hm... in my opinion, it'd have to be drum n bass that's the most dificult, just because it can be hard to get the beat to match right on, and that sometimes you might have to add in a scratch here or there to make the transision sound better. But i find hard dance & trance to be the eisiest, I;m not sure why, but i just never had a problem with it.

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Originally posted by Dj Radman hm... in my opinion, it'd have to be drum n bass that's the most dificult, just because it can be hard to get the beat to match right on, and that sometimes you might have to add in a scratch here or there to make the transision sound better. But i find hard dance & trance to be the eisiest, I;m not sure why, but i just never had a problem with it.

I've always found drum and bass to be alot more forgiving then Prog or trance. I mix D&B fast with quick cuts so I find I don't need to be dead on with the pitch. My prog mixes are usually 1-3 minutes depending, and for the longer ones I always need to correct at some point.

I think in terms of beatmatching skills (not really an issue with practice) then progressive tracks are difficult because transitions are generally longer.

Hard Trance and Hardstyle I would have to say is the simplest (sorry slifedogg ), because hard style especially (imo) is more of an 'anything goes' genre production wise. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, because you can be creative that way, whilst mixing, and make it sound original and exciting. Same goes for most techno in my opinion, but of course mixing can be as difficult as you want it to be. (Dave Clarke owns me.)

As for trance, as in melodic, epic, uplifting, straight trance, it varies a lot on the structure of the tracks, and harmonic mixing just escapes me so I'm not even gonna go there.

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Originally posted by Rememberence_ I think in terms of beatmatching skills (not really an issue with practice) then progressive tracks are difficult because transitions are generally longer.

I would agree that progressive takes a lot of skills to keep a transition going for a couple of minutes. I think the hardest genre would be breaks though!

I find that drum n bass is the hardest to mix (out of what I've tried). If you mix with quick transitions and cuts it may be easy, but when you're going for long mixes or big double drops they sound a lot better when they're right on as opposed to being just close. Out of what I've mixed I'd say trance is the easiest to mix. I never have problems with it.

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Electro/nu skool breaks seems easiest to me. Alot of times theres not even a bassline or a key. With a trance bassline you have to watch for overlapping it the wrong way, plus the key matters alot. Whenever I'm messing around with me friends breaks they're like, just pick anyone out of the bag, they're all the same. Can't do that with trance no way, you gotta know the music to do it well.

But then again you can do all the scratching/juggling/flipping the songs back bringing in samples, type of stuff with the breaks that you don't really do with trance.

actaully the hardest genere it mix is happy hardcore!!! why you ask? because you have to fucking listen to it to mix it!!!

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i don't find any genre that difficult to mix now

i used to think breaks were hard, but now i can mix from 4/4 to breaks and back no problem

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I would say drum n bass....but at times when I'm spinning
( Hard Techno ) the kicks are so thick that it can be a lil akward mixing ...but not enough to train wreck