Disco Special live podcast with guest DJ Discosocks playing disco and funk re-edits and live bass in the studio. Birdee, Phonat, 5eya and Fanny Games hang out in the studio.
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MUSIC IN THIS SHOW
Discosocks
Robert Owens – I’ll Be Your Friend, Joe Goddard – Gabriel, GRUM – The Really Long One
2 hour live show from idealclubworldradio.com broadcast on 9th December 2011 with a guest mix of storming Italian disco house from DJ Birdee, and studio guests Phonat, Peo De Pitte, 5eya, Red N Pink and more!
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DJ BIRDEE
Following on from The Young Punx’ legendary Podcasts, get ready for “Friday Night Is Young Punx Night” – 2hours (plus more if you’re lucky) of Live DJ sets, Guests, Banter, Chatroom and webcam, direct from London Bridge England. Live every Friday on idealclubworldradio.com at 8pm GMT, 9pm CET, 12noon is LA, 3pm in NYC and 5am the following morning in Tokyo.
Kick off your weekend in style every week with the best in new electronic music, live and direct from London Bridge.
GUEST LIVE MIX on 11th November from PHONAT
Friday Night Is Young Punx Night – PROMO 1 – “F*** You” by MofoHifi Records
Hal takes Simon on an audio journey to revisit his trip to see Siriusmo, Boy 8-Bit and Modeselektor. FOLLOWED BY a rare opportunity to hear a variety of Japanese dance music. FOLLOWED BY Hal sitting on his own playing oldskool rap and flippant Drum and Bass.
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MUSIC IN THIS SHOW
Reset! – Blaze It, NAPT – Emotion (Reset! Remix), Project Bassline – Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats Rinsed Out Rave Remix), Siriusmo – Nights Off, Boy 8-Bit – Baltic Pine, Siriusmo – MBox, Siriusmo – High Together, Modeselektor – Grillwalker, Modeselektor – Evil Twin, Sakanaction – Minnanuota, FPM – Alphabet, The Young Punx – Rock Star (Understand), Ayumi Hamasaki – Step You (The Young Punx Mix), Steady & Co – Pass Da Mic, MC Paul Barman – Props, Malcolm McClaren – Hey DJ, Marc Morrison – Return Of The Mac (C&J Street Mix), The Young Punx – Return to the valley of the Super Shooters, The Young Punx – A Million Stars, Chase N Status – Smash TV, Brookes Brothers – Last Night, Phonat – Bad Boy,
The Young Punx – Ready For The Fight (Phonat’s Punkstep Remix), Pheugoo – wUUUnderwall (The Young Punx – You You You VS Wonderwall), John B – Hey Mickey, John B – Blandwagon Poos, The Young Punx – Simple Pleasures
The Young Punx perform a half hour live/DJ set at Nano Mugen Festival 2011, Yokohama Arena, with special guests Koko and Phonat. 30 minutes of 1080p HD Punx live goodness!
The Young Punx celebrate 7 years of MofoHifi Records with a retrospective of their favourite tracks from the label. Something brand new from LL Ton J. Opera meets Dubstep. Scouse grime. Slipknot. Witch house! What more do you want?
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The Young Punx – I’ve Got Speakers As Big As Your Girl, LL Ton J – That’s Where We Live, Hexadecimal – Deep Frequency, The Young Punx – Young and Beautiful (Laurent Konrad Mix), Sharooz – Hell Yeah, Mohito – Slip Away (Steve Angello Dub), The Young Punx – Rockall (Krafty Kuts Mix), The Young Punx – Your Music Is Killing Me (Olav Basoski Mix), Phonat – Learn To Recycle, Medcab – I’m A Man (The Young Punx Mix), Phonat – Love Hits The Fan (DCUP Mix), The Visionaires – Keep Movin’, Secret opera dubstep track, Dee Double E – Bluku Bluku Bang On! – Hands High, Skrillex – Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Skrillex – Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Phonat Mix), Bobby Tank – Star Fighter, Gotye – Someone that I used to know, Cornershop – Non Stop Radio (Casa Del Mirto Remix), Mano Le Tough – From The Start, Slipknot – Pulse of the maggots (Hal’s private re-edit), Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Hal’s private schmoove house remix), Fred Falke – Chicago, DJ Bobo – Happy Birthday To You
The Young Punx are packing up their equipment to fly to Japan so Phonat takes to the decks with a summery Disco mix set!
