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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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minimal, electronic, electro, house, electronica
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1	Night falls full track	1,234
2	In white rooms full track	1,037
3	Charlotte full track	1,007
4	Darko full track	790
5	Paper moon full track	762
6	Solo City full track	759
7	Outskirts full track	758
8	Duke full track	660
9	Hallelujah USA full track	653
10	Dusty Boots full track	638
11	Control Me full track	616
11	Mandarine Girl full track	616
13	Pong pang full track	597
14	Sweet Lies full track	568
15	Wasting time full track	462

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freaky_be wrote:
yesterday afternoon

http://vimeo.com/2609625

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swishalabaster wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Love the way their sound has developed... love Psychameleon!

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epsos-de wrote:
last week

Good enough to be Deep Electronic Music http://www.last.fm/group/Deep+Electronic+Music

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infectedmodes wrote:
10 days ago

Join us! We Love German Bands.

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Veratrum wrote:
11 days ago

slice me nice...

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BaR2Sh wrote:
13 days ago

right its high time to change it.

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tschoenn wrote:
14 days ago

the profile picture truly offends my eye!

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osterich14 wrote:
17 days ago

http://www.last.fm/group/The+real+lastfm_lets+share+and+discuss+music+constructively join if your sick of ignorant people and just want to share and discuss music without having to listen to them

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Triames wrote:
19 days ago

Saw them live yesterday, they blew my fucking mind!

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hemmann28 wrote:
27 days ago

:)

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bortsimpson wrote:
28 days ago

been listening to charlotte 4 times a day now. awesome music :P

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cantstopdnb wrote:
29 days ago

booka shade! i love it..

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Marty-The-Party wrote:
December 2008

Never grow tired of listening BOOKA SHADE. Saw them at I LOVE TECHNO 08 for the first time. And you lived up to all my expectations +MORE!

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pinkcaffeine wrote:
November 2008

Love your track Charlotte!!!! Respect! MAx

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nickjdillon wrote:
November 2008

One of the best things to happen to Electronic music in the last few years

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ellovanello wrote:
November 2008

das rockt!

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SSNVberghem wrote:
November 2008

ah

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zvillain wrote:
November 2008

m.a.n.d.y vs booka shade - body language booka shade - triple identity (Y)

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karinaygr wrote:
November 2008

Hey, I want to invite you to my group :)People who love spending too much time on internet

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luzefine wrote:
November 2008

nice!

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