Artist profile
Gary McPhail is a trance producer and DJ working within electronic dance music. His work explores the deeper, more hypnotic elements of the trance spectrum.
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Gary McPhail is a high-energy with strong groove and drive and a bright production artist.
Unusually high energy for Trance (Main Floor).
Across 8 analysed tracks, Gary McPhail averages 87% energy — harder than 81% of individual Trance (Main Floor) tracks — and 68% groove, groovier than 57%.
Measured against 21,919 Trance (Main Floor) tracks on 11 August 2026.
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We scored every transition between Gary McPhail’s 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 239 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.
44 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
Millie - Extended Mix → Second Face · 4A → 4B · same BPM · 89 chemistry
46 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
Are You Ready - Extended Mix → Tunnel Vision · 10A → 10A · −2 BPM · 93 chemistry
49 of the 256 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.5. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
Are You Ready - Extended Mix → Above The Clouds - Extended Mix · 10A → 11A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry
47 of the 272 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.6. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
Attitude - Extended Mix → Flow Walker - Extended Mix · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 88 chemistry
43 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
Are You Ready - Extended Mix → Mezcal - Extended Mix · 10A → 11A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
41 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
My Everything - Extended Mix → Flow Through - Extended Mix · 10A → 10A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry
50 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
Above the Clouds - Extended Mix → Mjolnir - Extended Mix · 3A → 3A · same BPM · 93 chemistry
52 of the 296 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.7. They come from 8 different Gary McPhail tracks.
My Everything - Extended Mix → Baihu - Extended Mix · 10A → 10A · 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 Gary McPhail 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 Gary McPhail, 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.
Gary McPhail's tracks in our catalog range from 138 to 140 BPM, with a median of 140 BPM. Across 8 tracks, the most common range falls in the 140–145 BPM bucket.
Gary McPhail's tracks are mostly in minor keys (75% minor across 8 tracks). The most common single key is 10A (B Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Gary McPhail's 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 239 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Alan Morris, Allen Watts, BiXX 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: Millie - Extended Mix into Second Face, 4A to 4B, 89 chemistry.
Gary McPhail sits closest to Dreamseekers, Corrado Baggieri, Yoshi & Razner 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 Gary McPhail releases spanning 2021 to 2023, with the most tracks from the 2020s.