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The RPZ Radio show is run weekly by DJ Hushpuppy.
RPZ show is a showcase for both old sounds and new - a weekly crate-digging session traversing cosmic, new-wave, boogie, classic house, funk, soundtracks, psych, hi-NRG, acid, primitive electonica, synth pop as well as some slices of serious muscular digital bass.
A long-term member of the Glasgow clubbing scene, Hushpuppy has djed across pretty much the entire spectrum of the city's clubbing community. A rabid music fan, he has slipped in the side door and thrown down some mind-bogglingly diverse vibes for the likes of Club Noir, Divine, One More Tune, Menergy, Melting Pot, Thunder Disco Club & Optimo.
For eight years he worked with fellow digital sound freaks Hifi Sean, Bonjour Boi & Jackson Stars at the helm of the Art Schools legendary thursday night future-shock clubbing institution RPZ (Record Playerz), putting the Art School firmly on the cutting edge of clubbing with an unrivalled, dazzling visual treatment and genre-bending soundtrack.
Currently Hushpuppy is keeping himself busy - as newly recruited third wheel with the KILLER KITSCH crew at the buff club, as a monthly resident (for the sixth year running) at DEATH DISCO, as rolling resident at Snafu club Aberdeen's disco phreek party HOT CITY and bar-vibing along-side THUNDER DISCO CLUB's Korbin Dallas for west end basement sessions at The Lansdowne.
His skills and taste have seen him play with the cream of contemporary dance acts over the years, having warmed up and partied at live shows for Simian Mobile Disco, Midnight Juggernauts, Underworld, Den Haan, Hercules and Love Affair, Siriusmo and even having the balls to play AFTER the Bloody Beetroots live!
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den haan album launch - rpz & wrong island
The Official Album Launch night for "Gods From Outer Space" by DEN HAAN.
Friday 11th March 2011 Stereo, Renfield Lane.
Entry £7/£6 11pm - 3am
Den Haan (LIVE), David Barbarossa(Hung Up!) Teamy (Wrong Island), Hushpuppy (RPZ/Death Disco).
On Friday 11th March RPZ & Wrong Island jointly present the official launch party for DEN HAAN's debut album "Gods From Outer Space" at Stereo.
DEN HAAN are a live synthesised dance act - Glasgow based duo Matthew Aldworth and Andy Gardiner. A chance meeting some years ago saw the two bond over their love for insane euro-disco and HI-NRG, and it was in that moment that the idea of Den Haan was born. Den Haan are the sounds of a seedy 1970's disco - sweat, synths, mechanised tribal rhythms and dazzling lights. Den Haan are two guys cruising the night for kicks, rock gods soaked in poppers with booming vocader-vocies and hungry for cheap lovin'. Their debut LP is a loving homage to the ground-breaking productions of Azoto, Tantra, John Carpenter, Patrick Cowley and Claudio Simonetti and a live performance on the night will provide an ear-gasmic glimpse into the musical journey that awaits the listener on the "Gods From Outer Space" debut double LP.
Supporting deejay duties on the night will be provided by two of the LP's fabulously manly cover stars - David Barbarossa (Hung Up!) and Teamy (Wrong Island) - along with RPZ and Death Disco resident Hushpuppy.
DAVID BARBAROSSA (Hung Up) - A regular contributor to club events on the cutting-edge of the musical spectrum, Mr Barbarossa has lent his considerable crate-digging credentials to events by Huntleys & Palmers, Optimo, Fun Sized, Future Sonic and the Wee Chill, playing alongside Todd Terje, Matthew Dear and Black Devil Disco Club. With a record collection running into 5-figures and a musical knowledge of equally immense stature, this pint-size DJ is one of Glasgow's biggest disco hitters.
TEAMY (Wrong Island) - Teamy is an avid collector and consumer of music whose passion for the politics of dancing was forged in the heat of a thousand sweaty Optimo Sundays. He runs his own Wrong Island Event with fellow DJ Dirty Larry, and despite its mere three and something years of parties has become, according to the taste-making Lucky Me collective, somewhat of a "glasgow Institution". The first to host Glasgow parties with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy & Pat Mahoney, King of Town, Xaver Naudascher, George Issakidis, Ramadanman, Shit Robot, Andy Blake and Prince Language, Wrong Island is firmly established as one of the city's most ambitious and eclectic underground events.
