Two main ways:

• Record the song in-studio and "DJ" the recording in the club.
• Bring your group to a club and play live using the synthesizers/samplers/drum machines you'd use in the studio.

Both are seen, but most club scenes use the first model overwhelmingly, and have done so long before house music was developed, for many reasons:

• Electronic dance music generally doesn't benefit as much from live performance; you're usually not playing acoustic instruments, and many times there's a pre-recorded backing track to any live element you are actually performing anyway. The main exception to this is when there's a significant vocal element ("techno-pop", "eurotrance") in which case having your vocalist sing the songs live has the same benefit as any live performance.

• One man can synthesize and sequence a house track in a home studio; a lot of the biggest names are in fact one-man operations, with a few being two or three people, generally a vocalist and a couple of "mixmasters". One man usually cannot reproduce all of those disparate elements in a live situation. So, live performances of electronica generally involve a pre-sequenced backing track anyway.

• A live group and a DJ of comparable reputation that play the same genre generally get the same pay from a club owner. For a live performance, the take is split among however many people make up the group. A DJ would keep almost all of it himself. The implications for making money at this are obvious; you'll make more by going it alone. It's not until you're filling stadiums that the take-home pay starts evening out; the DJ starts having to pay more people to put on a good show for a concert versus a club performance, while a live group makes their reputation by BEING a good show regardless of venue.

Live performances of electronica are still seen, usually in more of a concert format, such as Milk Inc's "Supersized" tour in Europe. Milk Inc is somewhat unusual overall, in that their live performances include a drummer and guitarist in addition to the main "mixmaster" and the vocalist. Even the big-name DJs like Armin van Buren, Tiesto, Oakenfold, and Fat Boy Slim generally put on a show when they tour, and form an entourage of dancers, emcees, vocalists etc that will travel with the DJ and all get their cut.

Two main ways:

• Record the song in-studio and "DJ" the recording in the club.
• Bring your group to a club and play live using the synthesizers/samplers/drum machines you'd use in the studio.

Both are seen, but most club scenes use the first model overwhelmingly, and have done so long before house music was developed, for many reasons:

• Electronic dance music generally doesn't benefit as much from live performance; you're usually not playing acoustic instruments and dancing around on stage, so a live house group often doesn't have a lot of presence. The main exception to this (and it's a big one) is when the group includes a regular vocalist and the songs have significant vocal parts, in which case having your vocalist sing the songs live has the same benefit as any live performance.

• One man can synthesize and sequence a house track in a home studio; a lot of the biggest names are in fact one-man operations, with a few being two or three people, generally a vocalist and a couple of "mixmasters". One man usually cannot reproduce all of those disparate elements in a live situation. So, live performances of electronica generally involve a pre-sequenced backing track anyway, which is a pretty small step from just throwing the CD or MP3 in a mixer.

• A live group and a DJ of comparable reputation that play the same genre generally get the same pay from a club owner. For a live performance, the take is split among however many people make up the group. A DJ would keep almost all of it himself. The implications for making money at this are obvious; you'll make more by going it alone. It's not until you're filling stadiums that the take-home pay starts evening out; the DJ starts having to pay more people to put on a good show for a concert versus a club performance, while a live group makes their reputation by BEING a good show regardless of venue.

Live performances of electronica are still seen, usually in more of a concert format, such as Milk Inc's "Supersized" tour in Europe. Milk Inc is somewhat unusual overall, in that their live performances include a drummer and guitarist in addition to the main "mixmaster" and the vocalist. Even the big-name DJs like Armin van Buren, Tiesto, Oakenfold, and Fat Boy Slim generally put on a show when they tour, and form an entourage of dancers, emcees, vocalists etc that will travel with the DJ and all get their cut.