Artist profile
David Forbes is a trance producer and DJ known for his work in main floor electronic music. His productions combine driving rhythmic elements with melodic sensibilities characteristic of the trance genre.
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David Forbes is a high-energy with strong drive and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Trance (Main Floor) pocket.
Across 97 analysed tracks, David Forbes averages 45% groove — straighter than 74% of individual Trance (Main Floor) tracks — and 70% energy, harder than 59%.
Measured against 21,919 Trance (Main Floor) tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 69–160 BPM with a median of 140 · predominantly minor keys (51% minor) · most common key: 9A (E Minor) with 8 tracks.
How David Forbes’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.
Across David Forbes's catalog, groove has thinned; warmth has lifted; vocal content has thinned.
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We scored every transition between David Forbes’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 569 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.
89 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 27 different David Forbes tracks.
Take Me Up - Extended Mix → Banshee - Extended Mix · 6A → 6A · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry
85 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 29 different David Forbes tracks.
Foldback - Mike Foyle Remix → Concorde - Cris Grey Extended Remix · 9B → 9B · same BPM · 89 chemistry
84 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 23 different David Forbes tracks.
Renegade - Extended Mix → Near Light - Extended Mix · 4B → 4B · same BPM · 91 chemistry
102 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 30 different David Forbes tracks.
Monorail - Extended Mix → All We Have Left - Extended Mix · 6A → 6A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
82 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 25 different David Forbes tracks.
Take Me Up - Extended Mix → Escape Line · 6A → 6A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
84 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 26 different David Forbes tracks.
Vulcan - Extended Mix → Incantation - Extended Mix · 9B → 10A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
83 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 22 different David Forbes tracks.
Blizzard - Extended Mix → Moments Before Dawn - Extended Mix · 1A → 1A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
86 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 24 different David Forbes tracks.
Monorail - Extended Mix → Live Like Legends - Extended Mix · 6A → 6A · same 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 David Forbes 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 David Forbes, 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.
David Forbes's tracks in our catalog range from 69 to 160 BPM, with a median of 140 BPM. Across 97 tracks, the most common range falls in the 140–145 BPM bucket.
David Forbes's tracks are mostly in minor keys (51% minor across 97 tracks). The most common single key is 9A (E Minor) with 8 tracks.
We scored every transition between David Forbes's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 569 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Allen Watts, Aly & Fila, Cold Blue 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: Take Me Up - Extended Mix into Banshee - Extended Mix, 6A to 6A, 90 chemistry.
David Forbes sits closest to Maarten De Jong, Bryan Kearney, DIM3NSION 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 David Forbes releases spanning 2008 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
