HELP MAKE A YOUNG PUNX TRACK … you can be on our next album. Hullo. I am currently looking for people to send me recordings of them speaking the names of things that are characterised by NOT BEING AROUND ANY MORE. They can be trivial (a type of chocolate bar, game, TV show that was around when you were a kid but are gone now), personal (“my mother”, “My girlfriend”), global (“Dinosaurs”, “The cold War”). It doesn’t matter so long as it is something that when you think of it makes you realise they are gone now. Just record you saying the word however you think is appropriate, and mail me the file to hal@theyoungpunx.com . If you have good recording equipment great, but any iphone or laptop mic will be OK if you say the word a good way. Thanks to anyone who wants to contribute.
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
Recorded live on 17th June 2011 at Urban Art Forms Austria, main stage, before Fatboy Slim, Deadmau5 and Pendulum. Hal Ritson on keyboards and guitar, Simon Bettison on drums and Nathan Taylor on decks and FX.
The Young Punx – Live at Urban Art Forms 2011 by MofoHifi Records
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
“You’ve gotta love the Young Punx and for all they stand for; the group equivalent to Norman Cook and his multi-faceted Fatboy Slim alter ego, the YPs are never afraid to change things up to keep you guessing and their sets fresh…. ‘Dope Ass Sound’ arrives seeing a return to the group’s club sound but given a characteristic Young Punx twist. Anarchic, rebellious and littered with crazy noises to make you lose it on the dancefloor… It’s mad, it’s fun, and it’s what the Young Punx do so well.”
Lewis Dene (Tilllate Magazine/DMC Update)
The Young Punx – Dope Ass Sound by MofoHifi Records
It’s a year now since we released Mashed Popped Punked, our mash-up album of every track on Mashpop and Punkstep, produced in collaboration with AudioPornCentral blog.
This year its up to YOU to make the mashups and remixes! We are releasing the ENTIRE REMIX PARTS for the Mashpop and Punkstep album, and running a remix competition with AudioPornCentral, with a few prizes, and the best tracks will be made into Mashed Popped Punked Volume 2!
Find out more, and download the remix parts from APC now.
What next for disco monster “Roger More” after its debut at number one in the Beatport Nu Disco chart? The Young Punx get their dirty hands on it, pump it up and strip it back. Like Roger working out in the gym. Naked. On steroids. DO IT ROGER!
Amanda Palmer and The Young Punx have confirmed notorious gender warrior and electro icon, Peaches will rap on their current viral hit, “Map of Tasmania”. Undoubtedly the first club track in history to combine ukuleles, big beats, witty lyrics and a message about feminist body politics and… um… ladies muffs.
The video directed by Michael Pope, which features a wide variety of Haute Couture merkins (pubic wigs) premiered just over a week ago on leading music website “Spin” magazine, since clocking up quarter of a million views in one week.
Amanda Palmer (of ‘punk cabaret’ act the Dresden Dolls) and electronic dance act The Young Punx are both known as agent provocateurs of their respective music scenes, always challenging expectations and combining great song writing with a puckish sense of humour.
Map of Tasmania, a common Australian euphemism for women’s pubic hair (look at an atlas, you’ll see why), sees Palmer combining catchy calypso melodies with a simultaneously hilarious and serious message about women’s right to choose whether they shave or not! The Young Punx add a distinctly UK sound, re-imagining the track as a M.I.A-esque club anthem.
Speaking to “Spin” magazine, Hal Ritson of The Young Punx commented:
“The great thing about this project is the total freedom from the ‘rules’ that a major record company would have constrained an artist with. Both Amanda Palmer and The Young Punx are well known for turning their backs on the ‘old dying record business’. Here we have a Ukelele strumming cabaret singer songwriter teaming up with an electronic producer to make a bassline heavy party club track and about pubic hair with a serious body politics side angle. With a video featuring prominent armpit hair and merkins! There is simply no way that the corporate music machine would allow such a creation to come into being.”
Video director Michael Pope added:
“Map of Tasmania is important. On the surface its a song about girls growing out their pubes. Underneath that however is a call to everyone, woman and man alike, to discover the courage to be themselves.”
