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In Our Headphones

Emi Pop on Portland’s La Isla Electronica and the Magic of the Northwest

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Host Evie Stokes talks with Seattle based duo Emi Pop about the Portland band La Isla Electronica. They talk about discovering the band, playing shows together and the magic of the Pacific Northwest music scene.

Produced by Dusty Henry
Mastered by William Myers
Production support by Serafima Healy

Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones" playlist on Spotify or the “What's In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube.

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Photo credit: Samia Bradley

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Evie. So, hey, K-E-X-P is listener-supported and we are raising funds to ensure that public radio and podcasts like in our headphones exist in 2026. So please, if you'd like to support music discovery and podcasts like this one, please visit kexp.org slash donate and give what you can. Thank you.

0:26.1

This is in our headphones and I'm your host, Evie Stokes, here today with the illustrious

0:31.1

Seattle artist to Emmy Pop. Emmy are here with your partner, your drummer, Miles. I'm really excited to hear what you are going to share with us today.

0:41.3

You brought some music. What's your song pick?

0:43.3

Yeah, so the next song we're going to listen to is from La Isla Electronica.

0:48.3

The song name is, no digas nunca.

0:51.3

All right, let's listen to it. We'll chat a bit after the song.

0:57.1

Okay, let's listen to it.

1:03.5

Uh-huh.

1:06.1

Salada.

1:09.0

And here,

1:12.6

and here. And here. here and I just

1:14.6

I

1:16.6

just

1:17.6

I

1:18.6

who

1:20.6

to me

1:21.6

No No

1:30.3

No

1:32.3

to

1:33.3

Saddam

1:34.3

and

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