The impact of dance music, depending on where you are, is rarely seen in mainstream pop culture, yet there are more sub genres of electronic music than even the most experienced clubber can remember, and countless artists are ripping up the thriving club scene in Europe, Asia, and North America. In the realm of House music, though, there is only one Booka Shade.

Booka Shade’s style of music has been called a lot of things - minimal, electrohouse, techno… the most accurate of these is perhaps the minimal tag, but even then it only barely describes the debut album and even less so the second. Dubbed “Science Fiction House” by their label mates, M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade’s art refuses to be confined by the stereotypes borne out of the labeling of music. Given the musical backgrounds Read the rest of this entry »