SLOWtheIMPACT, also known to their fans as "STI", took stages by storm in the summer of 2005. STI is comprised of veterans in the Portland music scene, all with diverse musical backgrounds.

STI has remained non-genre specific in all of their music, with touches of hard rock, pop, punk and even some bits of 80's "whatever-wave" blending together for something that truly defines the Portland "alternative" sound.

The single off their first album, a track titled "My Good Friend Temptation" was featured in the local independent comedy film titled "Cracking The Code" by writer and director Steve Coker.

STI began work on their second full length album in 2009, and released "A New Chapter" on March 01, 2010.

Their 3rd full-length album "...and Those We've Left Behind" was released on November 2nd, 2012.

The truth. An authentic manifestation of influences and ideas. Non-pretentious and self aware, therefor very pretentious.

A composer, guitarist, rapper, bilingual translator/interpreter, and an avid music fan, NECKY has lived around the world, and collaborated internationally as well.
He has performed at the 2013 AX Dance with Nana Hatori of SLEEPLESS SLEEP, produced music on SoundCloud, worked with Carlos K on the track “Promise” by Mihimaru GT and on Summer Time!!! for R&B singer, AZU as well as Serena’s track “Anata Ga Ireba OK!”, which was the ending theme for the anime Space Brothers.
NECKY has worked as a lyricist on Sonic Forces.
In 2018, he and another artist named MITSUGI formed the production unit nMy, which featured a new collaborator on each song.
With OrelusOne, a French composer, they produced a track for in-game music in Ubisoft’s upcoming title, Beyond Good and Evil 2. Their finished product, eclectic, multicultural songs made using four different languages, attracted a lot of attention in the HitRecord community as well as the BGE2 production team, and a small clip of a song was used for Ubisoft x HitRecord cross promotion. The song, “Hybrid for Life”, is scheduled to be included in the game.
In early 2020, NECKY met Seann Bowe a producer from the US who was visiting Tokyo at the time. They decided to do a collaboration together, and the track “Heavenly” was born.
At the moment, NECKY is using his downtime to create and to meet other inspiring people.

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