| Boys Noize | |
| Birth Name: | Alexander Ridha |
| Birth Date: | 22 August 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Hamburg, West Germany |
| Years Active: | 2004 - present |
| Label: | Boysnoize Records |
Alexander Ridha (born 22 August 1982), better known by his stage name Boys Noize, is a German electronic music record producer, songwriter, and DJ.[1] In 2005, Ridha established his label, Boysnoize Records. Ridha has remixed the work of a number of other artists, including Snoop Dogg and Depeche Mode. In 2019, he produced Frank Ocean's song "DHL".[2]
Ridha started producing and DJing from an early age, including a period in which he supported Felix Da Housecat and DJ Hell under the alias of Kid Alex.[3] He has been named one of the "Top 10 DJ's Who Rule The World" by Rolling Stone, elected "Best Electronic Act" by Beatport 3 years in a row, and was awarded the Independent Music Award in 2010.[4] His music is known to merge various styles, with influences of hip-hop and disco roots as well as heavy noise and electro house sounds.[5]
Ridha released his early work on labels such as International Deejay Gigolos Records, Kitsuné Music and Turbo Recordings. He established Boysnoize Records in 2005.[6]
He remixed David Lynch, N.E.R.D, Depeche Mode, Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk, Justice, and the Chemical Brothers amongst many other well-known artists and became a producer of note, having worked with Kelis, UK rapper Kano, The Black Eyed Peas, and the South Korean band BIGBANG and has also collaborated with the New York band Scissor Sisters on their album "Only The Horses".
Chilly Gonzales' Ivory Tower is his first fully produced and co-written album, released in August 2010.[7]
He has further collaborated with Erol Alkan: the first record "Death Suite" / "Waves" was released on Ridha's imprint BNR, followed by "Lemonade" / "Avalanche", which came out on Erol's label Phantasy Sound.
In October 2010, the first release of the newly launched sublabel BNR TRAX was presented.[8]
In 2012, Boys Noize released his third studio album, Out of the Black.[9]
In 2012, Boys Noize formed a side-project with Skrillex called Dog Blood which is in the electro genre. Dog Blood performed at the 2013 Miami Ultra Music Festival.
Boysnoize Records celebrated its 100th release in 2013, with electronic dance heavyweights The Chemical Brothers and Justice remixing Boys Noize's "XTC" and "ICH R U".
In 2014, Boys Noize did the music composition for a German movie named Who Am I – No System Is Safe. Ridha also collaborated with Chilly Gonzales to form Octave Minds. The self-titled debut album was released on BNR with track premieres on Pitchfork Dazed and Confused and Fader. Besides the album features a track called "Tap Dance", which features Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment.[10]
Boys Noize released his Go Hard EP in 2015, a 1 album release on Beatport.In August 2015 it was announced that Ridha had collaborated with Jean-Michel Jarre on the track "The Time Machine" from the album .[11]
In 2016, Boys Noize released his fourth studio album, Mayday, which included collaborations with Benga, Remy Banks, Poliça, Hudson Mohawke, and Spank Rock.[12] He described it as "[his] signal against blind categorization and conformist synchronization", "a call for individuality and diversity", and "a tribute to outsiders".[13] It peaked at number 8 on Billboards Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.[14]
| Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEL (FL) [15] | BEL (WA) [16] | FRA [17] | SWI [18] | US Dance [19] | US Heat [20] | |||
| Oi Oi Oi |
| 65 | — | 95 | — | — | — | |
| Power |
| 24 | 62 | 144 | — | 23 | — | |
| Out of the Black |
| 49 | 49 | 123 | 90 | 23 | 42 | |
| Strictly Raw Vol. 1 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Mayday |
| 87 | 128 | — | — | — | — | |
| Strictly Raw Vol. 2 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Strictly Bvnkers Vol. 1 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| +/-[21] |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
| Album details | ||
| The Bomb / Boy Neu |
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| Are You In? |
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| Erole Attack |
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| Optic / He-Man |
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| Kill the Kid |
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| Adonis Remix |
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| HARDC0RE DR3AMZ (with Rico Nasty) |
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| Album details | Artists | ||
