Artist profile
Ulterior Motive is a drum and bass producer and DJ known for work within the genre's technical and atmospheric strands. The project has built a presence through releases and performances in the drum and bass community.
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Ulterior Motive is a moderate-energy and a bright production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 28 analysed tracks, Ulterior Motive averages 56% energy — gentler than 74% of individual Drum & Bass tracks.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Ulterior Motive’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 Drum & Bass tempo.
Across Ulterior Motive's catalog, production has darkened.
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We scored every transition between Ulterior Motive’s 28 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 871 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.
230 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 24 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Sideways → Way Better (feat. Minor Forms) · 4A → 4A · +1 BPM · 92 chemistry
242 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 25 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Radian → In the Shadows · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
263 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 25 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Jungle Jam → Out Of Time · 4A → 4A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
223 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 24 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Trip Hammer → Shame · 10A → 10A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
280 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 21 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Jungle Jam → Babalugats · 4A → 4A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
243 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 25 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Music City → Snakes & Villains - Molecular Remix · 4A → 4A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
240 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 25 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
The Real Ft. Ben Verse → Parallel Ft. Zara Kershaw - LSB Remix · 5A → 5A · +1 BPM · 93 chemistry
230 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 26 different Ulterior Motive tracks.
Music City → Resist · 4A → 4A · +1 BPM · 93 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 Ulterior Motive 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 Ulterior Motive, 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.
Ulterior Motive's tracks in our catalog range from 84 to 129 BPM, with a median of 86 BPM. Across 28 tracks, the most common range falls in the 85–90 BPM bucket.
Ulterior Motive's tracks are mostly in minor keys (82% minor across 28 tracks). The most common single key is 4A (F Minor) with 7 tracks.
We scored every transition between Ulterior Motive's 28 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 871 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Amoss, Bcee, Break 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: Sideways into Way Better (feat. Minor Forms), 4A to 4A, 92 chemistry.
Ulterior Motive sits closest to Jubei, Dub Phizix, Zero T 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 Ulterior Motive releases spanning 2013 to 2019, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
