Hold Your Colour
- Key
- 4A · F minor
- BPM
- 174
- Half-time
- 87
- Open Key
- 9m
- Energy
- 89/100
- Pop
- 0/100
- Length
- 5:28
- Released
- 2006
- Album
- Hold Your Colour (Bi-Polar Remixes)
- Genre
- Drum N Bass
- Loudness
- -4.8 dB
- ISRC
- GBKBH0616003
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Other versions
- Hold Your Colour - Noisia Remixremix8B · 173
- Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academyoriginal8B · 174
- Hold Your Colour - Bi-Polar Mixoriginal4A · 174
- Hold Your Colour - Bi-Polar Radio Editversion4A · 174
- Hold your Colour - Extended Bipolar Mixversion4A · 174
Hold Your Colour is a drum n bass track in F minor (4A) at 174 BPM. It reads as dark and driving. It leans atmospheric over strictly danceable. The master is loud and heavily compressed. A 2006 production that still circulates in sets. More underground than 99% of Pendulum's catalogue. For programming, treat it as an opener or closing-set piece.
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
FAQ
What key is Hold Your Colour in?
Hold Your Colour by Pendulum is in F minor, or 4A on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Hold Your Colour?
Hold Your Colour runs at 174 BPM.
What mixes well with Hold Your Colour?
From 4A it blends harmonically with 5A, 4B, 3A. Moving to 5A lifts the energy a step.
Is Hold Your Colour good for peak time?
With energy 89 out of 100 at 174 BPM, it works best as an opener or closing-set piece.
Mixes harmonically
4A → 3A · 5A · 4BFrom 4A, 5A (C minor) lifts the energy a step; 4B (A♭ major) brightens to the relative major; 3A (B♭ minor) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 4A at 174 BPM: 5A (C minor) — move to 5A to push the floor harder; 4B (A♭ major) — switch to 4B for a mood change without losing the groove; 3A (B♭ minor) — drop to 3A to bring the room down gently.
Pitch range at ±6%: 164-184 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 11A rather than 4A; below -5% it reads as 9A. With key lock on, it stays 4A across the whole range.
Programming: an opener or closing-set piece.
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 174 — 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 174 BPM with a compatible energy and groove — candidates for a key jump or a genre crossover.
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