penchant for black. The duo on M.A.N.D.Y.'s Get Physical label (one of the standout electronic dance music imprints of 2006) made waves in the electronic underworld with its epic melodies behind stripped-down bass and mini-synth stabs.
Biography
Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier aka German producers and live act BOOKA SHADE have come a long way since the early 90s. Back then, Arno and Walter were a synth pop act signed to a major label. However, they were seduced by the trance,house and techno they heard in Frankfurt club The Omen and started releasing records on R&S, Music Man, Tommy Boy and Sven Vath?s Harthouse imprint. Apart from
their 1993 trance classic 'Una musica senza ritmo? as Degeneration, they scored big success in the mid-90s on Dutch label Touch? with the progressive Kind of good and Silk.
By the end of the 90s, Booka Shade needed a new direction and they founded a label, Get Physical, with DJ T and their old friends Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung, aka M.A.N.D.Y. Booka Shade are responsible for all productions and remixes by M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T., Sunsetpeople and Chelonis R. Jones, and Get Physical has become one of the most popular underground dance labels.
