Boys Noize will release 7LLVSION on November 6th, ending a five-year gap between solo albums with a record that brings Alexander Ridha back to his own catalog after an unusually collaborative stretch spanning Nine Inch Nails, film scores and a younger generation of electronic artists.
The September 24th announcement arrives with “1+1+1,” a new single featuring Dutch producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist ZEP, who emerged from Rotterdam’s underground rave scene. The album will also feature Brutalismus 3000, TAICHU, Maya Alkhatari and ABRA, although the complete tracklist has not yet been disclosed.
7LLVSION will be released through Ridha’s ONES and ZEROS imprint. It follows Boys Noize’s 2021 solo album +/-, but the five years between them were anything but empty. Ridha has remained active through singles, production work, remixes, soundtracks, Dog Blood and a deepening creative relationship with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
That makes 7LLVSION less a comeback than a return to the solo-album format after the musical world around Boys Noize expanded considerably.
“1+1+1” Starts in EBM Territory
The first evidence of where that return may lead is “1+1+1,” a 2-minute, 56-second collaboration with ZEP released September 24th through ONES and ZEROS. The official single release credits both Boys Noize and ZEP as artists.
Musically, the track leans into electronic body music and new wave rather than smoothing Boys Noize into a conventional festival-house format. Synth arpeggios, a shifting EBM bassline and restless drums provide much of the pressure underneath ZEP’s vocal, while the four-on-the-floor kick is held back rather than dominating the record from its opening seconds.
When that kick does arrive, the song changes physical character. The earlier passages lean closer to punk and industrial music before the heavier dancefloor pulse pushes the same material toward the club.
ZEP supplies much of the volatility. His delivery moves between shouted, snarled and more melodic gestures instead of settling into a clean pop topline. The FADER describes him riding a track built from synth arpeggios and relentless drums, while other electronic coverage has similarly placed “1+1+1” between EBM, new wave and electroclash.
That hybrid suits ZEP’s own background. His work crosses rap, punk, hardcore, techno and R&B, while the FUGAZZI parties he organized in Rotterdam grew out of an underground rave culture where those boundaries were already porous.
As an album introduction, “1+1+1” establishes a hard, analog-minded starting point without pretending to reveal the whole record. The announced collaborators suggest 7LLVSION will travel considerably further.
The Guest List Crosses Electronic Scenes
Five collaborators have been confirmed so far: ZEP, Brutalismus 3000, TAICHU, Maya Alkhatari and ABRA. The initial album details do not yet identify which tracks they appear on or whether additional guests will arrive with the full tracklist.
Several already have connections to Ridha’s recent work.
Brutalismus 3000 joined Boys Noize on “I Bring My Gun To The Function” earlier in 2026, linking his catalog with an act that has pushed hard techno toward punk aggression and confrontational vocals. Their appearance on 7LLVSION extends an exchange that was already happening before the album announcement.
TAICHU is another recent collaborator. Boys Noize, TAICHU and Taube released “Shut It Down” through ONES and ZEROS, followed by a Funk Tribu remix. Ridha’s official discography shows how much of his recent output has been built around collaborations rather than a conventional album rollout.
ABRA provides the clearest connection to the previous Boys Noize LP. She appeared on “Affection” from +/-, so her return gives 7LLVSION at least one direct thread back to the 2021 record.
Maya Alkhatari, known through the electronic project Kiss Facility, adds another part of the contemporary underground around the album. Taken together, the announced guests point toward a record moving through harder club music, punk-edged electronics and experimental pop rather than reconstructing one period of Boys Noize’s past.
Five Years Without a Solo Album Wasn’t Quiet
The phrase “first album in five years” can suggest a clean absence. Ridha’s release history tells a different story.
Recent Boys Noize activity includes collaborations with Tiga, TAICHU and Brutalismus 3000, remix work involving Keinemusik and Tame Impala, production for Dorian Electra and continued activity with Skrillex through Dog Blood. His release history makes the gap between solo albums look more like a shift in working method than a break from recording.
The most consequential development has been his relationship with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Ridha entered their soundtrack world through Challengers [MIXED], his continuous 2024 reworking of Reznor and Ross’ score for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. Instead of treating the material as a conventional set of isolated remixes, Boys Noize reshaped the score into a DJ-style sequence that emphasized its electronic pulse.
The collaboration expanded with TRON: Ares. Ridha co-produced much of Nine Inch Nails’ soundtrack for the film, extending the relationship from remixing Reznor and Ross into working directly on music connected with Nine Inch Nails.
