Artist profile
Sam Silver is a producer working in breaks, breakbeat, and UK bass. His work explores the rhythmic fragmentation and low-end weight characteristic of those genres.
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Sam Silver is a moderate-energy with strong groove and drive artist.
Unusually high groove for Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass.
Across 8 analysed tracks, Sam Silver averages 68% groove — groovier than 89% of individual Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tracks — and 55% energy, harder than 56%.
Measured against 16,260 Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
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We scored every transition between Sam Silver’s 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 70 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.
21 of the 216 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.2. They come from 3 different Sam Silver tracks.
Hold On To You → Millenium · 7A → 6A · same BPM · 88 chemistry
31 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Sam Silver tracks.
Hold On To You → Friday Night · 7A → 8A · −1 BPM · 89 chemistry
22 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Sam Silver tracks.
Hold On To You → Work It! - The Brainkiller Remix · 7A → 7A · −3 BPM · 88 chemistry
27 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Sam Silver tracks.
Hold On To You → Remember · 7A → 7B · −2 BPM · 87 chemistry
25 of the 256 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.5. They come from 3 different Sam Silver tracks.
BACK IT UP feat. Michael Aristotle - Extended → Control · 9A → 9A · −1 BPM · 92 chemistry
29 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 4 different Sam Silver tracks.
BACK IT UP feat. Michael Aristotle - Extended → Equations Of The Universe · 9A → 9A · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry
22 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Sam Silver tracks.
BACK IT UP feat. Michael Aristotle - Extended → What? · 9A → 10A · −1 BPM · 88 chemistry
26 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Sam Silver tracks.
Hold On To You → Inerzia · 7A → 7A · −1 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 Sam Silver 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 Sam Silver, 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.
Sam Silver's tracks in our catalog range from 125 to 140 BPM, with a median of 132 BPM. Across 8 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
Sam Silver's tracks are mostly in minor keys (100% minor across 8 tracks). The most common single key is 8A (A Minor) with 2 tracks.
We scored every transition between Sam Silver's 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 70 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Alex Wicked, Basstyler, BBK 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: Hold On To You into Millenium, 7A to 6A, 88 chemistry.
Sam Silver sits closest to After Wes, AMNES, Alex Bone 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.
