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4 Strings

4 Strings is a trance producer and DJ known for work in the main floor and progressive trance sphere. With a catalog spanning over two decades, the artist has maintained a consistent presence in electronic dance music production.

59 tracksTrance (Main Floor)· 2000–2026
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Sound profile

EnergyDriveGrooveBrightnessWarmthVocal

4 Strings is a high-energy with strong groove and drive and a bright production artist.

This artistTypical Trance (Main Floor)
Signature sound

Sits right in the typical Trance (Main Floor) pocket.

How this compares to Trance (Main Floor)

Across 59 analysed tracks, 4 Strings averages 71% energy — harder than 59% of individual Trance (Main Floor) tracks.

Measured against 21,919 Trance (Main Floor) tracks on 11 August 2026.

Key & BPM profile

Most tracks sit between 65–140 BPM with a median of 134 · predominantly minor keys (64% minor) · most common key: 2A (E♭ Minor) with 16 tracks.

BPM spread
65–69
3
80–84
1
95–99
1
100–104
3
120–124
1
125–129
4
130–134
18
135–139
24
140–144
3
Key distribution
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Sound profile evolution

How 4 Strings’s production has shifted across their catalog. The radar overlays earlier and recent eras as one shape, the year-by-year chart shows every metric move, and the tempo trend tracks the BPM migration against the typical Trance (Main Floor) tempo.

Sound profile shift
EnergyDriveGrooveBrightnessWarmthVocal
2000–2013·8 tracks
2014–2026·29 tracks
Year-by-year sound · scale 0–100
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Tempo migration · yearly average
This artistTypical Trance (Main Floor)
What changed

Across 4 Strings's catalog, energy has lifted; vocal content has thinned.

Release volume by decade

3
2000s
26
2010s
8
2020s

Tracks in catalog

59 total · sortable
Turn It Around - Extended Mix album art
Turn It Around - Extended Mix
4 Strings
139 BPM · 12B · Dance · 36% Sustainer
Dance
139
12B · E maj
36%Sustainer
2004
Take Me Away (Into The Night) album art
Take Me Away (Into The Night)
4 Strings
138 BPM · 2A · Trance · 32% Warm-up
Trance
138
2A · E♭ min
32%Warm-up
2002
Take Me Away (2015 Mix) album art
Take Me Away (2015 Mix)
4 Strings
128 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 52% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
128
2A · E♭ min
52%Sustainer
2015
What Matters Most album art
What Matters Most
4 Strings, Fridolijn
134 BPM · 9B · Trance (Main Floor) · 91% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
134
9B · G maj
91%Peak time
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Enough album art
Enough
4 Strings, Fenna Day
136 BPM · 4B · Trance (Main Floor) · 100% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
136
4B · A♭ maj
100%Peak time
2017
Take Me Away Again - Extended Mix album art
Take Me Away Again - Extended Mix
4 Strings, Hardwell, Maddix
138 BPM · 2A · Mainstage · 92% Peak time
Mainstage
138
2A · E♭ min
92%Peak time
2023
Illumina album art
Illumina
4 Strings
132 BPM · 4A · Trance (Main Floor) · 44% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
132
4A · F min
44%Sustainer
2016
Safe In The Storm album art
Safe In The Storm
4 Strings, Cathy Burton
134 BPM · 3A · Trance (Main Floor) · 72% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
134
3A · B♭ min
72%Peak time
2016
When The Lights Go Down (Communion) album art
When The Lights Go Down (Communion)
4 Strings, Audrey Gallagher
130 BPM · 3B · Trance (Main Floor) · 46% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
130
3B · D♭ maj
46%Sustainer
2016
I Can't Help Myself - Extended Mix album art
I Can't Help Myself - Extended Mix
4 Strings, CJ Stone
140 BPM · 4A · Trance (Main Floor) · 93% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
140
4A · F min
93%Peak time
2026
Emotions Away album art
Emotions Away
4 Strings, Carol Lee
134 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 42% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
134
2A · E♭ min
42%Sustainer
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Wondering album art
Wondering
4 Strings
134 BPM · 12B · Trance (Main Floor) · 75% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
134
12B · E maj
75%Peak time
2016
In Our Hearts album art
In Our Hearts
4 Strings
66 BPM · 8B · Trance (Main Floor) · 100% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
66
8B · C maj
100%Peak time
2015
Change The World album art
Change The World
4 Strings, Sarah Russell
138 BPM · 1A · Trance (Main Floor) · 61% Builder
Trance (Main Floor)
138
1A · A♭ min
61%Builder
2022
Completely album art
Completely
4 Strings, Susana
138 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 76% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
138
2A · E♭ min
76%Peak time
2022
Hold In Silence album art
Hold In Silence
4 Strings, Katty Heath
128 BPM · 7B · Trance (Main Floor) · 85% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
128
7B · F maj
85%Peak time
2015
Never album art
Never
4 Strings, Elara
138 BPM · 1B · Trance (Main Floor) · 62% Builder
Trance (Main Floor)
138
1B · B maj
62%Builder
2021
Acid Phase - Extended Mix album art
Acid Phase - Extended Mix
4 Strings
140 BPM · 8B · Trance (Main Floor) · 72% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
140
8B · C maj
72%Peak time
2000
Take Me Away 2006 - Purple Haze Remix album art
Take Me Away 2006 - Purple Haze Remix
4 Strings
134 BPM · 3B · Trance (Main Floor) · 67% Builder
Trance (Main Floor)
134
3B · D♭ maj
67%Builder
—
Safe From Harm - Omar Sherif Extended Mix album art
Safe From Harm - Omar Sherif Extended Mix
4 Strings, Ellie Lawson, Trance Classics
138 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 60% Builder
Trance (Main Floor)
138
2A · E♭ min
60%Builder
2010
You Move Me - Extended Mix album art
You Move Me - Extended Mix
4 Strings, Sarah Lynn
136 BPM · 6B · Trance (Main Floor) · 50% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
136
6B · B♭ maj
50%Sustainer
—
Ready To Fall (feat. Seri) album art
Ready To Fall (feat. Seri)
4 Strings, Seri
130 BPM · 8B · Trance (Main Floor) · 53% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
130
8B · C maj
53%Sustainer
2013
Breathe Life In feat. Ana Criado album art
Breathe Life In feat. Ana Criado
4 Strings, Ana Criado
130 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 78% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
130
2A · E♭ min
78%Peak time
2012
Sundown album art
Sundown
4 Strings
135 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 88% Peak time
Trance (Main Floor)
135
2A · E♭ min
88%Peak time
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Wake Up - Extended Mix album art
Wake Up - Extended Mix
4 Strings, Jessie Lee Thetford
124 BPM · 2A · Trance (Main Floor) · 46% Sustainer
Trance (Main Floor)
124
2A · E♭ min
46%Sustainer
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Artists that mix with 4 Strings

