Artist profile
Mr. Fingers is a deep house producer and DJ whose work helped define the sound of Chicago house music. His productions and DJ sets have been central to the deep house aesthetic since the late 1980s, blending soulful elements with minimalist rhythms.
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Plan a set with Mr. Fingers tracks scored against the rest of the catalog
Mr. Fingers is a restrained with strong groove — mostly instrumental artist.
Unusually low energy for Deep House.
Across 19 analysed tracks, Mr. Fingers averages 34% energy — gentler than 92% of individual Deep House tracks — and 70% groove, straighter than 82%.
Measured against 22,124 Deep House tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 84–160 BPM with a median of 119 · predominantly minor keys (79% minor) · most common key: 9A (E Minor) with 4 tracks.
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We scored every transition between Mr. Fingers’s 19 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 272 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.
32 of the 760 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 6 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
April Rain → What We Gonna Do? · 2A → 2A · +3 BPM · 92 chemistry
44 of the 760 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 7 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
April Rain → Breathe · 2A → 3A · +1 BPM · 91 chemistry
33 of the 760 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 10 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
Qwazars → All Nite, Every Nite · 9A → 8A · +1 BPM · 91 chemistry
31 of the 760 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 5 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
Mystery of Love - DJ Mel ReGentryfication → Burning Up · 9A → 9B · −1 BPM · 89 chemistry
35 of the 760 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 7 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
Qwazars → Losing Yourself · 9A → 8A · +2 BPM · 89 chemistry
30 of the 608 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.5. They come from 6 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
Mystery of Love - DJ Mel ReGentryfication → Street Corners · 9A → 9A · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry
40 of the 760 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.4. They come from 9 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
Mystery of Love - DJ Mel ReGentryfication → Sliver · 9A → 8A · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry
32 of the 722 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 6 different Mr. Fingers tracks.
Mystery of Love - DJ Mel ReGentryfication → Infectious · 9A → 8B · same BPM · 88 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 Mr. Fingers 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 Mr. Fingers, 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.
Mr. Fingers's tracks in our catalog range from 84 to 160 BPM, with a median of 119 BPM. Across 19 tracks, the most common range falls in the 120–125 BPM bucket.
Mr. Fingers's tracks are mostly in minor keys (79% minor across 19 tracks). The most common single key is 9A (E Minor) with 4 tracks.
We scored every transition between Mr. Fingers's 19 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 272 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Felipe Gordon, Fred Everything, Freestyle Man 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: April Rain into What We Gonna Do?, 2A to 2A, 92 chemistry.
Mr. Fingers sits closest to Larry Heard, Frankie Knuckles, Ron Trent 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 Mr. Fingers releases spanning 1987 to 2016, with the most tracks from the 1980s.