Artist profile
High Maintenance is a drum and bass producer working within the genre's electronic landscape. Their work engages with the fast-paced breakbeats and bass-heavy aesthetics central to the drum and bass sound.
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High Maintenance is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 13 analysed tracks, High Maintenance averages 37% groove — straighter than 65% of individual Drum & Bass tracks.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
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We scored every transition between High Maintenance’s 13 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 692 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 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 11 different High Maintenance tracks.
Keep You Down → Horizon - Extended Mix · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
100 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 13 different High Maintenance tracks.
Keep You Down → Tactics · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
102 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 11 different High Maintenance tracks.
Hypersonic → End of Time · 6A → 6A · −1 BPM · 89 chemistry
97 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 9 different High Maintenance tracks.
Keep You Down → Game Over · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
101 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 11 different High Maintenance tracks.
Hypersonic → Nightwalker · 6A → 6A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
102 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 13 different High Maintenance tracks.
Keep You Down → Understand Ft Sam Wills · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
107 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 12 different High Maintenance tracks.
Keep You Down → True Believer · 4A → 5A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
96 of the 442 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.5. They come from 11 different High Maintenance tracks.
Hypersonic → The Beat · 6A → 6A · same BPM · 89 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 High Maintenance 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 High Maintenance, 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.
High Maintenance's tracks in our catalog range from 87 to 175 BPM, with a median of 87 BPM. Across 13 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
High Maintenance's tracks are mostly in minor keys (77% minor across 13 tracks). The most common single key is 4A (F Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between High Maintenance's 13 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 692 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and 1991, Amoss, Break 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: Keep You Down into Horizon - Extended Mix, 4A to 4A, 91 chemistry.
High Maintenance sits closest to Mediks, Maduk, Andromedik 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 High Maintenance releases spanning 2013 to 2020, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
