Artist profile
Need For Mirrors is a drum and bass producer working across the genre's varied subgenres and production styles. The artist maintains an active presence in the electronic music landscape with a consistent output of original material.
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Need For Mirrors is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 38 analysed tracks, Need For Mirrors averages 43% groove — groovier than 56% of individual Drum & Bass tracks.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 65–174 BPM with a median of 87 · predominantly minor keys (71% minor) · most common key: 7A (D Minor) with 6 tracks.
How Need For Mirrors’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 Drum & Bass tempo.
Across Need For Mirrors's catalog, tempos have eased from ~109 to ~83 BPM; warmth has receded; energy has lifted.
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We scored every transition between Need For Mirrors’s 38 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 855 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.
217 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 32 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Peng A Leng - Roller Mix → Empty · 7B → 7B · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
246 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 32 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Verbal → Days Like These · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
229 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 30 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Rough Trade → Lucky · 9A → 9A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
214 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 32 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Slaves of Empire → Give It Up · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
218 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 33 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Merk → Embrace the Chaos · 1A → 12A · +1 BPM · 92 chemistry
220 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 32 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Verbal → What If Ft. René - Ed:It Remix · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
223 of the 1,520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.7. They come from 33 different Need For Mirrors tracks.
Heart Speak → Sneak Through · 3A → 3A · same BPM · 93 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 Need For Mirrors 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 Need For Mirrors, 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.
Need For Mirrors's tracks in our catalog range from 65 to 174 BPM, with a median of 87 BPM. Across 38 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
Need For Mirrors's tracks are mostly in minor keys (71% minor across 38 tracks). The most common single key is 7A (D Minor) with 6 tracks.
We scored every transition between Need For Mirrors's 38 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 855 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Alibi, Bcee, Benny Page 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: Peng A Leng - Roller Mix into Empty, 7B to 7B, 91 chemistry.
Need For Mirrors sits closest to GLXY, Calibre, Halogenix 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 Need For Mirrors releases spanning 2014 to 2024, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
