85 BPM
85 BPM is mostly Drum & Bass, Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave and Trap / Future Bass in our catalog: 2,677 tracks, most of them written at 170 BPM and read here at half tempo.
Read this page as a detection result, not a tempo. Drum & bass runs at 170–180 BPM, so the tracks listed here are written at 170 BPM and were measured at the half-time pulse. Beatmatch them against 170 BPM, not 85. Why half-time detection happens.
Mixing at 85 BPM
Direct mixing: tracks at 85 BPM blend smoothly with anything between 82 and 88 BPM using pitch adjustment.
Half-time and double-time: Halve 85 and you get 42.5; double it and you get 170. Both are the same pulse counted differently, which is why a track at 42.5 will drop cleanly under one at 85. In the catalog, 43 BPM sits outside the range we analyse and we hold 379 tracks stored at 170 BPM. Work the octave move out.
Energy flow: with 546 high-energy tracks in our catalog, 85 BPM is ideal for warm-up and mid-set grooves.
Sound profile
Tracks at 85 BPM tend to be a moderate-energy and a bright production sound, averaged across 2,677 tracks.
Genre distribution
Of the 2,677 tracks we hold at 85 BPM, the biggest tags are Drum & Bass (918), Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave (585), Trap / Future Bass (168), Hard Techno (167) and UK / Happy Hardcore (159). Those are track counts, not shares: a track can carry more than one genre tag, so they deliberately sum past the total rather than pretending to be percentages.
Where 85 BPM is crowded
The busiest genre and key cells inside the 2,677 tracks we hold at 85 BPM. If you are hunting for something to drop in at this tempo, these are the shelves with the most on them.
| Genre | Key | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Drum & Bass | 4A | 88 |
| Drum & Bass | 8A | 87 |
| Drum & Bass | 7A | 64 |
| Drum & Bass | 9A | 64 |
| Drum & Bass | 6A | 63 |
| Drum & Bass | 2A | 59 |
Track counts, not shares — a track can carry more than one genre tag, so the cells overlap. These are tracks stored at 85 BPM; on a deck they run at 170. The keys and counts are unaffected by which pulse the tempo was read at.
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Frequently asked
What genres are commonly found at 85 BPM?
The most common genres at 85 BPM include Drum & Bass, Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave, Trap / Future Bass. Mixgraph has 2,677 tracks at this tempo across multiple genres. Most of those drum & bass tracks are written at 170 BPM — drum & bass runs at 170–180 BPM — and were detected at the half-time pulse. They will beatmatch against 170 BPM, not 85.
Is 85 BPM the same as 43 or 170 BPM?
Halve 85 and you get 42.5; double it and you get 170. Both are the same pulse counted differently, which is why a track at 42.5 will drop cleanly under one at 85. In the catalog, 43 BPM sits outside the range we analyse and we hold 379 tracks stored at 170 BPM.
What BPMs are compatible with 85 BPM for mixing?
Tracks between 82 and 88 BPM can be mixed smoothly using pitch adjustment. For creative transitions, try half-time mixing with 43 BPM tracks or double-time with 170 BPM tracks during breakdowns.
How do I transition between 85 and 87 BPM?
A 2 BPM difference is easily managed with your pitch fader or sync function. Focus on harmonic compatibility using the Camelot wheel — matching keys matter more than a small BPM gap. Use Mixgraph's chemistry scoring to find the best matches.
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About 85 BPM in DJ mixing
85 BPM is where our analysis lands when it hears drum & bass at half tempo. On a deck these tracks run at 170 BPM, so read this page as a way into 170 rather than a tempo to mix at.
The busiest shelf at 85 BPM is Drum & Bass in 4A — 88 tracks. Energy splits 546 high / 1,931 medium / 197 low, so there is material here for a warm-up and for a peak either way.
Beatmatch these against 170 BPM, not 85. Everything else on this page — the keys, the energy split, the sound profile — is measured from the audio and holds regardless of which pulse the tempo was read at.
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