Artist profile
Octavate is a drum and bass producer working within the genre's electronic and breakbeat traditions. Their output spans the rhythmic and atmospheric dimensions characteristic of the drum and bass landscape.
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Octavate is a high-energy artist.
Unusually high vocal presence for Drum & Bass.
Across 10 analysed tracks, Octavate sits within a few points of the Drum & Bass median on energy and groove.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
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We scored every transition between Octavate’s 10 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 688 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.
93 of the 400 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.3. They come from 10 different Octavate tracks.
It Will Come → That's Basically It · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 89 chemistry
94 of the 400 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.3. They come from 10 different Octavate tracks.
Straight Up → Peanuts · 2A → 2A · +1 BPM · 92 chemistry
101 of the 400 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.3. They come from 8 different Octavate tracks.
It Will Come → What If Ft. René - Ed:It Remix · 7A → 7A · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
95 of the 390 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.2. They come from 10 different Octavate tracks.
95 of the 390 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.2. They come from 9 different Octavate tracks.
It Will Come → Leave · 7A → 6A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
97 of the 400 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.3. They come from 9 different Octavate tracks.
Spill → Questionable · 11B → 11A · same BPM · 88 chemistry
95 of the 400 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.3. They come from 10 different Octavate tracks.
It Will Come → Weirder · 7A → 7A · +1 BPM · 90 chemistry
91 of the 340 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.9. They come from 10 different Octavate tracks.
It Will Come → Spooked · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 92 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 Octavate 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 Octavate, 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.
Octavate's tracks in our catalog range from 85 to 111 BPM, with a median of 87 BPM. Across 10 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
Octavate's tracks are mostly in minor keys (80% minor across 10 tracks). The most common single key is 7A (D Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Octavate's 10 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 688 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Amoss, DJ Hazard, Fourward 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: It Will Come into That's Basically It, 7A to 7A, 89 chemistry.
Octavate sits closest to TNTKLZ, Kyrist, Operate 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.