The German’s DJ career began buying and selling records in his hometown the former GDR, where record stores had been thin on the ground and lacked that critical edge that the bigger cities like Berlin had. Dettmann catered to a post punk industrial kind of electronic sound with the likes of Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb and sold these records to other music obsessives in his hometown. It wouldn’t take long before word got out about his exceptional ear for music and would eventually set him off on a career in DJing.