Artist profile
Black Barrel is a drum and bass producer and DJ working within the genre's electronic landscape. The artist maintains an active presence in drum and bass production and performance.
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Black Barrel is a high-energy and a bright production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 48 analysed tracks, Black Barrel averages 46% groove — groovier than 63% of individual Drum & Bass tracks — and 60% energy, gentler than 56%.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Black Barrel’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 Drum & Bass tempo.
Black Barrel's sound has stayed broadly consistent across this catalog window — release tempos and production palette have held to the same character.
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We scored every transition between Black Barrel’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 917 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.
297 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 40 different Black Barrel tracks.
Insomnia → Caramel - Beatport Exclusive · 11B → 11B · same BPM · 93 chemistry
288 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 38 different Black Barrel tracks.
Wild → Give It Up · 8A → 8A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry
278 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 39 different Black Barrel tracks.
Africa - Black Barrel Remix → Should I · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 93 chemistry
296 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 39 different Black Barrel tracks.
Traffic Jam → How Ft. Dakota Sixx · 8A → 8A · −2 BPM · 92 chemistry
299 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 39 different Black Barrel tracks.
Don't Stop → Music House · 7B → 7B · same BPM · 92 chemistry
288 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 38 different Black Barrel tracks.
Traffic Jam → Avenger · 8A → 7B · same BPM · 91 chemistry
297 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 39 different Black Barrel tracks.
Dark Place → BK2U · 8A → 9A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
324 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 39 different Black Barrel tracks.
Lonely Together → Boring - DJ Mix · 2A → 2A · +1 BPM · 92 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 Black Barrel 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 Black Barrel, 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.
Black Barrel's tracks in our catalog range from 82 to 175 BPM, with a median of 87 BPM. Across 48 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
Black Barrel's tracks are mostly in minor keys (67% minor across 48 tracks). The most common single key is 8A (A Minor) with 7 tracks.
We scored every transition between Black Barrel's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 917 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Alibi, Break, DJ Marky 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: Insomnia into Caramel - Beatport Exclusive, 11B to 11B, 93 chemistry.
Black Barrel sits closest to DLR, Kyrist, Data 3 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 Black Barrel releases spanning 2014 to 2022, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
