Artist profile
Upgrade is a drum and bass producer and DJ known for work within the genre's electronic and breakbeat traditions. Their output spans releases across the drum and bass spectrum, contributing to the wider landscape of fast breakbeats and bass-driven production.
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Upgrade is a high-energy and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Drum & Bass pocket.
Across 34 analysed tracks, Upgrade averages 66% energy — harder than 66% of individual Drum & Bass tracks — and 44% groove, groovier than 58%.
Measured against 23,150 Drum & Bass tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Upgrade’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 Upgrade's catalog, tempos have eased from ~110 to ~88 BPM; groove has thinned; warmth has lifted.
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We scored every transition between Upgrade’s 34 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 1,031 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.
240 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 25 different Upgrade tracks.
Total Carnage → Get It On · 2A → 2A · −0.5 BPM · 92 chemistry
214 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 24 different Upgrade tracks.
Losing My Mind → Release Me · 8A → 9A · −1 BPM · 90 chemistry
235 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 24 different Upgrade tracks.
Lycra Lout → Battle Scars Feat. Fourward & Jakes · 2A → 2A · same BPM · 93 chemistry
224 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 25 different Upgrade tracks.
223 of the 1,326 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.6. They come from 25 different Upgrade tracks.
No Comply feat. Master Error → Jailbreak · 5B → 4B · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
250 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 24 different Upgrade tracks.
Bin Chicken → Imagination · 9A → 9A · same BPM · 93 chemistry
243 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 24 different Upgrade tracks.
The Visitor → Ground Shaker · 5B → 6A · same BPM · 91 chemistry
209 of the 1,360 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 7.8. They come from 25 different Upgrade tracks.
Downgrade → Be With Me - Extended Mix · 5B → 5B · −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 Upgrade 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 Upgrade, 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.
Upgrade's tracks in our catalog range from 70 to 175 BPM, with a median of 88 BPM. Across 34 tracks, the most common range falls in the 90–95 BPM bucket.
Upgrade's tracks are mostly in minor keys (62% minor across 34 tracks). The most common single key is 5B (E♭ Major) with 5 tracks.
We scored every transition between Upgrade's 34 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 1,031 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Amplify, Break, Friction 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: Total Carnage into Get It On, 2A to 2A, 92 chemistry.
Upgrade sits closest to Raz, A.M.C, Bladerunner 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 Upgrade releases spanning 2013 to 2024, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
