Ixna has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 14 February 2018. Ixna's music has been featured on 21 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 rhythms lend themselves to comparison with other, effortlessly envelope-pushing highlights of that era, from Anna Homler to General Strike and the rotating Eno/Bryne/Hassell axis, thru the hypnotic grooves of Leven Signs or Holger Czukay, and the minimalist tics of impLOG and Ike Yard, not to mention the work of their peers and tutors at Mills.