Genres of music at 120 bpm
Hey everyone,
It seems that alot of people around here really like 120 bpms. I’m new to this genre stuff so I was wondering if theres a specfic genre that defines music at 120 bpms. Scattered tune is all I can find. Can yeah turn on a few lights for me or what?
techno, tech-house, and minimal are the most likely canidate. mostly in the mid-120s though (124-128)
and house, older house music and deep are in the 115-125ish range
deadly quick responses !
I’ll check into these genres, thanks for the help!
i find quite a bit of nu-disco in the 120 range too too…mainly 110 - 120.
when i was 20 i used to think 120 was soooo slow and never went below 125. now i’m 28 i think very differently 
You get quite a lot of broken beat and funky breaks around this speed too. And nu-disco.
deadmau5 is always at 128
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be sides that one chick whose name i forgot cue the picture
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that can be arranged.
The mind boggles…
Some labels -
Defected, Kompakt, Get Physical, Parquet, Great Stuff, Poker Flat
Some other labels
Cocoon, 100% Pure, Hotfingers/303 Lovers, Spinnin Records, Systematic Recordings, Viva Music, Toolroom, Saved, Rejected, Noir Music, Formatik, Drumcode.
Nice list padi_04 - forgot about Cocoon & Systematic - ace!
Most DAWs default project BPM is set at 120… most of the popular sound libraries (loops) are also at 120bpm, so it’s not a surprise to see that House, Techno, and others are the same.
I tend to stay around 120bpm (deep house)…somehow my creativity hovers around that speed, so it’s just convenient that my DAW defaults to it when I start a new project.
Soulful House, Funk, Afrobeat…
LOLz
Nominated
For each of the genres below, I used my collection to compute the fraction of the music within that genre which is within 2% of 120 BPM (i.e., has a tempo between 117.6 - 122.4 BPM).
So, for example, I have 105 Deep House tracks with tempo within 2% of 120 BPM. My collection contains a total of 299 Deep House tracks, so the percentage for deep house is 105/299 = 35%
Acid: 9%
Deep House: 35%
Disco: 25%
Electro: 18%
House: 24%
Indie Dance/Nu Disco: 31%
Leftfield: 15%
Minimal: 13%
Synth-pop: 16% (small sample, it’s 7 out of 45)
Tech House: 15%
Techno: 11%
I have some other genres (e.g., Downtempo, DnB) which I didn’t even list since these obviously hardly ever use a tempo ~120 BPM.
