{"id":684076,"date":"2025-08-09T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/beat-construction-mechatok\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:40:24","slug":"beat-construction-mechatok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/beat-construction-mechatok\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Construction: Mechatok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d5cc15b34b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d5cc15b34b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/beat-construction-mechatok\/#The_Berlin-based_artist_and_producer_talks_dodging_revival_trends_perfectionism_and_why_Wide_Awake_isnt_a_%E2%80%9Cproducer_album%E2%80%9D\" >The Berlin-based artist and producer talks dodging revival trends, perfectionism, and why Wide Awake isn\u2019t a \u201cproducer album.\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Berlin-based_artist_and_producer_talks_dodging_revival_trends_perfectionism_and_why_Wide_Awake_isnt_a_%E2%80%9Cproducer_album%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>The Berlin-based artist and producer talks dodging revival trends, perfectionism, and why <i>Wide Awake<\/i> isn\u2019t a \u201cproducer album.\u201d <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273004\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_hruiet\/mechatok-photo-by-anton-tammi.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Beat Construction: Mechatok\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Mechatok. Photo by Anton Tammi.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273003\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>The FADER\u2019s longstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> Beat Construction interviews today&#8217;s most crucial producers and their craft.<\/i>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273063\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Mechatok isn\u2019t inspired by video<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> music, but he does find its context <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ealing. The German artist and producer born Timur Tokdemir is fond of their soundtracks\u2019 \u201clittle worlds,\u201d he tells me over a video call, \u201cbecause I always imagine my [own] music as mainstream music in a parallel universe.\u201d Based in Berlin, Mechatok credits both his classical guitar training and his teenage years spent devouring everything from Metallica to Justice\u2019s <i>Cross<\/i> album as key to his development. But while he\u2019s a true child of the digital era, his music is anything but archetypal.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            This songwriting skill has been sharpened by Mechatok\u2019s ongoing work as a rap producer. He is perhaps best known as a frequent collaborator with Bladee \u2014 over the past half-decade, he\u2019s helped mold the sound of the Swedish rapper into the narcotized, luxuriously melodic music that currently draws legions of dedicated fans and countless imitators. Their work together has taken many forms, from the subtly glitzy 2020 album <i>Good Luck<\/i> (which attracted features and remixes from Oklou, Evian Christ, and Charli xcx)  to the much campier future ballroom of \u201cAmygdala\u201d with Ecco2k. \u201cI always think of a song as an abstract thing,\u201d Mechatok tells me. \u201cThe production is its manifestation.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273060\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mechatok - Expression On Your Face (feat. Ecco2k &amp; Bladee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gQehpVrU4-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('273060');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273067\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            For <i>Wide Awake<\/i>, Mechatok manifests a rich and detailed vision of another planet\u2019s rave-pop, its songs ostensibly utopian if they weren\u2019t so mottled with tears and sweat. The uninhibited moments are plentiful and their reimaginations of their influences are inspired: \u201cExpression on Your Face\u201d with Bladee and Ecco2k ruffles up rapturous bloghouse-era chiptune into an anti-nostalgic paean to youth with no sentiment, just style. Meanwhile, the Isabella Lovestory collaboration \u201cShe\u2019s A Director\u201d is just catchy enough to kick off a Perfecto Records renaissance on its own.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            You\u2019ll find the album\u2019s heart in its quieter moments. The stuttering IDM synths on \u201cDon\u2019t Say No\u201d interlacing with f5ve\u2019s skipping verse, the gaps in between the  wobbly ambient-dubstep melodies of \u201cEverything,\u201d and \u201cWhen You Left\u201d\u2019s heartbroken two-step. \u201cAn album to me is more like a movie with different scenes and like different locations,\u201d Mechatok says. \u201cAnd in that sense, I&#8217;ve never made my little movie.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            After two EPs (<i>Gulf Area<\/i> and <i>See Thru<\/i>) and, believe it or not, a video game score (2020\u2019s <i>Defective Holiday)<\/i>, Mechatok is hungry for something grander. A few days ahead of <i>Wide Awake<\/i>\u2019s release, The FADER spoke with Mechatok about musical narratives, ambition colliding with collaboration, and the upside of perfectionism. \n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273065\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<hr><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273054\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: The album opens with \u201cYou Don&#8217;t Exist\u201d and ends with \u201cSunkissed,\u201d two songs that feel like they were designed as the beginning and end of a story.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>Mechatok:<\/b> The sequencing on this album [moves] the location. So for example, \u201cExpression on your Face\u201d is an upbeat electro song. Afterwards, it goes into this moody, almost dubstep piece [\u201cEverything\u201d]. In the lyrics of \u201cExpression,\u201d Ecco2k talks about stealing clothing from the cloakroom of a club and exiting through the back door. So [on \u201cEverything\u201d] I wanted to paint that picture of him walking through like a city in this serene state.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            These things were how I made the decisions on the transitions between tracks. But also, honestly, there&#8217;s also a lot of intuition. I&#8217;m a DJ as well, and so often to me, it&#8217;s about either a super drastic contrast or we flow from one end to the other. I&#8217;m not a big fan of the middle ground.