He also became part of the band’s live world. Boys Noize appeared with Nine Inch Nails during their recent touring, contributing electronic sections that pulled from the band’s catalog, soundtrack material and Reznor’s wider body of work.
That exchange eventually developed into the collaborative Nine Inch Noize project and joint performances including Coachella. Rather than forcing a precise album-category label onto it, the important point for 7LLVSION is what the project represents: Ridha spent part of his five-year solo-album gap inside another artist’s musical architecture, reworking industrial rock and film music through his own electronic vocabulary.
His recent soundtrack work matters for the same reason. It placed Boys Noize in situations where the music had to interact with images, narrative and existing compositions rather than functioning solely as a club record.
7LLVSION is therefore arriving after five years of expansion, not five years of silence.
ONES and ZEROS Gives the Album a New Home
The album also arrives through a different label framework from the one historically associated with Boys Noize.
Ridha founded Boysnoize Records in the mid-2000s and used it both for his own releases and as a platform for electronic artists around him. ONES and ZEROS is a newer imprint that has become increasingly visible across his recent singles and collaborations.
“1+1+1” carries the ONES and ZEROS copyright on Apple Music, while recent releases including “Shut It Down” have also appeared through the label.
Making 7LLVSION an ONES and ZEROS release gives the imprint a larger role than housing individual tracks. A full Boys Noize studio album can establish the label around Ridha’s central catalog while connecting it with the international group of collaborators surrounding the record.
That curatorial role has long existed alongside his identity as a producer and DJ. The new album appears to bring those functions closer together, with collaborators from different electronic scenes feeding into a project released through his own newer platform.
Touring Runs Straight Into Release Week
The announcement also feeds directly into an international run of live dates.
Boys Noize’s schedule begins September 26th in San Francisco with Dog Blood at Portola, followed the next day by CRSSD in San Diego. October moves through London, Bologna, Málaga, Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam before the album arrives in early November.
Release day itself includes a live booking. On November 6th, the same day 7LLVSION arrives, Boys Noize is scheduled to play Obsidian in Phoenix. Ultra Mexico City follows November 7th, EDC Orlando on November 8th and Factory Town in Miami on November 14th.
The current tour schedule continues through China and Australia, with dates extending into January 2027.
That puts “1+1+1” into the live environment almost immediately and gives Ridha several weeks to introduce unreleased material before November 6th if he chooses. No dedicated 7LLVSION setlist or album-in-full performance has been announced, so it would be premature to assume how much of the record will enter those shows.
For Boys Noize, however, clubs and festivals have always been more than promotional stops after a release. His records develop inside a culture where tracks can be tested, extended, mixed into other material and experienced through large sound systems before listeners ever encounter them as part of an album sequence.
‘7LLVSION’ Returns Boys Noize to His Own Center
Ridha’s place in electronic music looks different now than when Boys Noize became closely associated with the abrasive electro wave of the mid-to-late 2000s.
Distorted synths, compressed drums and rock-level aggression once helped artists including Boys Noize, Justice, Digitalism and SebastiAn push electro into indie clubs and festival culture. Elements of that vocabulary later spread through techno, mainstream dance production, pop and newer scenes that treat punk, rap and electronic music as compatible rather than separate worlds.
“1+1+1” does not sound like an attempt to recreate that period. Its EBM bassline and new-wave rhythm reach backward, but ZEP’s vocal and the track’s movement between punk energy and club mechanics place it comfortably alongside harder cross-genre electronic music in 2026.
The guest list reinforces that direction. Brutalismus 3000 belong to a younger hard-dance landscape where techno and punk attitude routinely collide. TAICHU provides another route into experimental club and pop music. ABRA reconnects Ridha with +/-, while Maya Alkhatari widens the album’s contemporary underground frame.
Reznor and Ross remain important to the context without currently being announced as 7LLVSION guests. Their influence on Ridha’s last several years comes through collaboration, soundtrack production and live work rather than a confirmed credit on his new solo album.
That separation may be part of what makes the November record interesting. Boys Noize has spent years moving through other artists’ music, cinema, collaborative projects and increasingly hybrid electronic spaces. 7LLVSION brings those experiences back under his own name.
The complete tracklist is still coming. For now, “1+1+1,” the announced collaborators and the move through ONES and ZEROS establish the shape of Boys Noize’s first solo album since +/- without pretending five busy years amounted to an absence.