Wish You Were Here
30s preview
- BPM
- 173
- Half-time
- 87
- Open Key
- 3m
- Energy
- 92/100
- Pop
- 0/100
- Length
- 5:49
- Released
- 2012
- Album
- The Agony & The Ecstasy
- Genre
- Drum N Bass
- Loudness
- -3.0 dB
- Dynamics
- 13.3 dB
- ISRC
- GBCJY1200020
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Other versions
- Wish You Were Here - Instrumentaloriginal10A · 173
Wish You Were Here: drum n bass, B minor (10A), 173 BPM. Tonally it lands dark and driving. It is vocal-led. The master is loud and heavily compressed. The master keeps unusual dynamic range for club music (crest 13 dB). A 2012 production that still circulates in sets. More underground than 99% of High Contrast's catalogue. In a set it works best as an opener or closing-set piece.
- Low end:
- more treble-tilted than 92% of High Contrast's catalogue
- Groove:
- less groove-driven than 75% of High Contrast's catalogue
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 25%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 29%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 26%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 20%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is Wish You Were Here in?
Wish You Were Here by High Contrast is in B minor, or 10A on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Wish You Were Here?
Wish You Were Here runs at 173 BPM.
What mixes well with Wish You Were Here?
From 10A it blends harmonically with 11A, 10B, 9A. Moving to 11A lifts the energy a step.
Is Wish You Were Here good for peak time?
With energy 92 out of 100 at 173 BPM, it works best as an opener or closing-set piece.
Mixes harmonically
10A → 9A · 11A · 10BFrom 10A, 11A (F♯ minor) lifts the energy a step; 10B (D major) brightens to the relative major; 9A (E minor) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 10A at 173 BPM: 11A (F♯ minor) — move to 11A to push the floor harder; 10B (D major) — switch to 10B for a mood change without losing the groove; 9A (E minor) — drop to 9A to bring the room down gently.
Pitch range at ±6%: 163-183 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 5A rather than 10A; below -5% it reads as 3A. With key lock on, it stays 10A across the whole range.
Programming: an opener or closing-set piece.
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 173 — beatmatch without a big tempo pull.
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