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If you want DJs to play your tracks, I recommend you give them a DJ friendly intro. give them two mixes if you want, one as a radio edit, but the intro is conventional and neccesary for any DJ who uses CDs.
I think that there are tracks made to be played in DJ sets and tracks made to be played stand alone, or as the centrepieces as DJ sets. A lot of the best tracks in sets are just dead boring on their own, but a set full of individual tracks is a horrible thing to listen to.
Tracks which are more set focussed are going to sound better in DJ sets, but tracks that are more album focussed are going to sound better when played by the producer themselves, preferably as live as possible.
Personally, I try to combine a bit of both in my DJ sets, but still haven't reached the point where I can play my own tracks live quite yet. I think with advances in computer power it'll become easier, and this'll be a good thing for the scene generally. I think dance music lost something when people stopped carting their 303s and 808s along with their records to gigs, which was a common way to play a set up until the late 90s from my understanding.
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i myself have fallen into the trap off keeping up to speed because my early work was dissmissed for not being in keeping with the times.
