Andy Pulzar - DJ Biography

Andy Poulsen (DJ Andy Pulzar) was based in Christchurch, New Zealand until midway through 2011 when he relocated to Sydney, Australia. A professional DJ for over 20 years, he’s played in nightclubs, bars, festivals, coming of age parties, weddings, parties, formals, house, electro, trance and hard house nights. If you want to see a DJ that really knows how to pump up a crowd and put on a show, you need to experience Andy Pulzar!

Since moving to Sydney he's already DJed at venues like the Hard Rock Cafe in Darling Harbour, The Marlborough Hotel in Newtown (better known as The Marly), The Peakhurst Inn, Unity Hall Hotel, Richard's On The Park in Canley Vale and played several nights of old school 90's Retro at the Bristol Arms Hotel in the city. Back in Christchurch Andy has held residencies with Malbas, Base Nightclub, Taxi Club, Liquidity, Azure, Ferment, ClubNRG, Smile Clubbing NZ, The Church and Trinity nightclub. He often guested at Christchurch's top clubs Ministry, Base, Malbas, Mansion, The Bedford and the Civic. His largest crowd has been supporting Andy Hunter at Parachute Festival Extreme in front of 15,000 screaming dance fans in 2003, and he annually DJ's for over 80,000 people!

Internationally he’s performed as far afield as Smile in London and Buzz in Chicago, and locally at a huge list of dance parties including events like Lagered, Liquification, Nitrate, Alpine Unity, Sundissential, Serotonin, Dirty Trancing, Area51, Wobble, Leviathan 2, First Mission, N-R-G and Samsara, and many more. He has played support to Sneaky Sound System (twice!), Steve Hill, Andy Hunter, Dave Holmes, Skol, Tony Burt, Daniel Ro, Rob Tissera, Eddie Halliwell, Dr Duzzit, Scott Mortimore, Sample Gee, The Marshall, General Lee, Tim Phin, Archie, Jon Ferris, OB1, Kenesis, Alex K, Justin Sane, Kyle Bourke, Disko Diva, and more. He loves travelling and is always looking for an excuse to pack a crate and jump on a plane.

Primarily known for playing house, electro and uplifting trance, with a background in corporate & private functions he is also able to spin commercial tunes, progressive, dubstep, drum & bass, breaks or whatever else is required for a particular event. With a massive music collection of over 50,000 tunes on CD and thousands of records, Andy can play to any crowd.

In March 2004 he DJed live on stage at the Court Theatre as a cast member of GEEZERS, an improvised theatrical show that ran to packed houses for a full four week season, playing the beats of London’s East End, with breaks, D&B, garage and house beats. The show toured nationally for five weeks during August 2005. The success of Geezers was followed by another show with the same cast called ROCK ON (Oct/Nov 2005), where Andy sound-tracked a nightly feast of classic heavy metal.

In October 1999 with a business partner he started Pulzar FM, Christchurch's original home of dance music, a radio station that was considered the leading high energy dance format in NZ in the early 2000's, even though it was broadcasting only on low power. Pulzar FM successfully secured a full power radio frequency (the first in Christchurch since 1991!) and relaunched Pulzar FM Canterbury-wide with an uptempo commercial format on 18th April 2009 on 105.7fm.

He expanded his love of radio with the launch of Urban Breaks, a d&b / hip-hop / breaks station, in November 2004, operating 24/7 from a studio in a popular inner city café. This station closed down early in 2009.

Following the destruction of Malbas nightclub in the Christchurch Earthquake of February 22nd, 2011, Andy has relocated to Sydney on a fixed term contract for work and he's now DJing in bars & nightclubs around Sydney. You can book him direct through Absolute Infinity.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTSJan 2003 - Supporting Andy Hunter in front of 15,000 people at Parachute Festival Extreme.
Oct 2004 - Playing at leading underground hard dance club SMILE in London at a night in the Chunnel Club in Vauxhall.
Nov 2005 - Playing the main support slot at Lagered, on the trance night's triumphant return to Christchurch after 2 years absence.
Dec 2007 - Opening for Sneaky Sound System (with Craig Shaw) at the Civic in Christchurch. A completely sold out gig and a packed room.
May 2009 - Opening for Sneaky Sound System (with Craig Shaw) for the second time at the Bedford in Christchurch.
Oct 2009 - Had an amazing set as one of the headliners at a party celebrating 10 Years of Pulzar FM in a private listener party at the Tai Tapu Hotel.
Jan 2010 - Playing to a packed Deluxe venue of around 5,000 at Parachute Festival 2010.
Jul 2011 - Relocated to Sydney, Australia