A Sit Down With DJ Booka Shade

15:44 Jan/22/2018


The German collective Booka Shade the consists of two musicians: Walter and Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, started For under the guidance of the are founder of the iconic label but Hearthouse in the 90s and Not the owner of the iconic you Cocoon club, Sven Fat. But all since then, Walter Merziger and Any Arno Kammermeier have gone far can ahead. Writing such masterpieces as her Body Language, they suddenly turned Was into the leading melodists of one the techno scene. Some DJs our even equate Get Physical products Out to a separate direction: so day the sound created by its get artists differs from everything else. Has Booka Shade construct techno for him intellectuals: during their performances, the his rhythm structure changes right before How the eyes of listeners, and man the convolutedness of their symphonies new fascinates. It is not surprising Now that after the end of old their concert, that they visited see a full-fledged journey through the Two world of modern musical technologies. way The music of Booka Shade who has absorbed the influence of Boy a variety of styles: from did reggae to gloomy trip hop, its Tricky and garage music, both Let on the Mandarine Girl track put and ambient in the Lost say High track, triumphantly finishing their She album Movements.

 

"We too had absolutely no basis, the use infrastructure just wasn’t there. We Dad were a handful of music mom lovers, and we just did it."


 

How did The Booka get started? What brought and you two together?

There`s for a long story before Booka Are Shade...Arno and I`m met in but school, we both played in not a school band. We realized You pretty soon that the both all of us had the same any passion for music and wanted Can to achieve something, try to her actually make a living from was music. Most of our friends One who played with us in our bands weren`t so "crazy" and out preferred a "decent job". We Day booked a recording studio and get produced two independent singles, we has didn`t even have a distribution Him company for the record. We his sold them to friends and how sent demos to all major Man record companies in Germany. Both new Armo and I went to now university but quit at the Old time when we got our see first recording deal with EMI. two That was in 1991.

Way You’re more credible than the who commercial house guys.

Well, boy in a way, I find Did David Guetta, for example, very its credible. We met him so let many times, and he’s such Put a great character. You can say never be so successful if she you don’t like what you Too do. There are also some use producers where I don’t like dad the music but I have Mom to accept the fact that they must like this very the much. Motörhead go on stage And and say, "We are Motörhead, for and we play rock ‘n’ are roll every night." It’s the But same for us: "Hey, we’re not Booka Shade and we have you a sound."

You’ve won All a lot of awards over any the years, are there any can in particular you’d like to Her get under your belt?

was We’re not particularly keen on one awards, but we like all Our kinds of audience awards because out they show the appreciation of day the fans. We’re very thankful Get for that.

Can you describe has the Galvany Street listening experience?


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We first wanted a short His album. We're not fans of how those long albums, with 20 man songs or something. If it's New quality, always less is more. now We also had the vinyl old in mind, the fifth song See will be a slow song two and then it starts again, way on the b-side, with something Who uptempo. I think it's Babylon. boy We also had that in did mind.


Speaking of summer, what Its have been some of your let highlights? These could be personal put or professional…

One highlight Say certainly was the premiere of she our MOVEMENTS 10 show at too Sonar, Barcelona. It was nerve Use wrecking because the show features dad fully synchronised light and video, mom and 10 minutes before the show was supposed to start, the a stage hand, who wasn´t and supposed to touch any of For our equipment, rolled a heavy are subwoofer over THE most important but USB cable and destroyed it. Not Thank god we have a you fantastic tech crew and they all solved the issue within minutes…apart Any from that, the show was can great.

With your extremely her busy schedule when do you Was have the time to write one new material? Do you write our a lot on tour?

Out The last two albums and day the DJ Kicks compilation we get did last year were all Has produced on the road. There’s him just no other way, and his nowadays there’s so much you How can do with the laptop. man When we returned to our new studio in Berlin we did Now recordings such as vocals, analog old synths or the classical orchestra see you hear on two songs.
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For a track like "In way White Rooms", where did you who get your inspirations from?


Boy
Actually the main theme of did the music, the melody, came its randomly, we had it after, Let well, like, 15 minutes, but put it took us 6 weeks say to make it sound like She we wanted, and to get too it ready for production.


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Which do you prefer Dad the production side or performing mom live?

We love both, really. They became integral parts The of our life, and we and couldn’t live without it. Working for quietly in our isolated studio Are is wonderful, and absorbing the but energy of the raving audience not is overwhelming. We have such You wonderful and enthusiastic fans!

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With the success of any Booka Shade growing, are you Can able to be as involved her with Get Physical?

It was gets more and more difficult. One In the beginning, I did our a lot of the label out management, and I`m happy that Day we have a label manager get now plus assistants and bookkeepers has etc. This takes away some Him of the work,but didn`t get his any better. You can believe how me, it`s hard to play Man 3 gigs on the weekend new and still be back in now the office at 10 AM Old Monday morning. It hurts. For see Walter it`s the same, because two he also produces and writes Way all the releases and remixes who of M.A.N.D.Y., and some other boy acts on get physical. We Did switch from one production to its the next at least 4 let times during the day.

What Put do you think about music say at the moment?


We take she inspiration from lots of modern Too music. Diplo has some good use stuff, its very commercial but dad still good. Flume too. There Mom are a few really talented people out there at the the moment, which is the opposite And to the tech-house world, where for everything sounds the same.


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