I think this is the month we really get into it. Perhaps I've always felt that this is really the season to be a butterfly...I'm welcoming another kind of pace. That has yet to be determined or discovered. Whatever you prefer, I wish you creativity, joy and ascension in your pursuits as we enter a new season!

August Awe:

• Hosted a live episode of Sound Travels with the iconic, LAL, at Trust The Process' residency @ CONTXT. Broadcast date TBA. Stay tuned here.

  
  Their forthcoming album, A Practice of Love, is out September 18.

• Sonic Sancocho returned to Drom Taberna for a jam with Soukustek and David Ariza! We raised funds for earthquake relief in Colombia.

• Great gigs including: a sweet night sharing tunes with my homie, the awesome DJ Mark Uncle, for my colleagues and friends, Empanadas Ilegales (check out their new album!), Macedo Winery patio hangs, a fun debut at Houndstooth with my pal & A1 selector, DJ Gramera, and Another Setting Radio's live series at culinary gem, Antylia.

• Friends from out of town visited this summer: from Miami to Detroit, it is always a joy to reconnect with these special folks!

Creative Communications
Is it Prose?

Haiku 4 Kiku - by Ola

Time, cultures, eras

Stepping into tomorrow

Samples of the greats

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Past, present, future

Good things come to those who wait

While revisiting these grooves
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Those we’re spinning now 

Be - listen with intention

Trip - we’ll show you how.

Live / Listening / In Situ

KIKU Listening Sessions: Trip Hop @ 915 Dupont - Info & Tickets
Tuesdays in September - two seatings: 6 pm & 8 pm | Presented by ON.RCRD

Talking about music is perhaps one of my favourite things to do in this life. To be invited to do this and share special albums with a room of keen ears and open minds in a communal setting is an honour and privilege.

I am thrilled to be co-curating/hosting the September edition of ON.RCRD's KIKU Listening Sessions at Rooms 915 Dupont. We're discussing the incomparable, layered, timeless arena that is Trip-Hop!

I'm helming three nights - September 8, 15 & 29 - would love to see you!

About the series:
KIKU means "to listen" in Japanese. Every Tuesday we slow down, gather in a room, and hear a record the way it was meant to be heard, with attention, context, and other people.

This September we're tracing trip hop across five records that built the genre in real time. Massive Attack's Protection. Portishead's Dummy. DJ Shadow's Endtroducing. Morcheeba's Big Calm. And Esthero's Breath From Another - a big one for Toronto, and an integral one for me.

September 1: Massive Attack, Protection (1994) - presented by Steve
September 8: Morcheeba, Big Calm (1998) - presented by Ola
September 15: DJ Shadow, Endtroducing (1996) - presented by Ola
September 22: Portishead, Dummy (1994) - presented by Gil
September 29: Esthero, Breath From Another (1998) - presented by Ola

Sound Travels LIVE with LAL | photo by Sambaranthony 

SOUND TRAVELS

Jolt Radio (Miami, FL) & Another Setting Radio (Toronto, ON)
produced by Sonic Fold (Ola Mazzuca) | Archive

• ✈️ Sound Travels: I spoke with LAL (above) for a live episode of Sound Travels, held at CONTXT by Trane for TTPP's monthly residency. BROADCAST DATE @ ASR & Jolt TBA!

• 🎙 ICYMI: ASR ran a mix featuring tracks embodying the sonic direction that inspired my set at Dust Party Toronto - listen.

THE FOLD on Frisson Radio
Check out the new website designed by Nabeel!

Broadcast via CIUT 89.5 FM | Syndicated: CFRC, CKXU, QCCR
Produced with Frisson Founders: Miks Lamont & Nabeel Pervaiz

• 📻 TUNE IN: on September 19, we host the ever-talented SABRE and producer Mark Shannon, to discuss her new album to be released September 18! Listen to "Deep End" - a beautiful collab with LeWolf.

• 🎙 ICYMI: I was honoured to interview Noonjeem, Che and Sneh: three amazing members of ItsOK*'s Songwriter's Symposium, led by friend of the show, Kadhja Bonet - listen.

Places & Spaces
September 2026

~ olasconola DJ gigs ~

Moments In Soul @ Farside | photo by Sambaranthony

September 8/15/29 - KIKU @ Rooms 915 Dupont - 6 pm and 8 pm - Info

Co-curating/presenting three nights celebrating seminal Trip Hop records. I'll also be spinning some music pre-post-in-between seatings.

September 12 - New Theory Enterprise x Filmi @ Rhythm - 12 pm - 5 pm

My pals at New Theory Enterprise are teaming up with Filmi, an organization strengthening the emerging South Asian identity within the global film industry. - join us for an afternoon of music, coffee, and community - Free! RSVP.

September 17 - TIFF Week @ D|Bar | 7 pm - 11 pm - no cover

Making groove impressions at Four Seasons Hotel Toronto - mixed crate magic.

September 24 - Afro Brasilica @ CONTXT by Trane - 7 pm - 11 pm

Trust The Process Press' monthly residency at 254 Lansdowne Ave - PWYC!

Programming TBA!

September 25 - A special fundraiser - TBA!