Producer and vocalist, 3L3D3P, aims to be a full sensory experience through her hardcore electronic production style and chaotic live performances. Creating different worlds and transcending audiences to different worlds through music is necessary to the punk electronic musician’s process.
Her debut album, “General!,” is a loud expression of glitchy textures, intense percussion and warped bass lines that feel intentionally chaotic. It was released on Oct. 30, 2025 and is around 23 minutes long. There are 10 tracks on the album, including singles “>>> (FWD),” “rpa,” “General!” and “OSTRASIZED.”
3L3D3P and I got a chance to discuss the journey making “General!,” what fans can expect at her upcoming multimedia events called The General Conference, the kind of live experience 3L3D3P wants to be and her other projects, such as music videos and Vol. 1 of 3L3D3P Magazine.
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Claire: Describe who 3L3D3P is in three words.
3L3D3P: Okay, that’s a good question… Uh, I’d say, oh, my gosh, that’s a really hard question. Let me think for a second. I would say… transforming is one word. I’d say, colorful. And I would say, loud.
Claire: That’s perfect. How would you say the identity of 3L3D3P has evolved throughout the years?
3L3D3P: I would say, it’s mostly just developed and grown. I feel like the spirit was always there. It’s always been really clear, but it’s just more so like transforming, morphing, expanding. So, that’s the main thing that I would say has changed over the years. Just [to] become more materialized, I guess.
Claire: That’s awesome. What do you think makes 3L3D3P sound unique compared to other music?
3L3D3P: I think what makes it unique is that it comes just from my own mind, and it’s not really based off of any trends or any sort of outside, like approval, I guess. That’s what makes it its own sound. It’s not really like reaching out to define itself. I guess that’s the best way I would describe it.
Claire: I agree. One of the things I noticed while listening to your new album is how many new sounds you’re experimenting with. I feel like I’m always kind of guessing at what the next part will sound like. I appreciate how much you mix it up, try new things and layer sounds on top of each other.
3L3D3P: Thanks! Yeah, I get pretty bored really fast. So, I have to switch things up, like constantly. Maybe it’s a problem.
Claire: Is that how you would say you get most of your inspiration? Just by trying things out?
3L3D3P: I’d say that’s a big part of it. I put a lot into experimentation, and I go in with a feeling or an idea of something I want to try, and then I give it the space to just grow and become whatever it’s going to become.
So, I just try to give it the space to not, um, force it into anything—you know, like, it needs to be more this or that—I kind of just let it be. And at the end, if I like it, then that’s like the test, essentially. If I like it and it passes the liking test, then that’s what it is. That’s a big part of it. It’s experimentation, really.
Claire: I feel like that kind of flows into my next question: why punk electronic music? How did you get into this?
3L3D3P: Well, that’s a good question. When I was a kid, I started playing guitar really young. A few years after I started playing guitar, I was gifted a drum machine, which kind of opened my eyes and world to electronic music and producing electronic music. So, from a really young age, it was kind of like guitar music and electronic music that I had accessible to create.
However, I was, like, mostly—because I could play guitar—I was in bands for most of my life and never really got to indulge too much in making electronic music with these bands, they were just not interested no matter how much I tried.
I kind of had this idea, like, a really long time ago to just combine these sounds, but the people I worked with then just never could really get behind it. So, it was, like, around the time when all my bands were over, I finally kind of sat down and just kind of started messing around, and, uh, creating this thing that I had in mind for a really long time.
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Claire: Let’s talk about your new album. How was your experience making “General!,” and how did it differ from making past music?
3L3D3P: Um, “General!,” well, it was a really long project over the course of, like, at least a couple of years making these songs. I guess I didn’t really realize I was making “General!” until toward the end.
I didn’t know what I was making yet until I looked at everything, and I saw what it was. So, in that way, it was kind of beautiful because it’s kind of like a diary of the last couple years of my life. And I think that’s pretty sick.
I think that it was more of a free flow compared to [other projects] that were more, like, purposeful. “General!” was more natural in the sense that it didn’t have any real purpose other than just existing until it became what it was, essentially. So, it’s pretty pure in that way.
Claire: That’s such an organic way to develop an album. Whenever I watch music interviews myself, sometimes the artists talk about the album as, like, a full thing, rather than just songs coming together to make something. So, I think it’s refreshing to hear that it just came together.
3L3D3P: Yeah, it’s something very different. I think because of the lack of, like, the outside, you know, no labels or people kind of telling me the best way to do things, I’m just kind of doing it my way. It just kind of comes out that way. And, I guess “General!” is a perfect example of that style of creation.
