20 minute guest mix by The Young Punx for Annie Nightingale’s legendary BBC Radio 1 show on 28th May 2010. Hot house, dubstep, breaks, grime and mashup action!

The Young Punx podcast returns with 2 hours of stellar house, electro and drum and bass, tales of the orient and Simon in a gold thong. An unmissable episode.

The lovechild of sleazy East London disco and jpop-esque female vocals, Laura Kidd’s perky performance adds vocal bounce to the track’s twisted disco vibe. Perfect for late-night, back-alley antics ‘SugarCandySuperNova’ is the Punx latest offering to be lifted from current album ‘Mashpop & Punkstep’.

For this awesome mashup album (free download – promotional use only) many of the biggest names in mashup music from all around the world have joined forces, via the AudioPorn Central website to create a complete mashup album based on The Young Punx album Mashpop and Punkstep. Each mashup artist has picked a different track from the album to mash up, blending The Young Punx tracks with artists as diverse as The Pixies, Michael Jackson, Oasis, Depeche Mode and Lady Gaga, creating the rather wonderful unofficial MASHED POPPED PUNKED album.

The Young Punx return for their second studio album, a startling and inventive exploration of the deliberate destruction of genre boundaries in electronic music. Probably the first album in history to have toyed with drum and bass, heavy metal, electropop and cuban timba within the first 5 minutes (!) “Mashpop and Punkstep” is a vibrant manifesto for the next generation of mashup music.

On Saturday 23rd January, the world’s leading music industry conference, MIDEM, was kicked off by a panel discussion with Hal Ritson of The Young Punx and Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls discussing the artist’s perspective on new models for the promotion of music in the digital economy. Other speakers following included Pharrell, Ed O’Brian of Radiohead and Fallout Boy.

On Wednesday 21st October 2009, at the BBC Electric Proms, Dizzee Rascal performed his first ever full length concert backed by a live band to widespread critical acclaim. That live band was made up from members of The Young Punx collective, plus Vula Malinga from Basement Jaxx, a 16 piece string section from The Heritage Orchestra and choristers from Kings’ College Cambridge, all under the musical direction of The Young Punx’s Hal Ritson.