We learn dances brand new dances -
Like the nuclear bomb -
When were nightclubbing -
Bright white clubbing -
Oh isnt it wild? (Iggy Pop)
Moonbootica will be celebrating their tenth birthday next year. Or rather, they won't. Contrary to expectations, there will be no megalomaniac, orgiastic über party. Not an echo of prosecco. No cheese on sticks or twiglets. Nada. Its business as usual. In traditional Moonbootica fashion, they simply keep on keeping on. As they have been doing since their inception in 1999, the Hamburg duo have, in the truest sense of the word, kept things simple - guaranteed to rock the party and keeping on keeping on is the Moonbootica mission statement that made them great. Onwards and upwards, breaking the borders and out into the night, the darkened hours which need to be saved. Hence the title of their new compilation applies to them and to everyone else. A call to duty and a mass appeal. As the man says at the start of the set: “We need you - you and us, we have to save the night (...) We still have to save the night, save the night, ... !”
The peaktime mix on the first CD pulsates with brilliance - a solid slice of Moonbootica funk, laced with their own productions, fit to turn any HGV cab into a hedonist sauna club - but its the second disc, filled to the brim with 76 minutes and 35 seconds of bliss that really does the trick. Without wishing to diminish Moonbootica's services to the audience in the slightest, the two sets can broadly be categorized as the compulsory programme on the one hand and freestyle on the other.
Top marks for both, with the compulsory programme hitting all the right buttons and the freestyle performance underlining Moonbootica's artistic qualities. As it happens, their fans and friends often ask them about the "in between" albums - dismantling the construct of studio album and compilation - to them its all artistic freedom.
Disc two showcases Moonbootica in more playful mood, more percussive and unpredictable, adventurous and rich in tantalizing sounds of a thousand and one nights - strange knocks and futuristic hiss, voodoo queens and parrots, ritualistic voice fragments and party incantations, repeated like mantras. In the final third, a new Moonbootica number, “Men Of The Future”, makes an appearance, heralding a final change of course as we enter the realm of disco. Possibly the sound of the future as imagined by the disco dwellers of the past. An elegant, streamlined structure sparkling in the moonlight, somewhere out there in the eternal night ...
Epilogue: A few years ago, Kowe and Tobi were asked during the course of an interview where they were up to in the thousand page story of their life. Their answer: page 81. If one were to pose the same question today, they may well be a few pages further on, but even if ten or a hundred pages have since been turned, the bulk of the boom lies ahead. In these transient times, where ageing is akin to a deadly sin, in one of the fastest-moving trades around , where activists have half the shelf life of natural yoghurt, Moonbootica stand firm in the current of fugacity, resolute as ever. The party continues. No jubilee. Save the night.
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Meet The Bang Gang
ich rette die nacht und die nacht rettet mich... ohne die dunkelheit seh ich das licht sonst nicht......drum lieb ich die nacht bis der nächste morgen erwacht
Der schönste Tod ist von einer Discokugel erschlagen zu werden, aber gegen einen Herzinfarkt am 28.11.2009 bei Moonbootica in Hamburg hätte ich auch nichts auszusetzen.
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