Booka Shade – In White Rooms
LIVE in Glastonbury [zip]

The one and only Booka Shade sent out a special message to their fans.
It goes like this:

Here’s a thank you to all our friends and fans for the great support
we’ve had this year on the Sun and the Neon Light World Tour. We’ve played many of the biggest festivals, including Glastonbury. Go to this link to download ‘White Rooms live at Glastonbury’ for free.The tour continues into the winter with shows in South America, Australia and London.

See you soon.
Arno and Walter

When artists rail on about subtlety and stepping away from the almighty
riff, a red flag tends to go up. In the case of Berlin’s Booka Shade,
though, careful refinement has always been part of their 20-year-plus
process. With their roots in synth-pop bands, producer Walter Merziger
and drummer Arno Kammermeier have always erred on the side of
stripped-back groove, long before minimal techno made it fashionable.
Booka Shade’s latest album, The Sun and the Neon Light, has the familiar weight of their breakout release, Movements,
but with a more spacious, experimental edge. Tracks like “Psychameleon”
trade house’s pulse for a glittery swing, built from a malfunctioning
Korg Poly-800 synth and a vocoded whisper. It’s a sound that can be
delicate, but never thin–a change at least partially due to the duo’s
renewed interest in vintage hardware and acoustic instruments. Here
they talk about the benefits of dragging 600 lbs. of gear clear across
the ocean.

The last APC TOP 10 was in March, so this time we have three months to cover. We might been dead, but we were listening music. Here are the songs and albums what we enjoyed most in our 2,5 months of coma :)

# 01 Nôze: Songs on the rocks [link]
the album of the year? might be!
# 02 DJ Matt Hite: You Get Around (A Bad Name) [link]
Matt’s brilliant electrodisco Bon Jovi mashup triggered the restart of the APC
# 03 Booka Shade: The Sun & The Neon Light [link]
these boys never let us down, catch them live in this Summer!!
# 04 Go Home Productions: Spliced Krispies [link]
Mark’s own private resurrection (the biggest mashup surprise of the year?)
# 05 team9: AudioJunk EP1 [link]
mr 9′s amazing journey to the world of beeps and bleeps
# 06 LeeDM101: Rotten, Filthy, Dirty EP [link]
Lee VS UNKLE, it’s a dream combo
# 07 DJ Lumpy: DJ Lumpy Grates his tits [link]
the return of the madman, and he is quite welcome
# 08 Quiet Village: Silent Movie [link]
chilled modern electronica, a masterpiece
# 09 Rodrigez: Sugarman [link]
a lost classic from 1969
# 10 Primal Scream: Can’t Go Back [link]
just nice to have them back, they made a new album and launched a new single just because the APC is back, how sweet :D ;)

This time the links are taking you the sites of the artists, not to APC posts, cos you know there might be no APC posts about some of these. Yet. Due to the fact of having albums and EP’s and single tracks as well on this chart, there is no streaming player at all. From the next episode the APC TOP 10 will come bac to its normal monthly routine and we will post the chat on the last Sundays of each month.