Artist profile
Shapes is a UK garage and bassline producer working within the contemporary dance music underground. Their work engages with the rhythmic and textural possibilities of the genre's core sound design.
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Shapes is a high-energy and a bright production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical UK Garage / Bassline pocket.
Across 8 analysed tracks, Shapes averages 61% energy — harder than 82% of individual UK Garage / Bassline tracks — and 50% groove, straighter than 66%.
Measured against 7,890 UK Garage / Bassline tracks on 11 August 2026.
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We scored every transition between Shapes’s 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 49 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 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
19 of the 280 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.6. They come from 5 different Shapes tracks.
15 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
16 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
15 of the 312 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
15 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
17 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
15 of the 320 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 3 different Shapes tracks.
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 Shapes 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 Shapes, 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.
Shapes's tracks in our catalog range from 87 to 140 BPM, with a median of 135 BPM. Across 8 tracks, the most common range falls in the 135–140 BPM bucket.
Shapes's tracks are mostly in minor keys (88% minor across 8 tracks). The most common single key is 8A (A Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Shapes's 8 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 49 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Black Barrel, Coppa, Delta Heavy 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.
Shapes sits closest to &u&i, The Tupolev Ghost, Hold Your Horse Is 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 Shapes releases spanning 2018 to 2020, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
