Artist profile
Art Department is a deep house project known for crafted, minimalist productions that emphasize rhythm and texture. The project operates within the contemporary deep house landscape, building tracks around stripped-down grooves and atmospheric detail.
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Art Department is a moderate-energy with strong groove and drive artist.
Sits right in the typical Deep House pocket.
Across 24 analysed tracks, Art Department averages 75% groove — straighter than 76% of individual Deep House tracks — and 50% energy, harder than 65%.
Measured against 22,124 Deep House tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Art Department’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 Deep House tempo.
Across Art Department's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~118 to ~126 BPM; groove has deepened.
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We scored every transition between Art Department’s 24 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 978 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.
47 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 11 different Art Department tracks.
Jazz Hours → Beat For U · 9A → 8A · −1 BPM · 90 chemistry
45 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 10 different Art Department tracks.
Jazz Hours → Fly · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
55 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 9 different Art Department tracks.
Jazz Hours → Coffee Break · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
46 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 11 different Art Department tracks.
Jazz Hours → Lightening In Me feat. Oliver Night · 9A → 9A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
48 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 10 different Art Department tracks.
Jazz Hours → Tries · 9A → 9A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry
49 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 11 different Art Department tracks.
Mind Made Up → Gonna Back and Stay · 4A → 5A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
49 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 12 different Art Department tracks.
Object Form → I've Been Nothing but Good to You... · 3A → 4A · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
47 of the 768 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 10 different Art Department tracks.
Jazz Hours → Introduction · 9A → 9A · −1 BPM · 90 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.
DJs and producers closest to Art Department 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 Art Department, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.
Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
Art Department's tracks in our catalog range from 112 to 150 BPM, with a median of 124 BPM. Across 24 tracks, the most common range falls in the 125–130 BPM bucket.
Art Department's tracks are mostly in minor keys (67% minor across 24 tracks). The most common single key is 4A (F Minor) with 4 tracks.
We scored every transition between Art Department's 24 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 978 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and DJ Steaw, Franck Roger, Jack District 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: Jazz Hours into Beat For U, 9A to 8A, 90 chemistry.
Art Department sits closest to Deniz Kurtel, Benoit & Sergio, Greg Paulus 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.
Our catalog has Art Department releases spanning 2011 to 2020, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