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tiger & woods – gin nation, jay shepard, tad wily – a sopot connection, jean tonique – dynomite, mam – throw down, tiger & woods – deflowered, 5eya – radiogame, oskar – come on (brave remix), vince fierro – the finest, sean biddle – darlin (mam remix), alec carlsson – make it move, quinten 909 – romance supreme, steve angello, dave armstrong – groove in u, moullinex – superman (lorenz rhode remix), le knight club – soul bells (quinten 909 remix), dj eq – atmosphere, coeur damour – get your eyes, coeur damour – taunt, ll ton j – roger more, opptimo – travellers (phonat remix), motor city drum ensemble – raw cuts 2, dionigi – feel it in the air, polymath – my way to surf, go go bizkitt – reach up, pierre de la touche – song of sirens (louis la roche remix), fred falke, alan braxe – intro, c-code – burning up in here (rubix remix)
Dope Dope Dope Dope Dope Ass Sound.
Jacked up garage meets funked up disco to blow your cock clean off.
The Young Punx are back in the house.
“Fucking love it, monster.” – Eats Everything
“This is dope – haha – love it. Like some fat US house shit, but the pitch and the fqd up beat is like some chicago jacking basement. I wanna be there! Lovely!!!” – Space Cowboy
“I haven’t heard that chicago sound for such a long time. It feels really good.” – David Guetta
“That bumps like a mofo. Loving it. Will throw it down in a set for sure” – Black Noise
“Funky and dirty! Nice work” – Robbie Rivera
“This is cool. Grooves like Cassius in 1999 but with a whole different sound” – Phonat
“I Love this track man. Really great and unique production style and a real dancefloor groover. Great great and Grrrreat” – Audiofreaks
“Sounds fat!” – Wez Clarke
“Really like this one” – Lewis Dene – Tilllate
“Sounds wicked” – Arveene & MiSK
“Up my street for shizzle” – Patrick Hagenaar
“Dope Ass Sound is awesome! I love the shuffle on the drums, great jackin’ house feel to it!” – Louis La Roche
Probably the greatest pop song ever about… um… muffs.
Provocative and outrageous, doing what they do best. The Young Punx team up with Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer on their new collaborative single, ‘Map of Tasmania’.
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 King’s College Cambridge, all under the musical direction of The Young Punx’s Hal Ritson.
Hal took 2 month’s off from Young Punx duties to get deep inside the world of Dizzee Rascal’s music, rebuilding 7 years worth of the grime superstar’s tracks in new and exciting ways to create an unforgettable night of live music. Though a Dizzee Rascal show through and through the night featured The Young Punx’s trademark genre defying attitude, reworking songs as metal, japanese classical music, country, flamenco, oldskool hip hop, organic drum and bass and much more!
Read a review of the show from The Sun, NME or The Star.
The Young Punx, a collective of musical miscreants, led by maverick multi-instrumentalist Hal Ritson, have been steadily building a name for themselves over the past couple of years. With remixes for the likes of Autocrats and Mighty Dubcats under their belt, 2010 will see the release of their new album ‘Mashpop & Punkstep’, but ahead of that they’ve pulled together a tasty little Remix EP to whet the appetite…
Heading the EP is Black Noise’s electro crack house take on ‘Ready For The Fight’, which sees the south coast trio throw a heap of Mr Oizo-esque sub bass and beats at the already heavy Count Bass D collaboration. Scene veteran Shinichi Osawa steps up to the plate next turning the guitar driven ‘Rockstar (Understand)’ into a bleep-laden vehicle, destined for the dancefloor.
House man of the moment Riva Starr gives ‘Juice & Gin’ a techy makeover in his own inimitable style, plundering the best synths to create another messy dancefloor affair. Rounding things up is a double hitter of re-workings of ‘MashitUp’ the single released earlier this year to DJ and dancefloor acclaim. Kam Denny takes the electro-pop of the original, adds a tougher edge and builds to a climax which will leave you in no doubt as to how he’s cemented his position as one of Australia’s finest producers and remixers. Fellow Ozzie and young upstart Junior Black completes the set with a vocal-introed mash-up (for want of a better word) punctuated with synths and beeps in all the right places.