Hushpuppy (RPZ/Death Disco) - Hushpuppy was the creative brains behind seven club-scene-defining years of the Art Schools thursday nights (with RPZ, now monthly at Stereo) and is also main room resident at Arches super-club Death Disco. In addition to years of successful club running he has added his expansive deejaying abilities to major film premiers, Burlesque parties, fashion shows, Art exhibitions and music festivals, sharing the stage over the years with Aeroplane, Zombie Nation, The Crookers, Bang Gang, AC SLater, Brodinski, Villa, Don Rimini, Erol Alkan, Rex The Dog, Siriusmo and Surkin to name but a mere few.
Posted at 10:43, 7th March 2011
rpz & thunder disco club's "workout!"
FRIDAY 11th Feb 2011
RPZ & Thunder Disco Club
STEREO Cafe Bar. 22-28 Renfield Lane 11-3am £5
On Friday 11th February 2011 RPZ & Thunder Disco Club join forces to present WORKOUT! at Stereo Cafe Bar on Renfield Lane.
"First comes the warm-up, then comes the cardio-vascular section. This will last 15-20 mins, and will be un-interupted and steady. This aerobic phase exercises the most important muscle in the body - the HEART!" Jamie Lee Curtis "Perfect" (1985)
Club running mates for a number of years, the RPZ and TDC crews have been planing to team up on a club night for some time. Yet although they share a great many influences both musically and culturally, it wasn't clear what would be the best concept for a joint venture. With a dual history of running events based on high-end electro, italo and all manner of neon-satured 1980's video images, the choice for inspiration for their first event of 2011 was a difficult one. Ultimately, it was their shared passion for a certain day-glo, spandex clad moment in american 80's culture that proved the wining combination!
WORKOUT! is a night themed around the culture of wild 80's exersize and workout videos. While the djs from RPZ and TDC lay down some aerobic electronic rhythms to get everyone loosened up and ready for the main session (their very best selections of hi-tech disco, italomatic euro beats and cybernetic funk), visuals maestro Joe Crogan will be energising the whole room with ridiculously rare footage from mind-boggling 1980's workout videos. WORKOUT promises to be exactly what your dream of a sweaty, day-glo 80's mega gym would be - full of beautiful women and handsome, men all dancing together in a blur of smiles, tans, towels and tight jeans!
Stomachs in, buttocks tight, feel the burn ... its time to ITALOCISE!
Posted at 21:50, 18th January 2011
gus da hoodrat (banggang deejays) @ rpz
On Wednesday 22nd Dec RPZ presents Gus Da Hoodrat (Modular/Bang Gang 12"s) at Stereo Cafe Bar on Renfield Lane.
Gus Da Hoodrat is one of the founders of Australia's Bang Gang deejay team - and a genuine red-haired Scots lad! After breaking out in Australia through running a notorious series of monthly parties, the Bang Gang formed their own label in 2005 and began flexing their creative muscles with a series of release that were spun by deejays all over the world. These Australian dudes scored further international notoriety on the back of two spectacular mix CDs for Modular Recordings - LSD (Light Sound Dance) in 2007, and D is for Disco, E is for Dancing in 2008.
RPZ have a long-term fanship with the Bang Gang duo Gus Da Hoodrat and Jamie Doom, having had them as guests on three previous occasions in Scotland over the last four years, as well as hosting an insanely memorable main room at Death Disco with their fellow Banggang-er DJ Ajax (whose label Sweat It Out was behind the Yolando Be Cool mega hit "No Speak Americano").
Since their last visit in 2008 the Bang Gang guys have been pretty damn busy - Hoodrat in particular has created a trio of absolutely astounding Finger Prince podcasts while BangGang 12"s have achieved international critical acclaimed for their label with releases showcasing the fertile and ever expanding talent on the Australian dance scene - Bag Raiders, G.L.O.V.E.S., Muscles, Flight Facilities, Light Year and Cassian - all of whom are regularly played out by most Glasgow underground clubs and deejays. But not satisfied with spinning out amazing tracks as a deejay and releasing some of the most interesting new dance artists on the Bang Gang label, Hoodrat also creates some fantastic music of his own under the PRINCE FINGERS moniker. His recent self titled 12" release on Bang Gang 12's has been creating demented levels of excitement, with none other than Tiga remarking that Prince Fingers is "the sound of the future".
www.banggang.com.au
RPZ are quite honestly shaking with excitement at having this Aussie dude back in Glasgow and are looking forward to one blistering night of digital euphoria, one last chance to rattle our bones before the clubbing population sit down to a full week of xmas food and over-indulgence. The support duties as always will be ably handled by RPZ team Hushpuppy, Bonjour Boi and Joe Crogan. By now you should know to expect on the very finest selection of irresistibly danceable diskotecas, street-beat boogie, cybernetic soul, galactic disco, Rimini sound, italo stylings, Oz-matic house and delinquent tech-beats all accompanied Crogan's dazzling manipulation of video-loops and eye-popping polygonal animations.
