Booka Shade

Discovering the music of Booka Shade is a little like that phenomenon of meeting someone new that feels so right it seems you've known them for years. Before they came into your life, you never knew anything was missing, but now that they've arrived, you can barely imagine life without them. Metaphors aside, this German duo — Arno Kammermeier and Walter Merziger — builds future-sounding dance tracks with underground sensibilities and an ineffable something that's helped to make two of its tracks ("Mandarine Girl" and "Body Language") moderate crossover hits. The album that housed those hits, Movement, is an accessible fusion of electro, house and techno influences that received praise not only within dance-music circles, but also from Pitchfork. If the pair can capitalize on that momentum, the imminent release of its third album, The Sun and the Neon Light, should catapult Booka Shade to global dance-floor dominion. Catch the act before that happens this Saturday, April 26, at Cervantes'.