These terms govern everything MISTA STYLES offers. Part 1 covers this website, the mailing list, the private audio feed and the Styleheads community. Part 2 covers services you book — features, songwriting, production, live performance, guest appearances, speaking and artist development.
Everything is provided by Evoke Musik LLC, a Maryland limited liability company, trading as MISTA STYLES. In these terms, "we" and "us" means Evoke Musik LLC; "you" means you. Service-specific details — turnaround, revision counts, deliverables, and what you provide — are stated on each service at checkout and form part of these terms. How we handle your personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy.
This part applies to anyone who visits this site, joins the mailing list, subscribes to the private audio feed, or joins the Styleheads community. It applies whether or not you ever pay us anything.
By using this site or joining any of the above, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. You must be 16 or over to join the mailing list, the audio feed or the community.
You may read, stream and share this site freely. You may not scrape it, copy it wholesale, attempt to break or bypass its security, use it to distribute malware or spam, or misrepresent yourself as us or as connected to us.
Joining is double opt-in — you receive a confirmation email and are only added once you click the link in it. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately. We do not sell, rent or trade the list.
You may still receive transactional messages necessary to deliver something you asked for or bought, such as your audio feed link, a booking confirmation or an invoice.
Where we offer a private audio feed, you receive a personal feed link that works in your own podcast app.
The audio on the feed is unreleased or exclusive material provided for your personal listening only. You may not download and redistribute it, upload it to any platform, sample it, remix it, or use it in any other work. Episodes may be added, changed or removed at any time, and we do not guarantee any particular publishing schedule.
Where we run a members' community, you are responsible for your account and for keeping your login details to yourself. One account per person. You may not share access.
In the community you must not post anything unlawful, harassing, hateful, threatening, sexually explicit, or infringing someone else's rights; impersonate anyone; advertise or spam; or post other members' personal information. We may remove any content and end any account that breaks these rules, at our discretion and without refund where the account was paid for.
You keep ownership of what you post. By posting it, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display and reproduce it for the purpose of running and promoting the community. You confirm that you have the right to post it and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. This licence ends when you delete the content, except where it has already been included in something we have published.
Content posted by members is theirs, not ours. We do not endorse it and we are not responsible for it.
All recordings, videos, artwork, photography, written material and design on this site and in the feed and community are owned by Evoke Musik LLC or used under licence, and are protected by copyright. MISTA STYLES is our trade mark.
Nothing here grants you any licence to use them. Specifically, you may not sample, remix, synchronise to video, use commercially, or use any of our recordings or content to train a machine learning or generative AI model, without our prior written agreement.
Physical and digital goods sold at shop.mistastyles.com are governed by that store's own terms, not by these.
This site links to and embeds third-party services — streaming platforms, social networks, players, schedulers and payment providers. Your use of those is governed by their terms, not ours, and we are not responsible for them or for anything they do with your information.
We provide this site, the feed and the community as they are. We do not promise they will always be available, uninterrupted, or free of error, and we may change, suspend or discontinue any part of them at any time.
You may leave at any time by unsubscribing or asking us to close your account. We may end your access where you break these terms. Anything that by its nature should survive — ownership, licences you granted, liability and governing law — survives your leaving.
This part applies when you book a service from us. It sits alongside Part 1; where the two conflict on a booked service, this part governs.
Received means the date you submit payment. Cleared means the date funds settle into our account. Engagement date means the date of a performance, appearance, or speaking event. Studio services means features, songwriting and production. Date-based services means live performance, guest appearances and speaking.
Prices shown are starting prices. A fixed quote is issued in writing within 48 hours where a project falls outside standard scope. All prices are in US dollars. A quote is valid for 14 days from issue.
A deposit is required to reserve a production slot or hold a date. Your slot or date is not held until the deposit has cleared. Until then, the date remains available to other enquiries.
Studio services. The deposit is refundable if you cancel within 7 days of the deposit being received, and non-refundable after that period.
Date-based services. Where the booking is made more than 30 days before the engagement date, the deposit is refundable if you cancel within 14 days of the deposit being received, and non-refundable after that period. Cancellation within 30 days of the engagement date forfeits the deposit in full, regardless of when the booking was made.
If we cancel for any reason other than a force majeure event, your deposit is refunded in full.
The balance is invoiced on delivery for studio services, or on the engagement date for date-based services, and is payable within 7 days of invoice.
Where a fixed quote has been issued above the starting price, the balance reflects that quote less the deposit already paid.
Balances unpaid after 7 days accrue interest at 1.5% per month on the outstanding amount. Work remains unreleased until the balance and any accrued interest have cleared.
Turnaround windows begin when we have received everything needed to start — the instrumental, the brief, and any reference material. Delays in providing those move the delivery date accordingly, and do not entitle you to a refund.
