Mixing in 9A (E Minor)

9A is E Minor on the Camelot wheel — a brooding, slow-burning minor with strong emotional pull. The shape of a transition out of 9A depends entirely on which direction you move.

Stepping clockwise from 9A (E Minor) to 10A (B Minor) creates a subtle energy lift — the harmony brightens by a perfect fifth, which Mixgraph’s scoring engine treats as forward momentum. Pair it with a small BPM increase and the mix reads as a deliberate build, not a drift.

Counter-clockwise from 9A to 8A (A Minor) releases tension — the harmony darkens by a fifth and the engine reads it as an energy ease. It’s the move for breakdowns, warm-downs, and the long taper out of a peak.

The same-number flip to 9B (G Major) keeps the root pitch but swaps minor for major — a mood change rather than an energy change. Use it when you want to keep the room grounded but shift the emotional colour.

In 9A the dominant genres are Drum & Bass, Deep House, and Tech House (Drum & Bass alone accounts for around 7% of the catalogue’s tracks in this key). That genre weight matters: a clockwise lift from 9A most often lands you in adjacent drum & bass territory, which is why the safe move tends to feel inevitable rather than surprising.

Tracks like VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR by Bad Bunny and Marlboro Rojo by Fuerza Regida sit in 9A — useful reference points if you want to hear the harmonic colour of the key before planning a transition. Try mixing one of them into something in 10A or 9B and the relationship becomes audible.