{"title":"3XL","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3XL is an electronic music label founded in 2021 and managed by American DJ and producer. Based in Berlin, Germany, the label emerged as a merger of three previously defunct labels. With a focus on electronic music, 3XL aims to bring innovative sounds and talented artists to the forefront of the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a newly established label, 3XL strives to create a platform for emerging artists while also showcasing established talent. The label's location in Berlin provides access to one of the most vibrant and influential music scenes in the world, allowing for constant inspiration and collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith its roots firmly planted in electronic music, 3XL is dedicated to pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories. By combining cutting-edge production techniques with captivating melodies and rhythms, the label aims to captivate listeners and leave a lasting impact on the global music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"earth-ff","title":"Earth FF","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new avatar on 3XL, someone you may or may not have encountered before on the experiences \/ west mineral axis, tending to the inner life with a lush fantasy of sound-bathing beatdown and mossy atmospherics somewhere between Ulla x Malibu x Headz-era Mo Wax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Earth FF’ yields a delicate bouquet of synaesthetic ambience designed to sooth yr frayed nerves. The album transposes a flickering vibe to inner sanctums, painting an organically detailed vista that hinges around late ‘90s\/early ‘00s illbient\/trip hop atmospherics referencing classic Mo Wax \/ Headz, and melting out into a sanguine bbblisss enhanced by a patina of field recordings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistinguished by a tender grasp of tongue-tip thizz and lysergic nuance, the 10 tracks fan out in pruned designs between pads and whispered vox reminding us of Kenji Kawai or Nozomu Matsumoto on ‘Evil Day’, via the silvery contrails of ‘Beacon’, the eyrie illbient of ‘Root Loop’, to purest writhing-in-the-floatation tank kiss-off on ’Sunn’ replete with ASMR gynoid vocals on a Perila x Ulla x Malibu tip. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith no sharp edges to snag your tumescent skin, it’s all low-lit neon, palm trees gently swaying in the breeze, eyes-rolling in the early-hours, blissed sorta gear\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"3XL","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50427008745803,"sku":"2003200","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2_68321e41_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726820345"},{"product_id":"foam-3","title":"Foam","description":"\u003cp\u003eUlla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz\/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by elusive outfit Romance. It’s an absorbing, quietly significant album for 3XL, on its most substantial release to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponsible for one of contemporary ambient’s finest breadcrumb trails in recent years, Ulla leads on from an acclaimed run of albums toward a more filigree style on ‘Foam’.  Deploying fragmented morsels resembling glass-cast confectionary with a burbling vernacular, these ephemeral new works dissolve into a supine, shoe-gauzy and jazzed bliss that’s best compared with Jan Jelinek’s efforts in this dream-staged arena, the subs x piano minimalism of Alva Noto \u0026amp; Ryuichi Sakamoto’s revered collabs, as well as the memory-frothed echo of claire rousay and Co La’s fractal baubles. Aye, it’s a sound close to our hearts and one weft with a certain sort of magic that sparkles on the nerves and imagination with delicacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntending it to “feel like a keychain”, the album follows a logic that’s almost algorithmic with its haphazard mutations, but which ultimately displays a more human pulse on pieces like ‘foam angel’, weaving forlorn brass around jazz samples and Ulla’s disjointed voice murmuring unintelligibly like some cyborg liz frazer speaking into the sublime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEffusive solo keys and strings cascade like petals on ‘song’, where familiar leitmotifs become wind-dispersed like seeds. We’re snagged on the bittersweet tang of ‘popping out’, and the unexpected dance between marina’s jazz guitar lilt and the aerosoul thizz on ‘sad face’, while the tongue-tip sensitivities of ‘blush’, and ‘for your love’ sound like Rihanna produced by a Systemisch-era Oval.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs tangled and complex as it is filled with improbable ohrwurms, ‘Foam’ is unlike anything we’ve heard from Ulla before, and it just might be the weirdest ambient\/pop dislocation of the year so far.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"3XL","offers":[{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50453817983307,"sku":"2003323","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Foam_42109129_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727177430"},{"product_id":"very-dark-past","title":"Very Dark Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpecial Guest DJ \u0026amp; Pontiac Streator are crimeboys, here delivering a debut album volley of ambient jungle and trip hop dub paying homage to influences including Vangelis, Burial, Silent Hill and the putative effects of N ₂O.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Very Dark Past’ is the pair’s immersive debut, with eight cuts that firm up a flux of etheric inspirations into a translucent body of aerosolised ambient and writhing rhythms primed for the back rooms. Working within etheric parameters established over recent years by their respective solo efforts and a plethora of collaborative projects by peers such as Huerco S., Perila, Exael, and Ulla,‘Very Dark Past’ digs into a now familiar vein of lathered cultural ephemera and rave nostalgia full of gauzy signposts and warm sentimentality that works a treat on stressed minds and bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitled tongue-in-cheek in key with their mode of prophylactic rave safety, the crimeboys step off from the gentlest ends of LTJ Bukem or PS1-style jungle into pulpiest\/soft focus ambient dance. Bladerunner vibes prompt the opening lushness of ‘holodeck blue’, and ‘trippin’’ trades in filigree ambient jungle delicacy, beside the caress of ‘deja entendu (dub)’ and frayed echoes of Timeblind in ‘red shift’, while a sublime highlight of spongiform subbass and fractalised breaks in ‘sex and drugs’ gives way to Burial-esque 2-step of ‘haunted tattoo’ and a weightless lushness approximating DJ Crystal or Photek underwater in ‘days go by’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome hidden cuts on the vinyl edition too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"3XL","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50513504010571,"sku":"2009042","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3XL06_Cover_eabee1ca_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727933464"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_2d95c458_thumbnail_4096_6b1d4c89-3da5-43d7-a135-00df7915f87b.jpg?v=1726820327","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/3xl.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}