With their second longplayer due for imminent release and a double a-side single package coming soon, The Young Punx are now making moves up the ladder and are sure to be coming to a radio station, dancefloor or live venue near you soon…
“It’s been described as an Acid House Bohemian Rhapsody, it takes in 25 styles during it’s course, I like it” – Rob da Bank on BBC Radio 1
“This guy F**ks with all the rules” – Norman Cook
“Learn to Recycle is six minutes of utterly unique music” – IDJ
“Phonat has frequently stunned us with his none-more-innovative productions over the last few years, coming across like a hyperactive Daft Punk on happy pills…… By the end, you’re exhausted, perplexed, flabbergasted, and left with the feeling that all other music is boring, unimaginative, repetitive trash. Wow. 10/10″ – Data Transmission
Unique, innovative, rule breaking, genre-spanning….just a few of the plaudits that have been used to describe the works of Phonat, the seven foot mop-haired Italian who’s been catching the ears and attention of the ever intangible ‘tastemaking set’ over the past few months. The album features guest appearances from The Young Punx including Hal Ritson, Guthrie Govan and Simon Bettison.
Annie Mac, Annie Nightingale, Andy George, Rob da Bank and Pete Tong have all been championing the producer since last year, when singles ‘Incredible Sound’, ‘Ghetto Burning’ and ‘Learn To Recycle’ marked him as one to watch for 2009 and beyond. Now readying the release of his eponymous debut album, Phonat has created a panoply of chopped up riffs swirled around murky basslines, a world where guitar-driven dancefloor fillers meet bleep-filled fantasies for fun, friendship and possibly more.
Originally from Florence, Italy, Phonat (aka Michele Balduzzi) was first spotted by MofoHifi Records on MySpace and they were so impressed with the 21 year old that the loving label bosses persuaded him to leave his parents’ idyllic country farm in Florence and move to a bed sit in Canning Town. Armed only with a five-year-old computer and an electric guitar Phonat dutifully relocated to London in late 2007 and the rest, as they say, is history.
Drawing on every vein of dance music, from hip hop to house, garage to breaks Phonat’s expert use of a vocal hook is also evident, most noticeably on the Yolanda vocalled ‘Ghetto Burning’ and next single ‘Set Me Free’ – where classic 80s style rock vocals sit atop a stacatto-synthed stomper.
Phonat may have arrived on the scene late last year, but with DJ bookings and remix requests coming in from across the world and his album ready to hit the streets, 2009 is set to be an busy year for the big Italian.
‘Phonat’ by Phonat was released on MofoHifi Records on September 21st. ‘Set Me Free EP’, featuring remixes from Avicci, Louis La Roche and High Rankin was out August 24th.
Tracklisting
- A Warm Welcome
- Get Down My Dirty Street
- Set Me Free
- Ghetto Burnin’
- Love Hits The Fan
- Ho Visto Un Quadro Verde
- It’s For You
- Learn To Recycle
- The Big Deal
- Zombie Army
- Bad Boy
- London
Available at all major sellers.
The Young Punx team up with their Japanese label buddy Shinichi Osawa with this full throttle remix of forthcoming Young Punx single ‘Rock Star (Understand)’. This banging hard glitch remix went straight to number one in the Japanese iTunes electronic chart on release! Shinichi Osawa is one of the worlds most exciting producers and needs no introduction following his UK releases on Data (Star Guitar) and Southern Fried (The One).
The Young Punx perform "Rock Star (Understand)" live in Japan, July 2009.
‘Rock Star (Understand)’ will feature on The Young Punx new album (Mashpop and Punkstep) which is due out later this year. The song itself is a reworking of a song called ‘Understand’ by the Yokohama based band Asian Kung Fu Generation who have sold over 10 million albums. The Young Punx performed with Asian Kung Fu Generation, Hard Fi and The Manic Street Preachers on July 20th in Yokohama to over 25,000 fans.
