Recording
Circles
Adam F
- Released
- 1995
- Label
- Section 5
- On one list
- Drum and Bass
- ISRC
- GBAYE9701340
- Updated
- 2026-08-28
Analysis
7 sections, the first drop of 2 at 0:46, 20% of the way in, 36% of it spent climbing.
- Tempo
- 166.8 BPM
- the pulse reads at half this too — counted the way the genre counts it
- Key
- A minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 5.2 dB
- moderate range, typical of a modern master
- Length
- 3:48
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
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- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:22Bbreakdownbar 8
- 0:47Abuildbar 17
- 1:28Cbuildbar 31
- 2:09Csteadybar 45
- 2:32Dpeakbar 53
- 3:20Doutrobar 70
Drops at 0:46 (bar 17), 1:34 (bar 33). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:22
- Energy
- 32
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:25
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 10
- Density
- 29
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 32
- Brightness
- 71
- Density
- 46
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 65
- Brightness
- 64
- Density
- 56
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:23
- Energy
- 76
- Brightness
- 60
- Density
- 48
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (D)
- Lasts
- 0:48
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 39
- Density
- 14
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (D)
- Lasts
- 0:28
- Energy
- 75
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- outro
- the closing fall
Against Drum and Bass
Drops where Drum and Bass usually drops — 20% of the way in.
7 sections here; 9 is typical.
Drawn from the 13 records on our Drum and Bass list we have measured. The line over the energy curve above is that median.
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 10 in Drum and Bass
Jazz-inflected, immaculately mixed, and the record most often used to prove to sceptics that drum and bass is composed music rather than assembled music.