Artist profile
S.P.Y is a drum and bass producer and DJ known for work within the liquid funk and neurofunk subgenres. His productions blend technical precision with soulful atmospherics, establishing him as a fixture in the contemporary drum and bass landscape.
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S.P.Y is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 98 analysed tracks, S.P.Y averages 48% groove — groovier than 69% of individual Drum & Bass tracks.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 65–150 BPM with a median of 87 · predominantly minor keys (70% minor) · most common key: 4A (F Minor) with 19 tracks.
How S.P.Y’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.
S.P.Y's sound has stayed broadly consistent across this catalog window — release tempos and production palette have held to the same character.
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We scored every transition between S.P.Y’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 1,060 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.
281 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different S.P.Y tracks.
336 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 25 different S.P.Y tracks.
Moon Patrol → Doberman feat. Ward 21 · 4A → 4A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
278 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different S.P.Y tracks.
287 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 27 different S.P.Y tracks.
276 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 30 different S.P.Y tracks.
Sweet Sound → Life Is A Journey · 8A → 8A · same BPM · 93 chemistry
291 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 27 different S.P.Y tracks.
Night Fury → Hindsight · 5A → 5A · −1 BPM · 93 chemistry
281 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different S.P.Y tracks.
277 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 28 different S.P.Y tracks.
Love Hurts - Ebenezer Sprayout → True Believer · 5A → 5A · 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 S.P.Y 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 S.P.Y, 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.
S.P.Y's tracks in our catalog range from 65 to 150 BPM, with a median of 87 BPM. Across 99 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
S.P.Y's tracks are mostly in minor keys (70% minor across 99 tracks). The most common single key is 4A (F Minor) with 19 tracks.
We scored every transition between S.P.Y's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 1,060 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and 1991, Dub Phizix, Kanine 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: With You into Illusions, 4A to 4A, 91 chemistry.
S.P.Y sits closest to Gulch, Jivebomb, Gel 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 S.P.Y releases spanning 2009 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
