EDM Genre BPM Chart

The "BPM range" column shows the conventional range a genre is associated with — house at 120-128, drum & bass at 170-180. Producers and DJs treat these as the working brackets. The "Median (catalog)" column shows where the actual middle of that genre lives in our 400k+ track catalog — useful because real distributions often lean to one end of the theoretical range. House tracks median around 124, not 124-128 evenly; drum & bass medians around 174, with most tracks clustering at 174-176.

It reflects what's actually in the Mixgraph catalog. House and tech house dominate because they dominate the modern dancefloor and modern releases. Genres like frenchcore, dub techno or amapiano have smaller representation because they're smaller scenes — but every track is scored across the same six dimensions, so the data is consistent. The track count tells you how much depth the catalog has for finding tracks in that genre.

Some genres are written at one BPM but felt at half. Dubstep is written at 140 BPM (the beat grid your DAW reads), but the kick-and-snare pattern lands at 70 BPM intervals — so the genre feels half-time. Trap (the EDM kind) does the same. The "half-time feel" tag flags this so you don't mistakenly try to mix a 140-BPM dubstep track against a 140-BPM trance track without accounting for the very different perceived tempo.

They're not in this chart — every entry has one canonical family. But some genres have legitimate cousins in other families. Trap exists in two forms: hip-hop trap (slower, more vocal-led) and EDM trap (festival-scale, sub-driven). Bass house bridges House and Bass / Breaks. We pick the most accurate parent family for each entry and note the relationships in the descriptions; for the full taxonomy and how genres branch, see the music genre tree.

Yes — the BPM ranges tell you which genres can plausibly mix without pitch-shifting either track. House at 124 lives next to tech house at 126, which lives next to melodic techno at 122-128. Half-time bridges work across the chart: hip-hop at 87 pairs with drum & bass at 174, dubstep felt at 70 pairs with trap. For chemistry-scored transitions across genres, the Mashup Finder uses our six-dimension engine to rank candidates that work — including cross-genre.