http://www.beatport.com/release/girls-like-disco-boys-like-bass/1123090
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/girls-like-disco-boys-like/id669534954

London-based The Young Punx return with a 2-track release celebrating their love of all things disco and bass, collaborating with their close friends and kings of the Italian Turbofunk sound, Birdee (Southern Fried) and Reset! (Cheap Thrills, Dim Mak), with GIRLS LIKE DISCO BOYS LIKE BASS'.

A club-ready disco and bass laden teaser for the forthcoming 3rd Young Punx album, the tracks showcase the flamboyant musicianship of The Young Punx whose brass-heavy funk stylings have previously been heard as the disco band in Dizzee Rascal’s “Dirtee Disco”, as well as performing as the live backing band for Dizzee on the BBC Electric Proms and Glastonbury 2011, and in their legendary 2005 makeover of De’Lacy’s ‘Hideaway’. 

The Young Punx' Hal Ritson explains that the release’s title is derived from a tongue in cheek ‘rule of DJing’.

	“It all started off as a bit of a joke amongst our DJ pals. The joke being men never go out onto the dancefloor first. But, you play some disco and the girls flock to the floor. Naturally the boys follow on then, and if you went bass heavy, the party would really begin to kick. ‘Girls Like Disco Boys Like Bass’ became code for this pattern!  Of course in fact everyone likes both Disco and Bass, so don’t take it too literally!”

Setting the tone for their return you can expect to see more sideways looks at the electronic music scene from The Young Punx in the coming year, including a brand new long-player full of surprises.

The Young Punx emerged in the mid 2000’s as buzz producers, pioneered by DJs such as Annie Nightingale, Eddy Temple-Morris and Judge Jules, famed for their jubilant shredding of genre boundaries, mashing up different dance music forms, retro music sounds and pop culture references with glee, wit and musicality.

Since their 2009 album “Mashpop and Punkstep” The Young Punx have been focussing on developing their label, MofoHifi Records, home to the esteemed emerging producers, Bobby Tank, Phonat & Alizzz. 


GIRLS LIKE DISCO BOYS LIKE BASS

London-based The Young Punx return with a 2-track release celebrating their love of all things disco and bass, collaborating with their close friends and kings of the Italian Turbofunk sound, Birdee (Southern Fried) and Reset! (Cheap Thrills, Dim Mak), with GIRLS LIKE DISCO BOYS LIKE BASS'.

A club-ready disco and bass laden teaser for the forthcoming 3rd Young Punx album, the tracks showcase the flamboyant musicianship of The Young Punx whose brass-heavy funk stylings have previously been heard as the disco band in Dizzee Rascal’s “Dirtee Disco”, as well as performing as the live backing band for Dizzee on the BBC Electric Proms and Glastonbury 2011, and in their legendary 2005 makeover of De’Lacy’s ‘Hideaway’. 

The Young Punx' Hal Ritson explains that the release’s title is derived from a tongue in cheek ‘rule of DJing’.

	“It all started off as a bit of a joke amongst our DJ pals. The joke being men never go out onto the dancefloor first. But, you play some disco and the girls flock to the floor. Naturally the boys follow on then, and if you went bass heavy, the party would really begin to kick. ‘Girls Like Disco Boys Like Bass’ became code for this pattern!  Of course in fact everyone likes both Disco and Bass, so don’t take it too literally!”

Setting the tone for their return you can expect to see more sideways looks at the electronic music scene from The Young Punx in the coming year, including a brand new long-player full of surprises.

The Young Punx emerged in the mid 2000’s as buzz producers, pioneered by DJs such as Annie Nightingale, Eddy Temple-Morris and Judge Jules, famed for their jubilant shredding of genre boundaries, mashing up different dance music forms, retro music sounds and pop culture references with glee, wit and musicality.

Since their 2009 album “Mashpop and Punkstep” The Young Punx have been focussing on developing their label, MofoHifi Records, home to the esteemed emerging producers, Bobby Tank, Phonat & Alizzz. 


GIRLS LIKE DISCO (feat. Birdee)

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I've always been a massive fan of Italian turbofunk collective Reset! 

I usually feel one step removed from what other electronic artists are trying to achieve in their music - like I can admire what they are doing, but always feel like their music belongs in some club that I would never go to, or needs to be experienced on some kind of drug that I don't take, or confers association with some scene I am not part of.

But when I listen to Reset! I always feel like I am totally on their wavelength and there is a real alignment of values with the more club-centric end of my own music. I hear an honest and unforced love of a party atmosphere, combined with an understanding of funk and groove that reaches back to the 60s, 70s and 80s.  And also the sense that even if you are listening to a one chord loop, it is being made by a true musician who could compose and improvise with skill, not just being confined to the loops and step programming of a bedroom EDM artist.

I was therefore delighted when I ended up knowing the Reset! team personally (via them being friends with Phonat) and now, after helping each other with a few tracks, we have made our first full collaboration together.

As with the companion track to BOYS LIKE BASS - 'GIRLS LIKE DISCO (feat. Birdee)', this track consists of live playing by myself and members of The Young Punx live collective, recorded over several years, structured and produced by a turbofunk don. But where-as GIRLS LIKE DISCO is a straight for the jugular party track, BOYS LIKE BASS is a little more experimental and exploratory. I love the way Reset! took so many of the parts I provided and turned it into an evolving journey that never quite repeats itself and is always going in new directions.

It's been an anthem in my own sets all year, and I hope you enjoy it now.

BOYS LIKE BASS (feat. Reset!)

The Young Punx is the twisted alter ego of Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum producer Hal Ritson — the man behind 25 billion streams for artists like Kanye West, The Chemical Brothers, Charli XCX, Nas, Avicii, Duke Dumont, and Clean Bandit.

This is where the rule-breaking happens.

A wild collision of house, disco, rock, funk, jazz, drum & bass, and anything else lying around the cultural scrapyard, The Young Punx makes high-energy, high-attitude music that celebrates chaos and creativity in equal measure.

From viral bootlegs and remixes in the 2000s, to festival stages worldwide and collaborations with Peaches, Amanda Palmer, Dizzee Rascal, Snoop Dogg and more — The Young Punx has always been hard to define and impossible to ignore.

Now reloading for 2025 with a new wave of music, animation and genre-defying anthems.
The new album WPUNX is on the way. Stay tuned.