Artist profile
Shugz is a trance producer and DJ working in the main floor sound. His productions blend driving rhythmic elements with the melodic sensibilities characteristic of contemporary trance.
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Shugz is a high-energy with strong groove and drive and a balanced bright/warm production artist.
Sits right in the typical Trance (Main Floor) pocket.
Across 28 analysed tracks, Shugz sits within a few points of the Trance (Main Floor) median on energy and groove.
Measured against 21,919 Trance (Main Floor) tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Shugz’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 Trance (Main Floor) tempo.
Across Shugz's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~140 to ~148 BPM; energy has lifted; production has darkened.
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We scored every transition between Shugz’s 28 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 459 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.
63 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 16 different Shugz tracks.
The Lich - Extended Mix → Why Do We Hide - Extended Mix · 9B → 9B · +2 BPM · 90 chemistry
68 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 19 different Shugz tracks.
Blood Rush → JK is Dead - Extended Mix · 9B → 9B · same BPM · 93 chemistry
57 of the 1,064 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.1. They come from 14 different Shugz tracks.
Blood Rush → Azshara - Extended Mix · 9B → 10A · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry
72 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 16 different Shugz tracks.
End Product → Fall - Extended Mix · 11A → 11A · −2 BPM · 91 chemistry
61 of the 868 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 5.0. They come from 17 different Shugz tracks.
End Product → Explosion - Extended Mix · 11A → 11A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
56 of the 728 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.2. They come from 14 different Shugz tracks.
I Miss Your Love - Extended Mix → Melancholia - Extended Mix · 8A → 8A · −2 BPM · 93 chemistry
66 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 20 different Shugz tracks.
The Lich - Extended Mix → In The Machine - Extended Mix · 9B → 9B · +2 BPM · 90 chemistry
60 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 19 different Shugz tracks.
Blood Rush → Make The Crowd Go - Extended Mix · 9B → 9B · +3 BPM · 90 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 Shugz 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 Shugz, 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.
Shugz's tracks in our catalog range from 136 to 150 BPM, with a median of 142 BPM. Across 28 tracks, the most common range falls in the 140–145 BPM bucket.
Shugz's tracks are mostly in major keys (46% minor across 28 tracks). The most common single key is 9B (G Major) with 4 tracks.
We scored every transition between Shugz's 28 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 459 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Ciaran McAuley, Indecent Noise, Kenny Palmer 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: The Lich - Extended Mix into Why Do We Hide - Extended Mix, 9B to 9B, 90 chemistry.
Shugz sits closest to David Rust, Key4050, Renegade System 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 Shugz releases spanning 2016 to 2025, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
