Look After Your Mermaids
30s preview
- BPM
- 100
- Double-time
- 200
- Open Key
- 4d
- Energy
- 15/100
- Pop
- 9/100
- Length
- 5:25
- Released
- 2001
- Album
- No More Mosquitoes
- Genre
- Downtempo
- Label
- Domino
- Loudness
- -17.1 dB
- Dynamics
- 16.5 dB
- ISRC
- GBCEL0100352
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Look After Your Mermaids runs 100 BPM in A major (11B), a slow-groove tempo downtempo record. The feel is brooding and low-slung. The groove is loose and less beat-driven. Its spectrum is weighted to the sub and kick, with a heavy low end. The master keeps real dynamic headroom. The master keeps unusual dynamic range for club music (crest 17 dB). A 2001 production that still circulates in sets. Calmer than 95% of Four Tet's catalogue. In a set it works best as a warm-up or breakdown cut.
- Brightness:
- darker than 92% of Four Tet's catalogue
- Tempo:
- slower than 85% of Four Tet's catalogue
- Groove:
- less groove-driven than 80% of Four Tet's catalogue
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 37%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 34%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 20%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 9%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is Look After Your Mermaids in?
Look After Your Mermaids by Four Tet is in A major, or 11B on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Look After Your Mermaids?
Look After Your Mermaids runs at 100 BPM, a slow-groove tempo track.
What mixes well with Look After Your Mermaids?
From 11B it blends harmonically with 12B, 11A, 10B. Moving to 12B lifts the energy a step.
Is Look After Your Mermaids good for peak time?
With energy 15 out of 100 at 100 BPM, it works best as a warm-up or breakdown cut.
Mixes harmonically
11B → 10B · 12B · 11AFrom 11B, 12B (E major) lifts the energy a step; 11A (F♯ minor) settles into the relative minor; 10B (D major) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 11B at 100 BPM: 12B (E major) — move to 12B to push the floor harder; 11A (F♯ minor) — switch to 11A for a mood change without losing the groove; 10B (D major) — drop to 10B to bring the room down gently.
Pitch range at ±6%: 94-106 BPM — anything in that window beatmatches without sounding stretched.
Key on the fader: without key lock (Master Tempo on CDJs), above roughly +5% it plays a semitone higher, so treat it as 6B rather than 11B; below -5% it reads as 4B. With key lock on, it stays 11B across the whole range.
Programming: a warm-up or breakdown cut — early set or after a peak to reset the room.
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 100 — beatmatch without a big tempo pull.
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Other recommendations
Beyond strict key and genre matches: tracks that still sit in beatmatch range of 100 BPM with a compatible energy and groove — candidates for a key jump or a genre crossover.
