BOYS NOIZE RELEASES HIS 4TH ALBUM MAYDAY TODAY, FEATURING HUDSON MOHAWKE, POLIÇA, REMY BANKS, SPANK ROCK, BENGA ETC
BOYS NOIZE “BIRTHDAY” FEAT. HUDSON MOHAWKE + SPANK ROCK HERE
NEW LIVE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED, INCLUDING MOVEMENT FESTIVAL, OSHEAGA, NY’S STUDIO E (with HEALTH, POLIÇA, VENUS X), HARD, SHAMBHALA
(full tour details below)
“STARCHILD” FT POLIÇA VIDEO (DIR. LIL INTERNET) HERE
“EUPHORIA” FT REMY BANKS HERE
“OVERTHROW” VIDEO (DIR. LIL INTERNET + BOYS NOIZE) HERE
ORDER ALBUM HERE
photo credit: Shane McCauley
“… and the spinner will spin. and the bass will be thunder subterranean. and the river will rise as raindrops. from berlin. my favorite electronic house music in the world. immediate. throbbing.” – Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
“One of the most prolific and brilliant artists.” – Zane Lowe (Beats 1)“BOYS NOIZE makes brilliant music. He doesn´t make a lot of music but when he makes it it´s always CLASS.” – Annie Mac (BBC1)
“BOYS NOIZE is the only DJ who can play underground techno for 30,000 people.” – 2MANYDJS / Soulwax
He´s the Techno punk, the wanderer between the worlds: Berlin DJ and producer BOYS NOIZE (Alex Ridha) releases his 4th solo album MAYDAY today.
BOYS NOIZE is back with MAYDAY, his most dynamic album to date. Infectiously energetic, uncompromisingly aggressive, capturing the energy and spirit of punk, fused with the relentless power of raw techno and an electrifying dose of classic rave and industrial, MAYDAY transports the innocence of a bygone era into the here-and-now without sounding anachronistic or nostalgic. Collaborations with Poliça, Hudson Mohawke, Benga, Remy Banks, Spank Rock, and some special secret guests broaden the range still further (check the liner notes), while maintaining the classic rugged-n-raw BOYS NOIZE style.
“MAYDAY is me taking the music I love to the future, no matter how uncertain the future seems,” Alex explains.
Genre-bending DJ Hudson Mohawke on the one hand, indie darlings Poliça on the other – the names alone speak volumes about Ridha’s universal approach to music. In that sense, BOYS NOIZE is the perfect representative of a generation that no longer gives a damn about genre boundaries. For years, techno dogmatists stuck their nose up at his connections to the indie, punk and hip hop scenes. At the same time, he wasn’t mainstream enough for the industry dog-and-pony show. He was, in other words, caught between the worlds. He anticipated a development that today seems self-evident. “This openness has always been important to me,” Ridha explains. “I definitely wouldn’t describe my sound as straight techno. Actually, that’s part of MAYDAY´s point: to show that there’s a world between the worlds.”
The album title MAYDAY, appropriately, refers to the international distress signal. “MAYDAY is my warning signal against blind categorization and conformist synchronization,” says Ridha. “A call for individuality and diversity – and a tribute to outsiders.”
MAYDAY is also a statement of Ridha’s commitment to the album as an art form – an almost rebellious stance these days. In an album, an artist can map the entire breadth of a particular phase of his work, capturing much more than a mere snapshot.
MAYDAY finds BOYS NOIZE in the eye of the storm, broadcasting live from the maelstrom. BOYS NOIZE has always existed in that space between diehard apostle and festival favorite, purist and popular, DJ for the DJs and kids in the crowd alike, at once techno, industrial and hip-hop, anarchist, outsider, raver, cyberpunk, counterculture advocate, prankster. MAYDAY captures these disparate elements in their most volatile form.
