Artist profile
Roots Manuva is a British electronic musician working in trap and future bass production. His work explores atmospheric soundscapes and rhythmic experimentation within contemporary electronic music.
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Roots Manuva is a moderate-energy — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Trap / Future Bass pocket.
Across 14 analysed tracks, Roots Manuva averages 48% energy — gentler than 77% of individual Trap / Future Bass tracks — and 44% groove, groovier than 56%.
Measured against 8,278 Trap / Future Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 79–143 BPM with a median of 109 · predominantly minor keys (50% minor) · most common key: 9A (E Minor) with 3 tracks.
How Roots Manuva’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 Trap / Future Bass tempo.
Across Roots Manuva's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~102 to ~131 BPM; warmth has receded; production has brightened.
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We scored every transition between Roots Manuva’s 14 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 30 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.
18 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 8 different Roots Manuva tracks.
Witness (1 Hope) → #TeamRavesta · 4B → 5B · −2 BPM · 85 chemistry
15 of the 378 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.2. They come from 6 different Roots Manuva tracks.
17 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 3 different Roots Manuva tracks.
Boss - Matica Remix → Hey Hey · 5B → 6A · +2 BPM · 87 chemistry
18 of the 420 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.4. They come from 7 different Roots Manuva tracks.
20 of the 448 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.6. They come from 9 different Roots Manuva tracks.
Boss - Matica Remix → Wait · 5B → 5A · −2 BPM · 83 chemistry
28 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 8 different Roots Manuva tracks.
19 of the 560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.2. They come from 6 different Roots Manuva tracks.
Too Cold → Call Your Mommy feat Disco Nap · 6B → 8A · −3 BPM · 83 chemistry
14 of the 210 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.2. They come from 7 different Roots Manuva tracks.
Witness (1 Hope) → IDKW · 4B → 6A · +3 BPM · 87 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 Roots Manuva 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 Roots Manuva, 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.
Roots Manuva's tracks in our catalog range from 79 to 143 BPM, with a median of 109 BPM. Across 14 tracks, the most common range falls in the 110–115 BPM bucket.
Roots Manuva's tracks are mostly in minor keys (50% minor across 14 tracks). The most common single key is 9A (E Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Roots Manuva's 14 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 30 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and DJ Fixx, Foreign Beggars, JDOUBLE 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: Witness (1 Hope) into #TeamRavesta, 4B to 5B, 85 chemistry.
Roots Manuva sits closest to The Herbaliser, Blackalicious, Coldcut 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 Roots Manuva releases spanning 1999 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
