Artist profile
DJ Q is a UK garage and bassline producer and DJ based in Wolverhampton. His work spans the evolution of garage and grime-adjacent sounds, with releases across independent labels in the UK underground scene.
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DJ Q is a moderate-energy with strong groove and drive and a bright production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical UK Garage / Bassline pocket.
Across 69 analysed tracks, DJ Q sits within a few points of the UK Garage / Bassline median on energy and groove.
Measured against 7,890 UK Garage / Bassline tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 65–144 BPM with a median of 132 · predominantly minor keys (91% minor) · most common key: 7A (D Minor) with 10 tracks.
How DJ Q’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 UK Garage / Bassline tempo.
Across DJ Q's catalog, warmth has receded; groove has thinned.
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We scored every transition between DJ Q’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 434 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.
95 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 34 different DJ Q tracks.
Naked Truth - 2 Step Mix → Do It Like that · 7A → 8A · +1 BPM · 87 chemistry
94 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different DJ Q tracks.
Count Down → Reflectionz Dub · 2A → 2A · −2 BPM · 89 chemistry
113 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 31 different DJ Q tracks.
FABRICLIVE 99: DJ Q - Continuous DJ Mix → Sweet Time - Sirmo Remix · 6A → 6A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
95 of the 1,040 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.0. They come from 30 different DJ Q tracks.
Sweet Day → Feel Your Feet - Foor Remix · 6A → 6A · +4 BPM · 90 chemistry
96 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different DJ Q tracks.
Sweet Day → Infected feat. Dread MC · 6A → 5A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
106 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different DJ Q tracks.
Love Me Like - Flava D Remix → Been Too Long · 5A → 5A · −1 BPM · 93 chemistry
97 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 27 different DJ Q tracks.
It's You - Octo Octa's Slammin' With U Mix → You Said You Loved Me · 11A → 11A · 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 DJ Q 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 DJ Q, 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.
DJ Q's tracks in our catalog range from 65 to 144 BPM, with a median of 132 BPM. Across 69 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
DJ Q's tracks are mostly in minor keys (91% minor across 69 tracks). The most common single key is 7A (D Minor) with 10 tracks.
We scored every transition between DJ Q's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 434 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Daffy, Murder He Wrote, Rico Tubbs 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: Naked Truth - 2 Step Mix into Do It Like that, 7A to 8A, 87 chemistry.
DJ Q sits closest to TS7, Bassboy, Sunship 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 DJ Q releases spanning 1999 to 2023, with the most tracks from the 2020s.