June
8th. "Ready
for the fight (Feat. Count Bass D)" featured on EA Games "Fight
Night Round 4" game.
MofoHifi Records and Ultra Records are delighted to announce that the forthcoming track by The Young Punx - "Ready for the fight" is featured prominently as the title track on the highly anticipated new boxing video game "Fight Night Round 4". The track is one of several songs from the 'eclectic electric collective's forthcoming album "Mashpop and Punkstep" to feature guest vocals from highly respected Memphis rapper Count Bass D.
“Ready for the fight” is triumphant cross genre collaboration between London-based electronic dance producers The Young Punx and Memphis-based king of the independent Hip Hop producers Count Bass D. Despite radically different musical and cultural backgrounds both artists have developed a great respect for each others’ work and come together to create a unique and moving track seamlessly combining the best of post Daft Punk European dance production with big room Hip Hop vibes in a moving tale of resolve and determination in the face of adversity.
The Young Punx are no strangers to the gaming world, having had 3 tracks featured on EA releases in the past 2 years, and having performed live at the EA Games "Be The One" event in Trafalgar Square recently. However, "Fight Night Round 4" ramps this up a notch by using the track to soundtrack key scenes in the game as a core part of the gaming experience.
Even prior to the game's official release, blogs and social networking sites have
been buzzing about the track after it was featured as part of
the pre-release demo version of the game, and rips of the song
from the game, plus home made footage of the band rehearsing the
track are both proving popular on Youtube.
Fan-generated youtube rip of the track Home footage of the band rehearsing the track
"Ready for the fight" will be available for download on iTunes in late June 2009, with further promotion planned for later in the summer including a video by cult artist Han Hoogerbrugge, and a performance of the track to 15,000 fans at the Nano Mugen festival in Japan, building up to the release of the album "Mashpop and Punkstep" in Fall 2009. This new album continues The Young Punx' manifesto to break down the genre barriers inherent in electronic, dance and urban music, blending diverse and exciting musical styles to create new and vibrant sounds.
March
18th. Juice
and Gin / Seven Nation Army / Gigs / Moog!
Juice and Gin now available from Beatport
The Young Punx latest club promo track, the ragga infected
party house bamb "Juice and Gin"
is now available on Beatport
in the original 1.5 Club version, 2 mixes by Riva
Starr and an acapella. BUY
NOW.
January
5th. Free download - "The Clapping Song"
for Buffet Libre Rewind 2. The Young Punx have taken part in the legendary Buffet
Libre "Rewind" project, in which 100 artists do cover
versions of tracks from the 70s, 80s and 90s for a free online
digital download compilation. The Young Punx chose to cover
the Belle Stars version of "The Clapping Song" from
1982, which is itself a cover of Shirley Ellis' 60s original.
Featuring vocals from Laura Kidd and virtuoso guitar from Guthrie
Govan the track starts out as a fairly faithful cover version,
until Phonat takes the helm half way through and it turns into
a kind of electro drum and bass freak out version! Hal Ritson
of The Young Punx comments, "What attracted us was the combination of the innocence
of the playground rhyme pop style with the sulky thatcher-era
vocal delivery. Also it seemed fun to do a cover version of
a song that was ALREADY a cover version of a 60's song. A cover
of a cover."
Visit
the Rewind 2 site to download the other cover versions
in the project by artists including Little Boots, Bonde do role
and Au Revoir Simone.
NEWS 2008
December
12th. New Mashup - Lola's Ghost. A new mash-up for you. I thought these would sit nicely
together the moment I first heard Deadmau5 “Ghosts N Stuff”
ringing through from Phonat’s room next door! I had to
re-record the strings and brass for Lola’s Theme myself
with live players to clarify the harmony enough to make it gel,
but hey, I do these kinds of things for you and you don’t
get that kind of dedication from anyone else!
