About Damien King Expertise Being a professional music artist covering most electronic/dance genres, Damien can cover a wide range of queries, from musical questions such as explaining various subgenres and their differences, to technical help such as timestretching, beatmatching and compression/dynamics.
Experience Damien has been a professional music artist under the alias 'Digital Slave' (previously known as SephXI) for several years now and has produced a wide range of music, from cutting-edge house to euphoric happy hardcore.
Publications Melomag, Gods Of Music, Rainsford Magazine
Expert: Damien King Date: 7/2/2004 Subject: DJ's vs. Composers
Question Is there a difference between a DJ and an electronic music composer, or are the terms interchangeable?
Answer Hi Mike,
ah a simple question really! Put simply, a composer (usually called a producer or music artist) is the one who writes the tune, and the DJ is the one who plays the tune as part of a mix set, whether at a party, club or whatever.
There's usually some confusion because a lot of amateur bedroom producers like to call themselves "DJ whatever", but DJs and producers are usually completely separate.
I myself am a producer as I make music and I've got an album on the way, which DJs will be playing out to nightclubs and so on.
