<p style="text-align: center;">Two of Germany’s most storied DJs meet for an unprecedented and intriguing back-to-back session</p><p name="p" style="text-align: center;"><span name="span"><span name="span">At first glance there’s little that unites </span><span name="span"><span name="strong">Gerd Janson </span></span><span name="span">and </span><span name="span"><span name="strong">Marcel Dettmann </span></span><span name="span">besides nationality. Yet look a little deeper, and the pair share more than just a few digits of postcode. </span></span><br><br><span name="span"><span name="span">Both have roots in the former Eastern Bloc - Janson’s parents emigrated from Romania to the outskirts of Frankfurt in the late 70s, while Dettmann was raised just outside of Berlin, in the former GDR - and both emerged in the early 2000s as part of a golden generation of German DJs and producers. As Dettmann was helping define a new generation of Berlin techno over at Berghain and </span></span><a href="https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/" name="a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span name="span"><span name="span"><span name="u">Ostgut Ton</span></span></span></a><span name="span"><span name="span">, Janson was reinvigorating house music, setting up his now-iconic label </span></span><a href="https://runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com/" name="a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span name="span"><span name="span"><span name="u">Running Back</span></span></span></a><span name="span"><span name="span"> while still at university.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" name="p" style="text-align: center;"><br><span name="span"><span name="span">Dettmann’s austere brand of techno combines the negative space of dub techno with the cold romance of 80s synth pop and goth rock: everything from Front 242 to Depeche Mode and The Cure. You can hear traces of those same artists in Janson’s deep cuts of Italo-flavoured house.</span></span></p>