Ok we’re absolutely blown away by this! One of us had been questioning the man recently on whether he still got it, and the answer is a definitive YES!

There is just so much energy in this set and it’s hard to imagine that the whole set was done on vinyl. This Essential Mix features Ridha’s favourite tracks for the last 10 years!

Berlin’s Boys Noize aka Alex Ridha takes to the turntables for two hours of supercharged house & techno!

October 10th 2009
Boys Noize

1. Kenny Larkin “Rubbernotes” (Plus 8 Records)
2. Dj Funk “F** U Later” (Dancemania)
3. Boc Productions “Fall In Love” (Alan Braxe Remix) (Chez Records)
4. Fanton “Faithful” (Source)
5. Gene Farris “Disco Heaven” (Ian Pooley Mix 2) (Force Inc.)
5. Unknown Artist “Me And My Peoples Eyes” (White Lable)
6. Tres Demented “Brainfreeze” (Planet E)
7. Kenlou 4 “Mack Daddy Shoot” (MAW)
7. Ian Pooley “The Allnighter” (NRK)
7. Neon Lights “House Of Funk” (Jinxx Records)
8. Zongamin “Spiral” (XL)
9. Sylvester “Baby, Let’s Trip Out” (Secret Mixes Fixes Vol.9)
10. We’re Lofty Volt “Alter Flaw” (RVNG Intl.)
11. In Flagranti “I’m Sorry, I’m Terribly Sensitive” (Codek)
12. Kiki “Gas” (Bpitch Control)
13. Cassius “La Mouch” (DJ Falcon Vs. Harry Choo Choo Romeo Edit) (Virgin)
14. DJ Duke” Bonus” (Big Big Trax)
15. Dave Angel “Tokyo Stealth Fighter” (Carl Craig Remx) (4th & Broadway)
16. Matias Aguayo “Bo Jack” (Instrumental) (Comeme)
17. Errorsmith “Stiff Neck” (Errorsmith)
18. Feadz “Lisborg Error” (Ed Banger)
19. Plasticman “Hypokondriak” (Minus)
20. Ricardo Villalobos “Dexter” (Playhouse)
21. Sweet Light “Mecaniques Remontees” (Freak N Chic)
22. Cajmere “Come” (Green Velvet Mix) (Cajual Records)
23. Paul Jacobs “Motocross Madness” (Aquarius Records)
24. Geoffrey Williams “Sex Life” (Armand Van Helden Remix) (Hands On )Records
25. Like A Time “Like 6″ (Like Records)
26. Thomas Bangalter “What To Do” (Roule)
27. Daft Punk “Burnin’” (Ian Pooley Remix) (Virgin)
28. CZR “Chicago Southside” (International House Records)
29. Hugo Moya “Move” (Relief Records)
30. Track Stars “Horns & Bass” (Wanted Records)
31. Jeff Mills “The Bells” (Axis Records)
32. Dustin Zahn “Stranger” (Rekids)
33. Speedy J “Lee Mitten Menu” (Novamute)
34. Modeselektor “Turn Deaf” (Bpitch Control)
35. Rheingold “Dreiklangsdimensionen” (Welt Rekord / EMI)
36. Soundhack “Soundhack” (Soundhack)
37. Ben Klock “Goodly Sin” (Robert Hood Remix) (Ostgut Ton)
38. Theo Parrish “Lake Shore Drive” (Sound Signature)
39. Untold “Stop What You Are Doing” (Hemlock)
40. Feadz “On All Forth” (Bpitch Control)
41. DJ Godfather “Unknown” (Databass)
42. Ghetto Classics Vol 2 “Aceler8″ (Dance Mania)
43. Benga “Go Tell Them” (Tempa)
44. Benga” Night” (Tempa)
45. Untold “I Cant Stop” (Hessle Audio)
46. Rude 66 “Die Stärke Der Vernichteten Schläge” (Bunker)
47. DJ Koze “Don’t Feed The Cat” (Kompakt)

Boys Noize – Essential Mix (Hotfile.com)

Boys Noize – Essential Mix (Depositfile)

Boys Noize – Essential Mix (Rapidshare)

Delighted to see these two have become best friends and twitter buddies, its a dream collaboration and long overdue. One of us would have been wetting ourselves if you’d have mentioned these two joining up a couple of years ago. They’re the best of their trade and are teasing us with these wee snippets of their up and coming tracks. Release date’s only 3 weeks away now. You get an idea of what they sound like in the clips but what we love the most is this vid of The Chemical Lads playing it out recently on their travels. Its immense!!

