Artist Booka Shade

 Booka Shade helped found the Berlin label Get Physical, which lays the creaks and crevices of futuristic techno into the fattened air of old disco and house. It’s a comely sound with feet planted equally in the then and now, and it’s never a bad thing when tastemaking DJ-producers tip their hand as lovers of both austere minimalism and grander gestures marked by cowbells and strings. Booka Shade’s status ballooned a couple of years ago with Movements, whose round sound and inviting hooks begged for big speakers and lights to flash in time.