Artist profile
The Knocks are an electronic music duo known for their work in dance and house production. Their sound blends elements of deep house, tech house, and pop-influenced dance music.
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The Knocks is a moderate-energy with strong groove and drive — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Dance pocket.
Across 18 analysed tracks, The Knocks averages 59% energy — harder than 63% of individual Dance tracks — and 80% groove, groovier than 56%.
Measured against 14,418 Dance tracks on 11 August 2026.
How The Knocks’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 Dance tempo.
Across The Knocks's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~105 to ~127 BPM; warmth has lifted; groove has deepened.
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We scored every transition between The Knocks’s 18 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 123 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 720 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 11 different The Knocks tracks.
Brazilian Soul (feat. Sofi Tukker) - Walker & Royce Extended Mix → Just F*ck - Plastic Robots remix · 5B → 5B · same BPM · 87 chemistry
18 of the 720 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 8 different The Knocks tracks.
Brazilian Soul (feat. Sofi Tukker) - FTampa Remix → 2 up in the Morning · 2A → 3A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
19 of the 684 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.9. They come from 12 different The Knocks tracks.
Brazilian Soul (feat. Sofi Tukker) - Walker & Royce Extended Mix → Real Life - Solardo Extended Mix · 5B → 4B · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
20 of the 720 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 8 different The Knocks tracks.
Awa Ni - James Hype Remix → 8 Days - Wuki Remix · 12A → 1A · +5 BPM · 87 chemistry
15 of the 306 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 8 different The Knocks tracks.
One On One - Extended Mix → Summer - Elektrik Disko Extended Remix · 8A → 8A · −2 BPM · 90 chemistry
16 of the 234 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.3. They come from 6 different The Knocks tracks.
Ride Or Die (feat. Foster The People) - The Knocks VIP Club Mix → Wasted feat. WAV3POP - Extended Mix · 10B → 10B · +1 BPM · 86 chemistry
25 of the 720 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 10 different The Knocks tracks.
One On One - Extended Mix → Make My Heart Sing · 8A → 8A · −1 BPM · 90 chemistry
17 of the 414 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.4. They come from 10 different The Knocks tracks.
All About You (feat. Foster The People) → Best Days of My Life - Extended Mix · 5B → 5B · same BPM · 87 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 The Knocks 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 The Knocks, 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.
The Knocks's tracks in our catalog range from 88 to 129 BPM, with a median of 121 BPM. Across 18 tracks, the most common range falls in the 120–125 BPM bucket.
The Knocks's tracks are mostly in minor keys (50% minor across 18 tracks). The most common single key is 8A (A Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between The Knocks's 18 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 123 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Alok, Croatia Squad, Duke Dumont 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: Brazilian Soul (feat. Sofi Tukker) - Walker & Royce Extended Mix into Just F*ck - Plastic Robots remix, 5B to 5B, 87 chemistry.
The Knocks sits closest to Cannons, Roosevelt, Dragonette 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 The Knocks releases spanning 2015 to 2024, with the most tracks from the 2010s.