I need advice on privacy during set

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Originally Posted by mostapha

In my experience, the greater risk is giving a demo to a promoter, not getting the gig, and hearing tracks off your mix the next week.

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Haha that's dirty but not surprising

I am not mad about it...but yeah getting your stuff ripped off can be REALLY depressing...

I cant tell you how many times I will hear locals play a track that i played on a mix i put out on soundcloud...and there is NO WAY they could ever found it on their own. NO WAY! I'm like cmon...It took be a months worth of digging and building relationships with labels to get those un-released tracks, and they will rip it from my mix....

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Originally Posted by 031999

I am not mad about it...but yeah getting your stuff ripped off can be REALLY depressing...

I cant tell you how many times I will hear locals play a track that i played on a mix i put out on soundcloud...and there is NO WAY they could ever found it on their own. NO WAY! I'm like cmon...It took be a months worth of digging and building relationships with labels to get those un-released tracks, and they will rip it from my mix....

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Giving a demo of a low quality like on yuno player or having a random noise/sounds every 10 seconds would be nice.

That really sucks. The tracks I've had "stolen" weren't exactly unreleased.

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Originally Posted by mostapha

In my experience, the greater risk is giving a demo to a promoter, not getting the gig, and hearing tracks off your mix the next week.

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It's like getting mad when someone watches a movie that you like

if all your worried about is people learning your tricks, i wouldnt, most people have a hard enough time following an intentional tutorial video without rewinding, let alone trying to figure out what someone is doing in real time.

if youre worried about people spotting your tracks try to remember they arent YOUR tracks, and you owe it to the artist to spread their name when you play a track, if people are wanting to know.

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Originally Posted by Kwal

It's like getting mad when someone watches a movie that you like

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Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu

if youre worried about people spotting your tracks try to remember they arent YOUR tracks, and you owe it to the artist to spread their name when you play a track, if people are wanting to know.

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I agree wholeheartedly. It was the combination of not getting the gig because "the mix was good, just not right for the night" combined with him stealing tracks off of it to play at the night.

Spreading good music is what DJs do. That...was just weird. Maybe he already owned them. Maybe he didn't want me to spin for some other reason. It just seemed fishy.

My issue is dealing with potential drink-spillers.

That's easy. "No drinks unless you want to buy me new gear." (It doesn't matter if it's yours or not.)

No drinks near gear is Gigging 101. Assign one of your mates as faux security. I don't even let our DJ mates near the kit with their drinks.