patrick bateman wrote: And does this system also works for DJ's playing burned CD's?

Yes. You can play vinyl, original CD's and the like for free, if you copy stuff (and they consider buying an MP3 copying), you pay.

GEMA reportedly crack down on DJs as well as clubs, adding new “laptop surcharge” to sets It now appears that GEMA are attempting to knuckle down even harder on club performances. So far this has only – to our knowledge – been reported on German language websites, but at the heart of these newly pr...

GEMA reportedly crack down on DJs as well as clubs, adding new “laptop surcharge” to sets It now appears that GEMA are attempting to knuckle down even harder on club performances. So far this has only – to our knowledge – been reported on German language websites, but at the heart of these newly pr...

I always wonder why people say that electronic music is cold and soulless. To me it sounds raw and emotional, something about that mechanical groove touches my soul. When listening to, say, rock or jazz, my mind's always wandering on the players' playing ablilities, I'm intellectualizing and analyzi...

I respect the analog medium for it's warm sound when properly mastered and the right system set up for it but I've decided to throw in the towel concerning vinyl even though I have the money to press some music. After a bit of soul searching it's really just an ego thing these days. I wouldn't call...

I'm starting to see why Chicago and Detroit DJ's go overseas most of the time. $5000 for a DJ set -urk :lol: 5000 is small money compared to the really big boys. Tiesto made like 10 million last year. You do the math. Tickets to the really big electronic DJ's can cost even as much as 200. Which is ...

The promoters claim to have some friends who booked him, so. how come they didn't ask them for advice or a contact to his agent? I suspect that there's more to the story. Also, isn't the scene in Australia mostly people under the age of 25, like in the US? It seems like a gamble to pay $5000 for an...

but what i really can't understand is that there are so many producers/dj's around who want to release on vinyl and not "just" digital, but at the same time they don't buy vinyl and they don't play vinyl. It's still the medium of the scene. If you wanna get attention your stuff has to be ...