That's 104.5 bpm. Sounds pretty fast to me.

if you need to start a thread on a forum to ask what tempo to make your music then give up!

What about the people who ask "How to make thiz amazing basses?", and then it's a sine wave, what should they do? You've opened a can of worms now :P

depends on what type of breaks. i produce Florida style breaks (yea i know)my default bpm is 132. i dont know if that helps ya. but i am friends with alot of breaks producers ( i hate to name drop but here goes) dj fixx, teknatronic, ect. they all stick to the 130-135 range when producing. even when they do electro house i rarely see anyone past 140 and hitting that fast is rare too.but to each their own.

look at the replies in this thread. "i make my music at 128" "174" "120-125" "123" "120" "90" "124-128" "102-120" "125" "90" "134" to name a few.

might as well ask how much milk people like in their tea.

^ lol it's all in good fun...not a very serious topic, although the bpm are often related to specific genres, for example the jurassic5 track above is fast for a hip-hop song, but that's a slow bpm for edm..

That method works well for loops...

This is fun, but I also like to work backwards, finding out what BPM works for a certain fixed time frame (i.e. 3.45 seconds) to have X bars of both rhythmically fixed and non-fixed elements to match the visuals.

Producing Nu Disco and House, I use 118 as my go to bpm.

From about 100bpm for ambient-y stuff, up to 135bpm for techno. Typically between 120 and 127 though.

128 for electro house, 140 for dubstep, 170 or 174 for dnb/drumstep

I want to get into glitch hop soon at 100, might also try 110 for moombahcore, hate that name though..

OMG... I feel so slow heh

Usually 125 BPM, lately I often go down to 120 to 123.
Rarely I go up to 128. And once in a while when THE techno DJ comes it'll be 150 (for real hard industrial techno).

And then there are electronica stuff in a very wide range, from 60 up to 150 BPM with different measures like 3/4, 6/8, 15/4 or 7/8 etc... heh

Just for the record, I produced Gabber and Speedcore with BPMs around 250 - 320

As you name checked one of my tunes I'll defer to your bpm opinions :-)

I make poppy/guitary/dancy tracks not really set in any particular style/genre, it goes any where from 60 to 150 bpm.

Am I the only one who finds that genres in electronic music are a bit too specific? While we are free to create just about any sound and mood lots choose to fit into very specific cookie-cutter genres. /rant

I completely agree with you. To be honest it gets quite annoying.

Wasn't asking that. I was asking people here out of curiosity.

At least it's got people talking about what genres they make.
A BPM has nothing to do with that, records crossing a huge void of styles and times use the same BPMS, Diana Ross and Dizzy Rascal share some, hardly the same cookie cutter style as each other though.

Calvin harris is a firm believer that straying to far from the standed 128 bpm shall lead to unpromised discotech floor movement he later went on to say that a bag of haribo's once saved him from near starvation (nobody actually knows why he posts haribo's pictures to his twitter account he just does alright)

I don't have a problem with people discussing tempos and genre. My rant wasn't totally related to the thread. What I do have a problem with is very specific genre or trying to write a track from a recipe... Hey I do acid techno, I set my DAW to 130bpm and whip out a sweet pattern on my 303 to go with my 4 on the floor 909 and maybe add some kind of crazy lead sound. Same thing happened for lots of genres that have come and gone... I have a hard time understanding how people working with so much freedom with their tools end up boxing themselves into very specific genres. Starting with set sounds, key, bpm and a rough idea of how they'll mix it seems like a backwards way to approach music especially when the tools used to make it allow to easily change as you go.

You wouldn't get a guitarist telling a drummer to start playing a 16-beat at 140 and tell the tech to hand him his detuned stratocaster patched into a cheap distortion box and hand him an sm57 for vocals because he wants to compose some 90's east-Seatle noisy rock music. Usually you'd start from a melody, a groove or some lyrics and everything else should set itself into place. I don' want to compare electronic music to rock music here. The same can totally be done in electronic music. You start playing on a keyboard, you end up with a sweet bass line. You could try forcing into 128bpm and change the key so the bass is phatter... or just go with it, maybe that bass line really sounds groovy at 100bpm...

Obviously not everyone works that way but I always find it very odd when people starting talking about ever more obscure genres and the way you should produce it rather than than coming up with a song and then trying to find a way to describe it, if need be.

:D I tell you something,call it whatever BPM if something is good its good no matter what BPM people say it is.... if people want to count BPM by hi hats,rides,shakers or shadow brakes rather than kick and snare,no problem
big tunes will still be big