Setting Sun - Instrumental
30s preview
- BPM
- 135
- Open Key
- 7d
- Energy
- 99/100
- Pop
- 0/100
- Length
- 7:00
- Released
- 1996
- Album
- Setting Sun
- Genre
- Big Beat
- Loudness
- -2.7 dB
- Dynamics
- 8.4 dB
- ISRC
- GBAAA9600293
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Other versions
- Setting Sunoriginal2B · 135
- Setting Sun - Live From the Lowlands Festival, U.K./1997original8B · 135
- Setting Sun (2003 Digital Remaster) (Feat. Noel Gallagher)original9B · 135
- Setting Sun - Full Length Versionoriginal2B · 135
- Setting Sun - Radio Editversion9B · 135
Against the original (2B at 135 BPM), this version holds the same tempo in the same key.
Setting Sun - Instrumental runs 135 BPM in F♯ major (2B), a driving up-tempo big beat record. The feel is dark and driving. Its spectrum is weighted to the sub and kick, with a heavy low end. The master is loud and heavily compressed. A 1996 production that still circulates in sets. More underground than 99% of The Chemical Brothers's catalogue. In a set it works best as a peak-time weapon.
- Energy:
- hotter than 94% of The Chemical Brothers's catalogue
- Groove:
- less groove-driven than 82% of The Chemical Brothers's catalogue
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 32%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 28%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 23%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 16%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is Setting Sun - Instrumental in?
Setting Sun - Instrumental by The Chemical Brothers is in F♯ major, or 2B on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is Setting Sun - Instrumental?
Setting Sun - Instrumental runs at 135 BPM, a driving up-tempo track.
What mixes well with Setting Sun - Instrumental?
From 2B it blends harmonically with 3B, 2A, 1B. Moving to 3B lifts the energy a step.
Is Setting Sun - Instrumental good for peak time?
With energy 99 out of 100 at 135 BPM, it works best as a peak-time weapon.
Mixes harmonically
2B → 1B · 3B · 2AFrom 2B, 3B (D♭ major) lifts the energy a step; 2A (E♭ minor) settles into the relative minor; 1B (B major) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 2B at 135 BPM: 3B (D♭ major) — move to 3B to push the floor harder; 2A (E♭ minor) — switch to 2A for a mood change without losing the groove; 1B (B major) — drop to 1B to bring the room down gently.
Pitch range at ±6%: 127-143 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 9B rather than 2B; below -5% it reads as 7B. With key lock on, it stays 2B across the whole range.
Programming: a peak-time weapon — save it for the main stretch (energy 99/100).
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 135 — beatmatch without a big tempo pull.
More big beat
More from The Chemical Brothers
Full profile
Other recommendations
Beyond strict key and genre matches: tracks that still sit in beatmatch range of 135 BPM with a compatible energy and groove — candidates for a key jump or a genre crossover.
Every insight on this page, for your own library.
Vibes runs this same analysis on the music you own: keys, energy and vibe for every track, organized into sets you can actually play.