> It's used to differentiate from a DJ, who plays other people's music and doesn't "produce" anything. Just to be clear, this isn't the etymology of "producer"

> It's used to differentiate from a DJ, who plays other people's music and doesn't "produce" anything. Just to be clear, this isn't the etymology of "producer" in the electronic music sense, it's from the second definition you described: The person doing the recording. This is because electronic music is largely created largely using tools that were designed to be used on recorded music in the studio such as delays and reverbs. Electronic musicians are called producers because they use the recording studio itself as an instrument (along with synthesizers and samplers). Hip-hop makes this distinction extremely fluid as the person recording the vocals is often the same person making the backing track.