Claire: So, tell me about the first single off the album, “>>> (FWD).” What made you want to select this song as the album’s first introduction?
3L3D3P: I thought that that was a good single because it’s probably, like, one of the best songs I’ve made, I think, ever. I think I did a really solid job creating just a unique, very special, very 3L3D3P song. So, I guess I kind of wanted to let that one out first because I thought it was banging.
Also, I already had the video in mind, and I wanted to just do it and get it out because I thought it was really cool. So, that was pretty much the main thoughts behind it being the first release.
Claire: The track, “OSTRASIZED,” feels kind of like a back and forth battle to me when I listen to it. I feel like it’s, like, brighter versus more explosive sounds, and they kind of alternate throughout the song. What was your goal with that production specifically on that track?
3L3D3P: I think that with that song, I was feeling all crazy for some reason. I can’t exactly remember why, but I was feeling pretty, like, insane, maybe, like, mildly psychotic or something, and I felt like I needed something bright and shiny to focus on when I started making it.
But yeah, also, like you mentioned, that uproar is kind of like a bit of a battle. It’s a bit of an emotional battle. I think that song is [a battle], and I think that’s how it ended up coming out.
And I kind of ended on that sort of, like, blown-out, explosive ending just because it felt like it was almost representing a release. Like, the song was a release of some emotions and stuff. And, yeah, I guess the way that song rides out is kind of like the ride I went on during the time of its creation.
Claire: I feel like you can hear that in this song. At least that’s what I kind of got from it, this sort of push and pull. I really liked that song, it was one of my favorites.
3L3D3P: Thanks. Yeah, definitely. I feel like it’s very clear, too. It’s intense to me.
Claire: The only feature on the album is Puzzle on track, “TvT.” What was behind that decision? Why Puzzle, and why on that specific song?
3L3D3P: When I started creating that instrumental, it felt like something that his voice would be nice on. [The song] kind of just has the space for it. I had some verses open, like, some space where it was open. I did my vocals first, and I was, like, I could really hear a nice Puzzle verse on this.
So, it really just felt right. Like, there were some other people I did consider, some other friends, but I just thought it sounded like a Puzzle flow would go so nicely over it. And it did, I think it did. I think it was nice.
Claire: Yes, same! Do you like to collaborate with other artists?
3L3D3P: I do, actually. I just don’t do it very often. Like, I find myself kind of working alone in the dark a little bit, but I do occasionally.
People will ask me to do remixes, or I do a lot of, like, mixing for people behind the scenes and stuff. Sometimes I hear their demo, and I’m like, “I know how to make this sound dynamic,” essentially. And then, they’re like, “really?” I’m like, “Yeah, just give it to me, and I’ll add some dynamic energy to it.”
So, I’ll do things like that a lot, but it’s not so much a collaboration as much as it’s just me wanting to make something sound, in my opinion, better. But, um, I do love working with other artists, I just don’t do it too often.
Claire: The title track, “General!,” closes out the album. Is the track more of a conclusion or a thematic center of the album?
3L3D3P: I would say it’s a bit of a closure because the album does take you through such a ride. It’s a ride, and the way that it ends on “General!” feels like a beautiful conclusion. It’s still hard and powerful, but it just felt like the right direction to take you before [the album] is, like, “close your eyes and go to sleep,” I guess.
Um, I don’t know, it’s definitely more of like the period at the end of the sentence, I think. But, exclamation point, in this instance. It’s more like an exclamation point, because it’s definitely hard in its own way.
Claire: Definitely. That track also stood out to me. I thought it was really interesting that you closed out the album with that. I really appreciate the order of albums, and I feel like some artists don’t super focus on it, but I think it’s so powerful when it’s done correctly, and I think that was a really cool choice.
3L3D3P: Thank you. Actually, a lot of people have mentioned that to me about “General!”
I took a long flight, maybe like 10 hours, and I listened to the album a scary amount of times. Like, 60, 70 times in different orders. So, uh, when it came down to it, I found myself listening to [this order] over and over, and I was, like, this just feels like it, it feels so right.
Claire: You also currently have music videos out for four of the tracks on “General!,” are there plans for any more soon?
3L3D3P: Actually, I have a little new single that I’m working on that I plan to shoot something for kind of soon. I did like a little kind of visualizer for “what it deserves” that is somewhat of a video, it’s just like a little thing. But, uh, yeah, that’s going to put a little time between this next video, which is silently in the works right now.
