
Electronic Music BPM Cheat Sheet: Every Genre
A working tempo map of electronic music — what runs at 120, what runs at 174, and how to use BPM when you mix or browse crates.
House, techno, bass, trance and their offshoots traced through the machines that made them: drum machines, samplers, synth presets, studio habits.

A working tempo map of electronic music — what runs at 120, what runs at 174, and how to use BPM when you mix or browse crates.

UK garage is London's swinging, soulful 2-step sound — the genre that raised dubstep, grime and half of modern pop's drum language.

Gabber, the Rotterdam-born hardcore strain that runs past 180 BPM, is dance music at its most physical — and it is booming again.

Trance is dance music's cathedral sound — long builds, melodic payoffs and 138 BPM — and it never actually went away.

Dubstep is the South London sound that went from a 100-capacity club night to global festival main stages — then split in two.

Drum and bass is UK dance music's fastest-living engine — here is how it works, who built it and which subgenres matter.