Play 2 or more completely different styles?
Been mixing Trance music for 3 years and just started picking up on Hardstyle (Which is a personal fave since it’s what got me into edm with the Bonkers albums)
I find mixing both to be extremely fun
Trance is fun for the whole paying attention to the keys and making it mesh together also can get some of those odd tracks to mashup.
Hardstyle I find really fun to transition with and have a bit more freedom with where i can transition at.
Ah true. I get them mixed up these days since hardstyle pretty much destroyed it by people calling hardstyle hardcore hard to find decent hardcore tracks since everywhere I look I get hardstyle. But both are really awesome hardstyle has it’s ups and downs though.
I can see this thread turning into another pointless genre vs subgenre “acid-metal-trance-tech-house is actually a subgenre of nu-jazz-breakcore-rave-hop” very quickly… You have been warned.
House, Techno (and almost everything in between), Latin (Cumbia, Reggaeton, Cachengue), 80’s-90’s, Top40 and some Hip Hop and Rock to spice things up and pay the bills.
I play a ridiculous amount of genres - on my radio show I’ll usually hit, funk, ghettofunk, hip hop, reggae, breakbeat and some downtempo stuff - live it depends totally on the crowd …
haha.. thats cool.. i havent listened to the bonkers cds or kept up with them for years, i was thinking they must have gone hardstyle!
every genre has its ups and downs, pros and cons etc.. which is a great thing!
on a side note, i used to hang out with kevin energy a fair bit when he used to come over here (australia) back in the day. a good mate of mine’s brother used to live in the uk and work for steve hill and was mates with a heap of the top uk dj’s of the time (1999-about 2005). so when the dj’s would come over here, my mate and i would hang out with them.
when i do work with my friends as the boogieburg soundsystem, at our Re:fill @ Rivermill party, we all tag team the entire night. also happens at one of our other venues.
a typical night with us can go like this:
early - indie hip hop, upbeat downtempo, reggae, funk
mid - upbeat hip hop, funk, mid-tempo breaks, maybe an 80s track thrown in there.
peak to close - house + subgenres of house, breaks + subgenres of breaks, our own remixes/edits/etc, bmore club, booty bass, mashups, dubstep, maybe even some dnb
in terms of bpm, it starts from 70s and finish out the night in the 130s to 140s. and may go off into the 170s-190s if we get some dnb action going.
when i first started djing, i only played house. and when i connected with my crewmates at boogieburg, i expanded to different genres so i could play with them more.
and playing different parties on my own and running my own nights, i’ve learned to play a lot of different music.
Even though I don’t do a lot of “DJing” per se any more, I like the idea of mixing genres. Actually the whole genre-loyalty concept and these unwritten rules that people get militant about is annoying to me.
I get them mixed up these days since hardstyle pretty much destroyed it by people calling hardstyle hardcore 
hard to find decent hardcore tracks since everywhere I look I get hardstyle. But both are really awesome hardstyle has it’s ups and downs though.