9.08.2013

The Routes - "I got a feelin´" / "All i really need is love". 7" Black Vinyl Single. Limited Edition of 500 Copies. (AW007)

El trio anglo-japonés está en racha. Con dos vinilos en la calle editados recientemente por el sello portugués Groovie Records y tras su reciente y exitosa gira ibérica, The Routes han decidido aprovechar su buen momento y regalar al público español un nuevo 7” en agradecimiento por las experiencias de su tour. 
Action Weekend presenta en este single de edición limitada la versión más cruda y atinada de los japoneses. Dos versiones de olvidados temas de garage-punk ala Back From The Grave. En concreto el “I Got A Feelin’” de los Mondels y el “All I Really Need Is Love” de los Reasons Why. 
No es la primera vez que los Routes se dedican a escarbar en lo más recóndito del 60’s punk en busca de tesoros ocultos para completar sus 7” pero en esta ocasión han acertado de pleno, con la elección de las canciones, y con la interpretación. “I Got A Feelin’” es ciertamente un auténtico rompepistas con la base rítmica a pleno rendimiento mientras el fuzz y la sucia voz de Chris enloquecen en las sombras de la cueva. En el reverso,”All I Really Needs Is Love” la banda suena aún más anfetamínica, los guitarrazos se acompañan de un chirriante órgano y de aullidos, pura demencia 60’s punk. 

500 copias con artwork obra de Christophe Lopez-Huici (Bananas Magazine).



The Routes are on fire! With two recent vinyls published by Portuguese label Groovie Rds and after a successful Iberian tour, the Japanese band has decided to thank Spanish fans with a brand new 45. You can’t sit down! 
Action Weekend brings you in this 7” the rawest side of The Routes. Two covers of forgotten garage-punk shots ala Back From The Grave, “I Got A Feelin’” by The Mondels and “All I Really Need Is Love” by The Reasons Why.
This isn’t the first time The Routes dig deep in the 60’s punk yard searching for lost nuggets to fill their 45’s but this is their best effort so far, theygot a bull’s eye both with the election of songs and their performance. “I Got A Feelin’” is a true floorfiller, a stomping rhythm section plus fuzz and Chris’ dirty voice going mad in the shadows In “All I Really Need Is Love”, the band sounds even more amphetaminic, guitar riffs crash along a maniac organ in a heavenly lo-fi sound battle, pure 60’s punk dementia !


Limited edition with artwork by Christophe Lopez-Huici (Bananas Magazine

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9.07.2013

The Skywalkers - "Rosa" / "Creature of the night". 7" Black Vinyl Single. Limited Edition of 500 Copies. (AW005) SOLD OUT.


Written and performed by The Skywalkers.Bass by Ben Rider.
Recorded by EJ Kloosterboer and Jacco Gardner.
Produced by Jacco Gardner at Shadow Shoppe Studio.
Pre-mastered by Jean Audier.
Mastered by Alex Pis at Drive Division Studio.
Photography: Nienke Doekes.
Artwork by Jacco Gardner.

The dutch duo formed by Jacco Gardner and Hugo Van de Poel have decided to call it a day in order to focus in their promising solo careers, leaving behind a brilliant lp and lots of gigs around Europe. But as fading away in silence didn’t seem too polite, they’ve decided to say goodbye with a present for all the pop and psyche fans out there. 

In this final 45, The Skywalkers have rescued two compositions from their now rare lp “Year One” and have embellished them with new arrangements and the magic touch in the mix and the pre-masterization by Jean Audier (the man behind J. Gardner’s “Cabinet of Curiosities”). 



On side A, we got “Rosa”, a lysergic beat ballad which in its new form, get an extra point of sweetness, voices sound almost heavenly and wrap the minimalist instrumentation as an evening mist, door to other worlds. It’s almost impossible not to let you be taken away and float while you listen to this little jewel of grand pop.
On the flip side we find “Creature of the Night”, a haunting freakbeat dancer with the hypnotic presence of philicorda organ – skywalkers trademark – , more pop than its previous version, less raw; an uptempo psyche pop dancefloor winner that will put this 45 in all cool djs’ want list. 





A product of Action Weekend & Bickerton Rcds 2013.