Virgil Abloh is quite the renaissance man. The fashion designer and artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection recently crafted a transparent DJ mixer that’s bound for a Chicago museum. Now, he’s remixing dance music heroes Tiga and The Martinez Brothers.
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Here, Abloh delivers a “FutureJazz” remix of the track “Blessed,” thick with ’90s UK broken-beat throwback vibes. Listen to it below.
“I speak for everyone at Turbo when I say we are delighted and honored to bring these two friends and creative forces into the fold,” says Tiga in a press statement of the release, which also includes a remix from techno icon Ricardo Villalobos. “Some people will tell you that hatred and divisiveness are the answers to society’s ills, but I respectfully disagree. It’s friendship that’s gonna see us through. If I can convince two of today’s leading cultural figures to roll up their sleeves and figure out my remix pack, imagine what I could do if given control of a small country. I don’t see any other labels making these kinds of claims, and to me that says a lot.”
Abloh was also given the keys to the release’s artwork design, producing an image that “depicts the fall of man as seen through the eyes of a jean jacket.” See the image below.
