hard house is the easiest, then breaks, then house, I consider trance to be failry tricky as you have to worry about key/melody clashes moreso than most genres.

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The first tracks i ever nailed were house, cant even remeber why i was spinning them, not my style at all, but i feel hardstyle flows quite well.

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They're about the same. Toughest for me is hip-hop. My tempo on my hip hop vinyl ranges from 60-130 BPM so you have to know your tracks extremely well. Whoever said that trance is tricky because you have to keep the tunes in key I hope you're not mixing other genres out of key because that sounds piss too. Doesn't matter what kind of music you're mixing you need to stay away from key clashes.

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trance is pretty easy...but i feel like dnb is a bit easier once you know what to listen for

any parts where there are highly audible hi hats and snares that are very complex and fast... in any genre. even if you are 'kind of' on point... that is often not good enough... you need to be right on point for the mix to sound clean and clear

also parts of a track with no kick... you just have to get a really good feel for those ones

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Originally posted by fr3sh any parts where there are highly audible hi hats and snares that are very complex and fast... in any genre. even if you are 'kind of' on point... that is often not good enough... you need to be right on point for the mix to sound clean and clear also parts of a track with no kick... you just have to get a really good feel for those ones

I'd have to agree. a track with more timbres than just a drum beat can make things a little harder. Because when your dealing with more sounds, you have to deal with eqing more and have to know what your tracks sound so they won't key clash.

but overall, i think both house, trance, and progressive are fairly easy for me now. I think some experimental techno and abstract are hard to mix b/c you really need to knwo the track. Artists like Mu-ziq freak me out and turn me on at the same time for mixing...

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

not if the snare is off beat. in drum and bass this can be a serious pain in the arse what with all the swing beats going on. for instance, take a listen to benjie - AI (rawthang VIP mix) and trace and fresh - mutated x and try beatmatching them. utter pain in the arse. the speed, combined with the weird breaks combined with the fact it drops unpredictably and suddenly and no break starts on a clean beat. and you have just signed yourself up for a beatmatching nightmare.

psytrance is fairly easy to beatmatch. not particularly fast tempos, prominant kick and bass in 8ths and 16ths. would be easy to spin if not for the fact that alot of psy tunes often have an irregular/odd number of phrases. this means if you dont plan out what you are mixing it can all sound horribly weird even though its all in time. i hope that makes sense. songs like beathackers - transpose epitomise this. it breaks down 5 times. drops unpredictably and except for the first building movement at the start, all subsequent movements have an odd number of phrases. this makes it fucking annoying to mix.

hard house is imho the easiest to mix. nearly always uniform number of phrases. very prominant kick drum. very prominant percussion in off beat, 8ths and 16ths so its hard to get lost. breakdowns and build ups are nearly always predictable. between labels there is also a very distinct and uniform style. for instance. tidy trax nearly always have tunes that build using a snare roll. kicks hitting every bar. then 4 times every bar. 8 times. 16 times. snares go mental. theres a vocal sample. and then it drops. you can hear tidy drops a mile away. then its a uniform number of phrases till the next breakdown.

(edit: you can hear that benjie track here: http://www.nu-urbanmusic.co.uk/shop/section.php?id=27&showLabel=Black+Sun+Empire. the trace and fresh tune is far worse but unfortunately, you cant buy it anymore and i cant find an audio clip of it. suffice it to say, its truly fucked)

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I say:
trance < tribal < house < techno < breaks < drums & bass < hip hop


I gotta give to the hip hop djs... hip hop is so hard....

yes, house is the easiest.

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only really spin trance, which i can do fairly well if im in the mood. I do have a couple of breaks tunes though and something i find difficult is mixing from 4/4 beat into breakbeat and back again, in fact i cant actually do it yet

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