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Heavy, dark, dusty, rough as hell and at this time of the year it keeps a brutal iciness inside. A huge building with an amazing construction in the middle of a breathtaking landscape waiting for us to get conquered. April 27th 2017, it ́s snowing outside and the thermometer is telling us minus 5 degrees celsius. "Ben, put on your beanie and a proper warm parka, it ́s going to be a long day". Finally we ́ve found our lost place to turn our vision into reality. We just call it "ZEMENTWERK" The whole project started with the idea of a place, a building , a spot, anything that hasn ́t been skated yet but at the same time a location that tells a story by it ́s own. An old lost place which makes you excited like a little kid to go there, open rusty doors, discover rooms with their old inventory. Walking paths that haven ́t seen any footsteps for a long time. All on your own risk. That ́s where we wanna go, do some DIY and make it skateable. It took quite a while to get the ball rolling but teaming up with Leica Camera, SOLO Skatemag and some friends who love skateboarding as much as we do there was no reason to row back. With a few addresses on our list we set forth to find the right location for the project. Lucky us we made it first try. That ́s our venue, without any doubt. This is it! An old lost concrete factory and a lot of options to skate. We figured out a few spots to put some DIY work and fixed a date to bring the riders and staff. Let ́s get it done!  The disused massive crane shovel resting in the storage depot of the concrete factory - Credit Photo: Philipp Reinhard The depot. In there you feel the silence. Only a few shafts of sunlight shiningthrough the old broken dusty windows. Alain Goikoetxea is checking the landscape out of a  "Zementwerk" break through. Clouds are coming up and it´s getting more and more  misty. It´s end of April but here  the winter came to rest - Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Credit Photo: Philipp Reinhard Rooftop of the cement factory. We are here to skate - Credit Photo: photo: Jelle Keppens Meanwhile Tim Rebensdorf and Roman Astleitner are taking care for the final preperations at the first spot. Philipp Reinhard is catching some footage with the Leica SL. The heat is on! Eniz Fazliov with a mind blowing frontside blunt - Credit photo : Philipp Reinhard Alain Goikoetxea , frontside air - Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Mr Christian Vankelst, Skate Team Manager Europe, is taking care for the team providing drinks, food and playing some good old Elvis Presley songs on the classic road guitar Beers and beers - Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Photo: Jelle Keppens Ben Ramers is going for a backside crail without thought for the black  deep hollow which is waiting behind the pylon - Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Tim Rebensdorf is bringing the good vibes  with some easy chords. Always fun to be on the road with this young gun. Here with a blunt to fakie at the "you win, you lose" transition - Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Different spot same story, best not bail to the right side of the ledge... Daan Van Der Linden knows how to make a backside overcrooks look easy - Credit Photo : Jelle Keppens "I´m here to skate! Let´s get this fucking thing grinded!" Eniz Fazliov is a machine, skating all day long until work is done. Here with a crooked grind on a rough and brittle window sill Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens Alex Schultz, another member of the German family team we had on board for this project. Here with a backside boneless , framing the picture - Credit Photo: Jelle Keppens "Chris, what the hell are you doing with those working gloves on? Are you afraid of the dusty floor? "Wrong!" Chris has found a perfect gap to skate à la Pfannski style, the only problem  is  the handrail has a barrier. "Fuck it, cut it off!" Within 5 minutes he has seen this gap he was standing next to it, wearing gloves and safety glasses  ready to cut the handrail with the angle grinder which he has lent from a mechanic who was working near the factory. With the handrails gone, now bring the broom to clean the inrun and the landing. Let´s skate! What a spot, what a perspective. Chris Pfanner with a massive kickflip over "the gap". Well, you know, business before pleasure. Chris Pfanner always connected and a helping hand to keep the kids under control. Credit Photo: PHilipp Reinhard Philipp Reinhard, shooting and filming with the Leica SL - Credit Photo : Florian Günther Jelle Keppens, tired and exhausted after a long shooting day - Credit Photo: Philipp Reinhard After a long planning phase and two days of hard work out in that cold and rough terrain we finally felt confident with all the footage we had collected. All photos on this article are shot with the Leica SL. A special thank you goes to Leica Camera who supported the project since the first day and provided us with two fully Leica SL systems for the shooting. To our friends and helpers Roman Astleitner, Ralf Edlinger and Ingo Schulz, those guys were on site and set up the DIY spots before the filming days. To our riders who really nailed it and went crazy on some gnarly spots. To SOLO Skatemag and Stefan Schwinghammer for his behind the scenes shooting. And of course to our champs  behind the cameras: Mr Jelle Keppens, our gentle gaint and Volcom Skate photographer since for ever. Mr Phlipp Reinhard, a good friend of the brand since years,  photographer for Leica Camera and  a person with an awesome  sense of humour and a guarantee for good times. Without all you guys this project would still be just an idea in some peoples mind. Go and check out the soloskatemag.com for the behind the scenes article and the "ZEMENTWERK" release in their latest print issue.  