We recorded some background noise in a restaurant in Berlin which helped set the tone of the whole track easy, a little bit summery, jazz guitar. We were deeply into field recordings at the time and when making the track we decided that it would fit very nicely to a bar atmosphere.
You also hear Walter playing the guitar on this one… For the album we went for more of a relaxed home listening version. In the beginning it wasn’t an obvious hit, it was 130bpm which is super fast for a house track and had a long pause. The original came out in summer 2005, the year before 'Movements' was released. What a bassline! Without a doubt one of the biggest songs we have ever written. It has the attitude of ‘say as much as possible, with as little as possible’. It is a very minimalistic track, with a very funky bassline. It is meant to be like an overture in a classical piece, with a big melody a bit like Wagner, but with fewer instruments. The opening track was one of the first we actually wrote for the album. Set to bring their 'Movements 10' show to London for a special show at the end of this month, Clash invited Booka Shade to guide us through their seminal full length.
Expanded with a few choice remixes, Booka Shade continue to thrill in a way that few other production teams can. Re-mastered and re-issued in time for its tenth anniversary, 'Movements' sounds as good as ever. Yet they could also bring things down, with 'Movements' shuffling through several different phases, flirting with the ambient before dishing out some crunching beats. This duo, though, weren't minimal: they were LOUD, they were brash, and they were ready to rock. German electronic music already had a rich lineage, but it tended to dedicate itself to techno, to the minimal strains of Cologne and Berlin. It's difficult to define the impact Booka Shade's album 'Movements' had on its release in 2006.
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