Easiest genre to mix

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Easiest genre to mix

This has probably been discussed before. If it has I’m sorry. I did search :wink:.

Anyway, I’m gonna ahead and say that house music (including all of its’ subgenres) is by far the easiest to mix. Because for some reason, it lends itself to it. House songs tend to have some kind of basic intro and ending that allow for easy mixing of new songs on top of it.

You don’t see this in, say, dubstep.

So why is this? Why does house music have this “mix me!” attitude? I’m just curious what people think.

Disagreements welcome. :slight_smile:

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House, trance and techno are for sure the easiest to mix when you start out as they do lend themselves to it. Great to help train your ear in basic rhythm.
However you will find in time that breaks, DnB and Dubstep will become just as easy. You will not be able to help but pick out the rhythms in each, and think of how you might blend them into other songs.

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House

I have always found house and trance easy to mix on cdj’s or decks, really easy, and even more simlpe on a vci-100:slight_smile:

R’n’B/Hip-Hop and D+B needs more attention some times, i suppose it’s what ya used to etc.

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trance is very easy and allways great to start mixing with

i really wanna mix dubstep and DnB but i dont think i got the skills

if they are any djs of that style got any tips let me know

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use your highs to match them up. Particularly the snare.
Usually in those styles the snare is really crisp, clean and clear.
Easy to pick out, and match up with other similar styles.

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I find Dubstep to be actually pretty easy to mix once you get the hang of it. What I do is once track A gets to it’s breakdown I find a song with the same length intro and put it on top of track A.

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pretty much all electronic dance music from house to dubstep, breakbeat to drum and bass is the easiest to mix because for most of the time the songs are designed for dance floors and djs - although some tracks are trickier than others.

when compared to say hiphop, classic rock, soul etc., all genres of EDM are stupidly easy to mix (with the exception of IDM.)

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this. in dnb matching the snares usually ensures you’re on beat. be sure to EQ your hi-hats though :wink: they sound nasty when mixed together sometimes.

same in dubstep. snare is on beat 3 99% of the time.

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Honestly, progressive house (Deadmau5, etc.) is extremely easy to mix. If anything it’ll teach you how to drop tracks at the proper time(s).

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id say minimal

but anything without vocal tracks is going to be easiest. i think thats why people keep bringing up trance

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but in dnb, beat matching is the least of your worries. Making sure the tracks are in key and the syncopation compliments eachother is the deal breaker IMO. Also hitting key changes and subgenre shifts are pretty crucial as well.

But i guess you can say the same thing for house and trance.

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i find any electro relatively easy, the simple 130 bpm kick drum makes it all compatible.

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happy hardcore. It is sooooo formulaic. Its pretty much cheese, and most people who listen to it have absolutely no ear for music (sorry HH fans… myself kind of included).

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Dnb is by far the most difficult subgenre for me to mix. I’ve never been able to do it well.

I think for some reason that fact that it’s +/-170bpm makes it that much more difficult. The music moves faster, as so you have to too.

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If you are just learning how to beat match and blend track I would say deadmau5 and his collection are the easiest to learn on. Beat is easy to sync, as well you can get the timing to phrase your tracks together down pretty easily.
From there start branching out and you will pick everything up pretty easily.
All in time and with lots of practice of course.

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No I’d agree deadmau5 and the like are quite simple to mix. Actually the easiest set ever would probably be just 10 deadmau5 songs in row because they all sound the same anyway :eek:. Lol.

I’m not saying I can’t mix house music or music in general. All I’m saying is that house seems to be the easiest. For whatever reason.

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I mean, I agree, deadmau5 is pretty easy to mix, but I feel its kind of difficult to play with energy with his songs.

Ghosts n Stuff (real version) into The Reward is More Cheese. You can’t tell me that wasn’t written to fit together.

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I am beat-gridding and verifying tempo on 2000+ tracks since I just got Traktor Pro - by far the hardest stuff to get a handle on for me so far is older IDM stuff (Warp Records, etc), and PsyDub - they seem to like to change beat structures within songs and tempo as well. Fun stuff :wink:

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Dubstep isn’t hard to mix at all… it’s all 70 bpm for crying out loud. No need to even touch the pitch slider. But I will agree that electro and prog house and probably the easiest genres to mix.

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Easiest is always gona be house/techno etc cos of the constant beat.

Personally I would say 2-step (and some Dubstep) is harder then DnB as the syncopation is vital as if you dont pick the right tunes it will sound fucked (even if in time). Also many of the tunes are not close in tempo so mixing on TTs (or even serato) you will need to shift the pitch faders a lot, combined with the really off beat rythems and syncopation makes it a bitch.

Dubstep can be also tricky cos some tunes have weird timing and offbeat kicks etc but TBH on serato (or digital) with ‘jump-up’ dubstep ie Nero/Caspa/Rusko etc its very very fucking easy. I mean pretty much all the tunes are at 140. Just mix off the 1st in-phrase kick and ull be sweet.