Following up from last year’s Outlines compilation, where XL Regular, a Rome-based DJ and producer, opened the album with a track jointly produced alongside Future Jazz Ensemble, the new offering shares further insight, by way of XL’s debut solo EP, into his expressive ideas, influences, and openness to fusing the old with the new.
The classic rhythms of BRUK sound shine throughout the release, from the fast-paced title track ‘’XL3000’’, to harmonically rich ‘’Sometimes’’, leaving ‘’Jv1080’’ to fill the gap for those downbeat, calmer moments on the dancefloor.
The release is topped off with a perfectly iconic EVM128’s remix of ‘’Jv1080’’, a more stripped, low-end heavier and dub-focused version of the track that iconically puts a familiar sound of 128’s, a tried and tested BRUK forefather, into the context of new things to come by means of further bridging the international separations of today’s turmoil in the world and melding the sounds and ideas of old and new into something personal, free and special by means of XL Regular’s first solo debut EP, which is just a glimpse of more rhythms soon come.