# Sub Focus — Timewarp

Sub Focus’s Timewarp (2009) is No. 14 in our Drum and Bass ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it.

- **Released:** 2009
- **Label:** RAM
- **On one list:** Drum and Bass
- **Updated:** 2026-08-28
- **Artist:** [Sub Focus](https://waxonia.com/artist/sub-focus/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/sub-focus--timewarp/

## What we say

### No. 14 in [Drum and Bass](https://waxonia.com/genre/drum-and-bass/)

Sound design as songwriting. Every element is synthetic and every one of them hooks — the cleanest demonstration of what modern studio technique brought to the form.

## Analysis

8 sections, the first drop of 2 at 0:33, 12% of the way in, 13% of it spent climbing.

- **Tempo:** 172.2 BPM — the pulse reads at half this too — counted the way the genre counts it
- **Key:** F minor
- **Dynamic range:** 14.4 dB — wide open — the quiet parts are genuinely quiet
- **Length:** 4:38

- `0:00` A · **intro**, instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: drums, bass, other
- `0:19` B · **build** (bar 7), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: drums, other
- `0:34` B · **build** (bar 13), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: drums, bass, other
- `0:46` B · **build** (bar 17), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: drums, bass, other
- `0:56` A · **peak** (bar 21), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, other
- `2:00` A · **breakdown** (bar 43), instrumental — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: bass, other
- `2:29` C · **steady** (bar 54), instrumental — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, bass, other
- `2:45` A · **steady** (bar 60), instrumental — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, bass, other

**Drops** at 0:33 (bar 12), 0:54 (bar 20). A drop is a moment, not a stretch.

**What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.

- **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

Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy
moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted
rather than hedged.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Sub%20Focus%20Timewarp) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=d4iYglrXBtE)

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