Booka Shade have their time in the sun
BOOKA Shade’s Arno Kammermeier nods vigorously. “The explosion of dance music in America has been very good for us,” says the electronic musician. “It has opened lots of doors. Last year, we played the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. It was on a huge racecourse. You had 300,000 people there.”
He is contemplating the rise of EDM — an American acronym for electronic dance music. Though mainstream in Europe for decades, dance music has only recently caught on in the US. Almost overnight, artists such as Calvin Harris, Avicii and Afrojack have become superstars, with mind-boggling incomes to match. A former Marks and Spencer shelf-stacker from Scotland, Harris is estimated to have earned $18m in 2013.
