THEY’RE about to launch their night at the Railway Hotel, but DJ duo Dpplgngrs are doing so well they may not be able to host it themselves for much longer.

They launch the night – under their label banner Hottwerk – this Friday. But one half of the duo, Tony Pontius, aka Tobias Dpplgngr, admits they’re so busy with other gigs that it might not be so easy to catch them live at the nights, which they hope will run regularly, for much longer.

“We really like having a foot in our home town,” says Tony, who also co-runs successful label Hottwerk with his wife Michelle.

Their label has seen releases played by the likes of Fatboy Slim and has picked up top reviews by industry magazines like Mixmag.

“Things are really happening at an exponential rate with Dpplgngrs, and this is probably going to be some people’s only opportunity to see us here for a few quid for a while.”

Dpplgngrs – Tony and musical partner Craig Fury – have been steadily building their name since forming in 2009.

They have enjoyed positive reviews from the likes of DJ Mag, and have been compared to the Chemical Brothers.

Mixmag awarding their debut album, Black Market Open Heart Surgery, electro album of the month when it was released last year.

The buzz surrounding that has led to some big gigs this year, with an upcoming appearance at major festival Secret Garden Party and big dates coming up abroad. A new release on DJ Pierre’s record label is something of a coup for the pair, as the big-name DJ was one of the fathers of acid house and is a heavyweight on the scene.

Their current single, Sardo, is being spun on Radio One and Capital FM.

Tony says the night – the Hottwerk Social – will see them take a spot as resident DJs, as well as inviting other guests from the label to take a spin on the decks.

It will, they say, be an effort to strip away the sleek, shiny effects which often surround dance music and take it back to just the music.

“We’re planning to stay residents there for as long as we can,” says Tony. “Even if it comes to the point where we can’t do it every month, we’ll still do it every couple of months when we can.

“The music policy is kind of replicating the eclectic nature of the label.

“It’s going to be quite eclectic musically, it’s not really going to include the more dubstep-y end,. It’ll mainly be techno, house, disco, electro and various permeatations on that.”

Describing the atmosphere they will be hoping for on the night, Tony says: “Although Hottwerk is an international label – DJs all over the world play our music – we do have a foot very much in south Essex, especially in our home town of Southend.

“We’ve been meaning to start a night at the Railway for a long time, but things get in the way and things come up. We’ve got it together now and we just wanted to take things back a bit out of the shiny, chrome clubs and the flashy sort of thing.

“Take it back to more of a having a big sound system in the back room of the pub, which was something of a formative experience for me when I was growing up.”

Admitting they’re giving a huge nod to iconic night Heavenly Social, which saw the Chemical Brothers and Jon Carter on its books as resident DJs, he adds: “By the end of the Nineties it was all super clubs and huge capacity venues. “But, as someone who started going out in the early to mid-Nineties, it was that whole backroom thing with people just having a dance.

“We are blatantly harking back to nights like Heavenly Social, and we do share that ethos of getting back to the music and just trying to get rid of some of the pretention of people nodding away on their phones all night.”

The Hottwerk Social launches at the Railway Hotel on Friday May 3, from 9pm. Entry is £3.