 Both artists are known for celebrating their Detroit roots.House Music and Techno both had their roots in Chicago and Detroit respectively in the mid-to-late 1980s.House music producers such as Frankie Knuckles and Marshall Jefferson recorded early house music records at Chicago's Trax Records while in Detroit, techno pioneers Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson created a sound that, while ignored mostly in America, became quite popular in Europe.