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“The Young Punx are credible dance music provocateurs in the manner of the KLF”
– Billboard

The Young Punx is the pop-culture mashup dance music side project of
multiplatinum grammy nominated record producer Hal Ritson.

Hal is a London-based multi-instrumentalist with writing, production and
performance credits on over a thousand tracks by artists as diverse as Duke
Dumont, Katy Perry, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Ed Sheeran, Kanye West, The
Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Eric Prydz, and hundreds more.

The Young Punx is Hal’s long running personal dance music project, a freeform
exploration of mashup sensibility on the dance floor, combining radically wide
musical influences with house, breaks and DnB.

80s pop, opera, surf, ragga, shred metal, oldskool rap, cuban music, TV adverts,
movie trailers and the weather forecast can all make a showing within a few
minutes of listening! Tracks can range from from simple dancefloor reworks of
pop-culture trends to crazed mashups of radically different music genres;
stripped back club grooves, or guest performances by the most virtuoso jazz and
rock performers in the world. There are no rules, yet Ritson’s auteur
sensibility maintains a core artistic intent that both celebrates and undermines
dancefloor clichés while embracing a joyous love of the diversity of music and
culture.

The Young Punx first made their name in the early 2000s as bedroom producers
putting out bootleg remixes on vinyl and mp3, which earned them “Bootleg Remixer
Of Year” award from BBC Radio one with support from legendary DJs such as Fatboy
Slim, Judge Jules and Annie Nightingale. Within one year their first signing to
EMI, somehow remixing an annoying TV advert into a dancefloor smash, was 25-1
for the UK Christmas number 1. Subsequent releases were signed to labels such as
Ultra, Avex, Toolroom and Kitsune, and included collaborations with artists such
as Amanda Palmer and Peaches, Norman Cook, Don Diablo, Lenno, virtuoso guitarist
Guthrie Govan and legendary rappers Count Bass D, Dizzee Rascal and Snoop Dogg.

The Young Punx have performed as a DJ duo with DJ partner Nathan Taylor (Medcab)
and as a full live band, at such esteemed venues as Pasha, Privilege and Eden in
Ibiza, Womb and Ageha Tokyo, Avalon LA, Melkweg Amsterdam, Ministry Of Sound and
Fabric in London and festivals such as Glastonbury, SummerSonic, BlueBalls,
NanoMugenFes worldwide.

The Young Punx now own and run The Old Hit Factory recording studios in London
Bridge, (former home to Stock Aitken and Waterman / PWL). They also run MofoHifi
Records, a label which is home to The Young Punx' own work but also curates new
electronic talent, including signing tracks from dance legend Avicii and recent
Grammy winner Alizzz 'before they were famous' as well as launching the careers
of electronic wunderkinds Phonat and Bobby Tank.

“Breaks, pop, disco, drum & bass, opera and surf are all thrown in to create a
giddying bombardment that doesn’t let up once throughout… a good-time party
soundtrack ” – IDJ

“The Young Punx are redefining musical cool” – EQ Magazine

“Electronic authority The Young Punx is as conceptual as it is joyous and
radio-friendly.” – Culture Or Trash

“Sheer Balearic heaven, managing to perfectly capture that 6am feeling on the
White Island … with their irreverence shining through with each percussive snap
and sundown note.” – Clash

“Their boundless energy and infectious enthusiasm shines throughout with an
underlying organic live feel that’s perfect for that party atmosphere.” – Mixmag


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