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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.

www.myspace.com/r-p-z www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87937316588&ref=ts

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 // 24.11.10

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.

www.myspace.com/r-p-z www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87937316588&ref=ts

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 15:40, 18th October 2010

rpz @ stereo!! friday 24th sept.

RPZ is BACK!!!

Sounds - Hushpuppy, Bonjour Boi Visions - Joe Crogan

Friday 24th Sept 2010. Monthly @ STEREO Cafe Bar. 22-28 Renfield Lane 11-3am £7/5

Friday September the 24th sees RPZ step into their next monthly gig at Stereo.

For the last eight years RPZ have built a totally unique space for themselves at the top of the Glasgow club scene, with only former Sunday night institution Optimo and Death Disco as their immediate superiors. Created in 2002 the night gradually, steadily grew and by 2004 RPZ was established as a consistently PACKED weekly institution. RPZ firmly put thursday night up the Arty firmly on the map with their resident based line-up and intermittent scene-breaking live acts. Week after week premiered new sights and new sounds to Glasgow's ravenous party denizens, while creating a blueprint for the merging of sound and visual elements that would be lifted by many clubs following in its wake over the next six years.

At this new weekend residency in Stereo, the RPZ crew intend to continue with their mission to thrill the senses and challenge the ears of their faithfully followers both old and new. Collaborating with vidéomatic maestro Joe Crogan, they will be creating a dazzling new visual treatment for Stereo, with a unique manipulation of video-loops, images and eye-popping polygonal animations. The disco-duties as always will be ably handled by RPZ residents Hushpuppy and Bonjour Boi. This bedrock resident duo will be keeping the dancefloor teetering somewhere close to the edge of total rhythmic ecstasy with a super-diverse selection of digital rhythms spanning decades of electronic club sounds. Expect an irresistibly danceable blend of jerky diskotecas, street-beat boogie, cybernetic soul, galactic disco, Rimini sound, italo stylings, Oz-matic house and anarchic tech-beats.

RPZ - making laser beams, in your dreams.

www.myspace.com/r-p-z www.subcity.org/shows/rpz/ www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87937316588&ref=ts

Posted at 20:01, 20th September 2010

final rpz at the art school

RPZ // 06.07.10 // One last time up the Arty

On thursday 24th June 2010 RPZ presented their final night in the Vic Bar and bid farewell to the Art School for EVER.

It has been just over 8 years since Record Playerz started their night in the Vic Bar in the Glasgow School Of Art. Since that time, the night has grown to be one of the largest and most successfully weekly club nights in Scotland. There have been a great many fantastic nights in that time, many firm friends have been met and been made over the years and the club has been, and continues to be, the blue-print for many many other nights that have come in its wake.

However the time has come to move on. There have been a number of changes in the dj booth at RPZ over the years - founder HiFi Sean departed in 2006 to be replaced by Bonjour Boi and Jackson Stars. Stars himself left in 2008, and most recently the night has now bid farewell to Bonjour Boi who now resides in Stockholm with his beloved girlfriend.

It is this most recent departure has led to a serious re-think of what the night is about, and where RPZ is going.

Left on my again, I decided that I didn't want to recruit another new dj. I had become so used to djing with the Bonjour Boi I doubt any partnership could be as rewarding and enjoyable. It would be like trying to replace my best friend. And that being the case, I also knew I couldn't spare the time needed to run a weekly night if I was going to do it alone.

So the decision had to be to abandon RPZ as a weekly event, adapt it to a monthly party, AND have it on the weekend. Try out a whole new venue on a completely different night. So RPZ will live on, and as a monthly it will still be able to have myself and Bonjour Boi as its residents. Details of the new venue are still being worked out, but the RPZ gang will be back with their first event in late August, with plans to return with their Aussie brothers the Bang Gang deejays.

We hope that you will be able to make it along to our final farewell to the Art School. Its bound to be a tearful affair. RPZ has been the best thing i have ever created, and the most fun i have ever had at a club night, with all the best friends i have ever met. Far more fun that any one person could ever deserve.

I'm gonna miss it up the arty.

And remember kids, I'm gonna miss YOU most of all.

Hushpuppy 2010.

Posted at 20:22, 7th July 2010

rpz presents dobly anol (dj set)

RPZ // 24.05.10

On thursday 27th May 2010 RPZ present DOBLY ANOL for a special guest dj set!!

No strangers to the RPZ dancefloor (or most other glasgow club nights), Dolby Anol are one of Scotland's most inventive and respected electronic producers.

Hailing from Glasgow the duo have carved an enviable reputation for themselves with a series of blistering EPs that demonstrate a devious and imaginative approach to dance music.

