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Referred and referenced by stellar contemporaries like 2manydjs, Tiga and Erol Alkan, Hamburg-born Alexander Ridha AKA Boys Noize has been a mainstay of the Berlin beat machine for almost a decade. The mastermind behind the rise (and rise) of his Boysnoize Records imprint and overseer of a raft of consistently brilliant remixes, Ridha has long dished out some of dance’s most brutally satisfying doses.
Out of the Black, expectedly, roars from the darkness – Ridha is a musician who rarely eases his way through introductions, as his previous LPs Oi Oi Oi and Power have made clear. What You Want is designed with towering Marshalls in mind, stacks of booming sub-woofers beside them, the song building to Justice-levels of bombast but augmented by now-characteristic Boys Noize grind.
But variety shines through on this third set. Rocky 2 is rocked by acid before Circus Full of Clowns slows the tempo to a hip hop bounce. The extremes are pronounced through clever contrast, Ridha’s chameleonic style dominating where this album’s predecessor favoured a more techno-flavoured focus.
Out of the Black has enough modem-mashing distortion and barracking beats to keep the hardcore faithful happy; but big breaks aren’t always positioned as get-out clauses. The waspish beats of Got It, complemented by Snoop Dogg’s drawl, are instantly likeable. Familiarly robotic vocals feel rather tired on Missile and Ich R U, but they come to the fore on the jerking, abrasive punch of Stop. Where Merlin feels like a hangover from Power, the swooning flourishes of standout track Reality provide Out of the Black with its bona-fide anthem.
Not a record to play through seamlessly but one to skip and cherry pick, Out of the Black is about selecting the monsters, and cranking them out at the volume they deserve. The Boys is back.
--Ian Wade
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and persuasively coherent collections with new album 'Out Of The Black'.
He's a bit of a maverick in the fickle world of dance music; unafraid
to mix up genres in a quest for something vibrant and interesting that
might stand out from the mainstream. It is as cerebral as it is visceral.
The inventiveness and variation demonstrated in these twelve new numbers
display big beats aplenty but there is also a shrewd musical imagination
at work here. Nods and winks to the past are contrasted cleverly with
material of a far more experimental nature but never losing sight of the
desire to make us dislocate our bones and sweat like pigs on the dancefloor!
'Chonchord' is an especially satisfying confection, its brash dark chords
buoyed-along on the back of a fiendishly aggressive percussive foundation;
'Reality', too, delivers a massive four-to-the floor riff of almost devilish
intensity; 'XTC', on the other is a perfectly jolly little slice of almost
funky mayhem which builds to a gloriously addictive and slightly daft robotic
climax; the dubby staccato jolt and judder of 'Circus Full Of Clowns' frames
a sturdy piece of potty-mouthed rap from one Mr Gizzle and Snoop Dogg makes
a terribly rude but unintentionally funny appearance on final track 'Got It',
spouting some fierce braggadocio atop one of Mr Ridha's dirtiest arrangements.
Warn the neighbours and play it loud!
Recommended.
For a start it sounds slicker, more commercial (snoop dogg!!) and the beats and sounds are softer. There are some okay tracks but a few skippers to, also a few tracks reuse old daft punk beats and loop old riffs you willl recognise the prodigy using a while ago (girls), all sounds a bit lazy and I was really hoping for a little progression, still its boys noize so better than most just dissapointing after the last 2 excellent albums, deadmou5 and now boys noize have let me down with there latest, here hoping the new Vitalic album is something special!!
Top notch.
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