Praise be! The long awaited Episode 24 of The Young Punx FM podcast is now available for your enjoyment.
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This is a remix I did of Seven Nation Army in 2005 I think. It seems to have started bubbling up on a number of cool blogs over the past few weeks, usually in a pretty lofi form, and since it is next to impossible to buy, I thought I would post a better quality version here.
People are seeming to think it is a remix of the White Stripes original, but actually it is a remix of a cover version done by Openair, for release on Skint records. The record seemed to disappear into development hell, and to the best of my knowledge never really got released properly despite being quite popular.
For reasons best known to me at the time I decided to make the track into some kind of disco meets basement jaxx party number, and I recorded a whole disco track on bass, guitar, 70s synths, drums and live brass, in my bedroom, mixed it down, then sampled it and cut it up to make this mix. That was really at the tail end of the “Room 5 Make Luv” era disco house and was probably kind of going out of fashion. in 2009 however, with disco making a big resergence in London, the track seems to have a bit of relevence again, though I wouldn’t make it sound exactly like this if I were making it today.
Anyway, its something of a lost classic, that people seem to like, so have a listen.
Download mp3 : Seven Nation Army (The Young Punx Mix)
For your downloading and listening pleasure – The Young Punx DJs recorded live at The Gallery, Ministry of Sound, London on 6th Feb 2009.
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We’re back again, this time joining forces with one of our favorite producers of the past year, Riva Starr for a fantastically energetic track. “Juice and Gin” is a blend of electro-acid and fidget with monstrous ragga vocals from Yolanda. This is a pretty good quality mp3, but a full quality version, a dub and an alternate mix will be available on Beatport in a couple of weeks.
The Young Punx – Juice and Gin (Riva Starr Remix) download mp3
The Young Punx have taken part in the legendary Buffet Libre “Rewind” project, in which 100 artists do cover versions of tracks from the 70s, 80s and 90s for a free online digital download compilation. The Young Punx chose to cover the Belle Stars version of “The Clapping Song” from 1982, which is itself a cover of Shirley Ellis’ 60s original. Featuring vocals from Laura Kidd and virtuoso guitar from Guthrie Govan the track starts out as a fairly faithful cover version, until Phonat takes the helm half way through and it turns into a kind of electro drum and bass freak out version! Hal Ritson of The Young Punx comments,
“What attracted us was the combination of the innocence of the playground rhyme pop style with the sulky thatcher-era vocal delivery. Also it seemed fun to do a cover version of a song that was ALREADY a cover version of a 60′s song. A cover of a cover.”
DOWNLOAD MP3 – The Young Punx feat Laura Kidd, Guthrie Govan and Phonat : “The Clapping Song”
To widespread delight episode 22 of The Young Punx FM Podcast is now available featuring some incredible music, more cowbell, lewd Tshirts, exclusive new tracks and Simon and Hal causing the usual havoc.
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A nice little breaksy public enemy mashup doing the rounds this week. I’m not sure on its background but apparently Zane Lowe played it. There was that big Bring the noise bootleg by Benny Benassi earlier this year, and a few good remixes of it then, but the sparse bassline garage/breaks approach here leaves more room for the rap to breath, which is a good thing.
download mp3 : Public Enemy VS Zinc – “138 Noise”
A new mash-up for you. I thought these would sit nicely together the moment I first heard “Ghosts N Stuff” ringing through from Phonat’s room next door! I had to re-record the strings and brass for Lola’s Theme myself with live players to clarify the harmony enough to make it gel, but hey, I do these kinds of things for you and you don’t get that kind of dedication from anyone else! 
download mp3 : The Young Punx : “Lola’s Ghost” (Deadmau5 “Ghosts N Stuff” VS Shapeshifters “Lola’s Theme”)
Me and Phonat did this remix for Gut Records well over a year ago now. We played it on our podcast and hence have quite a lot of enquiries about where you can buy it. The answer is… absolutely no-where… since Gut have now gone bankrupt, along with large number of other record labels.
I bumped into the Tastemakers at the (rather over packed and hellish) DJ magazine Top 100 DJs party at Ministry of Sound last week and basically it seems likely the track can never be released unless they buy it back from the administrators, which is unlikely to happen.
So we decided to just give it to you.
Its a little dated now… music has moved on a bit, but it still has plenty of merits, and I get regular requests for it.
Download mp3: Tastemakers – “Dream of (The Young Punx Mix)”
The Young Punx FM Podcast Episode 21 is now available and its basically our Halloween mixset for BBC Radio One.
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