October
28th. The Young Punx debut album, 'Your
Music Is Killing Me', has been shortlisted for the Grammy Awards
'Best Electronic/Dance Album' category; great news in the week
that sees them also take-over BBC Radio 1 for a very special
Halloween guest mix. Press Information
For Immediate Release
28th October - The Young Punx debut album, 'Your Music Is Killing
Me', has been shortlisted for the Grammy Awards'Best Electronic/Dance Album' category; great
news in the week that sees them also take-over BBC Radio
1 for a very special Halloween guest mix.
Not many producers in Dance Music circles can claim to have
received an invitation from one of the Dance Music's biggest
personalities, David Guetta, to co-write on
his PopLife album. To have performed on over ten top
ten records including Eric Prydz' number-one record
'Call On Me' and Supermode's 'Tell
Me Why'. Notch up remix credits for no less than Norman
Cook's Mighty Dub Kats alter ego, The
Scissor Sisters, Sonny J, and Utah Saints, and then
spend a Summer performing with Stereophonics
in front of 15,000 people, support Tiesto at
Ibiza superclub, Privilege and be invited by
Radio 1's Judge Jules to play at the infamous Judgement
Sunday's event. The Young Punx front man, Hal Ritson
can and now adding to this acclaim, his Young Punx act have
had their debut album 'Your Music Is Killing Me' shortlisted
for nomination by the prestigious Grammy Award judges and
entered into the 'Best Electronic/Dance Album' category.
The Young Punx, who are signed to Ultra Records in the US, received
the news yesterday afternoon. Commenting on the achievement
Hal Ritson says; "Ooooh. Exciting".
Going on to agree that "after a hard summer spent mostly
in airline departure lounges touring The Young Punx act around
America, Europe and Asia, its great to get back home and get
news like this. It shows that people are liking what we do".
This Friday (31st) BBC Radio 1 broadcast a special half-hour
Young Punx Halloween takeover mash-up mix as part of the Annie
Nightingale show, In New Music We Trust brand; This
precedes a live performance in London's Trafalgar Square
on Saturday (1st Nov) as part of Electronic Arts 'The
One' games and music festival, a free event beginning on Friday
31st. Those in attendence will be treated to two tracks taken
from their Grammy shortlisted album, 'Your Music Is Killing
Me' plus their new single, "MASHitUP".
October
23rd. Halloween guest mix on BBC Radio
One and download "Ghosts vs Ghouls" To celebrate Halloween this year, BBC Radio One have commissioned
The Young Punx to do an exclusive guest mix for the Annie Nightingale
show which goes out late on Halloween night.
As a teaser for this show, here is the opening section of the
mix, the cheekily titled “Ghosts vs Ghouls” which blends Japan’s
80s masterpiece with a recent Claude Von Stroke remix of “Ghouls”
by Luke Solomon to create a spooky dancefloor classic which spans
the decades. Bring this one out for your Halloween party!
Listen in to the show live on UK Radio on Halloween night, or
on the internet “listen again” feature the following week to hear
the whole mix, which blends breaks, electro, dubstep and drum
and bass with a variety of spooky classics, including some very
unusual reworkings of the likes of Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
and Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”.
DOWNLOAD
MP3 - The Young Punx - “Ghosts VS Ghouls” (Japan - “Ghosts” vs
Luke Solomon “Ghouls (Claude Von Stroke Mix”)
October
1st . New tracks for sale now : Never
Die / The Roof
We've
snuck a couple of little mp3 promos out recently. There's Medcab
VS The Young Punx with "The Roof" which is available
now on Beatport and the electro-disc0-tastic "Never
Die" which somehow failed to upload to Beatport, so
here is a link to it at Juno
or iTunes.
July
31st. New live band footage online
Well we've just got back from playing in New York, San Francisco,
LA, Tokyo, Lucerne and Ibiza! We've snuck a few new video clips
onto Youtube of The Young Punx live band playing to 15,000 fans
in Yokohama area for you to check out : "Hideaway",
"Rock
star (Understand)", "Wake
up, make up, bring it up, shake up", and "Rockall".
