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| RA News Booka’s third album promises to take a more song based approach. Tracklist and a video message from Booka inside.
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| #1 / Wed, 05 Mar 08 20:51 if 'planetary/city tales' is anything to go by, this album will surely be their best work!
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| #2 / Wed, 05 Mar 08 23:11 Awesome news. Up there with some of my favourite producers. Can't wait for this one...
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| #3 / Thu, 06 Mar 08 04:25 def looking forward to it... nice hearing from the guys themselves 
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| #4 / Thu, 06 Mar 08 04:29 I'm loving the beard and new haircut. Can't wait to heard the new album.
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| #5 / Thu, 06 Mar 08 04:29 what a great little vid : )
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| #6 / Thu, 06 Mar 08 09:30 'More song based' usually gives me the fear, but this could actually be good
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| #7 / Thu, 06 Mar 08 13:17 Love Booka Shade, just got the DVD with the special edition Movements and can't wait to hear this
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| #8 / Thu, 06 Mar 08 14:03 I'm sooo damn cynical its stupid... but i'm really hoping this is going to be good, finding one or two of the newre releases a little less intelligent, but nonetheless, the power to surprise.
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| #9 / Fri, 07 Mar 08 00:51 yay! accordian love.
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| #10 / Fri, 07 Mar 08 03:11 Cannot wait for this one, i love their new movement, Numbers was awesome, go Booka
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| #11 / Fri, 07 Mar 08 12:44 We all hope for a great album. Don't disappoint us Booka Shade 
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| #12 / Mon, 14 Apr 08 20:37 Heard this for the first time today, Charlotte is tackle. I'm liking the rest as well but need a few more listens, really like the first tune as well.
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 | RA Review It can’t be easy being Booka Shade right now. After setting up one of the most successful electronic music labels in recent memory, releasing two commercially and critically acclaimed long players and one well-appreciated mixed album, penning some of the most instantly recognizable house singles of..
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| #13 / Fri, 23 May 08 15:29 (Edited: 23 May 08 16:30) Hmm, another complete bullshit (i.e., totally wrong, and self-important) review from Stéphane Girard. Can anyone really be surprised really? This album is solid; better than the previous two perhaps. Just need to get my mitts on the Ltd. 2 CD version. Mmmmmm, 2 CD version...
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| #14 / Fri, 23 May 08 16:04 I just knew some people were going to hate this one, I mean it has a lot of ingredients that tend to irritate on a dance album and yet I easily prefer this over the rather overrated Movements. They really exhibit a idiosyncratic sense of space on this album and most of the songs work too (and I normally hate forced songs on dance albums.) First half is almost perfect, I sort of lose interest towards the end. Good record for driving around, nighttime approaching.
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| #15 / Fri, 23 May 08 16:07 OHHHHHH STEPHANE KILL YOUR SELF!
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| #16 / Fri, 23 May 08 17:27 I haven't heard the album yet, but I don't think I would put faith in a reviewer that uses the word "adroitness."
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| #17 / Fri, 23 May 08 17:35 Why not? Seems like a perfectly acceptable word.
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| #18 / Sat, 24 May 08 01:21 i'm so disappointed.this album not comparable with their la st production "movements"...i could not even listen single track till the end,they could make very interesting album,i don't know why they did't,i mean this guyes got a such a big potential,and they coming out with this? i wander how they gonna tour with this album,and vocals are terrible,so i don't know,very disappointed.(
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| #19 / Sat, 24 May 08 02:19 I was very excited about this album after hearing 'Numbers' as i love that track. So, OK it's no Movements but that's because it wasn't intended to be. I still think this album has got some beautiful tracks - 'Solo City' anyone? I agree with sporenburg in that i did lose interest towards the end but it most certainly is not worth a 2/5.
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| #20 / Sat, 24 May 08 02:26 I must admit, after listening to the samples on iTunes the other day, I was kind of on the fence about buying this. Now that I see Stéphane has given it a 2, I know it must be good! 
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| #21 / Sat, 24 May 08 08:26 (Edited: 24 May 08 10:10) quote:
Posted by darktronic
Now that I see Stéphane has given it a 2, I know it must be good!
Nasty...but true. Although in this case it's perhaps unfair to dig into Stéphane too much because it really is an album that will polarize opinions. Still now I at least learned what Depeche Mode albums to avoid. 
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| #22 / Sat, 24 May 08 09:11 this album farkin sucks.... no seriously... they tried to come up with something innovative and different after MOVEMENTS, but it didnt work out like they planned it...
Thousands of BOOKA SHADE fans will be very sad....
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| #23 / Sat, 24 May 08 12:18 got to agree with the review to be honest. a pretty average album.
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| #24 / Sat, 24 May 08 14:30 Yeh this sounds good ,theyve always been an influence on stuff these days
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| #25 / Sun, 25 May 08 13:00 they should have quit.
quit while you'er ahead, maintain the legend i say.
something depeche needs to learn.. yesterday.
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| #26 / Sun, 25 May 08 20:43 we all knew it was never going to be as good as Movements but its no stinker in my opinion.
