Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy
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- Key
- 8B · C major
- BPM
- 174
- Half-time
- 87
- Open Key
- 1d
- Energy
- 89/100
- Pop
- 5/100
- Length
- 7:14
- Released
- 2009
- Album
- Live at Brixton Academy
- Genre
- Drum N Bass
- Loudness
- -5.9 dB
- Dynamics
- 14.0 dB
- ISRC
- GBAHT0900252
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 Colouroriginal4A · 174
- Hold Your Colour - Bi-Polar Mixoriginal4A · 174
- Hold Your Colour - Bi-Polar Radio Editversion4A · 174
- Hold your Colour - Extended Bipolar Mixversion4A · 174
Against the original (4A at 174 BPM), this version holds the same tempo and moves the key from 4A to 8B.
Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy runs 174 BPM in C major (8B), a drum n bass record. The feel is dark and driving. The groove is loose and less beat-driven. It is vocal-led. The master keeps unusual dynamic range for club music (crest 14 dB). A 2009 production that still circulates in sets. Darker than 95% of Pendulum's catalogue. In a set it works best as an opener or closing-set piece.
- Low end:
- more treble-tilted than 94% of Pendulum's catalogue
- Groove:
- less groove-driven than 83% of Pendulum's catalogue
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 28%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 29%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 24%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 18%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy in?
Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy by Pendulum is in C major, or 8B on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy?
Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy runs at 174 BPM.
What mixes well with Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy?
From 8B it blends harmonically with 9B, 8A, 7B. Moving to 9B lifts the energy a step.
Is Hold Your Colour - Live at Brixton Academy 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
8B → 7B · 9B · 8AFrom 8B, 9B (G major) lifts the energy a step; 8A (A minor) settles into the relative minor; 7B (F major) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 8B at 174 BPM: 9B (G major) — move to 9B to push the floor harder; 8A (A minor) — switch to 8A for a mood change without losing the groove; 7B (F major) — drop to 7B 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 3B rather than 8B; below -5% it reads as 1B. With key lock on, it stays 8B 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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