Artist profile
Derb is a trance producer working within main floor and progressive styles. Their output spans electronic dance music with an emphasis on hypnotic, beat-driven arrangements characteristic of contemporary trance production.
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Derb is a high-energy with strong drive and a balanced bright/warm production — vocal-forward artist.
Unusually high vocal presence for Trance (Main Floor).
Across 8 analysed tracks, Derb averages 45% groove — straighter than 73% of individual Trance (Main Floor) tracks — and 70% energy, harder than 58%.
Measured against 21,919 Trance (Main Floor) tracks on 11 August 2026.
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We scored every transition between Derb’s 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 39 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.
17 of the 256 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.5. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Derbus - RAM's Refurbished Fusion Remix → Aulus · 4B → 4B · −2 BPM · 89 chemistry
19 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Follow Me 2024 - Extended Mix → Polarize · 6A → 6A · −4 BPM · 87 chemistry
26 of the 168 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.0. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Follow Me 2024 - Extended Mix → Spielraum - Extended Mix · 6A → 5A · −2 BPM · 88 chemistry
17 of the 240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.4. They come from 5 different Derb tracks.
Derbus - David Forbes Extended Remix → Battleship - Extended Mix · 4B → 3B · −2 BPM · 88 chemistry
18 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Follow Me 2024 - Extended Mix → Special Place - Extended Mix · 6A → 6A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry
21 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Derbus - RAM's Refurbished Fusion Remix → A Thousand Words - Extended Mix · 4B → 4B · same BPM · 90 chemistry
18 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Follow Me 2024 - Extended Mix → The Great Beyond - Extended Mix · 6A → 7A · −2 BPM · 89 chemistry
16 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Derb tracks.
Derbus - RAM's Refurbished Fusion Remix → Heartfelt - Allen Watts Remix · 4B → 5A · −2 BPM · 86 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 Derb 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 Derb, 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.
Derb's tracks in our catalog range from 135 to 160 BPM, with a median of 141 BPM. Across 8 tracks, the most common range falls in the 140–145 BPM bucket.
Derb's tracks are mostly in major keys (25% minor across 8 tracks). The most common single key is 4B (A♭ Major) with 5 tracks.
We scored every transition between Derb's 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 39 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Adam Ellis, Allen Watts, Andrea Ribeca 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: Derbus - RAM's Refurbished Fusion Remix into Aulus, 4B to 4B, 89 chemistry.
Derb sits closest to Dj Scot Project, Hennes & Cold, Walt 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 Derb releases spanning 2001 to 2024, with the most tracks from the 2020s.