The Young Punx is a an eclectic electric collective of London-based musicians with diverse musical backgrounds, headed up by maverick multi-instrumentalist Hal Ritson.
DJ sets: Hal Ritson (right), Nathan Taylor (left) Production: Hal Ritson, Phonat, Cameron Saunders Live Band: Hal Ritson (keyboards/bass/vocals), Guthrie Govan (guitar/bass), Simon Bettison (drums) with special guests including Tiffany Gore (vocals), Laura Kidd (vocals), Yolanda Quartey (vocals) and Cameron Saunders (decks and FX).
Special Guests including US rappers Count Bass D and MC Paul Barman, Salsa King Chacon and Drum and Bass maverick John B.
Influences
Daft Punk, Bassment Jaxx, Fake Blood, Riva Starr, Chase and Status, Phonat, JBAG, The Police, Beck, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, John Zorn, Shir Khan, Siriusmo, John B, Groove Armada, Fatboy Slim, The Plump DJs, Motorhead, Guthrie Govan, Just Ice, Justice, 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, 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
Mashpop and punkstep! File under wilfull disregard for genre. Some of it's house, some drum and bass, some rock, some pop, some hip hop, opera, disco, electro.
“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 multi-instrumentalist producer Hal Ritson. 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, USA and Japan, with more countries coming soon. 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). The have performed to audiences of up to 12,000 at major international festival such as SummerSonic, Nano Mugen (japan) and Glastonbury, and at key venues like The Mercury Lounge (New York) and Echoplex (LA).
As DJs they have performed from cool underground parties like Phone in sick / Boombox in Hoxton to supporting Tiesto at Privilege Ibiza, the world's largest club.
The Young Punx DJ Promo Video:
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
Live and DJ bookings
Book The Young Punx live band or DJ team via: Live and DJ bookings (UK & Asia) : sacha@idealdjs.co.uk DJ bookings & live band bookings (North America)
: alex@amonly.com Live & DJ bookings (Germany, Switzerland and Austria)
: info@da-show.eu att. Alex
Steiman
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Damn i love you guys... no one else is cool enough to mention John Zorn twice in their influences, have Guthrie Govan as their own personal bitch and love lots of other bitchin' music... and Dr Who ... phhwwaar... you're funny, funky and full of tasty beats!! keep it going...
Tracks from our album 'Wherever You Are In The World Here Are Directions Home' are available to listen to on our MySpace page... Take a listen and let us know which is your favourite!
Don't forget to check out our videos too, featuring Barbie gone bad!
hey there, almost forgot to say hello after adding.
i've seen your productionmasterclass-video on youtube where you show how you produce your sound. vintagewarmer, spacedesigner, fuzz-wah, all the things i use for my productions too. unfortunately they don't sound half as good as yours do, even with much less elements *g*
keep it up, i love your music, hope to see you on a concert this year in germany
Hi !<br /><br />I’m just sending a little message around as we have a question and we want to ask our friends for input.<br />We cannot decide whether to release the Album in late May or June. We plan to tour from mid May and the argument is that if we release in June we can tie the release into the fan build from the tour, but it might get squashed with all the Summer and festival releases, however, if we release in May it might have less competition but we won’t have the tour working yet to promote it.<br />What do you think? I’d love to hear your opinion on this.<br /><br />DawnyVic<br />Scarlet/blonde<br />www.scarletblonde.com<br />www.twitter.com/scarletblonde<br />Facebook: http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Scarlet-Blonde/548590526<br />Aim/MSN:dawn@scarletblonde.com<br /><br /><br />
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