New Young Pony Club has always been deserving of the hype. And now we’d like to congratulate them for being shortlisted as a one of the 12 best albums of the past year, and thus, a contender for the #1 pick for the prestigious Nationwide Mercury Prize (wuz that? Wikipedia helps). Also nominated are several acts that we’ve featured here including, Klaxons (archive), Bat For Lashes (Archive), Maps (archive) and Amy Winehouse (archive). Also nominated are previous Mercury Prize winners, Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal for their recent efforts.

This puts NYPC in some great company! Their debut album, ‘Fantastic Playroom’ (Buy it!) was a long time coming. Their break-through single ‘Ice Cream’ was featured in a major advertisement campaign for Intel, as well as countless mixtape, radio and club playlists all over the world.

Great songs become remix juggernauts. Interesting that ‘Ice Cream’ was originally released in 2004 on UK label Tirk Records before finding it’s next home on Aussie label, Modular. ‘Ice Cream’ is a great song and is absolutely a juggernaut. The is still getting it’s remix fix and just received some new remix jobs from, most recently by Tiga and, previously, Hervé, Van She and The Hooks, among others.

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MP3: New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Tiga Remix)

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MP3: New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Herve Goes Bananas Remix)

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MP3: New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Van She Tech Remix)

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MP3: New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (The Hooks Remix)

Pick up the singles and you’ll realize there are so many remixes of ‘Ice Cream’! Now seriously, Pick them up from Amazon and HMV. Strictly for the hardcore, NYPC has a merch site with shirts and mugs and junk. We gots one, we hardcore!

If nothing else, visit NYPC on MySpace and say congratulations or check their official site, WeArePony.com