Mefjus

Martin Schober (born August 30, 1988), known professionally as Mefjus, is an Austrian producer and DJ from Linz working primarily in drum and bass. He released his debut album Emulation in 2014 on Critical Music and followed with the album Manifest in 2018 on Vision Recordings. He co‑founded the MODUS label with Camo & Krooked, and has recorded and performed with peers including Noisia and Phace. In 2018 he won the Drum & Bass Arena Award for Best Producer, and his single "Hear Me" reached number 36 on the UK Singles Chart in 2021.

Schober began releasing on prominent DnB labels before Emulation made his production approach widely visible in 2014. The records and label work that followed — most notably Manifest on Vision Recordings — trace a path from single releases and EPs into full‑length statements and label management through MODUS alongside Camo & Krooked. Publicly available milestones for his career are anchored by those two albums, the MODUS partnership, and collaborations with Noisia and Phace.

Mefjus’s production style is precise and technical. His tracks emphasise tightly edited breakbeats, intricate drum programming and clear separation between sub and midrange bass. You’ll hear rapid, surgically cut break edits and rhythm variations rather than long, unprocessed amen loops; percussion is often layered and quantised to create detailed groove shifts. Bass sound design tends toward modulated, high‑detail patches with pronounced midrange grit and a controlled sub‑fundamental, paired with distortion and filtering to carve space in the mix. Atmospheres are delivered through short, cinematic pads and stabs that sit above the drums and bass rather than wash over them. Those elements give his work a neuro‑influenced, technical edge that sounds engineered for clarity on a club system.

As a DJ and live performer Mefjus presents those production characteristics in set selection and transitions: he favours tracks with tight low‑end relationships and crisp transient information so that kick, snare and sub remain defined through mixes. His records and DJ sets make use of detailed automation, abrupt drops and tempo articulation that keeps momentum while revealing drum edits and bass design as focal points. In short, his contribution is both in original studio tracks and in translating those tracks into DJ contexts where the engineering choices remain audible.

Concrete career highlights: Emulation (2014, Critical Music) and Manifest (2018, Vision Recordings) are studio milestones; MODUS (co‑founded with Camo & Krooked) is his label platform; collaborations with Noisia and Phace appear on his résumé; the Drum & Bass Arena Best Producer award in 2018 is an industry recognition; and the single "Hear Me" reached #36 on the UK Singles Chart in 2021. Those items mark his discography, label activity and peer connections without relying on hearsay.

Mefjus’s known connections to Noisia, Phace and Camo & Krooked are both collaborative and structural: they appear in co‑releases, label work and shared production networks. Those concrete links sit alongside his two full‑length albums and the MODUS imprint as the primary documented points anyone researching his career will find.