Boys Noize - The Remixes 2004-2011 (iTunes Version)
An award-winning DJ, record label owner, and recording artist in his own right, Hamburg producer Alexander Ridha, aka Boys Noize, is arguably just as renowned for his remixing work, with everyone from film director David Lynch to synth pop pioneers Depeche Mode having requested his services over the past seven years. Rounding up 24 of his most popular reworkings, The Remixes 2004-2011 shows why he's become so in-demand. Several tracks are unrecognizable and for the most part improved by his radical floor-filling treatments, whether it's Kaiser Chiefs' rowdy indie pop anthem "Everyday I Love You Less and Less," now a stuttering slice of electroclash packed with distorted helium-style vocals and twisted bleeps, his transformation of Feist's pounding folk-pop single "My Moon My Man" into a slow-building robotic vocal house anthem, or his sinister acidic electro take on Marilyn Manson's gothic rock ballad "Putting Holes in Happiness." But unlike many of his cut-and-paste counterparts, Ridha also knows when to hold back, opting for subtle tinkering rather than a sledgehammer approach on the likes of Maurice's Chicago house classic "This Is Acid," the trippy disco-pop of Scissor Sisters' "Invisible Light," and the lush chillout electronica of Sébastien Tellier's "L'Amour et la Violence." A few remixes, such as Cut Copy's "Lights & Music" and N.E.R.D.'s "Hot-n-Fun," veer into generic four-to-the-floor territory, while at the other end of the scale, the machine-gun effects and squelchy wobble basslines on Para One's "Dundun-Dun" are virtually unlistenable. But for fans of progressive electro, The Remixes 2004-2011 is pretty much an essential collection from one of the genre's most consistent and well-respected names. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi
Track List:
01. Royksopp – Happy Up Here (Boys Noize Remix)
02. Feist – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
03. Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus (Boys Noize Rework)
04. Late Of The Pier – Focker (Boys Noize Terror Re-Did)
05. N*E*R*D – Hot-N-Fun (feat Nelly Furtado – Boys Noize Remix)
06. Snoop Dogg – Sexual Eruption (Boys Noize Remix)
07. Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Boys Noize Remix)
08. Modeselektor – Monkey Flip (feat. Nazizi & Abbas – Boys Noize Remix)
09. Sebastien Tellier – L’amour Et La Violence (Boys Noize Main Version) (L’amour Et La Violence)
10. Editors – You Don’t Know Love (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
11. David Lynch – Good Day Today (Boys Noize Remix)
12. Justice – Phantom Pt Ii (Boys Noize Turbine Remix)
13. The Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Boys Noize Summer Remix)
14. Teenage Bad Girl – Cocotte (Boys Noize Rework)
15. Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light (Boys Noize Remix)
16. Daft Punk – End Of Line (Boys Noize Remix)
17. Gonzales – Working Together (Boys Noize Dub Mix)
18. Marilyn Manson – Putting Holes In Happiness (Boys Noize Remix)
19. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Trick Pony (Boys Noize Remix)
20. Kaiser Chiefs – Everyday I Love You Less & Less (Boys Noize Mix)
21. Djedjotronic – Dirty & Hard (feat. Spoek – Boys Noize Jump If You’re An Idiot Mix)
22. Maurice – This Is Acid (Boys Noize Rework)
23. Para One – Dudun-Dun (Boys Noize Remix)
24. Apparat – Arcadia (Boys Noize Reprise)
25. Housemeister – Inordertodance (Boys Noize Megamix)
26. John Starlight – Shadowbreaker (Boys Noize Remix No.1)
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