Booka Shade @ Musée Juste Pour Rire, March 17, 2007

[petronia]

Sold-out show, crowd of latecomers trying to score tickets in front of the venue, cloverleaf-pattern bracelets (haha no really, Happy Irish Booze Day), several hundred ravers packed like sardines onto the dancefloor, giant screen, two washroom stalls per gender. Social highlights include running into GHB Girl again - and watching her wrangle her way into the "DJs and their girlfriends" backstage area - and a couple having actual public sex in a cordoned-off corner. GOOD TIMES HAD BY ALL.

Booka played a 70-minute live set from 2AM; suspect it was meant to be longer but there were technical glitches. Laptop in the middle, one Booka manned the mixers behind a glowing blue screen, the other played a synth drum pad kit (!!) and emceed between songs (!!!). BASICALLY THEY WERE ROCK STARS. The crowd was screaming, jumping up and down, singing along at the top of their lungs (note: the songs have no actual lyrics), reaching out to touch the DJ, putting their hands together and praying to the DJ, the works. Then again, most live techno acts can't drop tracks like the following:

Booka Shade - In White Rooms
Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
Booka Shade - Darko

In a row. Which pretty much says it all.

More music (I'm making up for the relative scarcity of mp3 blogging in the past few weeks):

Booka Shade vs. Corona - White Night (Kornel Mix): "In White Rooms"... now with diva vocals for anthemic prog house effect! Some of you may like this better. XD (Also, rainbow-coloured Lego reenactment.)

Azzido da Bass feat. Johnny Blake - Lonely By Your Side (Booka Shade Dub Remix): I really like the original song, it's on my Nana II FST (which is nearly formalized, except I have to um, buy several CDs so I can rip specific tracks). This mix doesn't sound much like said original, and isn't ace for the same reasons, but is ace nonetheless.

I have more tracks but I think I'll leave them until later this week. *g*

In other news, I updated my website with everything I wrote since the beginning of 2007. Notify me if you get the kiriban. ♥