VINYL FORMAT. There is almost no one else in the independent music world who's technically able to produce an album that can keep up with Booka Shade's production standards, and yet on this forthcoming album, they've raised the bar yet again. No one will be surprised to learn that the pop factor has had a huge influence on the outlook of the album. Depeche Mode meets neo-space disco, blues guitars meet dance beats, symphonic string orchestras clash with music software sound experiments, CSI meets Wim Wende   [ read more ]

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There is almost no one else in the independent music world who's technically able to produce an album that can keep up with Booka Shade's production standards, and yet on this forthcoming album, they've raised the bar yet again. No one will be surprised to learn that the pop factor has had a huge influence on the outlook of the album. Depeche Mode meets neo-space disco, blues guitars meet dance beats, symphonic string orchestras clash with music software sound experiments, CSI meets Wim Wenders - it's an a   [ read more ]

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Booka Shade is Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, production masterminds behind the first 13 Get Physical releases. This is their second full-length release. In charge of their own production company and studio for the last 15 years, they have profoundly applied their wide range of talents to the realm of electronic music. Meanwhile, Booka Shade's own redefinition of dance music found its expression on their debut album, Memento, which drew on their background as pop producers and their ability to   [ read more ]

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A proper album rather than a collection of single sides and remixes in the usual house music tradition, Booka Shade's full-length debut has the shapely flow of one long composition. After the two previously released singles that open the album, "Vertigo" and "Double Identity," the album settles into a leisurely flow that incorporates a handful of relatively brief, melodic interludes that function as breathers between the electronic throb of key tracks like "S.T.A.R.R.Z." and {&"Something Phys   [ read more ]

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On their third official full-length, German duo Booka Shade get serious about the album format and deliver a set of rainy-day tracks influenced by the Berlin (Tangerine Dream) and Dnsseldorf (Cluster) schools of electronic music with a touch of Giorgio Moroder, especially the man's {#Midnight Express} soundtrack. At worst, like on the opening "Outskirts," reverence for these classic tones and an overwhelming desire to be earnest make the music surprising lifeless. Half of {^The Sun & the Neon   [ read more ]

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