Artist profile
Special Request is an electronic music producer working in industrial and experimental electronica. Their output spans harsh noise, techno, and abstract digital composition, characterized by dense, textural soundscapes and unconventional production approaches.
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Special Request is a moderate-energy artist.
Sits right in the typical Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass pocket.
Across 21 analysed tracks, Special Request averages 53% groove — groovier than 66% of individual Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tracks — and 51% energy, gentler than 60%.
Measured against 16,260 Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 83–162 BPM with a median of 127 · predominantly minor keys (76% minor) · most common key: 9A (E Minor) with 4 tracks.
How Special Request’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 Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass tempo.
Across Special Request's catalog, tempos have eased from ~127 to ~87 BPM; groove has thinned; production has brightened.
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We scored every transition between Special Request’s 21 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 104 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.
23 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 7 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → The Beat Bass And Drums · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 89 chemistry
19 of the 735 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.2. They come from 7 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → Make A Move · 9A → 9B · +3 BPM · 85 chemistry
23 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 5 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → This Road Feat. Marlon Deja · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 89 chemistry
23 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 5 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → Take Me Up · 9A → 9A · −1 BPM · 87 chemistry
24 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 7 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → Rollin' Gear · 9A → 9A · −1 BPM · 90 chemistry
20 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 5 different Special Request tracks.
Trippethylophosphazene → Leader · 8B → 9B · +1 BPM · 88 chemistry
19 of the 588 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.4. They come from 7 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → Back To Bounce · 9A → 9A · +3 BPM · 86 chemistry
19 of the 714 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 7 different Special Request tracks.
Arse End Of The Moon → In Your Eyes · 9A → 10A · +1 BPM · 88 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 Special Request 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 Special Request, 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.
Special Request's tracks in our catalog range from 83 to 162 BPM, with a median of 127 BPM. Across 21 tracks, the most common range falls in the 125–130 BPM bucket.
Special Request's tracks are mostly in minor keys (76% minor across 21 tracks). The most common single key is 9A (E Minor) with 4 tracks.
We scored every transition between Special Request's 21 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 104 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Bubble Couple, DJ EKL, DJ Icey 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: Arse End Of The Moon into The Beat Bass And Drums, 9A to 9A, 89 chemistry.
Special Request sits closest to Objekt, Tessela, Otik 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 Special Request releases spanning 2013 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
