SAFETY TRANCE’s 2022 debut on Boysnoize Records found a runaway hit in “El Alma Que Te Trajo,” an industrial reggaeton number with machine-gun-flow vocals from ARCA. Since then, the Venezuela-born, Barcelona-based producer’s razor sharp toolkit of dark atmospheres, menacing rave leads and deconstructed dembow beats has made him an increasingly in-demand remixer and collaborator for reggaeton artists (LA GOONY CHONGA, LA FAVI, MJ NEBREDA) and experimental club producers (SEGA BODEGA, MANUKA HONEY, BRODINSKI) alike. Now, SAFETY TRANCE drops his most audacious—and polished—work yet with “On...

The Boysnoize Records catalogue contains more than a decade of milestones in the life of Angeleno DJ and producer PILO. His signatures—a focus on sound design, and a digital crunch evocative of hardware rather than software—are present from the very beginning, but the evolution of Pilo’s skill and sophistication is clear as he stretches from electro to experimental to techno and back again in a slowly oscillating gradient. Yet despite his dozen or so releases in just as many years, G.L.A.M. (dropping November 8th, 2024 from BNR) is Pilo’s first proper album. That the record embraces the...

There are two states of being at techno clubs, a state of heightened awareness and connection to the body, and a state of dissociation in which the body is seemingly directed by a consciousness other than one’s own. Yet a space of transition exists between them, and it is there that one finds Brooklyn-based producer WTCHCRFT’s forthcoming six-track EP The Machine for Boysnoize Records.

The Machine is undeniably a techno record, but the musical influence of WTCHCRFT’s Dominican and Jamaican heritage can be heard from the first bar of opener “Trust in the Machine.” While his samples sizzle...

BNR Trax is gassed to introduce the dynamic duo of American-born Berlin-based Alex Wilcox and Toronto’s Chippy Nonstop. Their collaboration on the upcoming EP, ‘I Did That’ delivers a whirlwind of creative energy perfectly suited for the Boys Noize sub-label.

After meeting in Paris and hitting it off, Alex and Chippy knew they had to get in the studio together. With Alex behind beats and Chippy behind the mic, their chemistry is undeniable. Chippy’s carefree attitude pushed Alex to explore new realms of rap and music.

In the video for the EP, Alex teams up with Doberman to create...

New Zealand is popularly known both for its dramatic Lord of the Rings landscapes and as a haven from the apocalypse for tech billionaires. Perhaps British-New Zealand DJ and producer KEEPSAKES was thinking of the latter when he named his club night and label “HAVEN.” Perhaps, also, living on an island that the rich and powerful believe will outlast some probable planetary calamity evokes an eschatological jouissance marked by paranoia and absurdity. One can sense these feelings in Keepsakes’ Lead Popsicle EP, released 19th July 2024 on BNR, through four tracks of hard techno that eschew...

Boysnoize Records does not practice the kind of old-head protectionism that sees others decrying trends like “TikTok Techno.” But take one listen to industrial hip-hop act Ho99o9’s BNR release “Off the Meter,” and it is clear that the label doesn’t follow trends either. Instead, both label and artists find themselves cutting a singular path through dark, tangled, and previously unexplored territory.

“Off the Meter” blasts off around 160 bpm with sliced and diced amens and screams, but it is not a part of the “jungle revival.” Like the digital hardcore of 90’s Berlin, distortion-drenched...

Prolific BNR mainstay Taube represents the new wave of German techno, one that has turned away from the chaste precision of the old guard to lean into irreverent excess at 5G speed.. On his new record, “Fuck the System” / “Higher Vibrations,” Taube serves his uptempo workouts two ways: dark, light, but always drenched.

One might expect a-side “Fuck the System” to make a political statement, but it does something far more contemporary. The track’s titular phrase is looped, chopped, and distorted until the repetition empties it of meaning—an apt metaphor for the ersatz political action of...

Boysnoize Records with BÈRF, Boys Noize, HAAi, SALOME, Sega Bodega (DJ-Set), Taube)

Fri, 7. June 2024 from 16.00 - 06.00 @Else (An den Treptowers 10, 12435 Berlin)

Line-up:

Outdoor:

16-19 | Bèrf

19-20 | Sega Bodega DJ-Set

20-22 | Boys Noize

Indoor:

22-23 | Boys Noize b2b HAAi

23-01 | HAAi

01-03 | Salome

03-06 | Taube

After five years and as many releases on BNR, Unklevon steps up to a new level of artistry with his debut eleven-track album “UN1C.” The French devotee of Detroit electro and techno shows skills that have been both refined and broadened, taking advantage of the LP format to move through a variety of kick patterns and BPMs. Joined by Boys Noize, DJ MELL G, Maral, Alina Pash, and Vel behind the boards or on the mic, Unklevon sharpens his songcraft to make “UN1C” a complete work that remains full of DJ-ready weapons. With Unklevon choosing to preserve dynamic range versus brickwalling his...

Boysnoize Records has assembled a pair of blistering new remix EPs to drop in February and March 2024. Each one features reworks of Pilo's ‘X’ EP on the label, originally released a year ago in March 2023, with a mix of vital artists such as Moby, Mac Declos, Maude Vos & Marie Nyx, Schacke, Taube, Unklevon, James Bangura and DJ Angeldu$t all revisiting the four-tracker in a split two-part EP drop. The second EP begins with Moby, needing no introduction as one of pop and dance music's most celebrated names, who turns 'Devotion' into a dark techno stomper. Boysnoize Records regular and...