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PlayPlay

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PlayPlay combines their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic samples & dreamy synths in both their DJ sets & music production. Their sound is inspired by over two decades of raving, crate digging and the sounds they grew up dancing to - 90s club anthems, jungle and DnB, minimal wave, classic house, techno and old school hip-hop. They have played at venues such as Good Room, Elsewhere, Jupiter Disco, MOMA PS1, and Bossa Nova Civic Club and at festivals such as Brooklyn Mag Festival.

Over the past decade, they've had the privilege of playing alongside artists such as Big Freedia, TT the Artist, Le1f, Quest?onmarc, MikeQ, GRRL, UNIIQU3, Jubilee and Bored Lord, releasing guest mixes on The Lot Radio, Rinse FM, WIDE Radio, JEROME Worldwide and more.

With releases out on labels such as Clasico Records, Sorry Records, Worst Behavior and Delusional Records, as well as a slew of self-releases and collaborations, PlayPlay has been slowly and steadily amassing a thumping discography over the years. Their music has been featured on radio programs such as BBC Radio 1, NTS Radio, Rinse FM and the Lot Radio and can be heard in underground clubs around the world (some of which they're probably dancing in).

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PlayPlay also loves to collaborate, remixing music from artists such as Bored Lord and Big Dipper and and has had their music remixed by Suzi Analogue, Jasmine Infiniti, Bored Lord, James Bangura, Scottie B, Escaflowne and more. PlayPlay and fellow queer southern producer C Powers have released their collaborative, slow cooked breakbeat EP Breaking Capacity under the moniker PowerPlay on Sorry Records.

They currently host two parties: Breaking Capacity, a quarterly party dedicated to all things breaks, and Satisfaction of What’s to Come, a quarterly party celebrating the many iterations of house music.

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

SoundCloud ↗Bandcamp ↗Discogs ↗

Records out on Sorry Records, FPE Records and Worst Behavior Recs. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

2026

2025 — 8 nights
2024 — 10 nights
2023 — 5 nights

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027

Once each: H0L0, public records, Paragon, Animal, Honey's, Good Room and The End.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

PowerPlay has stood on 1 of these bills. PowerPlay is one of the names PlayPlay records under, so they are named here rather than counted as company. — their aliases on Resident Advisor

  • MF BUTCHTrans-Pecos ×2, and 3 more rooms · Dec 2023 – Aug 20265 nights
  • Janus RoseBoyfriend co-op ×2, and 2 more rooms · Feb 2024 – Oct 2026 · together again Thu 29 Oct4 nights
  • Alex ViperTrans-Pecos ×2, Wonderville ×1 · Dec 2023 – Jul 20243 nights
  • XXHARDBIT3SBoyfriend co-op ×1, Earthly Delights ×1 · May 2025 – Aug 20262 nights
  • Kilopatrah JonesH0L0 ×1, Jupiter Disco ×1 · Oct 2023 – May 20262 nights
  • DJ ShannonMood Ring ×1, Paragon ×1 · May 2024 – Mar 20262 nights
  • LycheeBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Paragon ×1 · Jan 2026 – Mar 20262 nights
  • DJ RipleyBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Trans-Pecos ×1 · Feb 2024 – Mar 20262 nights
7 more, 2 nights each
  • DrummyBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Jupiter Disco ×1 · Jun 2024 – Mar 20262 nights
  • David LunchHoney's ×1, Jupiter Disco ×1 · Jul 2025 – Feb 20262 nights
  • theoreticHoney's ×1, Mood Ring ×1 · Jan 2025 – Jul 20252 nights
  • HONEY BGood Room ×1, Mood Ring ×1 · May 2024 – Nov 20242 nights
  • wahala.wavEarthly Delights ×1, Trans-Pecos ×1 · Feb 2024 – Oct 20242 nights
  • @TR!GGEREDThe End ×1, Trans-Pecos ×1 · Apr 2024 – Jul 20242 nights
  • PatsyWonderville ×2 · Aug 2023 – Oct 20232 nights

On record

12 more, back to 2018

Every one of these resolves on Discogs; the ones that do not are not printed. What Discogs files them under is not printed either — its label column carries mix series as if they were imprints.

The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. The records are Discogs'. Nothing on this page was written for it.