After two years of arena tours and soundtrack work, Boys Noize has released 7LLVSION, an adventurous solo album.7LLVSION follows 2021’s +/- and is his first album on ONES and ZEROS, the label he launched in February 2025.
He kicked off release week with a conversation at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles on Monday.“What really helped me make this album was just making it for myself, for my sets, because I don’t have to rely on anything else,” Boys Noize told The FADER.
“It’s a blessing to think this way, which is how I started making music.” That performance-first mindset shapes all 12 tracks, which run on distorted drums, squelching basslines and industrial production while moving between vocals in English, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic.The album’s title is pronounced “illusion,” and it opens with a track by that name.
There, an acid-style bassline winds through the low end as the tension builds.Next comes September’s lead single, ‘1+1+1,’ which paired Boys Noize with Rotterdam-based artist ZEP, whose chanted count follows a guest list spiraling out of control.
The October single ‘Nächstenliebe’ reunited him with Berlin duo Brutalismus 3000, whose album Harmony he co-produced.A step-sequenced bassline and Dadaist German vocals pay tribute to DAF and their late singer, Gabi Delgado.
Scroll to continue more from edm EDM.com On-Deck Circle: BICEP, Armin van Buuren, Valentino Khan & More Brazilian baile funk takes over on ‘Baile DF,’ the sharpest turn on the album and a fixture of Boys Noize’s DJ sets for months before its July release.It is his second collaboration with Brazilian producer Adame DJ after ‘Acido,’ pairing an acid bassline with Portuguese chants from Thalia Abdon and MC Da França.
The loudest punk moment on the record is ‘Wake Me Up,’ made with Moscow duo Locked Club, whose Irak EP came out on Boysnoize Records back in 2019.A heavy drum machi...