We scored every transition between 4 Strings’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 596 catalogues clear the bar — a transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number you’ll see on any track page. The 8 with the widest margin over chance are below.

Chance is measured, not assumed: 0.573% of transitions between two randomly drawn tracks by different artists in this catalogue reach 80. Listed alphabetically — the set is reproducible, the order inside it is not.

Dan Stone

81 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 29 different 4 Strings tracks.

We Are All The Same - Extended Mix → With You - Sean Tyas Extended Remix · 1A → 2A · +2 BPM · 89 chemistry

Daniel Kandi

96 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 29 different 4 Strings tracks.

Enough → Match Made In Heaven - Extended Mix · 4B → 5A · +1 BPM · 90 chemistry

Davey Asprey

81 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 31 different 4 Strings tracks.

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - Extended Mix → Sunbreaker · 6A → 6A · same BPM · 93 chemistry

Miroslav Vrlik

80 of the 1,480 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.5. They come from 28 different 4 Strings tracks.

Acid Phase - Extended Mix → Beautiful Day - Extended Mix · 8B → 9B · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry

Paul Denton

86 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 30 different 4 Strings tracks.

Completely → Eivissa - Extended Mix · 2A → 2A · −1 BPM · 90 chemistry

Steve Dekay

84 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different 4 Strings tracks.

Completely → Bellatrix - Extended Mix · 2A → 2A · same BPM · 89 chemistry

Suncatcher

81 of the 1,480 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.5. They come from 26 different 4 Strings tracks.

Change The World → Are We There Yet? · 1A → 12A · same BPM · 91 chemistry

Temple One

75 of the 1,280 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.3. They come from 27 different 4 Strings tracks.

I Can't Help Myself - Extended Mix → Journey To Agartha - Extended Mix · 4A → 4A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry

Chemistry weighs harmonic, rhythmic, energy, groove, mood and vocal compatibility. Tempos are as analysed from the recording — where a genre is habitually detected an octave down, this is how we handle it. Different measurement from the audience-overlap list further down the page.

Related artists

Top 15 by similarity

DJs and producers closest to 4 Strings by audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play. It’s a taste signal, not a measured key-and-tempo match: good for shortlisting crates when you’re prepping a set around 4 Strings, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.

Ian van Dahl
100%
1 track in catalog · House · no artist page yet
Rank 1
84%
32 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Fragma
79%
7 tracks in catalog · Dance
Cosmic Gate
71%
78 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Three Drives
69%
13 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Paul van Dyk
68%
80 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
OceanLab
64%
17 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Andain
64%
9 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
ATB
63%
25 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Mauro Picotto
62%
42 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
System F
62%
7 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Push
60%
42 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Motorcycle
59%
2 tracks in catalog · Dance · no artist page yet
Ferry Corsten
59%
133 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)
Binary Finary
58%
17 tracks in catalog · Trance (Main Floor)

Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.

FAQ

What BPM does 4 Strings play at?+

4 Strings's tracks in our catalog range from 65 to 140 BPM, with a median of 134 BPM. Across 59 tracks, the most common range falls in the 135–140 BPM bucket.

What key are 4 Strings's tracks in?+

4 Strings's tracks are mostly in minor keys (64% minor across 59 tracks). The most common single key is 2A (E♭ Minor) with 16 tracks.

What artists mix well with 4 Strings?+

We scored every transition between 4 Strings's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 596 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Dan Stone, Daniel Kandi, Davey Asprey are three of them — listed alphabetically, because the set is reproducible and the order inside it is not. A transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number shown on a track page. One measured example: We Are All The Same - Extended Mix into With You - Sean Tyas Extended Remix, 1A to 2A, 89 chemistry.

Which artists share an audience with 4 Strings?+

4 Strings sits closest to Ian van Dahl, Rank 1, Fragma in our catalog. That ranking is audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play — rather than a measured key-and-tempo match, so treat it as a shortlist worth digging through, not a promise that any two tracks will beatmatch. The full list, with track counts, is in the Related artists section above.

When was 4 Strings most active?+

Our catalog has 4 Strings releases spanning 2000 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.