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...

We 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 first remix EP kicks off with French artist Mac Declos, renowned for his cross-pollinating electronic styles. His version of Boys Noize & Pilo feat. DEEVIOUS's 'Pvssy' is a high-speed, scuffed-up techno pumper...

BNR inaugurates its 19th year with Taube's fourth release for the label, the Speed of Heart EP – a fast and furious four tracker that proves techno is not slowing down in 2024. Taube cuts the brake cables and cranks the N2O through the bleeding, speeding edge of niche genres from Happy Hardcore to Makina to UK Bounce, while maintaining his uncanny ability to make connoisseur's choice cuts out of vulgar rave refuse. Call it "upcycling," if it were off Etsy and on Ecstasy, and get ready for the new year to fly by.

The release of Stuttgart techno boss David Löhlein’s HOTEL POOL EP earlier this year brought his young, Latin-inflected sound to Berlin-based BNR, and now with HOTEL POOL REMIXES, Löhlein’s tracks are traveling the world.

The first stop is Spain, where DJ SWISHERMAN (along with BOYS NOIZE himself) expand “HOTEL POOL’s” arrangement with a Carnaval of samples, accents and build-ups. A short hop north sees the UK’s Chloé Robinson and DJ ADHD compressing “CUANDO VENGAS” into a pressure chamber of tooth-rattling bass, as staccato percussion skitters off of the steel walls. France’s u.r.trax...

Emerging as a dancefloor-forward cousin of Industrial, Electronic Body Music (EBM) merged punk’s aggression with disco’s drive into a sharp edged synthesis of human and machine. It is fitting, then, that EBM project B1980 would be the alias of GOOSE drummer Bert Libeert. Forthcoming on Boysnoize Records, B1980’s “Body Awareness” EP delivers pure adrenaline by redlining the techno engine until the binary charges the blood.