Mystific

Mystific (Aaron Mello) is a Brazilian producer and DJ from Santo André (near São Paulo). Within drum and bass/jungle his work sits primarily in Drum And Bass, Jungle and Liquid Funk while also drawing on related styles listed in his catalogue. He has released music since at least 2012 and records appear on DNBB Records and Fokuz Recordings; he was reported as the first Brazilian artist to sign with UKF.

He started making music as a teenager. Before and alongside his dance‑music output he worked in marketing and advertising creating jingles. Mystific is a leading figure behind the DNBB Group — the umbrella for DNBB Records, Liquid Flow and Soul Light Records — and he performs DJ sets internationally.

Musically, Mystific blends Brazilian melodic vocabulary with drum‑and‑bass rhythm structure. He cites Bossa Nova and MPB as clear touchpoints; those influences show up as short, harmonically rich chord voicings and nylon‑string guitar timbres layered over rolling amen‑style breaks and programmed breakbeat edits. His tracks often pair liquid, melodic top‑lines and pads with tight mid/high break transients and a focused sub low end typical of modern DnB.

On production technique he favours layered percussion and edited breaks rather than simple looped patterns: kick/snare hits are cut and reassembled for punch, hi‑hat and shaker layers add swing, and reverbs/delays from dub and dub‑techno are used to push pads and vocal chops back in the mix. Bass design leans toward a clear sub driver with midrange growl when needed, and his arrangements make space for melodic elements drawn from MPB or nu‑jazz, rather than constant low‑end clutter. The result reads as liquid and melodic at times, while retaining sharper breakbeat focus on other tracks — a balance that lets him move between rollers and more cerebral liquid cuts.

Career highlights that can be verified include releases on DNBB Records and Fokuz Recordings and the milestone reporting that he was the first Brazilian artist signed to UKF. He has been releasing since at least 2012 and runs the DNBB Group labels (DNBB Records, Liquid Flow, Soul Light Records), a role that places him on the organizational as well as creative side of the scene. As a DJ he represents his music internationally, taking studio material into live sets.

Publicly available information names Bossa Nova and MPB as his distinct non‑electronic influences; further specific artist influences or named collaborations beyond his label associations are not widely documented in open sources. Mystific remains active as both a producer and label operator while continuing to release and play sets internationally.