"producers" of electronic music

Can I just say I hate this term? well, I do... as a solo electronic artist you are a composer and an engineer, but you really have no producer when you're working alone at home.... there's a very broad but specific role the producer fills in the recording world and once commercial studios are out of the equation and there's no dedicated tech staff to manage? well, I dunno... its a redundant credit! even bands who produce their own albums did so by being in charge of the budgeting, booking, schedule and artistic direction like a 3rd party would have. This term "producer" is so over and misused. In movie terms a record producer could be seen as a mix of executive producer and director and the engineer is like the cinematographer. As a former studio cat it drives me mildly nuts to hear the way amature electronic musicians who can't even handle the engineering technicalities if they're not using softsynths in fruity or live bandy it about, putting on airs. I guess you guys are kinda producing your albums when you do a full length, but when you're just pumping out individual tracks from your bedroom I fail to see how anyone is filling that role because it is not needed. I guess its part of modern parlance though.... when did this happen? When I got into electronic music we didn't use this term the way its used now by EDM guys....

Produce doesn't mean that in the music biz, which is an offshoot of entertainment in general. The producer manages the money, makes schedules and keeps the creative people focused. He sets the tempo and contributes creatively in broad strokes generally unless he is also the engineer or on a film the director. I mean sure these guys "produce" music in the Oxford English dictionary sense, but as far as the job description goes, they don't precisely fit it because they make music that requires very little personel and there fore doesn't need a producer to manage everything. Vangellis and Brian Eno were huge pioneers in the electronic genre but they're composers, artists.... no one called Eno a producer unless he was filling that role as well as contributing as an artist like when he produced talking heads but also arranged, engineered and played a little. Its confusing. I would not hire Skrillex to produce an album with live musicians, but I would trust a more traditional producer like Flood to produce my electronic album if I needed to use a commercial studio.... although there's this thing since the 80s where no one knows what the producer on a major label album really does anymore, LOL. But I think it was covered pretty well in Dave Grohl's film "Sound City."