Revision counts are stated per service. A revision means an adjustment within the agreed direction. A change of direction after work has begun is a new engagement and is quoted separately.
Revision requests must be submitted within 14 days of delivery, consolidated into a single set. Work not disputed in writing within 14 days of delivery is deemed accepted, and the revision allowance lapses.
If we do not receive a required response, asset or payment from you for 30 consecutive days, the project is treated as abandoned. The deposit is forfeited and the production slot is released. Restarting an abandoned project requires a new booking at current rates.
You may reschedule once at no cost, provided you give at least 7 days' written notice before the agreed start date, and the new slot is subject to availability.
Rescheduling with less than 7 days' notice, or any second reschedule, carries a rescheduling fee of 15% of the total service price, payable before the new slot is confirmed. A production slot held open is a slot we have declined other work to protect.
A confirmed date may be moved once, subject to availability, provided you give at least 60 days' written notice and the replacement date falls within 6 months of the original. Any request with less than 60 days' notice, a second request, or a replacement date beyond 6 months is treated as a cancellation under the deposit terms above.
Where travel, accommodation or logistics have already been booked, you remain responsible for any non-refundable costs already incurred, whether the engagement is rescheduled or cancelled.
A session may be rescheduled once at no cost with at least 48 hours' written notice. Inside 48 hours, or in the event of a no-show, the session is forfeit and the fee is not refunded. A second reschedule request requires a new booking.
For all live performance, guest appearance and speaking engagements, you are responsible for travel, accommodation, ground transport, security and hospitality for the artist and travelling party, from origin in the United States, per the tech rider supplied on confirmation.
Travel and accommodation must be booked and confirmed no later than 21 days before the engagement date. Where they are not, we may treat the engagement as cancelled by you.
Securing, licensing, insuring and maintaining the venue is your responsibility. Failure of the venue for any reason within your control — including loss of booking, licensing, permits, insurance, or non-payment to the venue — is a cancellation by you, not a force majeure event.
Feature credit reads "MISTA STYLES". Production credit reads "Produced by MISTA STYLES". Credits are to appear on all commercial releases, streaming metadata and physical packaging.
Master and publishing splits are agreed in writing before recording begins. No rights transfer until the balance has cleared. Delivered work is cleared for commercial release on the agreed terms and for no other use. Any further use — sync, advertising, remix, sampling, or AI training — requires separate written agreement.
You warrant that any instrumental, sample, or material you supply is cleared for use and that you hold the rights to it. You indemnify us against any claim arising from material you supplied.
We retain the right to use delivered work, and footage or stills from any engagement, in our own portfolio, showreel, and promotional material.
We may decline or withdraw from any engagement where the content, event, or associated party is unlawful, promotes hatred or violence, or would in our reasonable judgement cause material reputational harm. Where we withdraw on these grounds and the issue was not disclosed at booking, the deposit is retained. Where it was disclosed at booking and we proceeded, the deposit is refunded in full.
Neither party is liable for failure to perform due to events genuinely beyond its reasonable control, including: acts of nature, extreme weather, flood, fire, earthquake or natural disaster; epidemic or pandemic; war, civil unrest or terrorism; strike or transport failure; acts of government, including travel restrictions, border closure, visa refusal or delay; and closure of the venue by order of a public authority.
Illness means illness or incapacity of the artist, certified where reasonably requested. Illness or unavailability on your side, or of your personnel, guests or audience, is not a force majeure event.
Where a force majeure event prevents us from performing, we will offer an alternative date within 6 months or refund the deposit, at our election. Where a force majeure event prevents you from proceeding, the deposit is credited against a rescheduled date within 6 months; if no date can be agreed, the deposit is retained against work already reserved and costs incurred.
Raising a chargeback or payment dispute in place of contacting us directly is a breach of these terms. Where a chargeback is raised on a deposit that is non-refundable under these terms, we will contest it, and you remain liable for the amount together with any fees and costs incurred.
Unreleased material shared in either direction stays confidential until release. We will not publicise your project before you do. This obligation survives completion or cancellation.
Our total liability arising from any engagement is limited to the amount you have paid us for that engagement. Where you have paid us nothing — free newsletter, audio feed or community access — our total liability to you is limited to US $100. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost revenue, lost bookings, or lost opportunity. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, USA. Any dispute is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Maryland. The parties will attempt good-faith resolution in writing before commencing proceedings.
These terms, together with the service description accepted at checkout and any written quote, form the entire agreement. Amendments must be in writing and agreed by both parties. No engagement grants exclusivity unless expressly agreed in writing. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remainder continues in effect. We may update these terms; the version in force is the one accepted at the time of booking.
