0171 BPM3:12
[01]Fueled by the fix
0264 BPM2:48
PHASED OUT
no sleep / no memory0358 BPM4:05
DEAD AIR
tape hiss / comedown0492 BPM3:37
RED LINE
demo / past the limitunreleased · unmastered · recorded under the influence
[02]The ghost in the machine
Neil Mekota. Noise from the basement. Born in the static, raised by the red lights.
Twenty thousand streams and counting, but the numbers don’t hear the ghost in the machine. He works after the city goes quiet, cuts the lights, and lets the tape run until something honest leaks out. The good ones come at the bottom of the night, when the comedown and the kick drum line up and he stops being careful. No press kit. No face on the cover. Just the room, the habit, and whatever the two of them remember in the morning.
None of it is clean and he won’t pretend it is. The fix and the record keep the same hours. Some nights the fix wins, some nights the tape does. The ones that survive both end up here.
- Streams
- 20K+
- Released
- 0
- Hours
- 04:00
[03]Session spec sheet
Gear
what makes the noise- Console
- Tascam 388 / 1/4 tape
- Drum machine
- SP-1200 (dying)
- Synth
- Juno-106, broken key
- Mic
- SM7B, no pop filter
- Monitors
- Yamaha NS-10, blown
- Reverb
- the room itself
Substances of choice
what keeps it running- Nicotine
- constant / unfiltered
- Caffeine
- black, by the pot
- The white one
- for the long cuts
- The blue ones
- for the comedown
- Cough syrup
- when the rest runs out
- Sleep
- rarely / never tracked
Disclaimer: this music is fueled by the fix. None of it is advice and none of it is a recommendation - it’s a log of how the records actually got made. If you need a way out, call or text 988.
[04]Booking / collabs
Find me after
midnight.
Beats, features, late-night sessions. Send the idea, not the small talk. If it’s real, the reply comes back at 4AM.
neil@mekota.studiono managers · no calls · email or nothing