July
21st. New "Fire" remixes available. We
have a new package of mixes for "Fire" available now
including a filthy piece of electronic mayhem from Space
Cowboy and some straight down the line funky club house
from Solitaire. Its currently available from
beatport
but it will be turning up on other mp3 sites and also some vinyl
soon too. The USA release is the 12th August.
July
15th. Giant Jr. - "I want to be evil"
(The Young Punx Remix)
We've been getting a lot of email enquiries about our hot new
remix of "I want to be evil" by Giant Jr., chiefly due to the
fact that Fatboy Slim has been playing it as the first full
track in a lot of his big live/DJ gigs this summer. The track
is about to go on promo and isn't commercially available yet...
but hopefully fairly soon the house remix will be available
on the likes of Beatport. We'll keep you posted once it is available.
Join our mailing list
to be informed when it goes on sale! You
can hear a short version of the track on youtube.
July
2nd. New mini album "One Point Five"
available exclusively in Japan now
A new exclusive Young Punx album is now available in Japan only!
Coming between The Young Punx' first and second "full" albums,
the aptly named "One Point Five" is a mixture
of sneak previews of upcoming songs from the
future second album, favorite remixes of songs
from the first album, and collaborations with
other artists such as Supermal, Phonat, Steve Angello
and Howard Jones and top Japanese superstars Ayumi Hamasaki
and Asian Kung Fu Generation. In Japan get the album
from HMV,
Mu-mo
or iTunes
etc. We suspect it may turn up on import over time in the rest
of the world on amazon or Juno
or something...
July
1st. The Young Punx in NYC - Interview
on ManiaTV now online.
While The Young Punx were in New York, playing
at the Mercury Lounge, they were inviewed by Hole's
Samantha Moloney (the self styled "Sexiest Drummer
in Rock") for ManiaTV's "All Access" show.
Watch
the interview online now. It's episode 12, should you have
to find the appropriate episode... http://allaccess.maniatv.com/
April
30th. Supermal - LIGHT YEARS - Phonat
Mix. Available on promo now.
The Young Punx and Phonat have recently collaborated on the
new track from Supermal - "Lightyears". The Phonat remix of
the track, as premiered on Pete Tong's BBC Radio One show last
week is now available on early DJ promo exclusively from Beatport.
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU BUY
IT TODAY! :-)
April
2nd. Destroy Celebrity Crap 2008 USA In
2005 we remade Mylo's "Destroy Rock and Roll" as "Destroy Celebrity
Crap" as a backlash against the vapid colonization of the media
by celebrity drivel. Well now its 2008. Thingsdon't seem to
have improved much, some of the name s have changed, some have
stayed the same, and some of our US fans have asked for a versio
without the UK-only celebrities. So here it is. The
return of Destroy Celebrity Crap!
March
3rd. The Muppets take Manhatten
Young Punx take America.
Everythingis warming up nicely for the USA release of our record
on Ultra Records this spring. We're currently lined up to play
live on The Late Show with David Letterman in the next couple
of months, the You've got to video is getting good airplay.
Hopefully soon it will be much easier for you USA fans to get
your hands on our music!
Ratchet & Clank
- Tools of destruction Playstation 3Advert
Playstation are launching a global TV advertising campaign
using the original cut of ‘You’ve Got To….’ The advert will
run on terrestrial TV and in Cinemas across the globe (apart
from US) in Playstation’s priority campaign this Christmas.
Top US TV shows use Young Punx tracks
Hit US shows Nip//Tuck and The Bionic Women are using tracks
off The Young Punx album. Nip//Tuck are using Young and Beautiful
and The Bionic Women is using the album title track ‘Your
Music Is Killing Me.
UK TV also using The Young Punx not to
be left out, Blighty TV is also loving The Young Punx. This
month The Young Punx have been featured on Eastenders and
Soccer AM.
Limited edition release of The Young Punx album
available in the UK. distributed by Absolute Universal
a limited edition double disc version of the album is available
in shops now.
Foo Fighters playing ‘You’ve Got To…’ at live shows
The Young Punx ‘You’ve Got To…’ is being played before the
Foo Fighters go on stage on their current UK tour.
