Artist profile
Dark By Design is a hard dance and hardcore producer working within the neo-rave sound. Their work emphasizes driving rhythms and energetic production characteristic of the harder electronic dance music spectrum.
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Dark By Design is a high-energy artist.
Sits right in the typical Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave pocket.
Across 7 analysed tracks, Dark By Design averages 63% energy — gentler than 78% of individual Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave tracks — and 50% groove, groovier than 71%.
Measured against 12,440 Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave tracks on 11 August 2026.
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Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
Dark By Design's tracks in our catalog range from 71 to 150 BPM, with a median of 145 BPM. Across 7 tracks, the most common range falls in the 145–150 BPM bucket.
Dark By Design's tracks are mostly in major keys (43% minor across 7 tracks). The most common single key is 4B (A♭ Major) with 2 tracks.
Dark By Design sits closest to Paul Glazby, Organ Donors, Nick Rowland 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 Dark By Design releases spanning 2013 to 2014, with the most tracks from the 2010s.