I wrote this in rock nyc about Alex Ridha otherwise jnown as Teutonic DJ Boys Noize, almost exactly 3 years ago: "Speaking of Teutonic DJ “Boys Noize” is German and doesn’t say a word. Boys NoiZe has an excellent mix album “Oi Oi” from 2007 and is responsible for a coupla awesome “Boom Boom Pow” remixes, one featuring 50 cent. This afternoon he begins his set with a long sample of Vincent Price reading Poe’s “The Raven” and for the next four songs he isn’t quite there but slowly the gifted Alexander Ridha gets his footing. An extended reworking of “Block Rockin’ Beats” is excellent but his “Beat It” is otherworldy. From a byte off the instrumental introduction he contracts the sound till it’s just the beat and then he improvises off the beat the way a coltrane would improvise off a melody. Ridha keeps on cutting out and back and raising the tone higher and higher with his audience and just as you feel he can’t get any higher without blowing the amps or terrifying dogs for miles around, he throws down the bass and the place goes berserk."
I've seen quite a bit of dance music since then but I still love the guy. He is playing the Electric Zoo Fest at Randalls over the Labor Day weekend and in October will be pushing his third album with a full band and a new album.
Here is a taste of it and I don't think he is referring to the Britpop band…