Styles of music encouraging certain mixing styles?

[Bassline Brine]

It's to get stuck in a certain mindset for certain genre's. It's when people break those molds when it becomes creative and interesting, and unique.

Too much haterade up in this thread. Really guys, everyone has a style, some styles work better off the cuff for certain stuff. Something I like to think about is the mentality / mindset of the audience going for different shows. If you're playing a DnB show, you're probably going to have a very different crowd than a Electro/Dubstep show. And the mixing styles will reflect that. People getting into EDM are used to short rock songs, and have the attention span of a rabid shrew. As people become more cultured, they tend to start really enjoying the longer transitions more. But it takes time.

It's a reflection of what the audience wants. Or, it should be.

[Zaniac]

[Rukks]

I'm just gonna throw this out there, but as someone else stated, being well rounded musically in terms of genres is really what makes me say wow to a dj's performance.

I like to hear unique transitions that you don't think should work but they do....weather its a drop on a one or an intro looped for 16 bars, if I recognize two songs and they sound well together I am generally impressed.

Another note, I'm assuming that many of us can't play minimal for a 3 hour set at a local club, if you can then I am extremely jealous of your situation and the acceptance of your audience...so I feel like 'learning' mixing 'styles' for different genres is a great starting point. By styles I don't mean one technique of mixing or the equipment they mix on.

I believe my point answers the OPs question without answering how I mix or stereotyping a dj that plays a certain genre of music.