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High-Tech Minimal
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In 2024, the single "Gravity" went gold in Mexico.

He’s the techno punk, the unboxable nomad: Berlin DJ, producer and label owner Alex Ridha, better known as BOYS NOIZE, made his DJ debut at the age of 15, taking a teenager´s love of house and techno to a global scale. Accolades have been bestowed by Rolling Stone, who named him one of the "Top 10 DJ's Who Rule The World" and Beatport, who elected him “Best Electronic Act” 3 years in a row. He´s rocked the world's biggest stages, lit up Coachella three times, took Lollapalooza by storm, and headlined festivals and clubs on every continent – from Berlin techno temple Berghain to Fuji Rock in Japan to Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires Festival in the woods of Wisconsin.

As an artist and producer, Ridha has created a sound and a vision that’s peerless, uncompromising, and enduring – respected in the scene, banging from underground to mainstream, it flies in the face of convention at every turn. He’s remixed Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, David Lynch, Feist and Nine Inch Nails, collaborated with Snoop Dogg, Erol Alkan, and Jarvis Cocker, worked on Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Special” and on the soundtrack for upcoming Oliver Stone’s Snowden, and released group projects with genius pianist Chilly Gonzales (Octave Minds), Skrillex (Dog Blood), and Mr. Oizo (Handbraekes). The list of names alone speak volumes about Ridha’s multifaceted approach.

Ridha is also the heart of Boysnoize Records, the label that he started back in 2005. Founded originally in order to retain his full artistic freedom while releasing his own music under Boys Noize, The Berlin-based anarchist collective —and it’s sub-label, BNR Trax— became a home for multidirectional quality electronic music and is responsible for more than 150 releases incl. Strictly Raw (2015), Out Of The Black (2012), Power (2009), Oi Oi Oi (2007) and Octave Minds (2014).

"... 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



Bookings: 
simon@primarytalent.com
laetitia@primarytalent.com

MGMT: 
james@purplewall.com
abi@hannahwants.com

<a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Octave's Upcoming Gigs </a>Saturday 19 April, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Silent Steps Label Night w/ Yan Cook, Twenty Fourteen, Dortmund, Germany</a> Friday 25 April, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Basic, Pigallion, Paris, France</a> Saturday 03 May, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ DOOR!, Ruigoord Church, Amsterdam (Ruigoord), Netherlands</a> Saturday 17 May, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ MTW Club, MTW Club, Offenbach (FFM), Germany</a> Saturday 07 June, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Gleis 9 w/ Yan Cook, Gleis 9, Bremen, Germany</a> Sunday 08 June, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Hartes Rauschen, Grune Rakete, Trier, Germany</a> Saturday 21 June, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Confused Techno Club, Confused Techno Club, Vienna, Austria</a> <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>See the full listing here</a> <a href='http://www.gigatools.com' target='_new'>Powered by GigaTools</a> 
Octave is a Techno artist from France and the owner of "Silent Steps Records".

He grew up within a musical atmosphere and had his first experience with turntables in 2003 and thereafter concentrated more and more on a minimal approach to Techno, and started to produce by himself in early 2007. After his first steps into the techno field with some releases in 2007-2008, he was chosen by Richie Hawtin to take part of the "Sounds From Can Elles" project, and saw one of his track released on M_nus by the end of 2008.

Early 2009, he started to develop his own Live and to play in some clubs in Europe - including Tresor - with fantastic reactions to his sets on the dancefloor.

Fall 2010, Octave creates his own imprint with the label Silent Steps Records, several collaborations came out from this project already, with many talented artists from the Techno scene all around the globe like Drumcell, Audio Injection, Perc, Kyle Geiger, Ryuji Takeuchi, Luis Flores and many others.

Since 2010/2011, Octave has the chance to play a lot of gigs every months around Europe - also in the USA with a tour in April 2012 - and sometimes alongside very good artists like Speedy J, Cell Injection or Perc, including in his own label nights.

These days Octave continues to develop and is constantly evolving. His music combines a deep-rooted foundation of Techno underlined by stirring basslines and grooves, glitch moments, and hypnotic background atmospheres.

BOOKING

Americas:
ryan@liaisonartists.com
Aus/NZ: 
vic@astralpeople.com
Europe /ROW: 
john@higher-ground.de


MANAGEMENT / REMIXES / PRESS 
Luke Williams: 
luke@thisismusicltd.com
Simon Gold: 
simon@thisismusicltd.com

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