Artist profile
Dabs is a drum and bass producer and DJ known for work within the genre's fast-breakbeat traditions. His output spans releases across the drum and bass landscape, contributing to the wider scene through production and live performance.
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Dabs is a moderate-energy and a bright production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 14 analysed tracks, Dabs averages 57% energy — gentler than 69% of individual Drum & Bass tracks — and 46% groove, groovier than 62%.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Dabs’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.
Across Dabs's catalog, warmth has receded; tempos have eased from ~94 to ~86 BPM.
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We scored every transition between Dabs’s 14 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 713 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.
125 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 13 different Dabs tracks.
Grindwerk feat. RymeTyme → Disco · 10A → 10B · +1 BPM · 90 chemistry
111 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 13 different Dabs tracks.
Thor - Break Remix → Firebox · 3B → 4A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
112 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 13 different Dabs tracks.
Objection VIP → Unspoken - Black Barrel Remix · 11A → 11A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
106 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 14 different Dabs tracks.
Hideout - June Miller Remix → Express Line · 7B → 7B · same BPM · 92 chemistry
115 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 13 different Dabs tracks.
112 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 14 different Dabs tracks.
Sleepless City - HLZ Remix → Creak · 10A → 10A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
105 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 13 different Dabs tracks.
Back and Forth - Mako, DLR & Ant TC1 Remix → Energy · 4A → 4A · −1 BPM · 92 chemistry
106 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 12 different Dabs tracks.
Thor - Break Remix → Resist · 3B → 4A · +1 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.
DJs and producers closest to Dabs 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 Dabs, 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.
Dabs's tracks in our catalog range from 86 to 129 BPM, with a median of 86 BPM. Across 14 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
Dabs's tracks are mostly in minor keys (64% minor across 14 tracks). The most common single key is 11A (F♯ Minor) with 2 tracks.
We scored every transition between Dabs's 14 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 713 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Amplify, Bcee, Black Barrel 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: Grindwerk feat. RymeTyme into Disco, 10A to 10B, 90 chemistry.
Dabs sits closest to Royce, Maztek, Rregula 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 Dabs releases spanning 2013 to 2020, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
