in my DJing stint, i experienced and saw lots of shit like that; people stealing perticular "blends" or entire set concepts, steal leads on openings for events, actual recorded mixes(
which would generally take me 4-16 months to finalize).
the studio-contract i was offered was probably simiar to some earlier offers you were made; $20,000 2 or 5 year loan, 4-6 months studio time(*?) so many hours per week/producer/equipment in studio, with all sorts of *clauses(
excessive distracting/diverting ones if you ask me) and this guy wanted like 22-24% interest + an exclusive live performance stipulation, hed locate vendors and take care of distributing, for another 8%... which really really sucked and was cripplingly restricting, especially when confronted by other 'crews', production companies, agents, and promoters,,, man.
you dont sound out of place with the techy stuff, not at all, you must listen to a lot of similar stuff, no?
like i said, the secon electro song stuck in my head, if you were to promote with, or need to choose a radio-play song, that would probably stick in other peoples heads too,,, then they calll back asking "who was that super fly BGirl?!?" or requests to hear again.
maybe, id find as many radio station with "Hot or Not" segments.
im fairly confident youd be droppin 'em hot, miss molly.
wildest most fun and surreal time of my life though, any money i was dipped out on for performing would of been long since spent, looking out at a large crowed of people looking back at you screaming and dancing is nothing that can be measured.
heheh~besides writing that song that reaches into the right into someones mind.

im on itunes already, so ill be choosing myself a Molly song..!
so cool.
of course attend to your marriage and education, but it seems you have a lot of natural talent and probably a hard drive to create, try and keep it all in balance or you maynot feelso in balance it seems. keep writing, and then maybe stashing away the keepers in the meantime, also keep on them with your album!!
idk, your rockin itunes, so... heh, just dont convince yourself to settle with this, keep going where its taking you.
ive been considering putting together some simple but affective acoustic songs, and hitting an open mic, see what happens-find someone to jam with.

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