Erol Alkan & Boys Noize- Death Suite (Teaser)

Erol Alkan & Boys Noize- Waves (Teaser)

Can anyone spot the problem with the above email blast from MCD that came to our inbox this morning? It seems that the promoters of Boys Noize themselves can’t even spell his name correctly. You would expect this if he hadn’t played in Dublin with MCD before but this is about the 8th time! Come on lads! MCD’s new strategy seems to be lining up all the popular acts from Oxegen such as Calvin Harris and Little Boots for Winter gigs in Dublin.

Spelling aside, its good new that Alex Ridha is coming to Dublin to launch the album. Recent pics of his  Berlin studio  Hailfairy expects a similar mosh to the last gig in the Academy this year when Ridha dropped most of the tracks from Power already. Check one of the vids from his last Academy Gig below.

We’ve just got confirmation of the final tracklisting for this thanks to Mr Ridha himself and will be hoping to do a full review on this as soon as we get our hands on a Promo!  Here’s the Album artwork, tracklisting plus info on the launch night. World Tour to follow!!

Power Information:

Tracklist:

01. Gax
02. Kontact Me
03. Starter
04. Jeffer
05. Transmischen
06. Nerve
07. Trooper
08. Sweet Light
09. Drummer
10. Rozz Box
11. Nott
12. Heart Attack

Here’s a quick early review twitter’d by Bugged Out:

“Just heard Boys Noize Power album. Ace. Better than his first, slower paced/amazing beats and production. London launch party on Sept 26th.“

The launch party is as follows:

Bugged Out London Saturday September 26th
Boys Noize Power album launch:
Boys Noize
Riton
Smith & Hack – live
Housemeister and more
Fire, 38-42 Parry St, London
10-6am. Tickets on sale soon.

And finally we  just found this from a so-called “vital catalogue” online:

Boys Noize – Power BNRCD007 / 0827170104020    CD Product is pending    28.09.2009

Boys Noize – Power BNR037 / 0827170296664 2LP Product is pending  28.09.2009

So the release date seems to be September 28th, we cannay wait!

Boys Noize’s Twitter and Erol Alkan’s Forum have confirmed that the upcoming Boys Noize album entitled ‘Power’ will be released late September 2009 on BNR. For all those rapidshare looters out there, the unibrowed German’s album preview will have a robot voice over every minute on each track of the album which was terribly annoying for ‘Oi Oi Oi’ but is a clever way of protecting copyright. Speculation on the album cover has reached ridiculous heights on German forum The New French Touch but Hailfairy expects a skull of some sort.

Most Boys Noize fans already have a good idea of least 4 of the new album’s 13 tracks after Ridha released Starter and Jeffer on June 22nd,  which performed well on the Beatport chart. Starter is a classic industrial electronic Boys Noize track with louder scratches, kicks and huge loops whilst Jeffer which took a a few reworks before Ridha tweaked it has more of a summer disco house track tailored for sunny beaches in the Med. As for the rest, Ridha has already confessed to playing 11 of the 13 tracks in recent livesets such as Rock Werchter which you can find the liveset for in this post. One to watch is the intro banger ‘Come With Me’, the second track on recent Rock Werchter  and Oxegen livesets  Check out his first preview of it below at SXSW back in March.

The rumour mill is going mad on music forums for the other tracks on the album. Find the loosely constructed track listings below. Looking forward to hearing the rest of these in the not too distant future, especially the Talking to Cats remix with Diplo:

Boys Noize – Power (2009) – Rumoured – 13 Tracks will be on Album

Starter
Jeffer
Come with me
Transmischen
E Plan
Talking to Cats x Diplo
Thunderdome

Boys Noize – Jeffer

Boys Noize – Starter

One half of Hailfairy is home, clean and dry after a manic few days at Oxegen. The other half is still lost in Serbia at Exit festival and has promised to post an Exit roundup home his return to Ireland.

With so many highlights over the Sat and Sun at Oxegen it’s hard to know where to start so here goes the chronological breakdown. For a better idea of the atmosphere, you have to read Jim Carroll’s Round up on Irishtimes.com.

Also have a look at Adnansorg’s Flickr for some hilarious pics from the oxegen dance tent like the one below:

Saturday:

With such an impressive lineup it was hard to know what to choose on Saturday. Arriving in the late afternoon to pucks of rain, our running order was Popof, followed by some Passion Pit, then Lecktroluv, Digitalism, Annie Mac, Boys Noize, wee bit of Tiga and finally Kings of Leon.

Lectroluv is always on of the Oxegen Dance Arena’s favourite acts. The Green Doctor had a nack of mixing into each track just before it dropped and Saturday evenings crowd went completely mad to it.

