Forgotten YGGL album N°3
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3rd YGGL's Album !
With his third album, YGGL gets rid of the coldwave darkness of his previous opus. The drum machine becomes softened to let us feel the melody again like the light at the end of the tunnel, a needed step after a difficult family bereavement. The 9 songs recorded in Christian Bolognaise's Macaroni Cheese studio are a reminder of what used to be the so-called alternative rock. The voice becomes brighter and the guitar fulls of chorus slows down, he tackles more optimistic themes in response to the nihilism of the last decades' mentors (Nirvana, Smashing Pumkins, Jessica Lea Mayfield...) After 2 years of absence, the finalist of the Vans Musician Wanted brings out a new kind of record that had to exist in today's world : « The utopian grunge » !
NEWSPAPERS SAY "YGGL, a one-man band project that began at a friend’s birthday party in late 2016. Founded by Yrwan Garcia Léal, a former snowboarder who now lives in an isolated barn not far from Biarritz. The perfect place to brutalize his guitar with every kind of effect when there is no surf around. Swaying from the sounds of the 90’s, from Last Action Heroes to Nirvana, passing through rap music and VHS videos of snowboarding, Yrwan digested his influences formulate them into lo-fi demos that he regularly shares on Youtube, always illustrated by a DIY video clip. His music is simple and dark, made of frenetic beats and repetitive distorted guitar riffs, all surrounded by a raspy, whisky vocal. After more than 20 gigs in a year (squat, hipster surfshop, spanish rock club, snowboard events, opening for Boy Harsher and some festivals like the Gliding Barnacles in Portugal and the Wheels & Waves in Biarritz..); his set evolve from the early lo fi cold grunge to a possesses robotic dark dance. R.ad his debut studio album is announced for November 2018. This will give a new dimension to his demos as well as eat your brain a lil’bit."
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PTEX4000 Bases
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The metallic tips at the extremities of certain models built and incorporated into the core of the board in order to be fixed on and unbreakable. You can hit your board on the floor to quit the snow off without breaking the tip...
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All our boards top sheets are finished with a shiny UV-resistant varnish that protects the deco and makes it pop. The sidewalls are manufactured at a 10/45° angle that allies robustness and a premium quality last touch ...
Fried Egg Camber
The banana part between the feet and the camber proportions are very pronounced. Ergo even though the board is very flexible, it's very nervous and dynamic on the slope, good support while carving with speed for a soft board. The reverse banana gets the board out and on top of pow in a click and puts you in freestyle mode as soon as your two feet are strapped in.
Chouing Flex
Using the best wood, ash and poplar together, we get a supple and nervous core that resists through time. Then playing with the cambers, the result was mind-blowing, you can bend them in every way and still POP like crazy.
Cyranose
To never get engulfed by powder. It's a peninsula. We redesigned the nose and tail of a "classic" board to get the buoyancy of a pure powder board without playing with the size of the sidecut. The base stays identical which is why our boards are so manœuvrable!
Karate Core
Poplar and ash core completed with strips of non woven carbon. These strips of carbon are disposed so to absorb the wasted energy from the nose, to channel it and put it into the tail. The more you accelerate the more it dynamises.
Get High Camber
Flat camber tonified by a tiny classic camber, prolonged at the extremities by two rockers. It's the perfect camber to glide in powder bringing tolerance and tenderness to the board that will forgive many a mistakes in all manœuvres on hard pack.
No Core
The NO CORE is a carbon framework married to the wood core working in the direction of the arrows. The NO CORE stabilises the soul of the board with resolution, between the bindings, offering a certain serenity at high speed and in varied terrain. The extremities of the board win in tonicity and keep their supple torsion to not exclude that feeling we are looking for.
Mixtic Camber
Banana between the feet and slight classic camber sections under foot. The size of the board, married with with the Mixtic Camber gives a perfect combo for sustained flex. Thanks to the banana between your feet you gain in freestyle manœuvres, Ollies, presses... And be afloat pow in a blink. The small classic camber sections, while keeping the smoothness and tolerance of the banana, gives back in nerve and grip for pop and carving.
Pods
One tooth biting the snow, the side edge stays smooth everywhere else for a better sliding sensation. Our vision of wavy edges gives crazy grip, all while keeping a wonderful feel of the snow.
Wide Coco Tech
WIDE COCO Technology allows us to build cores with augmented torsion. The width of a board plays on its reactive side, on the speed of getting from edge to edge. We chose to make the ASTERO in wide and extra wide, for that wide pleasure its with the WIDE COCO Tech that we give the best torsion, so that width is no disadvantage for edge to edge.
Sub Sheet
We replaced the topsheet with Ptex4000, the best material for base, now snow evacuates little by little on your way back up. It's a great help for getting those runs all day. Going down, you feel the board going through powder like a fish through water: the board avoids any grippy snow.
Secure Eyes
Simple system to lock your board in place. Becomes just like a simple board
Fonky Core
We created a carbon central spine similar to a fish skeleton to get a playful and poppy core. The board is soft in flex and torsion, while the Fonky Core balances the torsion on the whole length of the board to offer good control in carving and when strong pressure is inflicted in flat tricks or landing from jumps.