Your Music Is Killing Me to be used on EA EURO
08 computer game following the use of You’ve Got
To… on FIFA 07 ( which sold over 9 million copies worldwide),
EA games are now using Your Music Is Killing Me in their FIFA
Euro 08 game
The Young Punx receive over 250,000 views on You
tube The Fantastic videos by Han Hoogerbrugge and
live performances are clocking up some great viewing figures.
Nemone’s Record of The Week Your Music
Is Killing Me has been Nemone’s record and Video of the week
on 6 Music, video director Han Hoggerbruge was interviewed
on air and was also featured in The Guardian and Radio Times.
Your Music
Is Killing Me Video featured on The Box, MTV
Dance , B4, E4, Channel 4, Chart Show, Flaunt, Fizz, Musflash
TV, VMX Dance, Topshop TV
Great Feature in Clash
Magazine and use of ‘Dirty Shoes’ on covermount
CD. Also features in Urban Planet, EQ Magazine, UKCD, Base
Magazine, M8, Popjuctice, Update, One Week To Live, The Guardian,
InternetDj.com. Ihouseu.com, Time out, IDJ
Oct
28th. "Your Music Is Killing Me" club
remixes now on Vinyl Does
anyone still buy vinyl? If that's you... you can now get the
amazing Olav Basoski and Don Diablo mixes of Your Music Is Killing
Me on 12 inch, withthe Phonat and Young Punx mixes on a second
disc very soon.
Oct
22nd. "Your Music Is Killing Me" CD ALBUM
AVAILABLE IN UK! Hurrah.
'Tis cause for much jubilation. The Young Punx' devastatingly
good debut album "Your Music Is Killing Me" is now
available in the UK. If you want to know why you should buy
it, we suggest you read this
or this.
In the UK you can get it from Mp3 stores, but also on CD from
amazon and good old fashioned real shops. If they don't have
it in tell them to order it! Outside the UK you should be able
to get it on import and in some cases from mp3 stores.
The CD is a 2 disc set with a limited edition 2nd disc of a
continuous DJ mix of the best remixes of tracks from the album.
The second disc also features as a bonus track on iTunes.
Never have we meant it more when we say BUY NOW!
and many more.
Oct
15th. "Your Music Is Killing Me" single
available. The
title track from The Young Punx' debut album "Your Music Is
Killing Me" is now available on digital download as a single,
in a complete mix package containing club remixes from Olav
Basoski, Don Diablo and Phonat.
To quote the legendary Popjustice website "You will hear
a cowboy guitar, a vocoder, opera and a violin. All essential
ingredients for a very good pop record." Buy
it now at...and
many more. Watch the video here.
Sept
26th. Great Update Mag Album Review
Great review of our album from Update magazine (the insiders'
mag for the UK dance music industry) Album of the Week
The Young Punx
‘Your Music Is Killing Me’
(Mofo-Hifi)
This refreshing and at times startling debut from Hal Ritson
and Cameron Saunders is the sorta record Fatboy Slim should
have made to follow-up ‘We’ve Come A Long Way Baby’. It’s phat,
funky, quirky, in-ya-face and above all fun. Stompers like ‘Wake
Up, Make Up…’, ‘Rockall’ and ‘You’ve Got To…’ rub shoulders
with the ‘80s disco boogie pastiche of ‘It Doesn’t Stop’, and
the electro pop of ‘Young & Beautiful’. There’s also the kitsch:
‘Interplanetary’ (a remake of the Carpenters hit), and neo-classical
title track along with and the Eric Prydz-like ‘Fire’. In fact
there’s a staggering 17-tracks on show, with many, past, present
and future single among them. By refusing to adhere to any one
musical style, the Young Punx! may well become one of the most
misunderstood artists of their generation, yet despite this,
expect this totally absorbing debut to make its mark on the
end of year ‘best of’ listings. (Lewis Dene) 5 dancin’ men
The album is released in the UK (with wider global availability
through mp3 stores and imports) on 22nd October 2007. PRE-ORDER
IT NOW FROM AMAZON
July
24th. 2 new limited club promos commercially
available. "Fire" is now available from dance
mp3 stores, such as Juno,
Trackitdown.net
and iTunes.