BOYS NOIZE will premiere his new show at Sonar, Barcelona, on June 18. Boys Noize conceived the spectacle together with visual artists SUS BOY and LIL INTERNET, exploring a thematic narrative inspired by cyberpunk, 80’s industrial and surveillance in contemporary society.
“It’s cyclical, but I think we are in one of those times where things feel like they are on the edge- economies, technologies, societies… “Mayday” refers to both a day of protest and a distress signal. I think this kind of energy runs through the whole album and it’s creative materials- it’s what I like to describe as “positive energy,” but the positive energy of a molotov cocktail exploding.”– Lil Internet
“Working on the song “Starchild” with Boys Noize and the video with Lil Internet were both two of the most inspiring and interesting things I’ve done so far. I am honored to be able to have spent time in both of their worlds and work under their minds for these collaborations.” – Channy Leaneagh of Poliça
“Alex and I have been homies for couple of years now. We’ve worked on few joints together in previous session but this particular one felt like magic. From the moment walked in the studio, I knew something dope was going to be made. We smoked a joint or two, started messing around with sounds, I started freestylin’ things to create a lyrical rhythm to go along with the loop Alex made and there you have it.”– Remy Banks
05.25 – Paris, FR @ Le Gaite Lyrique
05.30 – Detroit, MI @ Movement Festival
06.03 – Offenbach, DE @ Robert Johnson
06.04 – Luxembourg, LUX @ Lenox Club
06.17 – Eindhoven, NL @ We Are Electric
06.18 – Barcelona, ES @ SONAR (LIVE)
06.22 – Ibiza, ES @ PACHA
06.24 – Paris, FR @ Solidays (LIVE)
06.25 – Scheessel, DE @ Hurricane (LIVE)
06.26 – Neuhausen Ob Eck, DE @ Southside (LIVE)
07.01 – Arras, FR @ Main Square Festival (LIVE)
07.02 – Marmande, FR @ Garorock (LIVE)
07.09 – Lisbon, PT @ Alive Festival
07.10 – Aix Les Bains, FR @ Festival Musilac (LIVE)
07.14 – Bern, CH @ Gurten Festival (LIVE)
07.15 – Graefenhainichen, DE @ Melt! Festival (LIVE)
07.16 – Ostrava, CZE @ Colors of Ostrava (LIVE)
07.17 – Dour, BE @ Dour Festival (LIVE)
07.19 – Nyon, CH @ Paleo Festival (LIVE)
07.21 – Ibiza, ES @ Amnesia
07.23 – Regensburg, DE @ Zuckerbrot & Peitsche
07.29 – Montreal, CAN @ Osheaga (LIVE)
07.30 – New York, NY @ Studio E (LIVE) w Health,Poliça, Venus X
07.31 – Fontana, CA @ HARD Festival
08.05 – Salmo, CAN @ Shambhala Music Festival
08.08 – Madrid, ES @ Mondo
08.12 – Budapest, HUN @ Sziget
08.17 – Vienna, AUT @ Frequency
08.20 – Inverness, UK @ Groove Loch Ness
08.25 – Zurich, CH @ Zurich Open Air (LIVE)
08.26 – Dublin, IRL @ Opium Room
08.27 – London, UK @ SW4 (LIVE)
08.28 – Haarlemmermeer, NL @ Mysteryland
10.28 – Live Oak, FL @ Suwanee Hullaween
Links:
http:///www.boysnoize.com
http://www.facebook.com/boysnoize
http://www.instagram.com/boysnoize
Boys Noize Mayday track listing:
01. Overthrow
02. Mayday
03. Dynamite (feat. Benga)
04. Rock The Bells
05. Euphoria (feat. Remy Banks)
06. 2 Live
07. Would You Listen
08. Midnight
09. Starchild (feat. Poliça)
10. Midnight
11. Los Niños
12. Hardkotzen
13. Birthday (feat. Hudson Mohawke & Spank Rock)
Power – 2009
Out of the Black – 2012
Octave Minds (Boys Noize & Chilly Gonzales) 2014
Mayday – 2016
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