An Mp3 of the first version of the track (sans- Peaches), which hit music blogs just before Christmas appears on Palmer’s second solo album, “Amanda Palmer goes down under”.
A variety of new club mixes by The Young Punx and others including Peaches’ new vocal will be released officially by The Young Punx on their own ‘MofoHifi’ label mid-February, but are now available as an exclusive pre-release download from Bandcamp.
For links / CDs to review the new mix package, request interviews, comments or pics please contact: Nathan Taylor on nathan@nton.co.uk
Guess what’s coming very soon… 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’.
Check out the hit new video which has received quarter of a million views in its first week online!
Buy the original video mix NOW from Amanda Palmer on iTunes. Exciting new remixes and guest vocals from Peaches coming in February on The Young Punx official release version.
Check out what’s hot in The Young Punx DJ box this month, and buy tracks you like!
The Young Punx are delighted to let you know that we are now making the remix parts for the whole of the album Mashpop and Punkstep freely available so that anyone can remix or mashup the tracks.
We’ll be collating the best mixes made into a Volume 2 of the Mashed Popped Punked free download mashup album, in combination with a competition on Audio Porn Central. Read all about it on the Audio Porn Central Site!
Send us your remixes you’ve done using our dropbox
Download the parts – Make your own versions – Go crazy! (317MB Zip file download)
We’ve been getting a load of requests asking what The Young Punx track “Sugar Daddy” is as played by the Plump DJs on a lot of their mixes lately. The answer is… it’s not actually called Sugar Daddy – it’s SugarCandySuperNova. Its available on Beatport, iTunes etc and you can find out more about it here.
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 Guest Mix for BBC Radio 1 Annie Nightingale Show (2010) by MofoHifi Records
TRACKLISTING
Vangelis – “Blade Runner Blues”, The Young Punx – “Club Culture”, The Young Punx – “You You You (Acapella)”, Per QX – “Go Bang! (Dub)”, Khia – “The K-Wang” (Acapella)”, The Young Punx – “Juice and Gin (Riva Starr Mix)”,
Laidback Luke and Lee Mortimer – “Blau! (LA Riots Mix)”, The Young Punx – “Juice and Gin (Acapella)”, Fantastic Plastic Machine – “Madness” , The Young Punx – “Young and Beautiful (Acapella)” , Stupid Fresh – “Do The Dog”, Lars Moston – “So Sick (Max Cherry Mix)”, The Young Punx – “MASHitUP (Shir Khan Mix)”, Devlin – “Pure Imagination (The Young Punx Mix)”, Newham Generals – “Head Get Mangled”
At last, on vinyl, the ‘Mashpop and Punkstep Club Mixes Volume 1′.
Features;
Side A
Never Die (Part 2)
SugarCandySuperNova (Per QX mix)
Side B
Juice & Gin (Riva Starr mix)
Ready For The Fight (Black Noise mix)
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Blastercase – “An epic breakbeat-dancehall-techno-rocking-hip-hop-electro-mind-fuck… Highly recommend grabbing their debut album”
Disco Demos – “You You You has easily convinced me to mention the album on my site. It’s like a cross-section of contemporary music, totally amazing”
The Culture of Me – “There is no such thing as a great electronic record; there is in fact only a such thing as a great record. Mashpop & Punkstep is that great record… one of the best “pop” records we’ve heard in years”
Trash Menagerie – “Full of surprises and a lot of fun”
Extra New Music – “One of the Best Indie Party Albums this year!”
Funky House Music – “With the release of ‘Mashpop & Punkstep’ The Young Punx could well have produced the first dancefloor focused, must-have album of the year…”
Robot Pigeon – “There are certainly tracks that we absolutely adore and will repeat to death”
Feral Party Kids – “We give this album 41/2 to of 5 stars. Young Punx bring the heat”
The Docking Station – “A fantastically thoughtful and mind bending ride, as one never knows quite what’s next… like you’re punched in the face one minute only to be coddled to sleep the next.”
