Boys Noize

Alexander Ridha (born 22 August 1982), better known by his stage name Boys Noize, is a German electronic music producer and DJ. It is similar to the name of Ridha's label, Boysnoize Records, which he established in 2005. Ridha has remixed a number of other artist's work, including Snoop Dogg and Depeche Mode.

Background

4-18-18 Recording Studio 001 — Photo from Boys Noize's Instagram
(March 28^th, 2019)

Most likely, Boys Noize's and Lady Gaga's first meeting took place on April 18^th, 2018 in a studio in Los Angeles, because on that day he posted a tweet in which he wrote about what happened to his modular system:

“Lady Gaga spilled water over my modular system 💦”

Boys Noize from Los Angeles, CA via Twitter for iPhone

The same day Lady Gaga responded to him:

“But then I resurrected it with a blow dryer it was a christening ☠️”

Lady Gaga via Twitter for iPhone

On March 28^th, 2019, Alexander posted a photo with Stefani, congratulating her on her birthday and writing in a postscript that "was the moment we cleaned up my modular synth after she accidentally spilled water over it on the first day we met 😂 #tbt #classic #lg6."

On April 29^th, 2019, in an interview with DJ Times, Boys Noize told about working with Lady Gaga.

“	Working with Gaga was really something beautiful because the experience I’ve had before working with popular musicians has always left some sort of bittersweet taste. The music industry’s kind of crazy and, when you work for big people like this, there are a lot of people involved. You rarely meet those talents and you end up doing sessions with writers and other producers and people from the label. So, after I’ve tried this, about 10 years ago, I actually decided to not do it because I felt like I can spend the same amount of time making something that I’ll love doing. When you do this, on-spec production writing for big pop people, you just never know what’s going to happen with the music.	”
—Boys Noize on DJ Times

In the same interview, answering the question, what was different about working with Lady Gaga, Boys Noize said:

“	Working with her was amazing because we were basically together in the same room and meeting her was beautiful, too. I didn’t expect her to be… that cool. She’s just a great human being, super-down-to-earth and, putting all the talent aside, it was just a beautiful thing on a human level. We got along really well and, from that energy, we wrote. We wrote music, we made music and I think that’s a place where I want to be – the exact right spirit.	”
—Boys Noize on DJ Times

On September 24^th, 2021, in an interview with Paper Magazine, Boys Noize told about his first meeting with Lady Gaga in mid-April (most probably on April 18^th) of 2018. Ridha and Tucker had known each other for a long time before meeting Stefani for the first time in the sudio.

“	It was a classic LA moment where I met up with an older friend of mine who's become a pretty known pop producer, BloodPop. He did a remix for me in 2012 for the Snoop [Dog] record I put out. We've kept in touch over the years, so every time I'm in LA I see him. I played him some of my album stuff, I played him "Greenpoint," actually, and another one, and he was like, "Let me send this to Gaga." I didn't know he was involved in any of that. He texted her while I was around and we got a text back five minutes later and she's like, "I want to meet this guy." She loved the stuff. The next day I sat next to her in the studio, and it was really bizarre but beautiful because she's such a cool human being. She brought out things I would never expect from her, like she asked me if I know Surgeon [an English electronic musician], and I'm like, "You're talking about Surgeon!" She brought him on [artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball] tour to open up for her live shows and I didn't know that. There was a funny moment where I brought my small modular case and she was like, "Whoa, look at this," and she was really interested and, with the excitement, she spilled water over it. We cleaned it and all that stuff, but we wrote a few songs. That was a really nice, positive thing because, obviously, I was not too keen to get into the pop world again after I tried it a little bit around 2010. I felt like I'm not the perfect person because you've got to have elbows in that game. You spend a lot of time with random people writing random songs, hoping. I'd rather do five new DJ tools and know I'm going to release them rather than making 10 songs that will never come out because of some weird political industry reasons. Gaga was so cool and that made me really be hopeful about the music we did.	”
—Boys Noize on Paper Magazine