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The intense strobing of Booka Shade

Photos by Will Deitz » A mere week after we made our way to Booka Shade's post-midnight show at SXSW, Impose has again stumbled upon the dynamic electrohouse duo aus Deutschland, this time at Chicago's Metro.

Text by Will Deitz
Posted on April 01, 2009

Signs upon entering the Metro  warned of "intense strobing", which was an understatement - it was like the freaking fourth of July at 19th and Peoria. With Arno Kammermeier manning the electric drums and Walter Merziger on keyboards, Booka Shade played ringleaders to over an hour of frenetic screaming, jumping, dancing, and all that other charming stuff that ravers do. 

There is no denying that Merziger and Kammermeier are masters of their craft; they've been energizing festival crowds in Europe for the better part of a decade, and Americans are starting to figure out that these are shows well worth going to. Live, Merziger is the more vocal of the two, calling "I think you know this one!" and "We love you, Chicago!" to an audience that unsurprisingly ate it up. At the very least, it was ridiculously entertaining. 

Booka Shade has wrapped up the North American leg of their tour, and they're out of the U.S.A. for the foreseeable future. When they come back, bring your sunglasses, indoors or outdoors; das Party is going to be sehr lächerlich. 

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