Cat. No. 2768: THE ATLANTICS (AUSTRALIA) ~ POINT ZERO. ATLANTICS MUSIC A-011.

THE ATLANTICS ARE A SYDNEY BASED SURF/INSTRUMENTAL GROUP THAT SHOT TO FAME WITH THEIR SECOND RELEASE IN 1963 ON CBS RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA. THE RECORD, “BOMBORA”, HAS BECOME A SURF/INSTRUMENTAL CLASSIC AND HAS BEEN FEATURED IN MANY A SURFING BASED MOVIE OR DOCUMENTARY OVER THE YEARS. THE RECORD NOT ONLY SHOT THE GROUP TO FAME IN AUSTRALIA BUT WORLDWIDE AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN BASED RECORDINGS TO TOP CHARTS INTERNATIONALLY AND SITS ALONGSIDE “WIPEOUT” BY THE AMERICAN GROUP “THE SURFARIS” (WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED AS THE B-SIDE TO THE GROUP’S SURFING VOCAL “SURFER JOE”) AND WHICH IN ITS OWN RIGHT HAS BECOME AN INSTRUMENTAL CLASSIC. “BOMBORA” WAS LAUDED BY AMERICAN DEE-JAYS AS A SURF CLASSIC AND IT ACTUALLY REACHED THE TOP OF THE CHARTS IN SEVERAL AMERICAN STATES UNTIL THE DEE-JAYS DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS BY AN AUSTRALIAN GROUP AND PROMPTLY STOPPED PLAYING THE RECORD ON AIR. OVER THE YEARS “THE ATLANTICS” HAVE CONTINUED TO PERFORM AND RECORD AND HERE WE PRESENT THEIR 2003 RELEASE “POINT ZERO” CONTAINING 14 CLASSIC SURFING/INSTRUMENTALS WHICH CAN ONLY WARM THE COCKLES OF THE HEARTS OF SURFING ENTHUSIASTS AND SURELY IF THIS ALBUM HAD BEEN RELEASED DURING THE SURFING CRAZE OF THE ‘60s WOULD HAVE TOPPED THE CHARTS AS MANY OF THE TRACKS TRULY RANK ALONGSIDE “BOMBORA” AS CLASSICS. SENSATIONAL ******

TRACK LISTING: Point Zero / Gatecrasher / Beatbuster / Warp 5 / Chatterbox / Blond Street / Return Of The Dolphins / Transatlantic / Sandbar Blues / Fez / Urban Surf / Hawaii Five-O / Surf-A-Go-Go / After The Storm.

BONUS: A free Atlantics guitar pick with every CD purchase.

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