Reply to Developing good Leveling and Mixing technique

I feel that I have some very basic understandings of how to mix a song and how to level and EQ, but I can't really seem to be able to approach my songs in a decent way when it comes to mixing high quality and I feel like I really need some heads up to how I can develop myself in mixing.

If you use "complete rookie" as a starting point for what you would suggest me, what are some good mixing exercises that would help me get a better grip on how to mix IDM? I know there's an enormous difference between how to mix genres, but hopeful somewhere there must be some fundamentals I can learn before I try to "mix genres".