Hello. So the reason we have a week of VIP Blogging on APC THIS WEEK is that we are celebrating the release of our second album, Mashpop and Punkstep. (um… apart from DE, AT, CH – May and AU, NZ, JP – June). Now I’ll have you know that the week’s VIP blogging is the warm-up – not the main event. We have a couple of much more exciting things for you in the coming couple of weeks. But for now I thought we should tell you about the album a bit.

Our marketing bumf says: “The Young Punx return for their second studio album, a startling and inventive exploration of the deliberate destruction of genre boundaries in electronic music. Probably the first album in history to have toyed with drum and bass, heavy metal, electropop and cuban timba within the first 5 minutes (!) “Mashpop and Punkstep” is a vibrant manifesto for the next generation of mashup music.”

Well. That’s what we like to tell people anyway.

1. This is me talking about making the album

2. This is what it sounds like

The Young Punx – ‘Mashpop and Punkstep’ – OUT NOW! by MofoHifi Records

3. This is the page on our web site with more information about the album

4. This is what some blogs have been saying about the album this week

5. Some music for you

The Young Punx – Simple Pleasures [mp3]

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The Young Punx – Ready For The Fight (Black Noise Mix) [mp3]

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The Young Punx – Juice and Gin (Riva Starr Mix) [mp3]

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Buy now!

…and if you fancy being oldskool and buying some music we’d really appreciate it because it cost a frickin’ fortune to make. Try iTunes (most of the world), iTunes (USA and Canada), Amazon UK, Amazon.com, Beatport, Juno, eMusic (USA) etc.