I think trance is probably easier than some others like progressive house, but maybe techno is easier than trance? What do you guys think?

house is probably the easiest to spin, techno is easier but when it comes to three decks, the mix has to be tight because you cant constantly re-adjust on three decks while EQing and fading.

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I spin both alot of prog house & trance...

I find that it depends on my mood & how much im into it. Sometimes I can't mix eather . Especially if the mastering/production of the track isn't great.


Most tracks imo with a distinct Kick & Hat, are the easier to match, does not really depend on the genre.


I don't play much techno so I can't help you there.

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personally i would say that the more chilled progressive stuff is the easyest... i would guess house would be but i cant comment considering... well i hate house music.

I love mixing techno and using 3 decks its quite hard and feels alot more rewarding when you keep some mean tracks playing together from start to finish to create neato sounds.

trance and hard trance are on par with how easy they are to mix i think... but it depends how you mix it and how long they carry out for before they are enjoyable IMO

Breaks.

Trance is easiest I find and the hardest is probably house and breaks.

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Hmm.. i would personally say that Trance is one of the harder genres to spin, Progressive is even worse.

Fairly easy in my opinion are Jumpstyle/Hardstyle..

in terms of beatmatching, i find prog the easiest, in terms of track selection, of the most difficult genres in the 120-140 bpm range...

i dont think were gonna get into ambient/chillout or dnb....

i also have a lot of fun mixing breaks, and is most natural for me, i guess it depends...

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slow trance to me is the hard one.

yeah i can agree on breaks because normally you would get a composition of bassdrum then snare which is cake to mix

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imo is depends on the track... each genre has its easy tracks and hard tracks...

ive got a couple breaks tracks that are kinda strange... its a constant beat for a few bars then it changes up some to a more basic breakbeat after a while.. its just akward sometimes..

with Dnb it can be pretty hard but again.. it depends on the beat structure of the track

id say trance is hardest for me to mix since i use belt dirves with cheap pitch control.. its harder to make a good smooth mix that flows cus usually if im not riding the pitch or keeping my finger on one of the tracks it drifts and becomes extremely noticable that its off...

again.. it depends

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Originally posted by RickyM Next thread - trance for listening to when you are halfway down the stairs in your house...

Being a newbie, I'd say House is the easiest, then trance, then break. I don't know Techno.