Name: MagicSchoolBus Demo by Julian DeConcini Heninger in Modular Tracks
Duration: 5 min 25 s
Description: Live modular synth jam recorded on VCV rack. Levels all over the place and the clock gets out of sync and reset a few times, but hey, that’s showbiz baby.

Modular Tracks

Live modular synth jam recorded on VCV rack. Levels all over the place and the clock gets out of sync and reset a few times, but hey, that’s showbiz baby.

MagicSchoolBus Demo

We have invited @vincent-campfens from The Hague, the Netherlands to take us on our next musical journey. Vinsen has become a dear friend over the last few months and we have enjoyed gaining an insight into his passion for discovering deep, emotive and exploratory sounds that align with the musical direction of Above Below. 

Vinsen’s mixes stem from the heart and his personal touch is easily recognisable. This piece is no different. A warm, evolving and inviting story with admirable attention to detail. Sit back and see where the sounds take you. 

“I try to make it a place that always leaves you inspired with a feeling of positivity.”

Vinsen | Above Below

A spacey wandering track based on an awesome patch from Omri Cohen. Bypass filters, probability delay, and some serious frequency/harmonic modulation towards the end will hopefully make you feel like floating through the cosmos.

Spookman Spiff

"I no longer thought of waves being carved in celestial workshops. I was getting more hardheaded. Now I knew they originated in distant storms, which moved, as it were, upon the face of the deep."
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Discovered what I'm calling the secret groove where you duck the attack of a running VCO with an inverted wavetable, while simultaneously bumping the sustain and release of the envelope with another wave in the opposite direction. You're left with a chaotic groove that is as tough to dial in as I imagine carving celestial swells in the workshop of the deep.
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Recorded in a fully modular setup in VCV Rack, with some final chopping in GarageBand.
Made the cover myself on this one because it felt special 🌊

Onde

A fun chaotic idea I've been sitting on for awhile. First half of the track recorded on a live VCV rack patch using my trackpad as a fun modulator of the cutoff for the main lead. Borrowed a lovely reading of Marjorie Allen Seiffert's poem, "They Who Dance," seeing as it captures the euphoric energy of dancing on "infinite golden floors" beneath your feet.
The Antonio Canova piece of the Phaeacian princes is 100% me and the homies on the dancefloor. As the onlookers gape in shock and awe, the piece has always resonated with me deeply.

TheyWhoDanceDemo

A snippet from a techno patch I’m working on, heavily featuring Erica Synths’ Black Wavetable VCO. In this demo I surf through the VC bank over the top of a larger sub techno patch, exploring the full deep goodness of the double sub oscillator outputs. One of my favorite and most versatile VCO’s I’ve ever used.
Hope to build this into an actual track someday with a bit more musicality and pacing.
All recorded live on VCV Rack 2. Shout out Omri Cohen for the kick delay sound design.

Tknopatch.1.demo

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Sade - I Couldn't Love You More (Boyd Jarvis Remix / Mr. K Edit)

Dub Athlete at the second edition of Mantle, recorded live at Sneaky Pete's Edinburgh.

Tracklist:
Headhunter - Dred Dred (forthcoming)
Anecho - Step Out
Congi - Untouched
Nørbak - Tarefa
DJ MM - Tompocalypse
Slimy Ape - Coniston (Dub)
Faulter - Zaf (Dub Mix)
Mython - Naiv
Plebeian - Paradiso
Jafu - Volker
Etapp Kyle - Unseen
11th Hour - Crooked
Old Man Crane - Quork
Roklem & Sebalo - Complex (Dub)
Saraphim - Echoes
In Solidarity  🇵🇸✊🏼
Killawatt - Mystic Vocation
Yanamaste - Dragonfly
Softi - Attention
Mrshl - Acid Redux (Dub)
Commodo - Space Cash
Kercha - Bad Head

ᴍᴀɴᴛʟᴇ 𖦹 ᴇᴀʀᴛʜᴇᴅ: ᴅᴜʙ ᴀᴛʜʟᴇᴛᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴀᴛ ꜱɴᴇᴀᴋʏ ᴘᴇᴛᴇ'ꜱ 𖦹 13.06.25 ♱✮♱ ༻¨*:·

GIRLS LIVE CODING REMIX - JAKE SONDY

Live set on shift radio October 9th, 2025
https://shiftradio.live/
https://www.youtube.com/shiftradio

Shift Radio - Frankie Teardrop [1 hour mix 09/10/25]

✨🤲✨ Here’s a set recording at one of the last of a festival-filled summer: @sustain-release-nyc

No set theme/mood, just a journey thru a bunch of tunes I really do love and hoped people would enjoy; but to quote my girl @livwutang, it was rooted in a love for Black music (this mix cover was taken by her during the set <3). Stitching together threads of dubstep, jazz, house, breaks, garage, hip hop, dub, etc.

At some points this kinda feels more like a beat tape with selector style mixing + no long blends. A lil fusion of tired/nervous/letting the tunes shine

Thank you @itsallhalal + the rest of the team for the opportunity to close The Gym on Fri night and for looking after me. And ofc out to the amazingly welcoming dancers inside ❤️

MK closing set @ Sustain-Release Festival [NY, Sept '25]

Patiently moving through two hours of spacey bass excursions, Dub Athlete provides us with the next Modern Hypnosis Podcast.

@dub_athlete

The expertly crafted mix glides gracefully through meditative broken beats, dub techno, and dubstep styles, paying homage to the deeper sounds of sound system and dance music cultures.

Hailing from Brighton, UK, Dub Athlete is a DJ deeply dedicated to her craft, motivated by her love for sound system culture, her belief in the unifying power of music, and her commitment to providing a soundtrack that inspires movement, self-expression, and presence.

Keep up to date with Dub Athlete: https://www.instagram.com/dub_athlete/

Since 2019 Dub Athlete has organised and curated the Fortune Sessions, a community night platforming local underground djs in Brighton. In 2025 she has also collaborated on a new project, Rhythms of Resistance, organising not-for-profit events in London that raise awareness and funds for charity projects providing aid to people in Palestine, The Congo and Sudan.

MagicSchoolBus Demo

Julian DeConcini Heninger

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