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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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16 Nov, 2016
Boys Noize: New Video '2 Live'
"I've played in Mexico City many times, it's one of my favourite places in the world. The scene is really special, it has a big art scene and sub-culture but unlike EU cities because it's still so raw and wild, you can see & feel it everywhere in the streets.
People don't really know how cyberpunk Mexico City is, and we knew we had to shoot there, with crazy anime malls, bootleg electronics, and illegal steroid markets 30 minutes away from 2000 year old pyramids.
My friend and director LIL INTERNET (who directed all videos for my 'Mayday' Album) had the vision for it and was used to shooting in dicey places without permits, and SUS BOY added his magic CGI really enhancing the cyber romance element."
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14 Nov, 2016
Boys Noize: 'Warehaus 2017' Tour
Boys Noize has announced his 'Warehaus Tour' for 2017.
See artists page for full details.
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14 Nov, 2016
Boys Noize: New Video For '2 Live'
Boys Noize has unveiled his new video for '2 Live', on The Fader.
He has also announced European headline dates for next year, see artist page for details.www.thefader.com/2016/11/14/boys-noizes-2-live-video