Artist profile
Ryan James Ford is a techno producer working in raw and hypnotic styles. His work explores deep, stripped-back approaches to electronic music production.
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Ryan James Ford is a moderate-energy — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) pocket.
Across 24 analysed tracks, Ryan James Ford averages 53% groove — straighter than 81% of individual Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) tracks — and 50% energy, gentler than 73%.
Measured against 10,772 Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 68–180 BPM with a median of 132 · predominantly minor keys (58% minor) · most common key: 8A (A Minor) with 6 tracks.
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We scored every transition between Ryan James Ford’s 24 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 592 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.
55 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 13 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Masthead → Arcadian Falls · 8A → 9A · −1 BPM · 89 chemistry
51 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 13 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Masthead → Space Exploration Part.4 · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 89 chemistry
55 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 11 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Community Don → Suffocating · 8A → 9A · −1 BPM · 88 chemistry
50 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 12 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Fish Flakes → Mover · 8A → 8A · −2 BPM · 93 chemistry
63 of the 936 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.4. They come from 14 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Community Don → Sling Jockey · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 88 chemistry
58 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 15 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Dollar Hits → Behind Enemy Lines · 4A → 3A · −3 BPM · 88 chemistry
52 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 16 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
XTRa TaLL Tee → Wave - Gene Richards Jr Remix · 1B → 1B · −1 BPM · 93 chemistry
52 of the 960 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.5. They come from 13 different Ryan James Ford tracks.
Fish Flakes → Liminal Space · 8A → 8A · 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 Ryan James Ford 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 Ryan James Ford, 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.
Ryan James Ford's tracks in our catalog range from 68 to 180 BPM, with a median of 132 BPM. Across 24 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
Ryan James Ford's tracks are mostly in minor keys (58% minor across 24 tracks). The most common single key is 8A (A Minor) with 6 tracks.
We scored every transition between Ryan James Ford's 24 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 592 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Inigo Kennedy, Linear System, Marcal 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: Masthead into Arcadian Falls, 8A to 9A, 89 chemistry.
Ryan James Ford sits closest to not even noticed, Dario Zenker, Schacke 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 Ryan James Ford releases spanning 2021 to 2025, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