RPZ - making laser beams, in your dreams.
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STEREO Cafe Bar. 22-28 Renfield Lane 11-3am £8/6
Posted at 15:27, 15th December 2010
rpz's cosmic voyage (with den haan)
RPZ
Invites you on a COSMIC VOYAGE departure from Earth scheduled -
Friday 26th November. 11pm GMT.
STARSHIP STEREO 22-28 Renfield Lane 11-3am £8/6
http://soundcloud.com/abnormals/cosmic-voyage-promo
On Friday 26th November RPZ present a 'Cosmic Voyage' with guest deejays DEN HAAN. This will be a special one-off event dedicated to cosmic disco, space-concept rock and galactic boogie which will boldy go where no club has gone before.
RPZ have been toiling feverishly in a secret government research facility helping devise and perfect a revolutionary new form of interplanetary propulsion - the DISCO DRIVE! Harnessing the extraordinary power of the synthesised night rhythms, RPZ are now able to invite the select few on a journey through the galaxy - an inaugural flight - to test out the viability of this extraordinary method of travel.
Lift of from the planet earth will be piloted by the glasgow based dj Delusions of Grandeur, easing us free from the atmosphere and into a stable orbit of the Moon. From here passengers will be propelled through the Solar System with RPZ at the controls, passing by asteroids, planets and breathtaking stellar phenomenon at unimaginable speeds. As the throbbing beats of the DISCO DRIVE reaches optimum efficiency, Glasgow's own deities of disco DEN HAAN will take over the controls. Channelling the mystic energies of their UNIARIAN religion the DEN HAAN duo will release a series of complex italo-disco equations into the vacuum of space causing euphoric ruptures in the very fabric of the disco space/time continuum.
Possibly....
The RPZ team offer this one-off excursion through the beauty and mystery of our universe, and have searched deep within their record collections to unearth mystifying chucks of concept space rock and precious cosmic disco diamonds to fuel this DISCO DRIVE unit. JOE CROGAN will be on hand to catalogue the sights on this monumental odyssey, projecting each swirling nebulae, strobing pulsar and mystical alien artefact on the inner hull of the Starship Stereo for the entertainment of our passengers and crew.
Don't miss this opportunity to experience the thrill of inter-stellar space travel, though who knows what we will discover on the very edges of the know Universe...
(*Passengers should take note that on return to the earth more than 500 years will have elapsed. Contact with Alien Lifeforms is not guaranteed.)
RPZ - Close Encounters of EVERY Kind.
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Crew Compliment -
DEN HAAN - Are Glasgow's premier proponents of synthesized Hi-NRG dance music. Their previous release are favoured spins by the likes of Optimo, Cosmo Vitelli, Headman, Ivan Smagghe and Mylo. The duo have a new single due in December and their debut album "Gods From Outer Space" due out next year. This guest deejay set is a rare chance for the duo explore a totally space & cosmic orientated DJ theme.
RPZ - eight years established, the RPZ deejays are responsible for one of the most influential club events in Glasgow and specialise in synthetic disco and bionic-bass sounds from the past, present and future.
JOE GROGAN - Notorious hunk and wizard of light and magic, Joe Crogan is Glasgow club-lands most talented and in-demand club visuals and VJ supremo.
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - has previously played at RPZ, IAM, Cheap 'n' Nasty and pre-club slots at The Goat throughout this year. He plays out a variety of disco, italo, house, electronica, synth-pop and techno, punctuated by sudden starts and abrupt stops.
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Posted at 21:21, 19th November 2010
rpz - fright night sounds @ stereo
Friday 29th Oct 2010
Resident basket cases Hushpuppy and Bonjour Boi transport you to a world of the not too distant future where they'll serve up the most spine-tingling screams and howls of demented disco, haunted house and unbelievable italo-ween madness.
Terror Vision wizard Joe Crogan (the demented Guyborg who is half-man, half-VHS) will be projecting boogey-man visions, neon nightmares and guy-on-guy crazy shit straight into your eyes. In techni-colour GORY. You will probably never recover.
Free shits for dressed-up Student BODIES - Killer Condoms, Ginger Dead Men, Closet-Case Masks.
Come and danse with us. You never know, you might be DEAD in the morning.
RPZ. We spit on your RAVE.
Monthly @ STEREO Cafe Bar. 22-28 Renfield Lane 11-3am £7/5
Terrifying drink promos too - Arrrgghhh!!! £2 of carlsberg, £2.55 can of stella, oranjeboom.
Posted at 14:40, 18th October 2010