Artist profile
Sian is a Welsh techno DJ and producer, and the founder of the Octopus Recordings label. His productions and sets focus on peak-time, driving, and hypnotic strains of techno, with a long-running presence across European clubs and festivals.
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Sian is a high-energy with strong groove and drive artist.
Sits right in the typical Techno (Peak Time / Driving) pocket.
Across 102 analysed tracks, Sian sits within a few points of the Techno (Peak Time / Driving) median on groove and energy.
Measured against 25,003 Techno (Peak Time / Driving) tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 107–140 BPM with a median of 125 · predominantly major keys (40% minor) · most common key: 12B (E Major) with 11 tracks.
How Sian’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 Techno (Peak Time / Driving) tempo.
Across Sian's catalog, vocal content has thinned.
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We scored every transition between Sian’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 1,953 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.
98 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 26 different Sian tracks.
Black Leather → Tool of the Day · 12B → 12B · +2 BPM · 91 chemistry
89 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 23 different Sian tracks.
Chicken Donut → Element Orange · 10A → 10A · +1 BPM · 89 chemistry
114 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 25 different Sian tracks.
119 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 26 different Sian tracks.
Medicine Man - Mark Reeve Remix → Body, Mind and Soul · 7B → 7B · +1 BPM · 91 chemistry
90 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 25 different Sian tracks.
Farewell Mermaid → Dirty Swamp · 10B → 10B · +2 BPM · 92 chemistry
118 of the 1,440 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.3. They come from 26 different Sian tracks.
Frequency Moves → Define · 9B → 9B · same BPM · 91 chemistry
90 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 31 different Sian tracks.
Frequency Moves → Full Tilt · 9B → 10B · same BPM · 88 chemistry
126 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 25 different Sian tracks.
Electricity → Parasite · 11B → 11B · same BPM · 91 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 Sian 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 Sian, 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.
Sian's tracks in our catalog range from 107 to 140 BPM, with a median of 125 BPM. Across 102 tracks, the most common range falls in the 125–130 BPM bucket.
Sian's tracks are mostly in major keys (40% minor across 102 tracks). The most common single key is 12B (E Major) with 11 tracks.
We scored every transition between Sian's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 1,953 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Carbon, Cari Lekebusch, Julian Jeweil 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: Black Leather into Tool of the Day, 12B to 12B, 91 chemistry.
Sian sits closest to Maison Ware, Notaker, Rezz 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 Sian releases spanning 2012 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
