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Coming of age celebrations are big here in the US and in UK. Teenagers from rich families enjoy these huge, lavish and ridiculously priced parties as seen on My Super Sweet 16. The most common theme for sweet sixteen parties is dance. Nothing beats gyrating as the sound system kicks into overdrive. Read the following tips if you’re planning to celebrate your momentous birthday ala DJ party Long Island sans million-dollar budget.

First things first, pick your venue. Choose a party space that would allow for much shaking and grooving on the dance floor. Let all your guests dance freely as some sought-after sweet 16 DJ in Queens, or in all of New York for that matter, work the turn tables. You need not rent a function room in a high-priced hotel or club as you can turn your own back-yard into a nightclub scene with affordable dance floor rentals. Aside from a dance floor, you can also create a make-shift lounge area with a few tables and chairs where guests can grab light snacks. Complete the club vibe with auxiliary spotlights and lanterns.

No party will be complete without music. Book a band, a talent agent, a sweet 16 DJ in Manhattan, whatever rocks your boat. Be sure to select music that is fitting to the party’s mood. You wouldn’t want a wedding DJ in Long Island or a bar mitzvah DJ in Nassau county mixing for a rocking dance party. If your budget does not allow for hiring music professionals, be your own DJ and create a few mixes on your MP3 player. Throw in contemporary hits and you won’t go wrong.

Before you can enjoy with your friends at your Sweet 16, you have to first send out invitations. Make your invites real snazzy by playing up with colors, graphics and wording. Include all necessary information to give your guests a heads up.

It’s a generally accepted fact the ‘mobile DJ’ isn’t perceived in the same way as other ‘trades’ and professions, but that is’s likely due to a number of factors which can not entirely be addressed in one article alone!

What I am going to cover in this article is ‘legality’ of the operating mobile DJ, and how it is a much better option than operating ‘illegally’.

Tax

There is little worse than the bite of the Tax Man as I was once told! When they dig their teeth and claws into your private life, they’re tough to shake off.

But what attracts the Tax man in the first place?

If there are a collection of dead ends, discrepancies in bureaucracy or ‘odd figures’ on file – all these gain the attention of the income investigative arm to start off with!

the clear course of action would be to change bad business practice and make it good.

Nobody announced a sole trading DJ needed to be a great accountant! There are easy steps that may be followed in business practice that can help even the most fretful or frightened individual when it comes to dealing with cash or figures.

in truth, if you have got a business checking account, you can set up an account that offsets cash into another account which really gives a little interest!

This cash can be employed to pay off any Tax that you can owe at the end of the year, and is worth discussing with your bank confidant or manager at the earliest opportunity.

So by example, if you deposit £100 into the account which are earnings from the disco service, a % can be offset into the other account.

This account might be referred to a ‘Business Call Account’.

The figure you offset can be organized to be a fixed amount or a percentage. Ideally, you will need to talk about this in finer detail with the bank confidant who will work with you to ascertain an agreeable figure based on the level of revenue into your account, spending via Direct Debits, etc .

Something else worth considering about Tax is when you’re needed to sign bureaucracy by the paying location or company client who then have to submit the paperwork to their accounts and ‘perusal’ by the Tax man!

Competition

Competition is good for any line of business but in the DJ profession, it can be terribly cut-throat!

From as far back as the early 1990′s, there were reports of DJs being reported to the Tax man for avoidance of paying their way – by envious or upset DJ competition!

Although not a very good idea to talk about your turnover and money standing overtly, there are those that have not learned the art of pro subtlety or what amounts to having a good business sense!

Music Piracy

It’s not just avoiding to pay Tax that pulls attention. Music piracy is not doing the industry any good, so measures have been brought to put pressure on people who select to exploit the artists, singers, composers, song writers and musicians by not purchasing music, who instead pirate music.

unfortunately , whilst the majority of professional DJ services in the United Kingdom would opt to use good sound quality recordings of music, there are numerous avowed ‘professionals’ using low quality mass produced bootlegged material.

The music licensing companies have introduced a license for people that wish to convert their tracks from one media format to another ( ProDub Licence ) however [*COMMA] this is levied on quantities of tracks vs the particular tracks copied, and so questions if the license is nothing less than a money generating exercise than an honest to goodness reward for the composer and artist of the track/s ‘format shifted’.

the base line, if you legally download music from a UK source ( if you need mp3 format ) then you don’t need the license. If you buy music CDs from the shops or online thru UK sources, you do not need the license.

now, under UK law, you are required to purchase the ProDub license if you format shift your music. Your details will be kept on the music licensing corporations database, and you sign consent for a home visit / inspection of your PC kit at your home.

The cards also have the general public liability details and will shortly include more info such as movable Appliance Test expiry and registrations to 3rd party organisations, including those that need ProDub.

eventually, the choice is yours. In my opinion, operating legally is the best option as the fines imposed on someone caught avoiding Tax or using pirated music isn’t a nice choice at all!

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House music has always been pushed forward by DJ’s wanting and craving new music. Music that their peer’s haven’t yet heard let alone had the ability to own. Music that is upfront and rare.

As the volume of dance labels and artists increased towards the end of the last millennium, mainly due to the ability to produce very highly polished music on a simple pc, the sales quantity of each release decreased as the market did not increase with amount of new music flooding in. With this change record companies needed to address costs to reflect these lower sales. Label’s looked to technology to help cut the costs of running their business. One major area where this came to fruition was promotions.

For years the DJ’s choice and only option was vinyl, clubs only had vinyl turntables and in the odd instance where they did have CD turntables they were very poor. This changed with the launch of the pioneer CDJ series. DJ’s were suddenly able to do everything they could on vinyl turntables and more but using CD’s. Labels had previously had only one option to press a run of promotional records to send out to DJ’s. The cost of manufacture and shipping to DJ’s was huge. Overnight DJ’s could use CD’s. It’s much cheaper to manufacture and half the price to ship, an added bonus was that music could be burnt straight from a pc where the track had been written and in a DJ’s hands the following day being played to a packed club that evening. For labels and producers this was a fantastic way to promote new music and for the DJ this was bliss new music really quickly – fresh and exclusive! All went well with this new format until the mp3 came along. Suddenly promotional music was finding its way onto the file sharing sites like Limewire and Soulseek. DJ’s who had been sent music on CD or even emailed as mp3′s began sharing this music. The thought process behind people doing this went against all that had gone before as most DJ’s hide their secret weapons rather than sharing with anyone at all. This had a knock on by taking the control the labels had of who had their product when and where away. Also potential revenue began being lost and to a section of the music industry where every sale counts this was frustrating and hugely detrimental.

Dance music releases usually only have a shelf life of around 8 weeks. There are obvious exceptions to this rule but 95% of releases are played in clubs and sell for this length of time and that’s it. File sharing screwed this up by both the sales and also the structure of the chosen few influencing bigger DJ’s not having something they can fully get behind during the promotional stage of a release. Therefore less people got to hear it, less are influenced and less potentially buy it. The industry has never really recovered from file sharing but more recently the sale of mp3′s and specifically dance music mp3′s has boomed and this has helped to a certain extent slow the decline and with time the scene could once again flourish. The one problem dance music has encountered with sales of mp3′s is price but that is another story.