Artist profile
Hugel is an afro house producer and DJ known for crafting rhythmic, groove-oriented tracks within the broader afro house movement. His work emphasizes percussive elements and dancefloor sensibility characteristic of the genre.
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Hugel is a high-energy with strong groove and drive artist.
Sits right in the typical Afro House pocket.
Across 62 analysed tracks, Hugel averages 74% groove — straighter than 72% of individual Afro House tracks — and 61% energy, harder than 67%.
Measured against 12,606 Afro House tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Hugel’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 Afro House tempo.
Across Hugel's catalog, warmth has lifted; tempos have eased from ~126 to ~119 BPM.
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We scored every transition between Hugel’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 2,380 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.
84 of the 1,320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.6. They come from 20 different Hugel tracks.
Las Avispas - Extended Mix → Anhelo · 9A → 8B · +1 BPM · 91 chemistry
73 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 19 different Hugel tracks.
Another World - HUGEL Extended Mix → Sahara · 6B → 7B · same BPM · 91 chemistry
79 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 18 different Hugel tracks.
Shimmy Shake - Extended → MUZIKI feat. BAQABO - VoodooChild Mix · 9B → 9A · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
85 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 17 different Hugel tracks.
Las Avispas - Extended Mix → Rise Up · 9A → 8B · +2 BPM · 90 chemistry
77 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 16 different Hugel tracks.
Shimmy Shake - Extended → Ecoute · 9B → 9B · same BPM · 92 chemistry
70 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 11 different Hugel tracks.
Bololo - MichaelBM & Francesco V Extended Remix → Tonight · 8A → 8A · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
70 of the 1,440 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.3. They come from 13 different Hugel tracks.
Bololo - MichaelBM & Francesco V Extended Remix → Piketua · 8A → 8A · +1 BPM · 92 chemistry
77 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 12 different Hugel tracks.
La Candela Viva - Extended Mix → Voixe - Extended Mix · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 90 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 Hugel 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 Hugel, 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.
Hugel's tracks in our catalog range from 76 to 129 BPM, with a median of 124 BPM. Across 62 tracks, the most common range falls in the 125–130 BPM bucket.
Hugel's tracks are mostly in minor keys (63% minor across 62 tracks). The most common single key is 8A (A Minor) with 7 tracks.
We scored every transition between Hugel's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 2,380 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Aaron Sevilla, Darksidevinyl, Enzo Siffredi 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: Las Avispas - Extended Mix into Anhelo, 9A to 8B, 91 chemistry.
Hugel sits closest to Ruger Hauer, Stepa, Pyhimys 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 Hugel releases spanning 2019 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2020s.