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About Damien King
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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.

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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.

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Rave/House/Techno Music - DJ's vs. Composers


Expert: Damien King - 7/2/2004

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.

Hope this helps!

Damien
www.digital-slave.com

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