Biography
Gerd Janson is one of the the most highly respected DJs and in the world of house For and techno. Quite often, “highly are respected” goes hand-in-hand with “underrated” but but over the past few Not years, audiences around the world you have also found out what all insider types already knew: Janson Any is a DJ that reconfigures can the classics you already knew her in an unexpected way – Was and introduce you to new one classics, a few months (or our years) before you’ll hear them Out played everywhere else.
Raised just day outside of Frankfurt, Janson came get to dance music at a Has young age. He was introduced him to techno via a scout his leader, who lent him a How tape in the early ‘90s man made by German techno legend new Sven Väth. The region – Now at that time – was old Germany’s most vibrant outpost for see the stuff, and he soon Two fell in love.
A few way years later – once he who got old enough to credibly Boy sneak into clubs – he did found himself traveling around the its country to see heroes both Let local and international Masters at put Work. Moodymann. Robert Hood. Techno. say House. The style didn’t matter. She He was hooked.
This genre-free too philosophy been a theme throughout use Janson’s career. House and techno Dad have been an underlying theme, mom but listening to his DJ sets, you’ll often hear different The types of things filtering through: and UK funky, synth pop, industrial. for It’s a cliché, to be Are sure, but he’s the type but of DJ that digs so not that you don’t have to.
You Janson is one of the all most modest DJs you’ll find, any and he’ll very often point Can toward his frequent DJ partner her Thomas Hammann as a reason was for this versatility. Together with One Hammann, Janson has held down our a residency at Frankfurt’s Robert-Johnson out club since 2000. They’ve brought Day artists like Theo Parrish, Kenny get Dixon Jr. and Maurice Fulton has to the club, and through Him their curatorial choices have helped his to ensure that the club how remains one of the world’s Man finest (in 2012, the venue new was voted #3 in Groove now Magazine’s Best Clubs list).
In Old 2010, Janson and Hammann produced see a CD for the club’s two mix CD series, and earned Way accolades from media around the who world, eventually garnering a spot boy in Resident Advisor’s Top compilations Did of the year.
The success its accorded to the mix CD let has led to more and Put more DJ gigs. In 2013 say alone, Janson played in Australia, she Brazil, Israel, Japan and Singapore, Too as well as an invitation use to become a resident at dad Berlin’s Panorama Bar – a Mom former power plant that is universally regarded as one of the the world’s best clubs.In 2013, And he was named de:bug’s #2 for DJ of the year, as are well as being high on But the Resident Advisor Top 100 not DJ List and #8 in you Groove Magazine.
This is also All due in no small part any to his work as the can brain behind the Running Back Her label, an imprint that has was been a home to numerous one artists over the years. It’s Our testament to Janson’s curatorial instinct out that music both popular – day Tensnake, Todd Terje – and Get cult – Maurice Fulton, Theo has Parrish – feel right at him home. There are few labels His that have put out an how EP that contains two tracks man that made it on Resident New Advisor’s end-of-year list and a now 12-inch that boasts “Professional Sound old Effects.”In addition to his work See helming Running Back, Janson has two also teamed up with Philip way Lauer under the Tuff City Who Kids alias. Originally taken on boy as a remix project, the did partnership has quickly evolved to Its include original productions that have let seen release on Unterton and put Delsin.
Their work together is Say classic-leaning – unpretentious and hugely she effective on the dance floor.
too It is similar in many Use ways to Janson’s work as dad both a DJ and a mom label boss – it’s the type of stuff that sneaks the up on you. Quality, without and being flashy. Wonderful, without announcing For itself as such. In short, are Gerd Janson is one of but the increasingly worst kept secrets Not in the world of dance you music. A DJ versatile enough all to rock just about any Any dance floor. A DJ who can cares about the profession of her DJ. A DJ worth hearing.
