NAP (CAN)

Vancouver / Canada

NAP is the alias of Colombian / Canadian producer and deejay Daniel Rincon. Aside from his own productions, NAP is also one half of the groups Ambien Baby, La Fe and Dosis. He is also the force behind the record label ISLA.

Daniel Rincon has lived in a hundred different worlds, and he has built a utopia in each of them. The Colombia-born artist—better known as NAP—would hear the sounds of cumbia and merengue floating through his house, but he was interested in rougher stuff: punk, hardcore, no wave. In his childhood, Rincon’s music teacher told his mother that he had an ear better fitted for field artillery than music; when he was a teenager, Rincon’s family moved to Vancouver, and there, he found a way to weaponize that ear. He started going to no wave shows, and he’d DJ parties with busted equipment. It was punk in sound, but more importantly, in practice.