Virgil Abloh Collaborates With Boys Noize To Release New Single

Boys Noize (aka Alex Ridha) and producer/creative designer Virgil Abloh have teamed up for the worldwide release of "Orvnge" via Boysnoize Records HERE. The pair came together last year at Ridha's studio in Berlin to produce the track, alongside their "OFF-WHITE MAYDAY" HERE clothing collection collaboration. "Orvnge" marks the first official music release from Virgil Abloh, whose previous artistic partners include Daft Punk, Kanye West, and Jay-Z.

Virgil Abloh says "Birthed out of mutual admiration of our points of views in music and art alike, we made a track to score the moment. It's also the spark of future collaborative ideas."

Berlin-based producer/DJ Boys Noize runs his own label, Boysnoize Records. Oi Oi Oi (2007) marked the full-length album debut of Alex Ridha as Boys Noize. Other studio albums Power, Out of the Black feat. Snoop Dogg and Mayday featuring appearances by Hudson Mohawke, Danny Brown, Poliça and more, followed, as well as countless EPs and vinyl only releases. Besides his own work, he has a collaborative group Dog Blood with Skrillex, a project with Chilly Gonzales called Octave Minds with an album including a Chance the Rapper feature.

Born in Rockford, Illinois in 1980 - Virgil Abloh is an architect, engineer, creative director, and designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he completed a Master ?s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It was here that he learned not only about design principles but also about the concept of collaborative working. He studied a curriculum devised by Mies van der Rohe on a campus he had designed. Abloh soon took on the role as a creative director for Kanye West and West's creative think tank "Donda".

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