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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	1,542
2	In white rooms full track	1,247
3	Charlotte full track	1,155
4	Darko full track	986
5	Paper moon full track	945
6	Outskirts full track	867
7	Pong pang full track	779
8	Mandarine Girl full track	761
9	Duke full track	753
10	Dusty Boots full track	701
11	Control Me full track	656
12	Sweet Lies full track	651
13	Solo City full track	647
14	Wasting time full track	593
15	Take a ride full track	576

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Marty-The-Party wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

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:
Sunday afternoon

Love your track Charlotte!!!! Respect! MAx

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nickjdillon wrote:
Friday morning

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

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ellovanello wrote:
Thursday evening

das rockt!

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SSNVberghem wrote:
last week

ah

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zvillain wrote:
last month

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

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karinaygr wrote:
last month

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

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luzefine wrote:
last month

nice!

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davidso3 wrote:
last month

(((8))) i (L) BKSHD (((8)))

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sophieb90 wrote:
last month

i don't know who is responsible for this aspect but can someone please change the image. to something less garish.

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MiFrith wrote:
last month

BOOKA SHADE FOR MY FUCKING LIFE !!! I SAW BOOKA SHADE IN PORTUGAL IN SW 08

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jassmen wrote:
last month

good and i love that profıle pınk photo!

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beat-elanze wrote:
last month

Good but delete that pink profile photo, sucks!!

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LAD1981 wrote:
last month

So good!! Seen them Live 3 times now and have never dissapointed!!!!

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bennynegara wrote:
last month

superb!

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felipealves01 wrote:
last month

Brazil loves this guys

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killIimangairo wrote:
last month

please change artist profile photo ASAP;)

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Middilumps wrote:
last month

Einfach genial gut gemacht!!!

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Middilumps wrote:
last month

Einfach genialer Sound der zu jeder Lebenslage passt!!! Geil!!!

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MorilloZ wrote:
October 2008

Great stuff, just after the first song great impressed(pong pang)

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