Music Genres

A personal reference I use when digging through my collection and planning sets.

The tempo map puts every genre on one shared BPM axis, which is the view that actually answers the mixing question - what sits close enough to what. The family tree shows how the styles descend from each other. Pick anything in either chart for its tracks, artists, labels and where it tends to land in a set.

Tempo mapFamily tree

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Tempo in BPM. Trap and the wider Bass family are counted at their written tempo, not the half-time feel.

Pick any genre in the chart above to see its tracks, artists, labels and where it lands in a set.