DJ / Production: Hal Ritson (right), Cameron Saunders (left) Live Band: Hal Ritson (keyboards/bass/vocals), Guthrie Govan (guitar/bass), Simon Betterson (drums) with special guests including Tiffany Gore (vocals), Yolanda Quartey (vocals) and Cameron Saunders (decks and FX).
Influences
Daft Punk, Bassment Jaxx, The Police, Beck, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, John B, Groove Armada, Fatboy Slim, The Plump DJs, Motorhead, Guthrie Govan, Just Ice, Big Daddy Kane, Chic, Madonna, The Prodigy, Fat Boy Slim, Mylo, Abba, John Zorn, The Beastie Boys, Electric Six, Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Stardust, Joe Smoove, AC/DC, London Electricity, Bacharach and David, Goldfrapp, adverts, films, pop culture crap, Kraftwerk, Stu Allan, Bizmarkie, Mantronix, Cybotron/Juan Atkins, Hashim, Francis Ford Coppolla, Jean Michelle Jarre, Sasha, David Lynch, Hunter S Thompson, Bjork, OMD, Scissor Sisters, Pointer Sisters, Twisted Sister, Bill Hicks, Doctor Who,
Sounds Like
File under wilfull disregard for genre. Some of it's house, some drum and bass, some rock, some pop, some breaks. But some songs in the ballpark of Bassment Jaxx, Daft Punk, Eric Prydz, John B, Calvin Harris, Mark Ronson, Steve Angello, Plump DJs, Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys, Mylo, Prodigy, Crystal Method, Scissor Sisters, Fatboy Slim
“I love The Young Punx. I’m a big fan” – Fatboy Slim
“One of the hottest remix teams around and Future Superstars” – Galaxy FM
“Brilliant” – Judge Jules
The
Young Punx are a London-based collective of eclectic electronic musicians lead by Hal Ritson and Cameron Saunders. Over
the past few years they have firmly established themselves as the
new darlings of UK dance music, with many of the world's top
DJs championing their records and over 100 BBC Radio 1 plays to
date. The duo are at the forefront of the UK dance scene, and their
cheeky pop culture mentality has seen them catch the headlines in
mainstream media as diverse as The Sun, The Mirror, La Stampa, Radio
4 news and even BBC 2 Newsnight!
Their debut album - 'Your
music is killing me' - is currently on release in the UK and Japan, with more countries coming soon (USA April). Their fresh and energetic sound that
they term 'Mashpop and punkstep' is the natural next step
in the evolution of mashup music - fusing elements of house, electro,
breaks and drum and bass with an eclectic soundclash of popular
culture references, rock, disco, 80s pop, classical and jazz to
create something at once original and resolutely accessible.
Performed
entirely by the band and their guests (no audio samples) with a
wry sense of humour and pop art sensibility, the album features
tracks such as the shipping forecast quoting "Rockall",
cosmetic surgery sideswipe .. which is featured
on the FIFA '07 EA computer game.
REMIXES
The Young Punx are now firmly established as one of the most in demand remixers in the UK. In the past 18 months they have remixed artists such as De Lacey, Chicane and Tom Jones, Scissor Sisters, Hound dogs, Dario G, Tina Turner, Space Cowboy and many more. The Young Punx created the lead radio mix for Studio Bs Cmon Get it On which spent several weeks on the Radio 1 Playlist and charted top 30 in May 06.
LIVE
The Young Punx play live both as DJs and as The Young Punx live band.
The full live band includes legendary guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan (Guitarist Magazine guitarist of the year) and vocals from Tiffany Gore (Medcab / Chicane / Kraak en Smaak) and recently performed for 2 nights at the Nano Mugen Festival in Japan to an audience of 24,000. Highlights of 2007 included Glastonbury and SummerSonic Japan festivals this year.
The duo have recorded guest DJ mixes for Annie Nightingale, XFM, Kiss FM, Andi Durrants Galaxy FM Network and Ministry of Sound radio, and several guest mixes for Judge Jules as well as DJing at Radiohead aftershow parties in Earls Court.
OTHER PROJECTS
As well as co-running dance labels Heavy Disco and MofoHifi, and performing in dance acts Medcab and Mohito, multi-instrumentalist Hal from The Young Punx also produces and/or performs behind the scenes on many other top 20 dance projects such as Eric Prydz's number one hit "Call on me, "Shine" by the Lovefreekz, Ai no corrida by Uniting Nations and Fire by Lethal Bizzle. Hal is the vocalist on the UK Top 20 hit "Tell me why" by Supermode, and co-wrote 3 tracks from David Guetta's platinum selling "Poplife" album.
People are saying...
"My latest discoveries" - Annie Nightingale, BBC Radio 1 "Brilliant" - Judge Jules, BBC Radio 1 "Future superstars" - Galaxy FM "Talented beat alchemists... Exhilarating stuff" - Music Week "The new kings of dance music" - HTFR "Chunky, cheeky, and damn near essential" - Lewis Dene, DJ / Update Magazine "Infamous audio terrorists" - Eddy Temple-Morris, XFM "Skilled cultural pirates" - Front Row, BBC Radio 4 "I'm feeling this. It's shaking!" - Adam Freeland, Breakbeat pioneer "One of the tastiest white labels around" - Mixmag "More of this! Clubland needs a good kick up the arse." - Scott Mac, DJ
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Sometimes I Can’t Believe My Space. I Have In Front Of Me, At My Disposal, A Never Ending Concert Of Great Music From All Over The World.. I Love It ! ! ! ! ! I Try To Listen To All Of It But I Can’t. I Do Listen To A Little Of All My Friends. Your Music Is Wonderful. Be Bop, Hip Hop, Country , Rock & Pop. I Have Lived It All. Music Is My Life. I Love Your Music ! ! ! ! Thank You For Being You & For Being My Friend.
OI! Hey, Hal! Simon! Great seeing you at the club in San Francisco the other day. How was the drive up to LA? How did the LAliens treat you? Well, I hope. Keep up the good work! I will keep in touch. Very inspiring stuff you do... Good night.
SWEET! ya'll are coming to Cali! ooohhhh, I am going to have to find someone to travel up to LA with me so that I can see you while you are in the states! You picked the perfect place to be for the First day of Summer!
Goddamit what that fatboyremix makes you wanna dance. One hell of an album lads. I enjoyed your tutorial in Computer music, learned alot. All the best.
thanx for the add yo have awesomw music we heard some of you podcast and seems you don´t like minimal but anyway your produccions are awsome we are very new sooo if you can hear our music and tell us some advisies on how to improve them it would be awesome att: troopa
Saw you guys at your gig in Helsinki in Leicester a few weeks back. Really loved your stuff. And that's coming from someone that doesn't really LIKE House music. Keep it up (y)
