& Klein.

Hey boys, how’s it going?

We just came back from Paris where we played a four hour set back to back with Joachim Garraud, one of the biggest DJs in France. It was really amazing! Now we’re heading to Berlin where we’re playing with The Stafford Brothers tonight.

Speaking of the Staffords, we noticed you guys did a remix of one of their tracks. Those boys are hot property in Australia right now, do you think they’re about to make it big over in Europe too?

We not only did a remix for ‘I’m Feeling’ but also a production with them called ‘Open Up Your Arms’. We really love the Brothers; they’re on their way to getting big all over the world. They have great potential! And we support them wherever we are able to and by the way, they do the same for us when we’re in Australia!

You guys have been working, producing and DJing together for a long time now – what is it that makes you such a great team?

We play back to back and seldom speak about the next track. It seems we think with one head and it often happens that we grab the same track to play next. So we really share the same attitude. I know other teams using separate CD-cases and headphones or where one DJ leaves the booth when the other one mixes. That’s not our piece of the cake. We are like one, there is a certain kind of connection between us when we spin.

Germany always seems to be at the forefront of electronic music – why do you think this is so?

Hmm, that’s a question we have asked ourselves many times. Maybe it’s because of the bad weather. People are sitting in their houses most of the time, thinking about things they could do. So some develop cars, others create computer programs and some do great music. Another thing is that musical education is really good here. Most kids learn an instrument and that helps develop our sense for music.

Tell us about your “remixology” style of messing with tracks?

First of all, we do remixes for the dancefloor. So we try to make it as groovy and energetic as possible. Most of the development of a remix happens during the work on the basic parts. We listen to the vocals or the original bassline or the chords and most of the times one of us has an idea how to transform it into the Dabruck & Klein style.

You guys worked at a label for many years before starting up your own – can you tell us a little about your label?

We worked for Superstar Recordings for ten years, built it up to one of the leading labels for electronic music in the world. But then it was time to start something new, so we raised our very own label, called We Play! last year and had a really brilliant start. We work with artists like Axwell, Tocadisco, Dirty South, Steve Angello, the Stafford Brothers and others. We see the We Play label as a platform for a huge network between all our artists. We try to connect them all together and also involve newcomers we’ve signed to the whole thing.

What’s in store for your gig at The Met?

As we’ve DJd together for more than ten years now, we’re not really thinking about our set in advance. We usually go to the club one hour before we start, watching the crowd, reading the dancefloor and then decide how to start. After that everything is developed during the set. What we are able to promise: it will be forward, upfront and uplifting, because we love to play energetic tracks! We will have some really rare edits of well known songs as well as tracks no one heard before.

Dabruck & Klein play as part of The Met’s second birthday celebrations May 1.