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273064\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0zXkNrPiubPQ6xuBBN0ssu?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/wide-awake\/1815263415\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273059\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mechatok - She&#039;s A Director (feat. Isabella Lovestory)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZ0eZmwYEc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('273059');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273055\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The Isabella Lovestory collaboration is one of my favorites because it\u2019s such a stark contrast with this full-tilt, Paul Oakenfold-y vibe. Can you talk to me a little bit about how that song came together?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I was riffing on my guitar [and] that ended up being more of a bridge in the song. But then when I&#8217;m trying to make a track that is based on that [kind of] thing, I get bored. So then I took that guitar and removed all the distortion and started chopping it up. Then I put all this reverb on it, resampled that, then rearranged those into the main progression of the song.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I really wanted an iconic indie drum. Bladee sent me \u201cSoccer\u201d by Kent, and it had this really cool drum intro. It was initially was supposed to be a placeholder but then I was like, \u201cI don&#8217;t want to take it out.\u201d So we hit Kent up and they were down to clear the sample. Then I sent that to Isabella and she wrote the whole song on top of it. \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273056\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: You seem to have an old school approach to collaboration as well, with a smaller circle.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Definitely. I really didn&#8217;t want to make a producer album where it&#8217;s three features on every song. The way I think about this stuff is often like Daft Punk. It has vocals, and there&#8217;s technically features on it, like Todd Edwards on \u201cOne More Time.\u201d But it&#8217;s a Daft Punk album, not Daft Punk featuring all these people. Obviously, like, all these people are my close friends. And there&#8217;s even a slight tragedy with Todd Edwards and Daft Punk. He&#8217;s the iconic voice in so many of the songs, but he never got the recognition he deserved. So I&#8217;m not as much of a brutal branding dictator that would hide all the features. These are my friends and it&#8217;s cool to do it together. But conceptually, that was what I was trying to go for.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273066\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cI always think of a song as an abstract thing. The production is its manifestation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273057\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>\u201cWhen You Left\u201d has Bladee vocals but no credit. And it\u2019s interesting because your brain approaches it differently than the one he\u2019s credited on.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Exactly. You think of the voice as one of the instruments.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <b>A project of yours that I think is really special is the one that you did with Toxe, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/yegorkaberlin\/sets\/emiranda-my-face-ygk005\">the <i>Emiranda<\/i> EP.<\/a> It\u2019s like avant-garde chillout.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            We both lived in Berlin at that time, DJing and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing a lot on our own for shows. We [thought], \u201cif we do like a band, we could just travel together and have a laugh at the airport.\u201d So we just started making demos.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            We&#8217;re both really control freaky people. So if something even slightly doesn&#8217;t fit my project, I don&#8217;t want it on it. So we made a new name for it \u2014 her middle name is Miranda, and my first name is Amir.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            It was also because both of our names were starting to be boxed in. \u201cHe makes this sound, she makes this sound. You&#8217;re part of this scene.\u201d With this one, we could just kind of do whatever we wanted.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273058\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>Would you say that project marked the the beginning of you pushing against being boxed in?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Yeah. That project actually influenced my album a lot. There&#8217;s a lot of ideas I got from working with her that found a way into this album, you know? Even like the song, \u201cEverything,\u201d was a demo that we&#8217;ve made for that project. The original version is very, very different. I think the only thing that was left is that little vocal kind of slogan. And that&#8217;s Toxe. So yeah, That project definitely had a big impact on everything after.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b><i>Wide Awake<\/i> handles homage very well. There are references, but they\u2019re in service of an overarching soundscape. It\u2019s more of a personal love letter to electronica than an indie sleaze record that might have similar inspiration.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            No shade to that. I love a lot of the stuff that comes out right now. The super literal, revivalist ways of making stuff. But if I want to make \u201cOne More Time,\u201d I\u2019m not gonna go and listen to \u201cOne More Time.\u201d Because I know if I do that, then I&#8217;m too informed. So I&#8217;m gonna just try and remember it and then make something based off of the memory.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The reference is distorted and blurred through my memory of it. And what happens usually is you don&#8217;t remember the exact sonic quality of what each of the components of the song were or whatever. But you remember the feeling of it.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Jordan Darville<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Photo by Anton Tammi. \u00a0 The FADER\u2019s longstanding series Beat Construction interviews today&#8217;s most crucial producers and their craft. Mechatok isn\u2019t inspired by videogame music, but he does find its context appealing. 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