A recent review of the track in M8 says: "The ever
hyperactive Young Punx follow a string of consistent releases
with an attractive offering. Combining flamenco guitar and hooky
vocals (Sting eat your heart out) to a bumpy, as ever well funky,
electro-house backing track, ‘Fire’ is ... a fine
club choon that, rare occurrence, will work in commercial clubs
and cooler parties alike."
[buy
Trackitdown.net] [buy
iTunes]
There is also now a 12" vinyl release
of the Soul Seekerz and Fembot Funk
remixes of "You've got to..." - previously
only available on mp3. [buy
now]
We
are very excited to announce that our debut album is now released
in its first territory - Japan! We've been doing press interview
with Japan all week and there are massive video screens in the
center of Tokyo showing our videos. We'll be over in Japan in
August to play live shows. Japanese people buy it here : http://info.hmv.co.jp/p/t/2561/882.html
/ http://www.amazon.co.jp/
/ http://shop.mu-mo.net/
/ iTunes
A
big thank you to everyone who braved the miles of slurry-like
mud at Glastonbury to hear our live set on Sunday. A particular
thank you to everyone who sent us such kind messages after the
show... like these! "just got back from glastonbury covered in mud but wanted
to say out of everything i saw there you were by far the best
thanks for putting a big smile on our rain sodden faces".
"hey hey hey saw you in the roots tent on sunday and you made
us laugh so much and you are so fuckin amazing and definitly my
new best favourite band on the planet except maybe for the super
furry animals. You got us sorted for the rest of sunday so for
that and your music i thank you from the bottom of my robotic
heart! ps it was the tall one and the thuggish looking one, you
might have seen us!"
"Chaps and lady, To be honest I only came across you because I
know that fatboy slim used some bits from your tracks, and I am
so glad I came to see you at Glastonbury, well worth the muddy
walk across the site, I was stood in front of the mixing desk,
Great set wicked; loads of enthusiasm and energy you have just
gained another supporter, WICKED."
May
28th. "You've got to..." OUT NOW on mp3
and vinyl
Club chart number 3, Galaxy and Kiss playlists, Radio One play,
video on MTV, The Box, E4 and terrestrial Channel 4. And now you
can buy it. Mp3 available from iTunes
and other good mp3 stores. Vinyl available from good dance stores
such as Juno.
Check out the incredible video here...
(And the album will be out in September)
March
1st. "The Young Punx FM" Podcast is
up and running!
In The Young Punx FM Podcast, Hal Ritson of The Young Punx,
together with a variety of entertaining music industry guests,
brings you the best in new electronic music, broadcasting from
London bridge, England.
FEATURING SUCH VERITABLE DELIGHTS AS:
-
Ultra hot house, breaks, drum and bass and electro-pop tracks,
focusing on upfront new material (much of which can't be found
anywhere else). Tracks on promo in the underground that are tipped
in the industry to be set for big things in the coming months.
Ultra new tracks by big producers made exclusively available to
the show before release. Leftfield hidden gems of artists Hal
has tracked down who deserve wider exposure.
-
Interviews and chats with guests from the music business - recording
artists, DJs, record producers and A&R men, all of whom give their
own view on what is going on it the scene right now.
-
Insider views on dance music production and the inside story of
the music business.
-
Mayhem, insanity, talking rubbish and messing around.
Subscribe
with iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=219436012
Woh!
What a week. Everyone has suddenly gone Rockall mad! We had
articles in The Sunday Mirror and The
Sun, along with radio interviews on BBC
local radio news (10 million listeners!) and Radio
4's The World Tonight and even the bastion of sensible-ness
- BBC
2 Newsnight!. (listen / watch using the
links)
February
6th. Ike and Tina Turner VS Young Punx - "Raise Your Hand
(U Got To)"
Well
well. Turns out there is a new Young Punx track out today and
we didn't even know about it. This is a bootleg of and old,
fairly unknown, but pretty groovy Ike and Tina Turner track
that we did a year ago for Gut records that has now surfaced
with a digital release this week. We should note that though
they have put our name down as the artist, the original idea
was by an act called Gauzz (I think). Our mix is quite downtempo
and breaky, but there are bangin mixes in there too for the
house heads. Its quite fun.
