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- Genre: Electronic
- Label: Get Physical Music / Zebralution
German electro-house at its duskiest and most delectable.
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We Say...
Booka Shade's "Mandarine Girl" was 2005's premier crossover club record, an electro-house charmer whose buzzing, zapping bass line is echoed and emboldened by higher-pitched synth noises, all moving in tandem at the song's mid-length climax like Claymation robots. The single's warm sound (a mix of house's humane undertow and electro's gleeful cyber-futurism) and nonchalant air helped it get onto the year-end lists of more than just DJ aficionados. Now it anchors a full album, many of whose songs work in a pleasantly similar manner. On Movements, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, the Berlin producers who record as Booka Shade, grows on you in a similarly subliminal way. Sometimes they tighten their basic formula, as on "Pong Pang," whose assertive core sounds like a rapid, bouncy thumb-piano riff that's mirrored by hi-hats and buggy computer effects; it also segues seamlessly into "Mandarine Girl." When Merziger and Kammermeier loosen up, they go all the way, as on the slap-happily electro-poppy "The Birds And The Beats/At The Window." But mostly they prefer to creep up on you, each new noise emerging unobtrusively from the corners of the sound-field, not pouncing but sidling.
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| 01. |  |
Night Falls |
5:21 |
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| 02. | |
Body Language / Interpretation |
5:02 |
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| 03. | |
Paper Moon |
5:13 |
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| 04. | |
The Birds And The Beats / At The Window |
5:22 |
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| 05. | |
Darko |
6:13 |
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| 06. | |
Pong Pang |
5:53 |
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| 07. | |
Mandarine Girl (Album Version) |
5:44 |
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| 08. | |
Take A Ride |
4:04 |
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| 09. | |
Wasting Time |
5:08 |
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| 10. | |
In White Rooms |
5:28 |
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| 11. | |
Hallelujah USA |
2:08 |
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| 12. | |
Lost High |
4:39 |
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12 Total Tracks, 60:15 Total Length
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