RA Podcast: Booka Shade

RA Podcast: Booka Shade Walter and Arno don their DJing caps for the 150th edition of the RA podcast. You may only be aware of Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier’s work as Booka Shade, but their time in the music industry stretches all the way back to the early ’90s, when the pair started working together in a band named Planet Claire. The group was largely centered around synth pop, but after releasing two albums (both of which featured some of deep house diva Lisa Shaw’s first vocal tracks) they disbanded in 1995. By that time, Merziger and Kammermeier had become increasingly interested in electronic music and began to make club tracks under various different pseudonyms, experimenting with trance, techno and house as they left their synth pop sound behind…