We uncover the mixing techniques behind every major genere

From house to hip-hop, disco, techno and drum & bass, we look at how DJs across the board approach their craft. 

A genre’s musical characteristics are almost always reflected in the way DJs mix it. Fast genre, fast mixing. Smooth genre, smooth mixing. This feels like common sense. A chilled house set full of scratching and cutting would just feel weird. But it’s also fascinating that mixing styles have organically developed as non-formalised responses from DJs to a genre’s musical DNA. Put another way, nobody ever sat down and decided any of this stuff. 

In bringing together most of the approaches to mixing in one place, you realise just how much richness and variety the DJ craft has. Even before the advent of digital tools, DJs created a vast range of techniques from rudimentary tools of two decks and a mixer. Even today, there are signature methods in one genre that DJs from another genre may not even be aware of, let alone use themselves. 

Our overall aim here is to nerd out about DJ craft, while hopefully inspiring you to steal techniques from your peers in other genres. We’d like to stress that this is just a general guide, and although genres do have mixing methods, the rules are very much there to be broken.

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