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Originally posted by Bob Biter
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.
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I see what you mean but I dont think you get what a TURNTABLIST (not DJ, there is a difference) does. Take two songs/part of/sounds/anything, change the pitch, order of beats/vocals, add scratches, juggles, transforms, take parts from one & put them in the other & vica versa, repeat & loop all or part of words/lines/verses/Fx/breakdowns/etc & what do you have? I argue that this is simply "a new way of listening to a song"
Listen to Q-Bert, usually a turntablist is using a breaks record that may or may not contain actual music, simply sounds or loops etc.
If 1 turntablist can take two records & make music or indeed 4+ turntablists (a Dj crew eg. X-ecutioners, Scratch Perverts) and can create music where once existed no music where does the song come from?