I think the confusion in this thread has been over understanding the point I started. I don't think hard style is hard to mix. It isn't. It's is slightly more harder to mix than trance and much more harder to mix than hard house.

My point was based upon STYLE of mixing... and I find smooth mixing is harder to achieve with hardstyle because it can be a bit random on where its breaking down or building up etc... all be it in "time" to some pattern of bar.

Mixing it is not a problem, mixing it to the standard I want to reproduce I find much harder than other genres because I find hardstyle can let you down by doing something you don't expect.

Learning your tunes is one thing, but having to learn every combination of hardstyle tune to make sure your comfortable (in my case) is what my snag was.

I'm getting there... most hardstyle I've got nailed down, there's a few rouge producers though that make life awkward because of unusal timing in there releases.