Tuff City Kids has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 21 January 2013. Tuff City Kids's music has been featured on 30 episodes.

Tuff City Kids is an alias of Frankfurt based DJ's and producers Gerd Janson and Lauer. Janson, head of Running Back label and Lauer started to remix names as Azari & III, Tensnake or Roland Appel before releasing own material.

First Tuff City Kids EP came out in 2012 at Berghain's sublabel of Ostgut Tonträger, U-Ton. After Bobby Tacker EP followed a string of releases on various labels, including Delsin, Live at Robert Johnson and most notably Munich-based Permanent Vacation Recordings, where they released debut album called Adoldesscent in 2016.