Cribwalk by Naptrix

Cribwalk, you know, it feels less like an album and more like a breath you hold as you walk through somewhere deeply familiar, but just… empty. Like the old nursery wing in your mind, after everyone’s grown up and moved on. We built this whole record on that feeling. Every single sound here, from the 123 bpm heartbeat thumping under everything to the way the crib-rail snares tick, like quiet clocks marking time, it’s all part of that walk.

It starts in this hushed fog, with those granulated children’s voices, pitched to 432 Hz – the same way we always kick off our live sets, remember? It’s meant to sting a little, that initial quiet ache of something lost. But as you move deeper into it, you find these towering synth pads and our 'shared breathing' white-noise swells. It’s the sound of remembering, of that ache growing into something vast. There’s a track in the middle, "We Outgrow," with that toy-piano hook, and the vocoder humming "We outgrow, we return." That bit, for us, it’s the heart of it all. It just sticks, meant to pull us all into that shared memory, that collective hum.

Towards the end, the contact-mic mobiles, the glassy arpeggios, they just collide. It’s meant to feel like time bending, collapsing, until all that quiet grief just melts into pure, thumping motion on the dance floor. And then, it winds down, just to that lone 432 Hz pad with the counting, reversed and harmonized. It feels like coming full circle, memory weaving itself right into your next breath.

We’ve always tried to make something tactile, a real refuge in the club, a kind of nursery trance. With Cribwalk, we dug deeper into that. We spent ages getting those crib-rail taps just right – layering them through spring reverb tanks we literally submerged in baby oil. Sounds a bit mad, I know. But it’s these little things, this dedication to crafting every texture, every flicker of sound, that we hope makes this more than just another record. It's an exploration of memory's own circuitry, a space to feel, to move, to remember, and perhaps, to let go. We put everything into making this feel like a unique kind of journey, something that sits with you, maybe even shifts how you think about melodic techno and ambient spaces. It’s meant to be listened to, to really live in, between cradle and dawn.

Our music is a quiet hum, a cradle for your mind, yet it keeps your feet dancing softly. Listen, just feel.