ep38. REESE SANDWICH

Phonat and Discosocks return to The Young Punx FM for a house, disco and drum & bass session that rapidly becomes a lovingly irreverent Phonat retrospective, from an early Avicii remix to his spectacularly anti-drop take on Skrillex. Newcomer James Yuill joins Hal and BOBBI, who performs two songs live, while the studio invents a ‘Reese Sandwich’ bass sound and conducts an unnecessarily intimate Peperami tasting. BOBBI attempts to explain Canadian cheese curds against a soundtrack of Napalm Death, and Hal discovers a stream of AI-generated death metal that might outlive humanity. Nice to have everyone back.

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ep36. CAVIAR MONSTER MUNCH

Caviar on pickled onion Monster Munch. The Young Punx FM returns after seven years, and clearly standards have risen. Hal recruits a ‘stunt Simon’, Ali Jamieson and Canadian singer Kaylee Johnston, right on the cusp of reinventing herself as BOBBI, who performs two songs live. There’s drum & bass, house, disco and rap, a poisonous frog ceremony with deeply unfortunate digestive consequences, a Stranger Things club remix, the first taste of The Tribe of Good, and a quiz where made-up DJs prove almost indistinguishable from the actual DJ Mag Top 100. Plus new music from Phonat, Cassius, Duke Dumont and KNOWER. High culture meets low culture. Mostly in a crisp.

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