Genre LensWhat is Drum & Bass?
Fast chopped breakbeats over a deep, slow-moving sub bassline. The drums sprint at ~174 BPM while the bass and melody move at half that pace, which is why it feels both frantic and heavy at once.
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Identify my track- fast syncopated two-step breakbeat
- deep sub bass moving at half tempo
- tempo around 174 BPM
- chopped Amen-style drum edits
Anchors rather than an exhaustive canon — if your track sits near these, this is probably the right label.
Usual tempo 168–178 BPM. Sitting outside that range does not disqualify a track; it just makes the tells matter more.
The nearest neighbours in Electronic, by tempo. If Drum & Bass does not quite fit, one of these usually does.
- Hardcore / Hard Techno145–180 BPM
Fast and punishing. Distorted, clipping kick drums that carry the whole track, screaming synth stabs, and tempos well past what a normal club plays. Aggression is the aesthetic.
- Jungle160–175 BPM
Drum & bass's rawer ancestor. Frenetic, heavily chopped and time-stretched breakbeats (usually the "Amen break"), reggae and dancehall basslines and vocal samples, and a rougher, more organic feel than modern DnB.
- IDM / Experimental80–170 BPM
"Intelligent Dance Music" — electronic music made for headphones rather than dancefloors. Irregular, intricately programmed drums, odd time feels, unusual synthesis, and structures that refuse to repeat predictably.
- House118–128 BPM
The foundation of most dance music. A steady four-on-the-floor kick on every beat, an off-beat hi-hat "tss" between kicks, and a warm, looping, soulful groove. If it feels like a club at midnight and you can nod your head on every kick, it is house.