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Claire: And then, you toured last year, starting early August and wrapping up late October. How was that experience for you?
3L3D3P: It was awesome. It was beautiful to, I don’t know, like, just headline a tour and meet people who just really wanted to experience 3L3D3P live. I think that was amazing. I enjoyed it a lot. I like to travel, I like to be on the road, so, I was just happy to be doing what I love. Performing is, like, truly natural to me, and my heart’s always in it. Life just is a little bit easier, I think, on the road, got like less chores and stuff like that.
Claire: Tell me about your most memorable tour moment, good or bad.
3L3D3P: Wow, that’s a good question. Um… gosh. Well, I’d say one of my favorites was in Rotterdam, I performed in an arcade. My last show on the tour was just an arcade, and it was amazing. The lighting from all the games was kind of backlighting me, and it might have been one of the bigger shows, like, the whole room was stacked with people. It was just insane energy and it really stuck with me, like, how awesome it was, just randomly playing in the Netherlands and so far from home, and having a crowd of people just going absolutely insane. It was cool. That was definitely a standout moment.
Claire: Your live performances are high energy, chaotic, vibrant, both sonically and visually. So, to me, they physically represent the energy of your music. What do you enjoy the most about performing live?
3L3D3P: Oh, thank you. Yeah, I try. I’d say my favorite part is the flow of a show. I don’t know, I like how every show is so different. There’s no two shows that are the same. It’s always open to interpretation.
I love that. I love that aspect. I love that sometimes people hate it. I love that sometimes people love it. I love that. I could feel like it was a mess, but people are like, “That was perfect.” I just love that.
It’s the most fleeting kind of art form where it’s just very momentary. And it’s very, like, connective to yourself and to everyone in the room, and, for me, that makes it top tier performance art. It’s just, like, one of the best things you can do.
Claire: Ideally, how would you want your audience to feel at 3L3D3P shows?
3L3D3P: I would like them to feel exhilarated, mildly afraid, mildly feared—like mild, not shaking per se, but a little bit unsure of what’s going to happen next. I like them to feel very submerged in the world.
I just want there to be a world that you can taste and feel, and just for a moment, you’re taken away from whatever world you were just in prior to the beginning of the show, you know? I wanted to transcend you, essentially, to ‘3L3D3P world,’ which is a very unstable, kind of unsure world. There’s a lot of light, there’s a lot of dark, as well. So, in being there, I just want you to be on the ride and to be able to let go a bit. That’s really my hope.
Claire: From your perspective as an artist, what makes a good live performance, and how do you aim for that in your own shows?
3L3D3P: From my perspective, a great art show—a great live show—would be just the palatable world that the artist brings you in. It doesn’t have to involve any sort of specific thing as long as I’m really feeling it. I just need to really feel it.
I could just stand there and never make eye contact once, and just look at the ground. As long as I’m feeling like I’m being transcended to whatever world they’re trying to bring me to, that’s a great show. You know, I just want to feel what it is. I just want some clarity.
And it doesn’t need to be unpredictable, or predictable, or lots of lights or no lights. It just needs to be transcending, really, whatever way that is.
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Claire: You recently announced the audio and visual exhibition, The General Conference, featuring two multimedia exhibitions and 12 musical acts in Los Angeles on Feb. 21 and in New York City on March 7. What was the inspiration for this kind of event?
3L3D3P: I’ve been working on this for a long time, and I wanted to do this since before I released “General!,” but I was on tour. I couldn’t really, like, plan too much, but I wanted to do, uh, some sort of cool show, something special for the cities I love, L.A. and New York, where I could go a little deeper into the ‘3L3D3P world’ and just make it a fun, interesting and unique experience.
A lot of the time, I feel like a lot of shows are kind of the same—no offense to anyone. They’re just shows, but I kind of wanted to add some other elements, things that I like, and things that I know will elevate the experience of just being in a space and experiencing music and a little bit of art, and just create a vibe that—I don’t know. I just love to be emerged. And so, I kind of thought, ‘well, fuck it,’ I could do that with this, and I can use “General!” as the reason why, essentially.
I think it deserves it, as well, just because I’m very proud of the work.
Claire: Of course, I think so too. And I love the fact that it’s a multimedia event. I’m really interested in the two multimedia exhibitions, can you tell me a little bit about that?
3L3D3P: This is going to include just some interesting art, awesome different kinds. I won’t say too deeply, but just very interesting artwork, essentially, with some vendors who do really cool stuff for themselves as well, who are artists, as well. So, it’s just kind of offering more than a music event to kind of appeal to the other senses.
