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I've been playing Guitar and Piano for about 20 years now, I've played in bands, toured, had classical musical education, played Fusion, Metal, Blues etc'. In the past 5 years I've been mostly writing electronic, Big Beat and music for picture (those are usually based more on synths and computers/drum machines) and also DJing.
Most DJs today are producers, as its almost impossible to make a living solely writing electronic music, many of them also incorporate live sections in their show(Stimming, Stephan Bodzin etc') other go completely live in various ways. It is also quite rare to see a successful DJ who doesn't produce at all, those who don't are mostly from the 80's & 90's apart from some rare cases.
Similar to most industries there is garbage and there is quality, Mathew Jonson and Steve Aoki may have the same label as DJs and both produce music but you can't compare the two although they seem to do the the same thing. There are levels in musical production and musicianship whether it's classical and modern instruments or electronic. Same goes for DJs, to take people on a journey and present unique music and make it work is not an easy task, you can clear a dance floor quite quickly although "you're just twisting knobs and switching records".
Culturally and "Sub-Culutrally" things differ immensely, although you can find pretentious idiots and overall assholes everywhere. Some DJs and electronic music producers feel as if they are gods and need to be treated that way, same goes for many guitarists and singers. With that being said there are many genres where overall people are nice and don't have this sense of self importance, I don't know how it happens but culturally you can see remarkable changes in attitude in genres that are quite close to each other, maybe there is popularity element that effects it among other things. On a more psychological point, it also really depends who is around them, guitarists can be assholes until Guthrie Govan walks in the room, who is one of the nicest people and also on a level of his own, you'll find the same with DJ & Producers.
The collaborations between SZ style brands and these producers are quite easy to understand, Jonny White from Art Department recently collaborated with Lumen at Umbra, Black Astroid works with Rick Owens and the list will continue to expand as the crowds and their taste are quite close and both are really popular right now (Berghain which spouse to be an "underground" club is probably the worlds most famous one).
The debates never end, Electronic vs Instrumental, Digital vs Analog, what matters in the end is if the music is good or not.
Most DJs today are producers, as its almost impossible to make a living solely writing electronic music, many of them also incorporate live sections in their show(Stimming, Stephan Bodzin etc') other go completely live in various ways. It is also quite rare to see a successful DJ who doesn't produce at all, those who don't are mostly from the 80's & 90's apart from some rare cases.
Similar to most industries there is garbage and there is quality, Mathew Jonson and Steve Aoki may have the same label as DJs and both produce music but you can't compare the two although they seem to do the the same thing. There are levels in musical production and musicianship whether it's classical and modern instruments or electronic. Same goes for DJs, to take people on a journey and present unique music and make it work is not an easy task, you can clear a dance floor quite quickly although "you're just twisting knobs and switching records".
Culturally and "Sub-Culutrally" things differ immensely, although you can find pretentious idiots and overall assholes everywhere. Some DJs and electronic music producers feel as if they are gods and need to be treated that way, same goes for many guitarists and singers. With that being said there are many genres where overall people are nice and don't have this sense of self importance, I don't know how it happens but culturally you can see remarkable changes in attitude in genres that are quite close to each other, maybe there is popularity element that effects it among other things. On a more psychological point, it also really depends who is around them, guitarists can be assholes until Guthrie Govan walks in the room, who is one of the nicest people and also on a level of his own, you'll find the same with DJ & Producers.
The collaborations between SZ style brands and these producers are quite easy to understand, Jonny White from Art Department recently collaborated with Lumen at Umbra, Black Astroid works with Rick Owens and the list will continue to expand as the crowds and their taste are quite close and both are really popular right now (Berghain which spouse to be an "underground" club is probably the worlds most famous one).
The debates never end, Electronic vs Instrumental, Digital vs Analog, what matters in the end is if the music is good or not.
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