Their releases - including Puppies, Tender Touch, Macaroon/Cameron and most recent Sandy Bitches - take a particularly skewed but wildly inventive approach to the business of delirious dancing, jumping from genius cheesy 80's MOR disco samples to thoughtfully skeletal and superlative techno. This playful diversity has won them a varied collection of admirers ranging from BBC radio populist Annie Mac to kings of belligerent beats the Boyz Noise.

As always RPZ residents Bonjour Boi and Hushpuppy will be spinning out their own brand of sweat inducing digital disco delirium, grinding together electro, rave, jerky bassline, italo, synthetic disco, French sound, gay hi-NRG, Oz-matic punk-house and delinquent techno.

Glowing pop-art projections and über gay-cosmic visuals are provided by one-man videoteque Joe Crogan .

RPZ - making laser beams....in your dreams!!

Posted at 14:02, 17th May 2010

nightlife unlimited - hushpuppy & kid zipper

RPZ // 17.05.10

"Summer Night City"

Hey disco kids! Summer is close you know, and the sounds of the disco past are floating in the air. We at Nightlife Unlimited are feeling frisky and getting physical.

So come down and hang with Kid Zipper and Hushpuppy at the Courtyard and enjoy a night of glittering, glitzy 70's and 80's mirrorball madness.

The roller boogie boys will be spinning out crazy vocal italo, hi-nrg, late 70's NY crisco-disco, throbbing euro-synth, hi-gloss street funk with the odd 80's summer hit thrown in just cos its, you know, seasonal!

Come on down, its free, its fun and its FRIDAY.

Posted at 13:59, 17th May 2010

nightlife unlimited - hushpuppy (rpz, death disco)

RPZ // 15.03.10

The Courtyard, Friday 18th March 9-12.

DEEJAYS

hushpuppy (RPZ, Death Disco)

Kidzipper (Menergy)

Nightlife Unlimited is where you'll hear the best of ultra-italo disco, throbbing hi-nrg , glistening synth pop, jackin' street beat sounds and US/Euro disco rhythms that are JAMM HOT.

Its sounds for fans of that funky pop jamm thang, fans of a bit of chin-stroking italo snobbery, fans of a slice of fragrant euro diskotecas, fans of John Huges big hair and shoulder pads KERAZZE-ness.

Nightlife Unlimted is Less Than Zero and looking for a hero.

Posted at 17:56, 15th March 2010

special guest -felix cartal (dim mak) 4th feb 2010

THURSDAY 4TH FEB ONLY - FELIX CARTAL (Dim Mak) - DJ SET.

R-P-Z takes place every thursday DOWNSTAIRS at the Glasgow School Of Art Student Association. RPZ deejays specialise in digital stimulation design to provoke and maintain non-stop dancing.

On Thursday 4th of February RPZ present FELIX CARTAL (DJ SET) at the Glasgow School Of Art.

Felix Cartal is a Canadian artists based in Vancouver who in the past two years has risen to international prominence among a new wave of dance artists who have built their profile squarely upon blogging and free file sharing. Through the popularity of tracks released on myspace, Felix quickly became a familiar name not only among the trend-leading new blogs, but also among some of the most important of the emerging stars of this new scene, with his is tracks became regular spins for the likes of MSTRKRFT, Crookers, Steve Aoki and Felix Da Housecat.

Felix's productions, early favourites like Vancouver and his most recent Skeleton EP, demonstrate a pre-occupation with filtering the rawness of the punk rock into electronic music aimed at the dancefloor, directly drawing influences from digital punk rock bands like NOFX and Lighting and the sparse electronics of James Holden and Alter Ego.

From humble beginnings as a bedroom bound computer nerd, Felix is now signed to Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label alongside MSTRKRFT, Armand Van Helden, Bloody Beetroots, Shinichi Osawa, Pase Rock, Whitey and Glasgow's own Shitdisco

As always RPZ residents Bonjour Boi and Hushpuppy will be on hand to provide the cybernetic backbone to the nights rhythmic entertainments. Amid the glowing pop-art projections and dizzying cosmic visuals they will be spinning out their own brand of sweat inducing digital disco delirium, grinding together electro, rave, jerky bassline, italo, synthetic disco, French sound, gay hi-NRG, Oz-matic punk-house and delinquent techno.

RPZ - making laser beams.... in your dreams!

The Vic Bar, Glasgow School of Art 168 Renfrew Street Art students £1. Others £3/£4* (*inc entry to Mixed Bizness) 11pm till 3am

Posted at 18:27, 25th January 2010

last rpz of 2009 - hello new decade!!

