Big respect to Example and his band for their Radio One live lounge performance including an awesome cover of Kesha Tik Tok. I was music director for this gig and worked with the band on the arrangements and rehearsals, but couldn’t make it to the gig as I was at MIDEM. But they did really well and rocked the show!
Example and Vula on the live lounge
Check out D Double E from the awesome Newham Generals on a roll here delivering every car related rhyme and pun under the sun. Sweet. DIRTEE STANK IS THE LABEL!
Anyone want to know what my life is like?
It’s almost exactly like this:
With thanks to Louis Gaston
And lo there was great joy in the land, for Episode 25 of The Young Punx FM podcast was available, and it was 2 hours long, and it did involve eating a microwave turkey dinner, and it was good, and all was well:
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Music in this show : Phonat – “Set Me free (Avicii Mix)”, The Young Punx – “Ready or the fight (Feat count bass D)”, “Holiday Lover” (Dizzee Rascal “Holiday” VS Prince “I wanna be your lover”, Sharooz – “Adrenalyze”, Calvin Harris “Not alone (Doorly Mix)”, Diplo and Laidback Luke – “Hey (Black Noise Mix)”, Deltawave – “Rock n Roll Medusa”, Sakanaction – “Ame (B)”, The Young Punx – “It Doesn’t Stop”, Caged Baby – “Medicine”, The Young Punx – “Rock Star (Understand) [Shinichi Osawa Mix]“, Hott 22 – “Wicked Games (Thomas Gold Mix)”, Spinal Tap – “(Funky) Sex Farm”, Riton – “Who’s There”, Ezio – “The same mistake as me”, Phonat – “It’s for you”
Welcome to the HORROR that is DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll voting season. Now is your annual opportunity to be relentlessly spammed by every frickin B list DJ on the planet, with them begging for you to vote for them. Only to be bewildered when 78 of the …winning DJs turn out to be bizzarre eastern european trance DJs you had no idea existed. With that in mind, if you actually LIKE The Young Punx, please feel free to vote for us.
I’m currently working as musical director for Dizzee Rascal’s upcoming performance at the BBC Electric Proms. We’re looking for some mental ideas for how to perform the tracks in surprising and exciting ways. This harmonica / beatbox performance of Bonkers by Son of Dave is definitely an inspiration and is a great example both of how a good song will work in a totally different performance style, and that loop based solo performances can transcend novelty acts to be a really creative performance medium.
I first came across Don Diablo some time around 2004 – 2005 when we collaborated on the production of a fairly commercial track, that went out under a different name. Back then he was something of a mystery in that he had achieved some kind of superstar status in his native Holland, whilst being pretty much unknown just a couple of hundred miles away in the UK. The situation was pretty much the same in 2007 when we commissioned this remix of Your Music Is Killing Me from him. We thought he was a great artist, who we had mutual respect with, who seemed to operate in the same musical world as us – we both had our feet firmly in the world of European club / house music, yet found that niche rather too cliquey and restrictive. We both wanted to add more to the mix : Rock, rap, pop – MUSIC goddammit! Yet if you mentioned him to most UK clubbers they would still have no idea who he was, despite being on the cover of glossy magazines at home.
Don Diablo and a furry friend.
The past 12 months has seen all that turn around. With numerous plays on the likes of Pete Tong, CD cover mounts in the UK, and a worldwide blog mp3 hypemachine drive for glory, he is now one of the most blogged and well known electronic artists around.
And last week we noticed a new phenomenon of people blogging his mix of us. Simply put, if other people are blogging our track, then we may as well too! So, from 2007, but still sounding pretty fresh now, here’s The Young Punx with “Your music is killing me” as remixed by Don Diablo!
