So you see… Nathan and I have been mulling over this for a while and we really need to set up a Young Punx based blog. We get access to lots of exciting music very upfront, which other people might like to hear. We travel the world having escapades. We have opinions about things (mostly the music business) and need somewhere to rant.

So now we have this blog. Aloha.

We should start by posting track. So let’s post the damn well best one around at the moment, “Learn to recycle” by Phonat.

Phonat is Michele Balduzzi, a 7 foot Italian kid with Brian May style hair and a penchant for electro mayhem and pop rock bollox in equal measure. I first heard his music when we were running the (temporarily resting) Heavy Disco record label. He sent me demos. And every single one was absolutely awesome. Just the freshest electronic sounds I had ever heard. And the miracle was, he was recording them all on (just) a 5 year old laptop in a remote Italian farmhouse!

Several collaborations down the line it was clear that Phonat was a talent that needed fostering, so we moved him to London and gave him full access to our studio to let him come up with whatever he liked.

And he came up with this monster.

“Learn to recycle” is essentially a scientific experiment. To try and find out what happens if you use just one drums kit, one bass sound and one sample, but at hip hop speed, house speed, and drum and bass speed, all in the space of one track. The result is nothing short of amazing and really goes a long way to prove what my manifesto has been all along – that electronic music can be united across the genre barricades, rather than divided into tempo based ghettos. It takes a brave DJ to drop this track into a set. But brave DJs exist and boy does the room kick off if you get it right.

And it sounds like this:

mp3 : Phonat – “Learn to recycle”

sample replay produced by Replay Heaven.