Artist profile
Pegboard Nerds is a dubstep and electronic music project known for heavy, bass-driven production and intricate sound design. The project has built a substantial body of work across the dubstep and bass music landscape.
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Pegboard Nerds is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Dubstep pocket.
Across 55 analysed tracks, Pegboard Nerds averages 67% energy — harder than 61% of individual Dubstep tracks — and 54% groove, groovier than 58%.
Measured against 11,781 Dubstep tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 70–165 BPM with a median of 130 · predominantly minor keys (73% minor) · most common key: 9A (E Minor) with 11 tracks.
How Pegboard Nerds’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 Dubstep tempo.
Across Pegboard Nerds's catalog, tempos have eased from ~131 to ~114 BPM; groove has thinned.
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We scored every transition between Pegboard Nerds’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 588 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.
100 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 20 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
Superstar feat. Krewella → RVD ft Mikey Ceasar · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 89 chemistry
82 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 17 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
Downhearted (feat. Jonny Rose) - Topi Remix → Overheater · 4B → 4A · same BPM · 89 chemistry
86 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 16 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
Superstar feat. Krewella → Yeti · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
84 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 19 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
WotS → Son of a 2step · 11A → 12A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
86 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 20 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
Superstar feat. Krewella → Techno · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
93 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 18 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
WotS → Scatterbrain · 11A → 10A · same BPM · 89 chemistry
82 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 14 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
Superstar feat. Krewella → Never Sit Down · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
84 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 20 different Pegboard Nerds tracks.
Be Free - Extended Mix → Spaghetti Slap · 4B → 5B · +5 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 Pegboard Nerds 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 Pegboard Nerds, 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.
Pegboard Nerds's tracks in our catalog range from 70 to 165 BPM, with a median of 130 BPM. Across 55 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
Pegboard Nerds's tracks are mostly in minor keys (73% minor across 55 tracks). The most common single key is 9A (E Minor) with 11 tracks.
We scored every transition between Pegboard Nerds's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 588 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and 12th Planet, Doctor P, Dodge & Fuski 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: Superstar feat. Krewella into RVD ft Mikey Ceasar, 4A to 4A, 89 chemistry.
Pegboard Nerds sits closest to Tut Tut Child, Rogue, Nitro Fun 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 Pegboard Nerds releases spanning 2012 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
