Next up!
Canada's @napmusick treats us to just over an hour of scuzzy dembow beats, techno-dancehall crossovers & sludgy electronica. 
An absolute treat this, we're honoured to have NAP join the podcast series.
We also caught up with the donny himself for a lil chat, read below >


AM: We loved your mix a lot, where and how did you record it? Was there a theme behind it?

Glad you liked it! I recorded the mix in my studio with a moody xone mixer and x2 xdjs on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I’d say the theme is release. After the drag of a 9-5 week that sacred studio time on the weekends can be so special, especially with the current Montreal curfew. Channeling that ‘living for the weekend’ vibe here with some low-slung bass music I've been digging lately.


AM: We’re big fans of your label ISLA, how did it come about?

Thank you for listening! Isla was born out of a desire to document the music happening around me. I bought a used tape duplicator from a church in Abbotsford and started making very small tape runs of friends’. It’s grown a bit since but it's still just me putting whatever I’m excited about.


AM: We think Ambien Baby is fantastic, love Sophie too from when we had her down to play in Brighton, how did you guys come about forming the duo?

Oh thank you! That’s my best friend and soul sister. We’ve known each other since we were teens. AB is a reaction to our friendship and a vessel for us to explore sound & collaborate. 


AM: Out of music what are your interests? 

I'd say the interests are vast and ever-mutating!  In general, they lay in music rituals [music making/consuming], music’s therapeutic qualities, and its tireless research/ quest for its historicity.  


AM: Whats next for you this year? 

Finishing loose ends for some recording projects that have been in the works for some time, putting out some records im very excited about and learning how to tap/ dance flamenco.

AM Podcast #36 - NAP

3 international BZN$$ partner$ on a journey through 96 smokinnn' traxxx of reggae, dancehall, ganja classics and beyond. Float above and swim below the deep dubby waters across the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea and surface on the shores of Jamaica. Then take a high grade trip through the clouds across the North Atlantic Ocean to an essential meeting at Notting Hill Carnival. Finish with a focused discussion about the successful investments recently made in UKG, UK funky, experimental grime, bruk, 2step and UK bass. 
 
$R$ BZN$$ Inc. and its four members, Aphrodite, Emelyne, Kassie and Mary encourage you to smoke responsibly.

Originally aired on Skylab 4/20 4:20pm 2022

4.20 for 420 on 4/20 at 4:20 E3 2022

While Aphrodite is taking care of business in Greece, Emelyne and Kassie go back to their roots exploring Hip-Hop, RnB, G-funk & Street Soul with a touch of Dub and Reggae from the 90's till now on an extended bzn$$ trip through Asia. Join them on this journey flying through large conferences in parts of Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, China & Hong Kong + some quick meetings in Singapore, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

Originally aired on Skylab Radio 9/6/22

BZN$$ TRIP E1

"The Sublime Is Not About Beauty It Is About Fear"

Nathan Harrington (^ ^) mix for Berceuse Heroique

@daniel-r-12 @napmusick @sonidoisla 
sonidos del mundo, del presente, del pasado, del futuro. 
segunda parte de la presencia NAPesca en @reflejosobrenegro , grabado en vivo desde la cabina de Ibero 90.9 el 17 de junio de 2022. 
con un breve b2b vía @alo-sound aquí y allá.


n-cienda la radio, n-cienda la llama… pues ya anochece en la montaña.

228 — NAP pt. II & alo

https://soundcloud.com/absorb-label
more @ https://mitaminelab.org

ML691: Kavil

Rhythmic, cosmic and textual trip in experimental dance adjacent grooves.

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Daystar with Beta Librae @ The Lot Radio 01 - 03 - 2023

Nothing In Moderation with DJ Voices @ The Lot Radio 03-29-2023

#28 #newmusic #newmusicalert #44 #28 #48 #22 #77 #88 #28 #newmusicalert #44 #28 #48 #22 #77 #88 #newmusicalert #44 #28 #48 #22 #77 #88

THE GODS ENVY US

How To Disappear Completely

Title:
DayZi Suite
 Switch On
 Explore
 Alarm
 Cycle

Dates:
06-Sep-2025 (inception), 11-Sep-2025 (finalised), 12-Sep-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/xxx -- watch this space

Description:
A four track album, DayZi Suite

Track 1: Switch On (4:10)
Track 2: Explore (1:59)
Track 3: Alarm (1:03)
Track 4: Cycle (7:38)

Inspired from the modular synthesiser works of Sarah Belle Reid and Walker Farrell and hardware sequencing of the Soma Ornament from Vlad Kreimer; my own digital modular synthesiser, the DayZi; plus the eight track recorder of DayZi to capture the Soma Enner and Soma COSMOS magic.

This is a suite of four separate recordings of live improvisations using my digital modular synthesiser, the DayZi (Release 05), which I programmed in Max (Cycling 74). The synthesiser at it's core is a generative music performance instrument using linked timers to trigger other timers and the FM oscillators, some parts are planned ahead of the performance, others are conjured up during the performance. Key parameters liker timers, initiators (bangs, pings etc.) and frequencies are controlled through a patch bay, that can be altered during the performance. Not all synthesiser parameters are hard wired into the generative process, leaving room for the performer (me) to improvise twiddling the parameters live during the recording. All parameters can be saved to preset banks ready to recall later or saved/read from a text file. No midi interface was used for this performance, nor was this included in Rel 05 of DayZi, future releases will consider addition of midi for launching and parameter control via rotary encoders.

Some times the DayZi synthesiser provided the inspiration for the Soma Enner playing, other times vis versa.

No digital audio workstation (DAW) was used. Only minor editing of the recorded wave files using Audacity, to trim off the silent portions at the beginning and end was employed.

Development of the DayZi began on the 3-Sep-2025 as a proof of concept, happy with the initial prototype, I continued further, now at Release 05 on the 10-Sep-2025.

The tuning is largely just intonation (JI) based on the DayZi side, whereas on the Soma Enner is freely improvised tuning based upon the emotional drive created by the DayZi recordings and that of the performer, the crucial human element. There was no specific plan of a tuning scheme, largely at the whim of my imagination at the time of inception.

The suite is based on four performances, all related by the instruments used to play them and similar theme, though the timbral sounds produced very much changed from one performance to the next, but yet enough in common to function as a suite.

The first piece in the suite, DayZi Switch On (4:10), is turning on the sound machine. Typical tuning was 100,150, 300, 600, 700, 324 Hz.

The second piece in the suite, DayZi Explore (1:59), is rummaging around exploring the scene. The tuning here is rather bizarre, purely improvised tuning and experimenting with recursive generative tuning.

The third piece in the suite, DayZi Alarm (1:03), the exploration has triggered an alarm -- oops.

The fourth and final piece in the suite, DayZi Cycle (7:38), the alarms give way to an exploration of two linked sequences, each a daisy chain of events in their own right but with a common trigger in time. The Enner performance interprets the daisy chain of events. The starting point for the tuning, for the first daisy chain was: 
100 Hz, 200 Hz, 100*(2/3) Hz (#1), 100*(4/3) Hz;
whereas for the second daisy chain: 400 Hz, 400*4/3 Hz, 400*3/2 Hz,  100*(2/3) Hz (#1).

The common node of the two chains is marked as (#1).

See my BandCamp page for the full description.

4.20 for 420 on 4/20 at 4:20 E3 2022

$R$ BZN$$

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