Artist profile
Pendulum is a drum and bass group known for blending electronic production with live instrumentation and rock influences. Emerging from the Australian and UK scenes, the band has built a substantial catalog spanning multiple decades, establishing themselves as key figures in the drum and bass genre.
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Pendulum is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 32 analysed tracks, Pendulum averages 53% groove — groovier than 80% of individual Drum & Bass tracks.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 86–175 BPM with a median of 87 · predominantly minor keys (72% minor) · most common key: 6A (G Minor) with 5 tracks.
How Pendulum’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 Pendulum's catalog, tempos have eased from ~105 to ~96 BPM; vocal content has thinned.
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We scored every transition between Pendulum’s 31 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 771 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.
138 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 23 different Pendulum tracks.
Watercolour - Matrix & Futurebound Remix → Get Out · 4A → 4A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
147 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 24 different Pendulum tracks.
Trail of Sevens → Dawn of a Dark Day feat. Foreign Beggars - Prolix Remix · 6A → 6A · −1 BPM · 93 chemistry
139 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 22 different Pendulum tracks.
140 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 21 different Pendulum tracks.
Halo - Urbandawn Remix → Weirder · 7A → 7A · +1 BPM · 90 chemistry
146 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 21 different Pendulum tracks.
Halo - Urbandawn Remix → TAKE ME HIGHER · 7A → 7B · same BPM · 91 chemistry
136 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 22 different Pendulum tracks.
Hold Your Colour - Noisia Remix → Foul Play · 9B → 9B · same BPM · 93 chemistry
146 of the 1,240 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.1. They come from 23 different Pendulum tracks.
Watercolour - Matrix & Futurebound Remix → Inside The Rider - TC & Original Sin 2000's Remix · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
144 of the 1,209 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.9. They come from 22 different Pendulum tracks.
Watercolour - Matrix & Futurebound Remix → Shadows · 4A → 4A · 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 Pendulum 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 Pendulum, 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.
Pendulum's tracks in our catalog range from 86 to 175 BPM, with a median of 87 BPM. Across 32 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
Pendulum's tracks are mostly in minor keys (72% minor across 32 tracks). The most common single key is 6A (G Minor) with 5 tracks.
We scored every transition between Pendulum's 31 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 771 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Amplify, Black Sun Empire, 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: Watercolour - Matrix & Futurebound Remix into Get Out, 4A to 4A, 93 chemistry.
Pendulum sits closest to The Qemists, Sub Focus, Metrik 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 Pendulum releases spanning 1998 to 2025, with the most tracks from the 2000s.