Whats the hardest/easiest genre to spin?

I reckon the easiest genre to mix is the kind of generic house remixes of top 40 songs, since they always have a very similar 4/4 kick snare pattern and breakdowns that can virtually be mixed without EQs. After that come other types of house music around 128bpm, then probably dubstep for me.

I can’t mix hip hop to save my life.

Beethoven into Shostakovich maybe…

it depends what you use to mix, computer based setup house or any 4/4 genre is as easy as pressing play. as for difficult: rock music is hard to transition, blues, jazz, and the odd dubstep but is easier then the above…. anything with live elements is usually harder then those made on machines.

As mentioned earlier, modern House is pretty easy to spin. From a purely technical point of view. The real art is song selection and remixing the music live.

Disco is a real challenge as most tracks (especially from the early ’70s ) had live drummers or analog sequencers and the tempo would drift quite a bit during the song.

IDM is pretty hard and Breakcore.

My oppininon on the subject:

All music that hasn’t a constant tempo is hard to beatmatch.
(If you don’t run them trough Ableton live so that it goes constant)
Also Hip-Hop can be difficult because they rap all the time so there is no instrumental parts on some tunes.
And garage can be a bit tricky if you are a beginner because the tempo is not like EDM.

The most simple music to beatmatch is EDM but if you shall do it propper and use filters EQ and effects all over the mix
it can be a bit tricky as well and to keep it in sync (without cheating with autosync) by hand in 2-3 minutes can be hard.

//DJ Hessler

Dubstep, easiest to mix, it’s all at 140 bpm anyway :p
(And usually only 8 bar beat phrases.)
Also any four-to-the-floor is easy to mix, but I personally compensate by throwing another few decks in :p
Fun, but easy: Hardstyle – It’s like Legos!

In general, hardest to me are:
– Goa/Psy, due to the long phasing structure (sometimes up to 32 bars) and requiring frequency blending.
– Freeform, due to the reasons mentioned above and added high bpm making timing particularly important
– Last but not least: The truly syncopated-beats, i.e. anything breakbeat that doesn’t follow a short beat phrasing (like breakcore).

Haven’t tried my hand at Hip-Hop yet…

mr stifffy, post: 8712 wrote: I used to play a lot of trance but to blend I effected the shit out of the songs unless I had a cue point set where I needed to drop it…..

Who needs beatmatching when you can just drop-mix the hell out of it, amarite? 😉