Saturday’s highlight had to be Boys Noize, who played to a packed crowd under a massive rotating crystal ball skull. Most of the tracks from his upcoming album were thrown in including Jeffer and Starter. He also managed to drop in MJs ‘Beat It’ which had the crowd going absolutely mad. Definitely check out his similar Rock Werchter liveset below featuring all his new material. Cant wait for the new album to drop in Autumn09, and especially the track ‘Come With Me’ which features 4 mins in on this set:

Boys Noize – Live @ Rock Werchter 2009 (Mediafire)

Boys Noize – Come With Me (liveset rip)

No trip to Oxegen is complete without the compulsory trip to see Kings Of Leon. The talented rednecks got fairly emotional on stage as they thanked the Oxegen crowd for all their support over the years. You really need to be as close as possible to the main stage for the best sound quality which we unfortunately weren’t after coming late from Tiga. T’was a quality singalong all the same though.

Sunday:

Sunday at Oxegen is always a more cruisy affair as the largest festival in Ireland slowly grinds to a close. The foreboding rainclouds and muddy fields didn’t dampen spirits with another incredible lineup. We bailed into the dance tent relatively early to catch a bit of Kissy Sell Out who was throwing out an appealing blend of intense electro and drum’n'bass.

Yuksek was a bit out of place in a nearly empty dance arena with the remaining contingent consisting of near naked and completely wasted kids kitted out in fluro teeshirts and cowboy hats. His setup is just insane with two FX keyboards, 2 microphones, synth machines and the obligatory Macbook Pro, allowing him to play completely live including vocals. Highlight was definitely ‘Break Ya’

Yuksek – Break Ya

After a short shisha break, we checked out the nearby Red Bull Music Academy to check out Norway’s most recent electronic act, The Casio Kids were giving Ireland another sample of their potential following a cool little gig in Acedemy 2 recently. We absolutely loved their cool electronic drum machine additions and these boys seemed to be having to time of their lives finishing their set with a sped up live version of their popular hit ‘Fot I Hose’. Check the vid below:

Next on the dance agenda were the Venomous Bloody Beetroots who couldn’t contain their own emotions as they kept running down to the front of the stage to G-up the crowd. A lively set was always expected from this Italian duo and my god did they deliver with tracks like WARP. In fact I heard WARP being played by no less than 5 DJs over the weekend!

The Bloody Beetroots feat Steve Aoki – Warp 1-9

Looking forward to finding this liveset somewhere on the net, but in the meantime check out their Coachella 2009 liveset below:

Bloody Beetroots Live at Coachella 2009 (Mediafire)

MSTRKRFT have been receiving loads of attention with their new album ‘Fist of God’ just being released. They played loads of their own stuff to a thoroughly energized crowd after the Bloody Beetroots including VUVUVU. The highlight of this set had to be their finish where they used their own remixed version of Benni Benazzi’s satisfaction and mixed it into Bohemian Rhapsody. Brilliant stuff!

It was also cool to check out Ms Kitten and the Hacker’s new live show but yet again, the 17yr old fluro contingent didn’t respond to them so well and were throwing the odd bottle. Shame really!

After MSTRKRFT and a quick bop with Dublin Band The Chapters, we ventured towards the red Bull Music Academy Tent again for something new and different in the form of Florence and the Machine. WOW did they amaze! I’ve never seen such an impressive reaction from the absolutely jam-packed tent. Expecting big things from these guys in the near future.

Finally, for some recordings of the weekend’s action, check some of the liveset snippets below with thanks to 2FM.

Annie Mac – Live @ Oxegen 2009 (2FM)

Deadmau5 – Live @ Oxegen 2009 (2FM)

2ManyDJs – Live @ Oxegen 2009 (2FM)

DJEDJOTRONIC of Boys Noize Records is definitely one to be watched over the next few months. Alex Ridha himself has been raving about this wee French Electro grom and has been using his Gum Attack track in his livesets this summer.

Find Djedjotronic’s new summer mix below.

DJEDJOTRONIC  -  MIXOLATOR

TRACKLISTING
1. Cajmere – Percolator (original mix)
2. Afrojack – Polkadots (original mix)
3. Tiga – Shoes (Djedjotronic rmx)
4. Renaissance Man – Spraycan (original mix)
5. L-vis 1990 – Come Together (original mix)
6. Burns – Turbo (Jokers of the scene rmx)
7. Fortune – Bully (Dj Sega rmx)
8. Plastikman – Spastik (original mix)
9. Felix da Housecat – Kickdrum (original mix)
10. Major Lazer – Pon di Floor (original mix)
11. Silvio Ecomo & Chuckie – Moombah (Afrojack rmx)
12. Zombie Nation – Mystery Meat Affair (Shadow Dancer rmx)
13. Harvard Bass – Caked (original mix)
14. Osborne – The Count (original mix)
15. D.I.M – Lyposuct (original mix)
16. Len Faki – My Black Sheep (original mix)
17. Noob & Brodinski – Peanuts Club
18. Speedy J – Pullover (Djedjotronic rework)
19. Major Lazer – Hold the line (Djedjotronic rmx)