I Really Love Music – “An album that will provide smiles for anyone wanting a simple set of straight to the dance floor grooves.”
Atari Cool Kids – “The Young Punx has put out a storm of thunderous beats and compelling remixed instrumentals their latest Studio Album is a punch to the gut with hard hitting melodies with smooth transitions from track to track.”
A triumphant collaboration, the track blends the group’s London electronica with the vocal talents of Memphis-based, indie hip-hop don Count Bass D.
Despite radically different musical and cultural backgrounds both artists have developed a great respect for each other’s 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 great adversity. Read more
The Young Punx are delighted to announce the availability of The Young Punx branded skis from esteemed Austrian Ski manufacturer Kneissl. Featuring custom artwork specially designed by cult Dutch illustrator Han Hoogerbrugge these unique limited edition skis are sure to set you apart on the slopes:
Description
[Deutsche] This is the combination of Kneissl’s top GS and top SL ski with a slightly broader waist for an extra boost in powder conditions. The perfect ski for a big variety of conditions, it is fast, it is smooth, it holds a perfect line and makes you feel safe while going on high speed down the track – the perfect all-around ski for skiing enthusiasts.
Race / Sport: 20% / 80%
On / Off Piste: 75% / 25%
Technical Information
- Sandwich-sidewall-technology
- Full woodcore ash/poplar
- Titanal/triaxial fiber glass belts
- ABS sidewalls
- Nano graphit racing base
- Racing-edge
| Available length [cm]: | radius [m] | sidecut (front / mid / tail) |
|---|---|---|
| 158 cm | 14 | 113 / 68 / 96 |
| 168 cm | 16 | 113 / 68 / 96 |
The Skis are available direct from:
Kneissl Sport Shop
Ladestrasse 2-10
6330 Kufstein
Austria
To purchase online email: theyoungpunx@kneissl.com
Tel: +43 (0) 5372 6990 240
The Skis cost € 699, without bindings.
For further information visit www.kneissl.com
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.
There has been a lot of press coverage of the event, but here are a couple of examples :
BBC News Website
Bands that took the corporate buck may once have been accused of selling out, but commercial sponsorship is now often seen as a smart way to fund your music.
Hal Ritson sings with Young Punx and is Dizzee Rascal’s live band leader
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So UK dance act The Young Punx accepted sponsorship from beer company Warsteiner, which wanted to raise its profile among clubbers in Germany.
Warsteiner put on club nights where The Young Punx DJ’d and performed live, the company gave away their music, used it in its MTV ads and the band featured the drink in their podcasts.
“They were paying to have us associated with their brand,” says Young Punx singer and Dizzee Rascal’s live musical director Hal Ritson. “We were happy to be associated with their brand since our brand is basically having a few drinks and having a good time.”
During last year’s promotion, according to Facebook statistics, the number of Young Punx fans in Germany shot up and Germany went from being “a territory of no relevance” to third on the list behind the UK and USA.
“That’s a fanbase that came through one year without us maybe selling many records, but with many, many people hearing our music. And we got paid, so everyone’s happy.”
MIDEM(net) Blog
Hal Ritson and Amanda Palmer at MIDEM 2010
Artists are getting in early with their views on digital music innovation this MidemNet – the opening panel on day one features Amanda Palmer (centre, of Dresden Dolls and now solo fame) and Hal Ritson from The Young Punx (left)… It also made history as the first ever MidemNet session to kick off with a ukulele cover of Radiohead’s Creep (Palmer), interpretive dance (Ritson) and a sock puppet (representing Paul Van Dyk).
Ritson talked about his own online activities, saying an artist has to do three things nowadays: first, get people to listen to the music; second, get some emotional contact with them; and third, find a revenue stream from somewhere.
“We’ve totally embraced the point that writers of music blogs are totally taking over as the new tastemakers of music,” he said. So Ritson looks at blogs giving away free music not as a threat, but as the modern equivalent of radio promo. “You’re getting people to hear your music,” he said.
Today’s Facebook survey makes vaguely amusing reading:
