Booka Shade

Wed., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., $26.75, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info.

by K. Ross Hoffman

[ electronic ]

Frankfurt's Booka Shade are the beloved maximalists of minimal, the duo who snookered living-room techno aesthetes and hard-partying big-room hedonists alike into sharing a groove by sweetening their artfully architectural electro with thick veins of populist trance and elegant, elemental, ear-worming hooks, on bangers like the omnipresent mid-decade smashes "Body Language" and "Mandarine Girl." Following the cinematic side step of their third album, this year's More! (Get Physical) is everything its title promises: more glistening, glittery synths; more blippy, careening melodies; more jacking house syncopations, from the Teutons who taught techno to topple the orthodoxy of less.

Wed., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., $26.75, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info.