Badman
30s preview
- BPM
- 128
- Open Key
- 3m
- Energy
- 95/100
- Pop
- 9/100
- Length
- 3:05
- Released
- 2017
- Genre
- Electro House
- Label
- Pressplay Recordings
- Loudness
- -3.0 dB
- Dynamics
- 8.6 dB
- ISRC
- GBKQU1763024
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Badman: peak-time tempo electro house, B minor (10A), 128 BPM. It reads as dark and driving. It is vocal-led. Spoken-word passages run through it. Its spectrum is weighted to the sub and kick, with a heavy low end. The master is loud and heavily compressed. A 2017 production that still circulates in sets. Slower than 95% of Maddix's catalogue. For programming, treat it as a peak-time weapon.
- Groove:
- less groove-driven than 84% of Maddix's catalogue
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 35%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 27%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 22%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 17%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is Badman in?
Badman by Maddix is in B minor, or 10A on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Badman?
Badman runs at 128 BPM, a peak-time tempo track.
What mixes well with Badman?
From 10A it blends harmonically with 11A, 10B, 9A. Moving to 11A lifts the energy a step.
Is Badman good for peak time?
With energy 95 out of 100 at 128 BPM, it works best as a peak-time weapon.
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 128 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%: 120-136 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: a peak-time weapon — save it for the main stretch (energy 95/100).
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 128 — beatmatch without a big tempo pull.
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