Hey gang,

RPZ guys are tying up the year 2009 on Thursday 17th Dec with a total mega digital freak-out of a festive fling.

Bojour boi and the hush will be firing out some of their favourite sounds of the year at point-blank range.

Git in some preparatory cosmic vibrations with the LA Disco Freaks - Francisco & Edison Sweets - @ CCA who will be providing their sensational warm-up selection 9-12.

Its our final neon splash of the year, so be sure and CUM & DANSE wit uzzzz.

SUPER big hugs from the RPZ gang to all of you boyzz & grrrlz for throwing shapes and bringing that black and white dancefloor ALIVE all through the last year...

Remember kids, RPZ is not just for christmas, its for LIFE.

RPZ XXXXX

Posted at 20:35, 15th December 2009

heartbreak (dj set) @ rpz - 12th nov

Thurs 12th Nov - Italodisco heroes HEARTBREAK hit the RPZ for a zuper-hott dj set.

Purveyors of a very particular brand of, shall we say, 'tres emotional' 80's euro pop, Heartbreak have become the leading live performers in the worldwide Italo-disco renaissance. From relatively humble beginnings in London, their sound and tales of their melodramatic live shows, have drawn the attention of the like of The Presets, Neon Neon, Block Party and La Roux.

Now finding success across the globe through tours with The Presets and Cut Copy, Heartbreak are now joining the Modular Records stable of talen. Consequently they make a perfect choice for RPZ guests, as for many years we have both championed the now sound Wizards of Oz - Presets, Midnight Juggernauts, Bang Gang DJs - as well as having made 80's digital pop and italo part of our sound from the clubs beginings over 8 years ago.

RPZ are super excited to welcome Hearbreak's keyboard wizard Ali Renault for this very special set - guaranteed free of the usual big-room fidget/bassline promo MP3's that clog every guest dj playlist of the moment. Instead Ali promises a dazzling mix of electro, italo pop, seminal house and throbbing euro disco.

myspace.com/heartbreak1 www.lexrecords.com

RPZ - making laser beams in your dreams. Every Week, right up the arty!

The Vic Bar, Glasgow School of Art 168 Renfrew Street Art students £1. Others £3/£4* (*inc entry to Mixed Bizness) 11pm till 3am.

Posted at 18:23, 9th November 2009

rpz - romero heat (thunder disco club) dj set.

RPZ // 12.10.09 // RPZ - making Laser Beams in Your Dreams

THURSDAY 15th Oct 2009

RPZ gets into bed with the Thunder Disco boyzz once again.

After the melting techno-delic set served up by TDC's RAUL PINDI only a couple of months ago, us RPZ boys R excited 2 follow up with a second dj double date with beat freak ROMERO HEAT (the Iceman to Raul Pindi's Maverick in the TDC massive)

The Thunder Disco Club crew have been working hard building up the reputation of their name and nights, and this arty love-in of synthesised bass, whoops and squelches is bound to leave the arty kids singin' and their ears ringin'.

Cum & danse wit uzzzz.

Thunder Disco Vs. RPZ. Making Laser Beams in your Dreams...

Posted at 15:08, 9th October 2009

bonjour boi (rpz) guests at spectrum, blackfriars

Hey Guys & Dolls,

After putting on the BEAT last month with a Hushpuppy guest slot (which was a sell-out, up against Soulwax no less) the Spectrum gang and mr Motor Psycho are getting in a bit more tasty RPZ action.

This month the Bonjour Boi himself takes on street beat duties and promises and night of exceptional bleeps, bangs and digital vvrroooomzz.

Git down, and get UP!!!!

Spectrum @ Blackfriars, Saturday 26th, 11-3, £5/4

Get tickets in advance HERE

https://www.clubtickets.com/gb/2009-09/26/spectrum.jsp

or take your life in your hands and buy tickets on the door!!

RPZ

Posted at 17:36, 21st September 2009

rpz freshers nite @ gsa. thurs 17th sept

RPZ guys get their decks out for yet another round of new kidz on the Art Block.

Its our 8th year for welcoming the fresh faced clubbers of a new student year, our 8th year of ruining friday morning tutorials and classes, our 8th year of leading a merry dance with VROOOMZZZ & BOOOMZZZ.

Attend to the beats and lose your self in the disco-tech soundz of Bonjour Boi & Hushpupy.

Non stop dancing and digital stimulation like you will find nowhere else.

Remember kids, no talent is NOT enough...

RPZ guys XX

www.myspace.com/recordplayerzclub

Posted at 12:43, 8th September 2009