I dunno if this thread should be moved or what, and I'm not a noob, however I would like to know you guys views on releasing track lists from your mix sets.

If there was absolutely no legal / political reason why you shouldn't post track lists... then I would post them every time. I always want to know what I'm listening to, so I'd make them available.

That said, recently the thought of secrecy has crossed my mind, in the sense that anyone could go to Beatport and pick up the tracks in my mix for a few dollars then mix it themselves, stealing my genius track selection and placement. But... I've decided I don't care.

As it stands right now, I DO make all my tracklists available, and I'll continue to do so as long as I have to power to. As I've said elsewhere, this industry relies on the symbiosis between producers and DJs. For the most part, music created in this industry isn't going to be listened to unless it's dropped by a DJ somewhere. For that reason I personally would never limit music I create to requiring public performance licensing, I think that's totally counter-intuitive. I just hope other artists and labels begin to feel the same way, so that people  can forget about the public performance problem. (Selling mixes for profit is a different story.)

^ Exactly.

There was a post on Undergroundhouse about someone have a strictly rhythm track in a posted mix (and giving the tracklisting) and they got asked by Strictly to take it down cos it was used without permission......... I'll dig out the URL somewhere, but it was fairly comedy by the end : )

Yeah. That's what I'd love to see change (in the form of artists changing and labels changing). Here's wishing.

Personally, I will never ask for public performance rights of music I create.  I think it's counterintuitive to this industry. I totally understand why people WOULD want them, but I think in the long run it would serve everyone better if public performance was freely available. I understand other artists may disagree with me, but I don't think there's a significant enough margin where DJs are making money off tracks by playing them in a club, that warrants artists and labels really getting up in arms. If a DJ is really being propelled by another artist's tracks, then that artist's tracks are must be being played heavily, which I think is a form of revenue on it's own (and may well result in DIRECT revenue).

Fun reading there.

I think in furtherance to this topic, I'd say that choosing to not post tracklists because you don't want to get caught, doesn't sit right with me. Breaking a technical law (by posting free mix downloads) is one thing, but taking steps to not get caught doing that, is a second thing. Hence why I'll always post tracklists, while I'm releasing mixes.