Ixna has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 14 February 2018. Ixna's music has been featured on 20 episodes.

IXNA is the name of Jay Cloidt and Marina LaPalma's "imaginary band" who formed at Mills College while studying under David Behrman and Robert Ashley in 1978. Mills College is known for an irreverent approach to composition which has generated some amazing records, evidenced most strongly in playful classics by Behrman and Ashley.

It's not hard to hear how that influence and prism-opening aesthetic has informed Knotpop, whose confection of Marina's skillfully pert and dippy vocals with Cloidt's bubbling basslines, perpendicular FX and off-centre…