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Originally posted by phoenix1002
A DJ who simply plays songs at a party or something is not an artist. He or she is an entertainer.
A DJ who scratches, etc on a turntable is a musician. Instrumental musicians often will listen to foreign music to get ideas for their 'new' stuff (think Paul Simon's Graceland). They encorporate other musicians' music into their own and create a new thing. Same with a turntablist. They use other music, then mix and match and scratch etc.. to make their own music.
Just like any other musician, there can be good DJs and bad ones. The good ones are definitely musicians and artists. The bad ones are just...bad. You can't put them all in the same category, which I think some people do, sometimes.
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I agree partly.
If you're not creating something new, but simply playing other people's music, you're not a musician. If you use others' music as a source of inspiration, you're a musician.
A DJ who simply scratches is not really a musician, since he/she is not creating anything (besides the scratch sound). The order of sounds may be modified, but the music still comes from somewhere other than the DJ. True, you might get a new sound, a new way of listening to the song, but much of the basis is still there, so the scratch DJ kinda teeters on the musician/non-musician fence in my book.
Aphex Twin is a musician. Kid Koala teeters.