Boys and Their Noize
Society could learn a lot from German producer and music manipulator Alex Ridha, aka BOYS NOIZE. He has managed to bring together two of the most emulous groups of genre warriors known to man; the internet blog-surfing hipsters and the techno-deifying minimal chin-strokers. Usually dichotomised by a figurative Berlin wall of keyboard heroics, the former enemies have bonded over their love of his loopy futuristic disco. Everybody loves Boys Noize.
Juggling his time between jet-setting superstar DJ and BNR label boss, I managed to catch Alex at home having just returned from some much needed R & R in Puerto Rico. “My holiday was great and I am really relaxed,” he says. “It’s something I like to do every year. My studio was a mess when I came back though – I had to spend the first three days cleaning it up and re-cabling all my equipment!”
As the flux capacitor carries my journalistic Delorian back to the 1980s, we peer through his window in Hamburg to observe the period that shaped the young star into the fire breathing juggernaut he is today, a stature he can thank his brother for. “He was ten years older than me and when ... READ MORE »
