
The Young Punx - Mash Up Mix - Jul 2003
Submitted By:
trocknroll
Genre: Electronic
Date of Set: Jul 2003
Filesize: 28.00 MB
Total Downloads: 4
Biography of The Young Punx
Who the hell are The Young Punx?
Over the last 18 months The Young Punx 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.
The Young Punx are London based Hal Ritson and Cameron Saunders. 2007 will see The Young Punx release their debut album - a crossover cocktail of elements of popular culture mashed with pumping house, nuskool breaks, drum and bass, heavy rock and 80s pop. The album will feature tracks such as ‘Young And Beautiful’ and ‘You’ve Got To’ which is featured on the new 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 B’s “C’mon 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.
They have recorded guest mixes for Annie Nightingale, XFM, Kiss FM, Andi Durrant’s Galaxy FM Network and Ministry of Sound radio, and several mixes for Judge Jules. They have also DJ'd at Radiohead’s aftershow parties in Earl’s 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 top 20 hit “Tell me why” by Supermode on Data Records.
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