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Originally posted by Freak I mix all of these. Theres a distinct difference between mixing and just beatmatching (which is what most peeps tend to regard mixing as ) garage+ drum n bass there is more cutting between them- not as long periods with both faders open and lots of scope for fine tuning in the mix. Lots of people can find pitching drum n bass hard tho Hip hop + r&b there is more dropping in than any other genre and therefore not as reliant on matching pitch as others - although you can really stand out as a good hip hop dj by using skills learnt in other genres..and there is more scope for totally creative set programming within this area Learn to mix all of them- more strings to your bow etc... In terms of phrasing and using eq etc then theres not a lot of difference between any of the genres hardest thing ive ever mixed was an aphex twin tune and a remix of bjork by funkstorung..... anyone who has the slightest idea what they are about then you will know what i mean

You Nuttah!

Aphex twin he he... probably best mixed with a recording of other household appliances.

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Actually the hardest thing to mix is anything with a live drum track i.e. anything played by humans. The timing will not be kept properly and the BPM will change slightly. The human factor makes it really tough.

Being a DJ from the really old school I find Electro and Hip Hop really easy not to mention Big Beat/Breaks.

Something that people tend to find though is that the slower a BPM is the harder it is, partially due to the lack of forgiveness with regards to your adjustments. They become much clearer and noticable.


Freak makes a very good point. There is a hell of a difference between mixing and beat matching. Just because you can beat match within a certain genre it doesn't make you a good DJ of it.
The energies within genres behave so differently. Take trance for example, the BPMs are pretty constand through out the night and the same goes for house and Drum and Base.

Hip Hop on the other hand has different rules for energy. You can be playing an upbeat tempo track and then drop a slow one that just sends the place going crazy. (Hip Hop is a term I use lightly as the true spirit of it died years ago for me, it actually lives on stronger in Big Beat / Breaks than it does in Rap music).

Cheers
Nem

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one thing that makes trance hard to mix imo is that there are so many more melodies out there and i am anal about mixing on key so its alot harder to think of hte right tracks.

with progressive, its more beaty and the songs are more similar so its harder in some ways becuase you ahve to focus more on progression.

to me its like a video game where each genre has its own strenth and weakness but in the end evberything cancels eachother out and its basically up to the dj to make the best of the strengths and work well with the weaknesses.