“Ready for the fight” is triumphant cross genre collaboration between London-based electronic dance producers The Young Punx and Memphis-based king of the independent Hip Hop producers Count Bass D. Despite radically different musical and cultural backgrounds both artists have developed a great respect for each others’ work and come together to create a unique and moving track seamlessly combining the best of post Daft Punk European dance production with big room Hip Hop vibes in a moving tale of resolve and determination in the face of adversity.
The Young Punx are no strangers to the gaming world, having had 3 tracks featured on EA releases in the past 2 years, and having performed live at the EA Games "Be The One" event in Trafalgar Square recently. However, "Fight Night Round 4" ramps this up a notch by using the track to soundtrack key scenes in the game as a core part of the gaming experience.
Even prior to the game's official release, blogs and social networking sites have
been buzzing about the track after it was featured as part of
the pre-release demo version of the game, and rips of the song
from the game, plus home made footage of the band rehearsing the
track are both proving popular on Youtube.
The Young Punx latest club promo track, the ragga infected
party house bamb "Juice and Gin"
is now available on 
Well we've just got back from playing in New York, San Francisco,
LA, Tokyo, Lucerne and Ibiza! We've snuck a few new video clips
onto Youtube of The Young Punx live band playing to 15,000 fans
in Yokohama area for you to check out : "
We
have a new package of mixes for "Fire" available now
including a filthy piece of electronic mayhem from Space
Cowboy and some straight down the line funky club house
from Solitaire. Its currently available from
A new exclusive Young Punx album is now available in Japan only!
Coming between The Young Punx' first and second "full" albums,
the aptly named "One Point Five" is a mixture
of sneak previews of upcoming songs from the
future second album, favorite remixes of songs
from the first album, and collaborations with
other artists such as Supermal, Phonat, Steve Angello
and Howard Jones and top Japanese superstars Ayumi Hamasaki
and Asian Kung Fu Generation. In Japan get the album
from 
We
are very excited to announce that our debut album is now released
in its first territory - Japan! We've been doing press interview
with Japan all week and there are massive video screens in the
center of Tokyo showing our videos. We'll be over in Japan in
August to play live shows. Japanese people buy it here : 
A
big thank you to everyone who braved the miles of slurry-like
mud at Glastonbury to hear our live set on Sunday. A particular
thank you to everyone who sent us such kind messages after the
show... like these!
FEATURING SUCH VERITABLE DELIGHTS AS:
-
Ultra hot house, breaks, drum and bass and electro-pop tracks,
focusing on upfront new material (much of which can't be found
anywhere else). Tracks on promo in the underground that are tipped
in the industry to be set for big things in the coming months.
Ultra new tracks by big producers made exclusively available to
the show before release. Leftfield hidden gems of artists Hal
has tracked down who deserve wider exposure.
-
Interviews and chats with guests from the music business - recording
artists, DJs, record producers and A&R men, all of whom give their
own view on what is going on it the scene right now.
-
Insider views on dance music production and the inside story of
the music business.
-
Mayhem, insanity, talking rubbish and messing around.
Subscribe
with iTunes: 
Woh!
What a week. Everyone has suddenly gone Rockall mad! We had
articles in The Sunday Mirror and The
Sun, along with radio interviews on 
Well
well. Turns out there is a new Young Punx track out today and
we didn't even know about it. This is a bootleg of and old,
fairly unknown, but pretty groovy Ike and Tina Turner track
that we did a year ago for Gut records that has now surfaced
with a digital release this week. We should note that though
they have put our name down as the artist, the original idea
was by an act called Gauzz (I think). Our mix is quite downtempo
and breaky, but there are bangin mixes in there too for the
house heads. Its quite fun. 