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| Waves / Death Suite |
| Erol Alkan and Boys Noize | |
| Waves Remake |
| Erol Alkan, Boys Noize and Gonzales | |
| Avalanche / Lemonade |
| Boys Noize and Erol Alkan | |
| Avalanche (Terminal Velocity) |
| Boys Noize and Erol Alkan featuring Jarvis Cocker | |
| Working Together |
| Boys Noize and Chilly Gonzales | |
| Shizzo |
| Boys Noize and Housemeister | |
| Roland Rat / Brain Storm |
| Erol Alkan and Boys Noize | |
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| Handbraekes (Boys Noize and Mr. Oizo) | |
| Roland Rat / Brain Storm Remixes |
| Erol Alkan and Boys Noize | |
| Middle Finger |
| Dog Blood (Boys Noize and Skrillex) | |
| Middle Finger Pt. 2: The Remixes |
| Dog Blood (Boys Noize and Skrillex) | |
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| Handbraekes (Boys Noize and Mr. Oizo) | |
| Octave Minds |
| Octave Minds (Boyz Noise and Chilly Gonzales) | |
| 100 |
| Tiga and Boys Noize | |
| 100 Remixes |
| Tiga and Boys Noize | |
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| Handbraekes (Boys Noize and Mr. Oizo) | |
| Midnight Hour[23] |
| Skrillex, Boys Noize, and Ty Dolla Sign | |
| Why Not?[24] |
| Boys Noize and Francis and the Lights |
| Album details | ||
| "Volta 82" |
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| "Feel Good (TV=Off)" |
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| "& Down" |
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| "Don't Believe the Hype" |
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| "Lava Lava" |
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| "Starter" |
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| Transmission (Pt. 1 and Pt. 2) |
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| 1010 / Yeah |
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| Nott / Trooper |
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| "Adonis" |
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| Sessions Pt. 1 |
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| "XTC" |
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| "What You Want" |
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| "Ich R U" |
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| "Go Hard" |
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| "Alarm" |
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| "Cerebral" |
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| "Overstayer" |
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| "100" |
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| "Overthrow" |
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| "Euphoria" (featuring Remy Banks) |
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| "Starchild" (featuring Polica) |
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| "Birthday" |
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| "Midnight" |
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| "Disco Inferno" |
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| "Orange"[25] (with Virgil Abloh) |
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| "Killer"[26] (featuring Steven A. Clark) |
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| "Buchla 100"[27] |
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| "Girl Crush" (featuring Rico Nasty) |
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| "Mvinline"[28] |
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| "All I Want"[29] (featuring Jake Shears) |
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| Song details | Artists | Album | ||
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| "The Ultimate" |
| Feadz featuring Boys Noize | The T.U.F.F. | |
| "Feeling" |
| Boys Noize and BIGBANG | Alive (Japanese Edition) | |
| "I Like It" |
| G-Dragon featuring Zion.T and Boys Noize | Coup d'Etat | |
| "#Capture the City" |
| Boys Noize and Yoon Mirae (윤미래) |
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| "The Time Machine" |
| Jean Michel Jarre and Boys Noize | ||
| "L.C.S." |
| FEMM (produced by Boys Noize) | Pow!/L.C.S. | |
| "Babushka Boi" |
| A$AP Rocky | Non-album single | |
| "DHL" |
| Frank Ocean (prod. Boys Noize) | Non-album single |
| Year | Artist | Album | |
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| "My Way" | 2004 | Kid Alex | Kid Alex Boys Noize Mix |
| "Space Lord" | 2004 | Monster Magnet | Boys Noize - Monster Bootnet |
| "Was Wir Machen" | 2004 | Spillsbury | Kid Alex Boys Noize Remix |
| "Banquet" | 2005 | Bloc Party | Boys Noize Vox Mix Boys Noize Dub |
| "Auf Der Lauer Aua Aua" | 2005 | Göpfrich and Gerlach | |
