as Mobile Dogwash we have taken the easiest option, which is only half live really, but it is the best or only way of presenting our tracks live as a whole that we've got right now
using an eight track hard disk recorder we record onto paired tracks - 1 & 2 and 3 & 4, playing the finished tunes from a pitchable cd deck onto tracks 1&2 for the first tune, 3&4 for the second tune, and so on ... synchronising and beat matching them like you would if you were mixing records ... we then run this thru a dj mixer to be able to layer the tunes up live and cut it up proper techno style
i'm more than loath to take our kit out live, especially our 02/R digital desk
as far as i see it most punters would not know the difference and as long as it sounds good they are happy
i'd like to make it more involved live for us, but we have only got a limited amount of time to spend and i'd rather be working on a new track than anything else so ...
we had a power out about ten minutes into a gig on new years eve - if we had all the studio out and i had got to reboot and load up all our kit i reckon it would have taken a lot longer than the minute (or was it three hours - certainly felt like that at the time) it took to get things going again ;)