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Dance With Someone Else

by The Young Punx

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Dance With Someone Else (Edit) 03:41
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Dance With Someone Else (Phunk Investigation Edit) 02:42
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Dance With Someone Else (Deep Dark Dub) 09:49
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Dance With Someone Else (Original Club Mix) 06:45
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Dance With Someone Else (Phunk Investigation Mix) 05:58
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This was the first track that Hal Ritson and Cameron Saunders ever worked on together as The Young Punx, in 2003.

Cameron had had earlier success in rave pioneers New Atlantic, with their chart hit "I know". The idea to spin the minor line from Get Into The Groove "Tonight I Wanna Dance With Someone Else" out into a hook of itself dated from the New Atlantic days, but Cameron noted that the ablities to flex tempo and pitch, and isolate vocals etc were so limited back then that he could never get the track to work the way he wanted it to.

When university friends Cameron and Hal re-united to work on a new dance music project in 2003, the combination of Hal's post Daft Punk production mentality and Cameron's track idea fell into place almost immediately. Initial CDRs and white label vinyl posted out to a smattering of famous DJs whose addresses could be found online led to radio one plays from Judge Jules, Annie Nightingale and Pete Tong, 5 star reviews in the dance music press and requests for remixes from the likes of Ministry of Sound.

The track came at an interesting moment in dance music history where mainstream 80s pop music had not been seen as appropriate sampling content for house music. House samples would tend toward the 'deep dig' into cool record crates picking out soul and disco vocals or obscure funk. The blatent use of an A list 80s pop sample seemed almost confrontational to the chin stroking uber cool DJ community, but was also a breath of fresh air, and foreshadowed the glut of 80s pop sampling house hits that would follow in the next few years, peaking with Call On Me (which Hal also worked on, in a sample replay capacity).

While the cheeky maximalist chaos of the main mix lead the way, it was the epic 10 minute "Deep Dark Dub" mix (also produced by The Young Punx themselves) which won over the more serious DJs, being dubbed by Mixmag "a tough acid soaked banger".

Vocals for the track were supplied by Hal's University friend and bandmate Alison Wheeler, who went on to join the Beautiful South later that year.

On the production side, the track was made on Logic 9 in Hal's attic home studio in Cambridge, using the raging bass sound from the Roland JP-8000, Microkorg, and a variety of patches from the Novation K Station while the quirky loping acid hook was made by gating a Freebase FB383 to the shuffling house drums of the track.

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released June 6, 2003

Keyboards and programming : Hal Ritson, Cameron Saunders
Vocals : Alison Wheeler

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The Young Punx London, UK

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

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. ... more

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