Artist profile
Destroyers work in breaks and UK bass, crafting rhythmically fractured tracks rooted in breakbeat culture. Their production emphasizes chopped percussion and sub-heavy low end across a substantial body of work.
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Destroyers is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass pocket.
Across 70 analysed tracks, Destroyers averages 65% energy — harder than 83% of individual Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tracks.
Measured against 16,260 Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 66–138 BPM with a median of 132 · predominantly minor keys (66% minor) · most common key: 9A (E Minor) with 8 tracks.
How Destroyers’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 Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tempo.
Across Destroyers's catalog, warmth has receded; groove has thinned; tempos have eased from ~130 to ~124 BPM.
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We scored every transition between Destroyers’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 383 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.
160 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 35 different Destroyers tracks.
Control Mental → Easy · 7B → 7B · same BPM · 92 chemistry
199 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 36 different Destroyers tracks.
Rock The Disco → Gangstaz · 6A → 6A · +3 BPM · 89 chemistry
163 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 34 different Destroyers tracks.
Control Mental → Physical · 7B → 7B · −1 BPM · 92 chemistry
162 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different Destroyers tracks.
Scratch It → Lightning · 2A → 2A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
174 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 34 different Destroyers tracks.
149 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 36 different Destroyers tracks.
You Make Me → Alchemist · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
153 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 36 different Destroyers tracks.
Shambhala → Haunted House · 12A → 12A · +2 BPM · 91 chemistry
185 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 37 different Destroyers tracks.
Together → Hey Kids - Luxol Vee vs Sekret Chadow Remix · 9A → 9A · same 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 Destroyers 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 Destroyers, 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.
Destroyers's tracks in our catalog range from 66 to 138 BPM, with a median of 132 BPM. Across 70 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
Destroyers's tracks are mostly in minor keys (66% minor across 70 tracks). The most common single key is 9A (E Minor) with 8 tracks.
We scored every transition between Destroyers's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 383 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Bad Legs, Basstyler, Bowser 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: Control Mental into Easy, 7B to 7B, 92 chemistry.
Destroyers sits closest to Wilczy Pajak, Open Fire, Wolf Spider 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 Destroyers releases spanning 1995 to 2022, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