Claire: Would you say 3L3D3P is a full sensory experience? Is that the goal?
3L3D3P: I’d say so, yeah. That’s my experience as, like, a human. So, for me, the project is kind of like an extension of that.
Claire: What are you personally most excited for regarding the event?
3L3D3P: Oh my gosh, I think I’m excited to play and just see it. I’m excited to see it myself, I want to experience it, too. But, I’m really excited to perform. I just think it’s gonna be really cool and unique. And I’m going to kind of try some things a little differently. I don’t want to jinx it, but I have some ideas, so I’m excited to try that stuff out.
Claire: How did you select which artists will be performing? How much creative control do you like to have when it comes to live events and touring?
3L3D3P: It’s really all my control. There’s no part that I’m not a part of. These artists that I have on the lineup are really cool artists from different types of music and different vibes that I feel like when you put it all together, you get a not-boring, interesting lineup, essentially.
So, when it came to creating the lineups, I thought it would be sick to add in a little bit of this, a little bit of that artist-wise that would make the lineup unique. You know, like, a band here or, um, someone special here, someone there. Some of the DJs are, like, bigger artists, but their names are shrouded in mystery, so there’s some elements like that, as well.
But I think when the event actually goes down, then people will find out.
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Claire: Transitioning a bit, you also made a magazine. Tell me about that process and your purpose for the project.
3L3D3P: Oh, yeah, the magazine is one of my favorite things I did. I always wanted to do a magazine, and I plan on doing another one, I’m just collecting all the stuff and the ideas to do it. Um, essentially doing a magazine was, like, a personal desire and pretty much the reason why I did it. Like everything else I do, it was just because I wanted to.
I wanted to kind of showcase the ‘3L3D3P world,’ and I felt something like a book would be a great visualization of that through photos from live shows, photo shoots, some words and especially some design.
I designed most of the magazine, most of the layout designs. I commissioned a few from some artists that I really like, their style and stuff. But a lot of it, I mean, the whole layout. I just, I did it all, the full book. So, it’s an extension of the project, really, just in a visual sense.
Claire: I’m a journalism student here, and I love magazines. I got to produce one last year, and I totally get it, I totally get the love of magazines. You’re very free to kind of play around with spreads and how information is put on the page with the colors and the photos. It’s just so fun.
3L3D3P: It was so fun to make. It was so fun to, like, over the course of some time, just [make] those pages, and some of the things I did, like cutouts and scans, or, you know, just all kinds of multimedia, really just trying out different stuff, using tape, using other old magazines and cutting those up, you know, things like that. Just really fun. It’s very fulfilling.
Claire: And for future projects: are you interested in making more magazines about them? Do you want to focus it purely on the music or maybe branch it out a little bit?
3L3D3P: Um, I think that with more music, there’s more of that I could put in the magazine. But I’d say, a lot of what the magazine does for me is show other aspects of the project that the music… it’s not that the music can’t, but I guess it’s more specific or more focused, so you can really see what the music is with your eyes, you know what I mean? It’s more like a visual representation of the music and the project itself.
So, with future magazines, I plan to kind of expand on that, and, like, expand more on the ‘3L3D3P world.’
Claire: I’m so looking forward to seeing what’s next.
3L3D3P: Thank you. It’s going to be so cool. I am so stoked.
Claire: What do you hope to accomplish as an artist in 2026 and beyond?
3L3D3P: That’s a good question. Um, I think that I’d like to really kind of serve 3L3D3P to the world a little bit more. I understand that the music is a little bit niche, and I’d like to reach more of those niche people. I don’t think it’s as much on people’s radar as it may seem, and I would like to use 2026 as a chance to broaden that. My general overall plan for the project is to essentially reach the world. Take over the world. Make the world a 3L3D3P world. Put some new perspective on Earth. I think there needs to be a new one. It’s about time. Everything is so boring and the same, and I think that the world needs a little more 3L3D3P. That’s, like, the overall goal—though I know it’s a long one, it’s a path worth walking, I think.
Claire: Of course. And I’m so looking forward to when the world officially makes the conversion to ‘3L3D3P world.’
3L3D3P: Hell yeah.
Claire: Alright, is there anything else you wanted to add?
3L3D3P: Uh, no, I think that that was a very thorough and really great interview, actually. Thank you so much for taking the time for those questions.
Claire: Of course. Thank you so much for doing it with me. I’m looking forward to seeing what the future holds for 3L3D3P.