Two years removed from their last album, Movements, Booka Shade’s back. Hopefully you’ll recognize them.

With fourteen new tracks on The Sun & The Neon Light, Arno and Walter have given themselves a good hour to reintroduce themselves to the House music audience of the world. Having listened to the album a few times now, I have to say it was time well-spent. With the massive success that the last album brought them (with winners like Body Language and Mandarine Girl), Booka Shade could have stayed with the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy, but then, they wouldn’t be Booka Shade. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night in Vancouver, Lisa Shaw and Miguel Migs came into town to bring something new (and perhaps something old) to the house music scene. Petalpusher consists of the 8 piece band with Miguel Migs on electric guitar, along with Lisa Shaw and Tim Fuller singing their hearts out. In fact, Petalpusher has been around for quite some time originating from the roots of Miguel Migs musical background, but in an era when electronic music meets live band (take Justice, Booka Shade and Trentemoller as examples) it’s time to push the scene to new levels. No longer is it enough to be a DJ who can just remix others tracks, don’t you agree that now a days the audience wants something more? Read the rest of this entry »