True To This

Burger Records x Volcom present Cyber Singles Club, features music from the newest breed of Burger Records stars in the making, recorded exclusively at Volcom Studio, and will be released for free download & streaming every Monday for 20 weeks beginning April 17th. Week 15: Easy Love - "The Echo"   Grab the free download Justine Brown was already known as the great drummer and vocalist in her sister Chelsea's band, Summer Twins, when she formed Easy Love. "I started Easy Love about two years ago when I started writing my own songs," says Justine. "Now I have a live band and I recorded an album and released it with Burger." Justine played all the instruments on Easy Love's self-titled debut album that was released in February. Justine's relationship with Burger Records goes back practically to the beginning. "We used to play with Sean and Lee's band, Thee Makeout Party," explains Justine. "It was before they had the record store, so a long time ago." The Burger Records store opened in October 2009. Burger co-founder Lee Rikard remembers, "Justine is one of my favorite people. We've known her since her teenage days in the Riverside girl garage band The Scandells! We've also been in love with the Summer Twins since their inception and have released their amazing catalog on LP, CD, 7" vinyl and cassette." Since the early days, Justine has found her place in the Burger universe and has travelled along on tours like the Burger Caravan, playing shows that featured eclectic lineups. "That's what I like about Burger, the variety of music… people from all over," she says. "We had to pay our dues and work our way up and it eventually lead to playing the Burgerama stage… which was, like, hundreds of people. It was kind of scary." Lee adds, "Justine is always creating, constantly evolving, growling ever so lovely." Easy Love is admittedly a little less rambunctious than some of their Burger label mates. "We definitely have a different kind of style," says Justine. "I feel like we're not as super punk and, like, crazy… as people and as musicians… a little bit more mellow, but we definitely can rock out!" Catch up on previous week's releases: Week 1: The Side Eyes "Cat Call" Week 2: The High Curbs "Empty Bottles" Week 3: VAJJ "Honey Pie" Week 4: Wyatt Blair "Pop Your Heart Out" Week 5: The Flytraps "Female of the Species" Week 6: Hammered Satin "Upward Spiral" Week 7: Death Valley Girls "Born Again and Again" Week 8: Vision "Light" Week 9: Meow Twins "Ratchet Witch" Week 10: White Night "Dirty Water" Week 11: Cowgirl Clue "Utopia" Week 12: Flying Hair "Tantrum" Week 13: Dabble "Free Time" Week 14: Distractor "Six Foot Moon"

Arthur Longo and Olivier Gittler were hosting the second edition of The Muzelle Festival last weekend in Les 2 Alpes. It started with an amazing morning session on Saturday with all the friends on the glacier and then followed with a Berlin "kind of" festival down in the station village during the afternoon. Oli and Arthur have worked their asses off to offer everyone such a fun park to ride as the conditions are pretty tricky! A fast and quick tranny snake with some pretty decent hips in the middle of the run, the perfect ingredients for a family shred. After two hours of snow surfing, it got too sharky so we went down to the resort to check the festival out. Anne (Arthur’s GF) prepared with her Berlin Freunde and the 2 Alpes crew a lovely zone including a flea market, a pétanque tournament, a bar, an Indian food restaurant, a lamb roast and a lot more.. The music line up consisted on DJ Fred Marchadier, Leopard Ale, YGGL, Pat Burgener’s Band and Dirty Deep. A couple beers after the party ended in the Avalanche club (as always)… Check out the full report of the event on Fluofun : http://www.fluofun.fr/news/20579-muzelle-festival-reportage-et-port.html Photos by @Annkristin_z Video by @muzellefestival Thanks to everyone involved ! WATCH THE VIDEO WATCH THE VIDEO True love between these two organisators Olive and Arthur. Muzelle's Line up lightbox, home made by Arthur's dad Pat Burgener and his band Some DIY Volcom teesh with Arthur's art which represent the montain called Muzelle YGGL a one man band with the homie Yrwann aka Golden MUZELLE FESTIVAL COLOUR 14   Dirty Deep and friends cruising around the fire Muzelle staff, Ich bin a Berliner ! You guys rule, thank you so much <3