Many top flight underground producers who were DJs by trade in the late 80s and 1990s moved into creating tracks of their own through an understanding and a passion for the music they were exposed to. This path into the music industry remains apparent today - DJ producer, to record label / A&R - only now, respected producers who have never previously DJ'ed are regularly booked to play big clubs just on the strength of a tune they have released.
With the rise of the DJ Producer, dance music and club culture over the past couple of decades has come a generation of people who through their experience of new music have a desire to get involved in a particular scene - whether House, Trance, Techno, Drum 'n' Bass, Grime or an Electronic Musicstyle as yet unlabelled.