(NB This release is not yet available in North America)
The Young Punx are pleased to announce that their forthcoming single ‘Ready For The Fight’ is one of the title tracks on EA Games highly anticipated Fight Night Round 4.
The song features prominently in the game which is expected to sell several million copies across the globe. MofoHifi records have already been inundated with requests for the track from gamers from across the world and have consequently set up a limited release of the single on iTunes.
The inspiring hip hop mashup track features guest vocals from respected US rapper Count Bass D and has already been described by AOL’s influential gaming site ‘Flytrap’ as one of the top ten songs of all time to feature in a computer game.
The track will have a full release later in the year, with a video being cut by cult artist Han Hoogerbrugge.
Listen to Ready for the Fight on YouTube.
Buy the track on iTunes (LINK FOR USA / CANADA)
Buy the track on iTunes (LINK FOR MOST OF THE REST OF THE WORLD)
To find out about this track read about it in the NEWS SECTION ARTICLE.
We went out onto the streets of London with members of the eclectic mashpop collective to find out about their approach to albums, music, gigging and mayhem.
The first single from The Young Punx second album, featuring vocals from Laura Kidd, awesome ravey fidgety mixes from Shir Khan and Goshi Goshi and an insane new video from Han Hoogerbrugge!
The Young Punx; an innovative collective of diverse musicians led by inventive multi-instrumentalist and producer, Hal Ritson, have been building themselves quite a reputation of late. Resisting easy definition by continuing to deliver fresh sounding, first-class electronic music, coupled with a string of hugely popular remixes for the likes of Sonny J, Mighty Dub Katz and Giant Jnr, The Young Punx are becoming one of London’s hottest exports. Drawing on an eclectic fusion of influences – breaks, house, rock, pop and electro – to create a sound loosely coined as “mashpop and punkstep”, they get ready to release their second album in Spring 2009.
MASHitUP is its first single release, a fine slice of quality breakbeat driven electro pop featuring a killer punky vocal from ‘new girl on the block’ Laura Kidd (fresh from touring with Tricky and her collaboration on ‘Automatic’ with Michael Gray, Eye Industries) and staggering shredding guitar licks from The Young Punx’ resident guitar virtuoso, Guthrie Govan. It’s dirty, it’s multi-layered and it’s loud – just the way they like it.
MASHitUP is already creating vibrations across the globe. From performing it live to a rapturous 15,000 strong crowd alongside the Stereophonics in Yokohama Arena, Japan, to featuring it in their inspired DJ set alongside Tiesto at Ibiza super club, Privilege, it’s going down an absolute (electric) storm.
Discerningly keen-eared blog tastemakers have been onto this for some time, sharing and hyping MASHitUP since mixes surfaced 6-weeks ago. Support from key blogspots, such as Discodust, Discobelle, Get Weird and Monster Says Rawr – considered instrumental in unearthing and breaking the hottest of fringe and underground acts – are all marking The Yong Punx as one to watch this year:
“I love the original on this, The Young Punx are bad as fooook, will be playing this 
”
– Micky Slim
Filmed out and about in Old Street, London, and more intimately at Hoxton’s cult ‘Phone in Sick’ night, hosted by Jerry Bouthier, MASHitUP’s video is a visual feast of freakish fun. Cut and animated by renowned Dutch Digital Artist, Han Hoogerbrugge, if you’ve ever wondered what Old St might look like should a troop of bikini-clad clowns invade, take a peek and wonder no more…
Mixes come from the Berlin Battery’s Shir Khan and new MofoHifi signings, Goshi Goshi. Shir Khan is undoubtedly one of the finest German DJ / Producers to have emerged in recent years and underlines exactly why he deserves the hype with this mash-up of electro house style leads, distorted e-guitar solos, baile funk drum rolls and a shuffled groove. All in all a massive record already singled out by Pete Tong for inclusion in his Fast Trax Show – “Totally rocking remix!”
Goshi Goshi lean their mix towards the ‘sound of 2008’ fidget house. With a banging combination of retro rave revivals, dropping basslines and glitchy beats, they deliver a killer peak-time remix.
