Booka Shade

Booka Shade

Artist Biography

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BOOKA SHADE - PRESS BIOGRAPHY - 2010

In music, insists Arno Kammermeier, there can be no compromise.

“You have to reduce everything to its core, and ask yourself, ‘is this what we do?’; ‘do I truly feel this?’; ‘do we love this 100%?’,” he yammers, in a roundabout attempt to explain the genesis of Booka Shade’s new artist album, ‘More!’. “Anybody can produce a nice, okay track, one which works on the dancefloor, but to produce something personal - music that is the very essence of who you are - that is much more difficult.”

Walter Merziger, his production partner, nods: “We’ve produced thousands of tracks together and, by now, we have an almost psychic connection, musically. But, still, we are constantly interrogating what we do. Is it fresh? Is it different? And you have to force yourself to do this; people are lazy. But when you stop questioning your work, it’s time to give up.”

We could talk about the practical detail of how this all worked - the ban on any sounds Booka Shade had used previously; 17 months and endless gigabytes of experimentation and refinement; the long hours sketching ideas in hotel rooms, or working in their Berlin studio - but, frankly, who cares? The important thing is what ‘More!’ sounds like… and, well, it sounds immense....

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