A Certain Kind by Soft Machine Song Details

"A Certain Kind" by Soft Machine had its release date on 1968. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:13, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. There are a total of 15 in the song's album "The Soft Machine (Remastered And Expanded)". In this album, this song's track order is #6. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. The popularity of A Certain Kind is currently below average in popularity right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

With A Certain Kind by Soft Machine having a BPM of 168 with a half-time of 84 BPM and a double-time of 336 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Vivace (lively and fast) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-14.289 dB
Acousticness
42%
Danceability
22%
Energy
26%
Instrumentalness
79%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
76%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
12%

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ISRC
USMC16853765
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records