Genres & mixing..

[Lisa]

Right than dj's of CTW, what would you say in your opinion is trhe easiest & what is the hardest genre to mix?

[LiamStyles]

Cant say there is a particular genre I struggle to mix.

 

But I think the faster the music (within reason) the easier it is to mix.

[Lisa]

yeh seems to be what a lot of dj say, where as im no dj as you know liam, you heard me But I struggle with HH but can get a good mix in with prog go figure!!

[LiamStyles]

techno can be a hard genre to mix well. DJs will be able to beat match but it takes alot more than that with techno. Quick mixes, more eq work etc.

Best way is to use 3 decks.

[Lisa]

hahah Liam, topy & frazzle are getting quite dab hands at mixing techno as it's the new sound in my lounge on a weds night now

 

Love it Ant & The Geezer & DAVE The Drummer etc get my groove thang on with it

[Chris Hutchinson]

I would say some of the easiest ones are:

*Hardhouse

*Hardtrance

*Hardcore

*House

*That Hardhouse/Techno hybrid stuff

*Techno (when mixed like hardhouse)

 

 

More Intermediate genres:

*Trance

*Progressive/Goa (due to the fact you have to layer tracks together much more technically)

*Drum N Bass

 

 

Hard Genres To Mix:

*Psytrance

*Hardstyle

*Techno (when mixed properly)

 

 

Wouldnt really know where to put breaks, hiphop etc though

Edited January 13, 2005 by Chris Hutchinson

[Lisa]

You know Chris I wouldnt have thought hardstyle would have beem hard!! Suprised at that TBH.

[Chris Hutchinson]

You know Chris I wouldnt have thought hardstyle would have beem hard!! Suprised at that TBH.

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Its a LOT harder then it seems - tracks sometimes have unmixable intros, and extra beats thrown in which screws up the structure... its a genre where you need to know every track you have like the back of your hand before you can mix it well (god I sound like im bigging it up dont I ....for the record, I cant stand hardstyle at all!)

[Lisa]

hahah intoirs, says it all, crap!!! hahaha

 

No joking aside im not a huge fan of it so camnt really comment but cos it has so many breakdowns & then bosh bosh id have thought it would have been ok..

[Chris Hutchinson]

hahah intoirs, says it all, crap!!! hahaha

 

No joking aside im not a huge fan of it so camnt really comment but cos it has so many breakdowns & then bosh bosh id have thought it would have been ok..

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Dont get me wrong, its simple to beatmatch the stuff as the kicks are so defined....

[Guest]

For me ..

 

Easiest - Hardhouse

Hardest - Trance

[Lisa]

well I cant mix for toffee so they are all hard for me, but I do find it easier to get a mix going with prog than HH, I find the faster the harder!!

[LiquidEyes]

I'd say breakbeat is one of the easiest Chris (and d&b too).

 

Agreed with Maria that trance is one of the hardest styles of music to mix. The scope for horrendous sound-clashes is huge! You have a lot less flexibility in what will mix into what, and when you can bring the next track in. The more intense, the trickier -- it becomes increasingly hard to pick out the beats as they are drowned out by fat synths and pads which occupy almost the whole frequency spectrum and are heavily compressed!

 

I understand that hip hip mixing is largely about timing: you have to know your tunes really well, because often there is only one place in a record where you can realistically cut/scratch in the next track, and if you miss it you're a bit fucked. Obviously beatmatching does not factor into it.

[djandrewmartin]

I have to say that I really dont think that any style is harder than the other to mix.

 

I think that can mix any genre that you have a true passion for....that way you hear more in the music when you feel it and it touches you inside....

 

When you have a passion for a certain music, you understand it more and the way it works in structure and beats and whatever else.....

 

[Phil rr]

have heard that trance is more tricky than hard stuff.

 

whether thats cos trance is more "delicate" in the way you put the tunes together, and with "hard" you can get away with just glueing the records together, or whether it's that at hard nights everyones so battered they don't care, and at trance nights people appreciate the quality of the music more, i dunno.

 

i thought the thing about techno was that you bring in a new track every 45 seconds and often use more than 2 decks

Edited January 14, 2005 by Phil rr