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Boys Noize (Alex Ridha) is a singular figure in 21st-century electronic music culture. The German-Iraqi artist, DJ, producer, and composer embraces and transcends contradictions-a cross-genre bridge-builder respected by techno purists, and a global headliner who never left the underground. Ridha is masterful on the decks and inimitable in the studio, crafting songs for strikingly diverse talents including AŞAP Rocky, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Arca, Virgil Abloh, Lady Gaga, and Brutalismus 3000. He has been featured alongside Keinemusik, Shygirl, Kelsey Lu, Rico Nasty, and VTSS; remixed Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Miley Cyrus, Tame Impala, The Chemical Brothers, and A.G. Cook; and scored the hit German hacker film Who Am I (2014), Oliver Stone's Snowden (2016), and the forthcoming Replacer, starring Halsey. He co-founded the duo Octave Minds with Chilly Gonzales, and actively produces and performs with Skrillex as Dog Blood. For Ridha, this long, accomplished career was merely the foundation for something bigger. In 2025 and 2026, Boys Noize performed alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross throughout Nine Inch Nails' Peel It Back tour, and co-produced the near-entirety of the TRON: Ares soundtrack, including the GRAMMY® Award-winning single "As Alive As You Need Me To Be." The trio's collaboration was formalized with the announcement of Nine Inch Noize, debuting with a top-billed, viral Coachella set that SF Gate called "one of the festival's greatest performances of all time." The Nine Inch Noize LP was released the same week to critical acclaim. As a solo artist, Boys Noize continues to be an active presence in the culture, with his eighth solo album 7LLVSION arriving in the fall of 2026. Throughout his rise from clubs to festivals to stadiums, Ridha has ceaselessly supported the underground through his labels Boysnoize Records and the recently launched ONES and ZEROS, focusing on a new generation of global talent from the Global North and South alike. His punk ethos has kept him fully independent, raw talent keeps him in-demand, and obsession keeps him future-proof. No other artist traverses musical worlds like Boys Noize, and while his sound cannot be replicated, his formula is simple: embrace everything, compromise nothing.
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17 Mar, 2017
Boys Noize: 'Mayday Remixes Pt.2'
BOYS NOIZE shares his 'MAYDAY REMIXES PT.2 EP' today, with remixes from a diverse roster of fresh faces and respected talent, as opposed to the reworks on PT.1. 'Euphoria' turns menacing with an EBM work-over from Minimal Wave's Amato, new XL Recordings signee GILA flips a left field 'Rock The Bells'.
To have the deeply intense Tensnake remake of 'Starchild' featuring Polica alongside the '90s signature touch by young rave revivalist RAITO's on 'Midnight' shows the diversity in scope of sounds.
'MAYDAY REMIXES PT.2' is out now everywhere!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mayday-remixes-pt-2/id1209167017
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06 Mar, 2017
Boys Noize: Sister Radio Mix
Boys Noize presents a special guest mix for SISTER Radio.
www.pyroradio.com/sister-radio-with-guest-boysnoize-27022017
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03 Mar, 2017
Boys Noize: 'The Mayday Remixes Pt.1'
Boys Noize releases the club-ready first installment of the two part 'MAYDAY REMIXES' EPs today. The studio album 'MAYDAY' gave us Boys Noize taking his raw, aggressive production to new levels of musicality - true songs instead of club tools.
The 'MAYDAY REMIXES' brings us right back to the basement, as he's never one to stray too far from his roots. Nearly every track from the album is reworked on 'PT 1' by Boys Noize with the club and DJ in mind.
Listen on Spotify from the link below.