Disc jockey

:For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation).

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A disc jockey (also called DJ, or deejay) is an individual who selects and plays prerecorded music for an intended audience. The term was first used to describe radio announcers who would introduce and play popular gramophone records, but today there are a number of factors, including the selected music, the intended audience, the performance setting, the preferred medium, and the development of sound manipulation, that have led to different types of deejays. The physical act of selecting and playing sound recordings is called deejaying, or DJing, and ranges in sophistication from simply playing a series of recordings (referred to as programming, or composing a playlist), to the manipulating of recordings, using techniques such as audio mixing, cueing, phrasing, cutting, scratching, and beatmatching, often to the point of creating original musical compositions.

Related Topics:
Prerecorded music - Radio announcer - Gramophone records - Playlist - Audio mixing - Cueing - Phrasing - Cutting - Scratching - Beatmatching - Musical composition

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