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| #27 / Sun, 25 May 08 23:33 I think Stephane should go to a psychiater, he's suffering from a disease called exhibicionism (in dance music reviwews), or something like that. The review is totally bullshit. The Sun... is a more mellow work from the guys. Movements was not bad, but to be honest, it's an avarage overrated mainstream dance album. This LP has more messages to the listener and it reflects, that the guys have found themselves and have grown up. Beautiful
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| #28 / Mon, 26 May 08 17:32 quote:
Posted by Techyvic
Movements was not bad, but to be honest, it's an avarage overrated mainstream dance album. This LP has more messages to the listener and it reflects, that the guys have found themselves and have grown up. Beautiful
Movements was average and overrated? Hmmmm i think not...
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| #29 / Tue, 27 May 08 06:43 wicked
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| #30 / Tue, 27 May 08 09:10 i'll reserve judgement till i hear it, but i gotta admit these guys strike me as being a bit too much like the wiggles these days...
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| #31 / Tue, 27 May 08 10:24 quote:
Posted by Techyvic
Movements was not bad, but to be honest, it's an avarage overrated mainstream dance album. This LP has more messages to the listener and it reflects, that the guys have found themselves and have grown up. Beautiful
The Beatles' albums are average overrated mainstream rock. McCartney's mellower solo work is far superior.
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| #32 / Tue, 27 May 08 14:30 quote:
Posted by pablobcn
OHHHHHH STEPHANE KILL YOUR SELF!
It really pisses me off when people say stuff like this, he is presenting his opinion in his own style, if you think you can do better go ahead and do it. And if you disagree with his opinion or style that's fair enough, but don't be rude about it.
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| #33 / Tue, 27 May 08 15:15 oh no hagais caso del pobre stephane ni sucedaneos, este nuevo disco de booka shade ES LO MASSSSSS.... THE NEW BOOKA SHADE IS? WONDERFULL!!!!
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| #34 / Tue, 27 May 08 22:55 I agree with this review.I had big expectations with this album and I' m disapointed.Boring.
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| #35 / Wed, 28 May 08 11:50 Dissapointing..expected alot more
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| #36 / Thu, 29 May 08 08:46 keep listening to it, it will get better and better and stick for a long time.
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| #37 / Thu, 29 May 08 23:02 quote:
Posted by danielpetry
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Posted by pablobcn
OHHHHHH STEPHANE KILL YOUR SELF!
It really pisses me off when people say stuff like this, he is presenting his opinion in his own style, if you think you can do better go ahead and do it. And if you disagree with his opinion or style that's fair enough, but don't be rude about it.
Well said. There is no place for personal attacks, when a person has just presented an opinion, just like everyone else here is.
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| #38 / Fri, 30 May 08 08:50 love this album (sorry for having different opinion ;p )
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| #39 / Fri, 30 May 08 10:26 I like the album and it looks like quite a few other music reviewers do too. Maybe  should social it up and whack a public star rating on reviews.
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| #40 / Fri, 30 May 08 11:46 people give ssilku, to roll music please and I nemozhu in any way to roll
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| #41 / Mon, 02 Jun 08 20:35 I was sooooo excited when I got the album, and soooo disappointed after hearing it. I have been listening to doubtful industrial / synth pop in the 90's and it reminded me of how bad it was. "Control me" ?! Please. MOVEMENTS was a fuckin' masterpiece compared to that one.
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| #42 / Mon, 02 Jun 08 22:37 5/5
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| #43 / Tue, 03 Jun 08 02:58 Overall, I think Movements is a better album, but I do like this one. At times it almost feels as though they electronicized banjos and other elements of Southern Rock (maybe they did?). If someone were to tell me, "Imagine Booka Shade meets a banjo," I might've scoffed, but I was fairly pleased with the outcome.
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| #44 / Tue, 03 Jun 08 20:58 I love Charlotte!!!
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| #45 / Tue, 03 Jun 08 22:14 Well I'm quite disappointed too... movements was great, but I also like their debut memento.
I mean it's ok if you are not active listening. the only song I kinda dig is karma car (there was a promo video for the single once which I liked)
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| #46 / Wed, 04 Jun 08 05:42 something different, something new
one thing's for sure tho - it grows on you
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| #47 / Wed, 04 Jun 08 08:02 OK. Gotta give the guys credit for solid work, from a musical stand point. But, its just not exciting. Its great to listen to at home chillin' or driving or something. But to get the masses moving on the dance floor, I dont see it. I would give it 3 out of 5 for the solid production work.
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| #48 / Thu, 12 Jun 08 02:10 I think the techno world should appreciate this more than they do. It seems everyone says it's not as good, simply because it's not the same as Movements. Musically, this album is better than Movements. I'm sorry if you can't enjoy it with laser beams and glow sticks.
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| #49 / Thu, 12 Jun 08 20:46 Top album, should not even be compared to movements. Both fantastic albums in their own right, but both have very different aims. one is more dancefloor orientated and the other is much more chilled and textured, sure the tracks from The sun....dont hit you like those from movements but is'nt that the key to most great music.......... its understated brilliance
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| #50 / Thu, 12 Jun 08 21:07 wooooooow
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