Artist profile
Deep House producer and DJ.
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Waifs & Strays is a moderate-energy with strong groove and drive and a bright production artist.
Sits right in the typical Deep House pocket.
Across 13 analysed tracks, Waifs & Strays averages 51% energy — harder than 69% of individual Deep House tracks — and 80% groove, straighter than 65%.
Measured against 22,124 Deep House tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Waifs & Strays’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 Deep House tempo.
Across Waifs & Strays's catalog, groove has thinned; warmth has receded; vocal content has thinned.
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We scored every transition between Waifs & Strays’s 13 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 894 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.
64 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 9 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
Dance Me - Dance You → Like The Moves · 8A → 7B · same BPM · 93 chemistry
60 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 10 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
For A While - Huxley & Matt Tolfrey Remix → Analog Only · 8A → 8A · −1 BPM · 91 chemistry
61 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 9 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
It's Over → Pipe Dream · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
66 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 9 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
Dance Me - Dance You → Tries · 8A → 9A · same BPM · 89 chemistry
70 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 11 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
Remedy → Lost Messages - Migs Salty Vault Dub · 7A → 7A · +1 BPM · 90 chemistry
68 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 11 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
Body Shiver → Touch Me · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 93 chemistry
65 of the 325 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.9. They come from 9 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
Remedy → Make It New · 7A → 7A · +1 BPM · 91 chemistry
79 of the 494 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.8. They come from 9 different Waifs & Strays tracks.
It's Over → Between Worlds · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 92 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 Waifs & Strays 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 Waifs & Strays, 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.
Waifs & Strays's tracks in our catalog range from 116 to 124 BPM, with a median of 122 BPM. Across 13 tracks, the most common range falls in the 120–125 BPM bucket.
Waifs & Strays's tracks are mostly in minor keys (62% minor across 13 tracks). The most common single key is 7A (D Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Waifs & Strays's 13 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 894 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and col lawton, Felipe Gordon, Jimpster 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: Dance Me - Dance You into Like The Moves, 8A to 7B, 93 chemistry.
Waifs & Strays sits closest to Karen Pollack, Alexis Raphael, James Teej 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 Waifs & Strays releases spanning 2011 to 2018, with the most tracks from the 2010s.