| "Shadowbreaker" | 2005 | John Starlight | Boys Noize Remix No 1 Boys Noize Remix No 2 |
| "Everyday I Love You Less and Less" | 2005 | Kaiser Chiefs | |
| "My Conversation" | 2005 | Kid Alex | |
| "Daily Disco" | 2005 | Lützenkirchen | |
| "Personal Jesus" | 2006 | Depeche Mode | Boys Noize Classic |
| "My Moon My Man" | 2006 | Feist | Boys Noize Classic Mix |
| "Fine Dining with the Future" | 2006 | Foreign Islands | |
| "Frau" | 2006 | I-Robots | |
| "All I Wanna Do Is Break Some Hearts" | 2006 | Kreeps | Boys Noize Remix No. 1 Boys Noize Remix No. 2 |
| "Bom Bom Bom" | 2006 | Living Things | Boys Noize Vox Remix Boys Noize Great Dub |
| "Dudun-Dun" | 2006 | Para One | |
| "The Acid Never Lies" | 2006 | Riot In Belgium | Boyznoize 909 Remix |
| "Le Disko" | 2006 | Shiny Toy Guns | Boys Noize Fire Mix Boys Noize Fire Dub |
| "Cocotte" | 2006 | Teenage Bad Girl | Boys Noize Rework |
| "Move My Body" | 2006 | Tiga | |
| "Alloy Mental" | 2007 | Alloy Mental | Boynoize Remix |
| "Lights & Music" | 2007 | Cut Copy | Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix |
| "Phantom Pt. II" | 2007 | Justice | Boys Noize Vox Mix Boys Noize Unreleased Turbine Remix |
| "Putting Holes in Happiness" | 2007 | Marilyn Manson | |
| "Sexual Eruption" | 2007 | Snoop Dogg | |
| "Say Whoa" | 2008 | A-Trak | |
| "Arcadia" | 2008 | Apparat | Boys Noize Reprise |
| "& Down" | 2008 | Boys Noize | Siriusmo vs. Boys Noize Mix |
| "Horsepower" | 2008 | C. J. Bolland | |
| "It Has Been Said" | 2008 | Darmstadt | |
| "Love Can't Turn Around" | 2008 | Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk | Boys Noize Started Like This Mix |
| "When You're Around" | 2008 | Frankmusik | |
| "Working Together" | 2008 | Gonzales | Boys Noize Vox Mix Boys Noize Dub Mix |
| "Inordertodance" | 2008 | Housemeister | |
| "Focker" | 2008 | LOTP | Boys Noize Terror Re-Did |
| "This Is Acid" | 2008 | Maurice Joshua | Boys Noize Re-work |
| "L'amour et la Violence" | 2008 | Sébastien Tellier | Boys Noize Main Version Boys Noize Euro Mix |
| "Mein Neues Fahrrad" | 2008 | Siriusmo | Boys Noize Edit |
| "The Geeks Were Right" | 2008 | The Faint | Boys Noize vs. D.I.M. Mix |
| "Wrong" | 2009 | Depeche Mode | D.I.M. vs. Boys Noize Remix |
| "Dirty & Hard" | 2009 | Djedjotronic featuring Spoek | Boys Noize's Jump If You're an Idiot Mix |
| "You Don't Know Love" | 2009 | Editors | Boys Noize Classic Mix |
| "Beat It" | 2009 | Michael Jackson | Boys Noize 2003 Bootleg Remix |
| "Happy Up Here" | 2009 | Röyksopp | |
| "Boom Boom Pow" | 2009 | The Black Eyed Peas | Let the Beat Rock (Boys Noize Remix featuring 50 Cent) Let the Beat Rock (Boys Noize Megamix) |
| "Mirror Error" | 2009 | The Faint | Das Glow Remix Boys Noize Edit |
| "Trick Pony" | 2010 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | |
| "Good Day Today" | 2010 | David Lynch | |
| "Hot-n-Fun" | 2010 | N*E*R*D featuring Nelly Furtado | |
| "Invisible Light" | 2010 | Scissor Sisters | |
| "Swoon" | 2010 | The Chemical Brothers | Boyz Noize Summer Mix Boyz Noize Summer Instrumental |
| "End of Line" | 2011 | Daft Punk | |
| "Music is Awesome" | 2011 | Housemeister | |
| "Monkey Flip" | 2011 | Modeselektor featuring Nazizi and Abbas | |
| "Nasty" | 2012 | Spank Rock | SCNTST Remix – Boys Noize Re-Did |
| "Astral Projection" | 2012 | Strip Steve | Destructo Remix – Boys Noize Edit |
| "Wisdom to the Wise" | 2012 | Dave Clarke | Boys Noize Wild Pitch Remix |
| "Mein Herz brennt" | 2012 | Rammstein | |
| "Kernkraft 7000" | 2013 | Brad Lamborghini – JOHN G | Boys Noize Edit |
| "Sexy Socialite" | 2013 | Chromeo | |
| "Bad Girls" | 2013 | Donna Summer | Boys Noize Club Mix |
| "ProtoVision" | 2013 | Kavinsky | |
| "Axis" | 2013 | Pet Shop Boys | |
| "Ich Bin Meine Maschine" | 2014 | Atom™ | |
| "Smokin & Drinkin" | 2014 | Danny Brown | Boys Noize Smokin Mix |
| "My Little Universe" | 2014 | Depeche Mode | |
| "Planet Rock" | 2016 | Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force | |
| "Secret Downloading" | 2016 | Craig Amstrong | Boys Noize Remix 2 |
| "Randy" | 2017 | Justice | |
| "Ibifornia" | 2017 | Cassius | |
| "Als wär's das letzte Mal" | 2017 | DAF | |
| "Blade Runner" | 2020 | Autotune | |
| "Layle"[30] | 2020 | Omar Souleyman | |
| "Tasty" | 2021 | Shygirl | Boys Noize Remix Boys Noize Extended Dub |
| "Stargon" | 2021 | A. G. Cook | |
| "Reincarnate" | 2021 | REIN | |
| "Release Me" | 2021 | REIN | |
| "Zick Zack" | 2022 | Rammstein | |
| "Wolf" | 2022 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |
| "Kepko" | 2023 | Sega Bodega | |
| "Chastity" | 2023 | Pussy Riot and Boys Noize featuring Alice Glass | |