Berlin-based duo Booka Shade, aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, have carved out a reputation as one of the most celebrated electronic acts to come out of Europe over the past two decades. 

With their beginnings in Frankfurt and their sights originally on synth-pop, the duo Booka Shade quickly gained a strong following within electronic music, and in 2002 the pairing formed the now legendary dance label Get Physical Music (together with M.A.N.D.Y., Thomas ‘DJ T.’ Koch and Peter Hayo), where they would have a platform for their own music. 

Three years later, in 2005, their EP’s ‘Mandarine EP’ and ‘Body Language’ - the latter co-produced with M.A.N.D.Y. - launched Booka Shade into the stratosphere with both EPs becoming international successes, whilst the following years soon welcomed an extensive body of work featuring a combination of stand out albums and singles that quickly achieved further global success.

Since their break-through performance at Sónar in 2005, Booka Shade have earned huge recognition with their innovative live shows, even being named one of Resident Advisor's Top 5 live acts in the world in 2010. They have opened for legendary acts such as Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk, whilst headlining stages at the likes of Coachella, Glastonbury, Rock Werchter, and Red Rocks just to name a few. In recent years, the band has appeared amongst the likes of DJ Mag’s ‘Alternative Top 100 DJ List’ (2018), whilst their notable live sets have led to key mentions amongst a host of distinguished festival reviews and round-ups, including placement within DJ Mag’s ’10 Unforgettable Sets From The History Of Exit Festival’.

Booka Shade were also inducted into Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 Hall of Fame, having received strong support from the station throughout their careers, playing at both the ‘40 Years of Radio 1’ celebration with Annie Nightingale and the ‘20 Years of Essential Mix’ party, whilst also mixing Pete Tong’s ‘All Gone Ibiza’ compilation album. 

The duo’s fan base is in no way restricted to electronic music enthusiasts, with great success playing slots at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Lollapalooza, and more by utilising their massive crossover potential, which is as evident in their billings as it is in their remix credits, including acts like Depeche Mode, Moby, Hot Chip, Kings of Leon, Woodkid, The Knife and many more.

Add to the mix their Blaufield Music imprint, founded in 2013, and it’s clear and easy to see the pairing's musical knowledge not only as producers but also adept A&R’s, with releases to date on the imprint from both emerging and established talent alongside their own productions resulting in a string of releases and collaborations that can be regularly found amongst the upper end of Beatport’s Top 100 charts and championed by many of the industry’s biggest names.

Twenty years, dozens of EP’s and six albums later, Booka Shade have become more than a household name, they have become synonymous with the spirit which drives electronic music and have set a precedent to which electronic music is still held to today.

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As a producer, musician, DJ and serial collaborator, Chris Schwarzwälders distinctive style of deep, restrained house is hard to pin down, but you’ll always know it’s him when you hear it. 

Born in Frankfurt am Main in the 80s, he started playing hiphop in the 90s. While making beats on his MPC2000, he dropped into Offenbach’s Robert Johnson club and fell in love with techno. 

In 2009, Chris moved to Berlin and started DJing at KaterHolzig, where he found a group of people who thought about music in the same way he did. In contrast to the trends of the late 00s, the sounds being made from this little paradise on Berlin’s river Spree were slower, softer, and more soulful than a lot of what was being played in clubs at the time. 

It was here that Chris began to cement his reputation as both a solo producer and collaborator, who was capable of bringing his trademark sounds to a whole number of side-projects - many of which have gone on to play to crowds around the globe. He joined the Feathered Sun collective in 2013, together with a group of friends including Acid Pauli, Nu, Jo.Ke and Raz O’Hara. Dreamy, groovy and often improvised, the collective represented a special kind of musical freedom in which a group of producers came together to create something new in a singular, live moment. 

At the same time, Chris’ friend Mira was making moves of her own, and they started to play back-to-back sets, soundtracking the legendary Monday mornings of KaterHolzig, and now, Kater Blau. The two, who are both residents at Kater Blau, have now been playing together internationally for almost a decade, and have formed a common musical understanding that translates throughout every one of their sets - deep, clubby and melancholic. This partnership has also carried on into the studio, where they have collaborated on numerous hits. 

His most light-hearted side comes out in collaboration with Iannis Ritter, where the two musicians take on a weirder, more melodic & electro approach than Chris’ other proejcts. 

If you were to ask him, Chris would describe himself as reserved, logical, rational, melancholic and humorous. Which is why you’d never hear him telling you about the hundreds of nightclubs and festivals he’s played around the globe, or the number of hits he’s had with his productions. If you’re lucky though, Chris might tell you about his favourite synthesizers, and get lost in a conversation all about electronics and sound. Which is exactly where Chris wants to be - lost in electronics and sound.

Through strobe and sound. Through what you feel, not what you know.

Booking contact: gurkenguenther@gmx.net
UPCOMING: 
07.03.25 @ BALAN MÜNCHEN
25.12.24 @ JUGGE ALL NIGHT LONG DORFEN
12.12.24 @ HEY HEY STUDIOS/EVERYOTHER DAY POP UP MÜNCHEN
26.10.24 @ BIKINI MITTE MÜNCHEN
12.08.24 @ NOISUFF FESTIVAL
04.11.23 @ KUKO E.V. PARTY / LIVE.EVIL MÜNCHEN
23.09.23 @ OMEN TATTOO BERLIN
23.06.23 @ MIDSOMMAR FESTIVAL
11.03.23 @ BULBUL BERLIN
16.02.23 @ ZU MIR ODER ZU DIR BERLIN
19.01.23 @ ZU MIR ODER ZU DIR BERLIN
15.08.22 @ JUGGE
14.08.22 @ AUTOBAHN RAVE
16.06.22 @ ZU MIR ODER ZU DIR BERLIN
29.05.22 @ BLECHSONNE FESTIVAL
17.05.22 @ SÜSS WAR GESTERN BERLIN
07.05.22 @ MARKTLOKAL KLUB BERLIN
30.04.22 @ Kallasch& 8. GEBURTSTAG
16.04.22 @ BULBUL BERLIN
27.03.22 @ SISYPHOS ❤️🚀
26.03.22 @ BULBUL BERLIN
22.03.22 @ SÜSS WAR GESTERN BERLIN
24.02.22 @ ZU MIR ODER ZU DIR BERLIN

Hallo liebe Leuds!

Ich bins, euer Gurkengünni! Bin bekannt für meine Liebe zu Spreewaldgurken, Partymusik, Party und meinem Signaturedrink namens Gurkengünther! Ich leg sau gern Deep/Tech/Minimal House auf! Überzeug dich selbst!

Haut sie euch rein (die Sets), der Gurkengünni schenkt euch einen ein!

PS: Ich leg hin und wieder auch mal den einen oder anderen livestream hin, also wenn du Bock hast kannst dir da gerne mal nen Korn abholen: https://www.twitch.tv/gurkenguenthervspreewald

LG

Gurkengünni

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