Download The Soliti Zip Volume Two and more…

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As 2012 draws to an end, Soliti continues a tradition that we started last year with the Soliti Zip. We’ve collected together all the tracks we’ve given away as mp3′s throughout 2012 and as an exclusive bonus there is a new track from The New Tigers. In their own words, they describe new track ‘Detalji’ – “Detalji” is a result of a scientific experimentation. One time in 2011 the Tigers decided to use the old Luis Bunuel method of increasing their creativity by not sleeping at all. “Detalji” is something they came up with after 85 hours of staying up.”

So, this years bumper Soliti Zip Vol. 2 (Soliti 013) is 14 tracks long and goes like this:

1. Big Wave Riders : Waiting In The Wings
2. The New Tigers : I Have Been Replaced (Top Sound cover)
3. Astrid Swan : Cream of Gold (Serefe Sound System Remix)
4. Paperfangs : I Felt The Ocean
5. Black Twig : Paper Aeroplane
6. Big Wave Riders : Sunny Season (Aves Remix)
7. Delay Trees : HML
8. Eric & Magill : Should We All Wake Up (Paperfangs remix)
9. Paperfangs : Everyday
10. Big Wave Riders : Stuck In Reverse (Serefe Sound System Remix)
11. Black Lizard : Dead Light
12. Cats On Fire : A Few Empty Waves
13. Big Wave Riders : Sunny Season
14. The New Tigers : Detalji

To download click here, or click the direct link:

http://solitimusic.com/wp-content/uploads/solitizip/SolitiZipVolume2.zip

You can also stream/download all the tracks from the Soundcloud link below

Many thanks to all the Soliti bands on the Zip : Big Wave Riders, The New Tigers, Astrid Swan, Cats On Fire, Paperfangs, Delay Trees, Black Twig & Black Lizard. Also a big thanks to Serefe Sound System & Aves for remixes and Eric & Magill for being remixed. Big shout out for Teppo Meriläinen for designing the Soliti Zip cover and making this happen.

In case you missed it, Soliti was profiled on Prefix Mag on Monday, read and watch the feature here.

In 2013 we start with the Soliti Roadshow followed by new albums throughout the year from Paperfangs , Black Lizard, Astrid Swan, The New Tigers, hopefully Black Twig and more.

Thanks to everyone who has bought a record, written a blog, come to a gig and reviewed an album or supported Soliti by just spreading the word. You rule.

Have a great holiday and see you in 2013, we leave you with some best of lists from some of the bands and people behind Soliti.

Peace.

Assorted Best of 2012 lists

Valtteri (The New Tigers)

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Dinosaur Jr – I Bet On Sky

Lightships – Electric Cables

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes

I Was A King – You Love It Here

James Iha – Look To The Sky

Erik – Mestarin Kynästä

The Hi-Men – This Place Strawberry, Other Place Blueberry

Appu (The New Tigers)

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best album of the year: David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant

best concert: Sparks, Tavastia

possibly the best concert I almost saw: Grimes, Korjaamo

Onni (Black Lizard)

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Highlights of 2012:

- Watching the fire

- Dreaming and planning

- Suppers with girlfriend

- Cross-country skiing in Pallas fell

- Diving in crystal clear Sääksjärvi

- YLE 1 radio channel

- Beat literature

- Comics by Jyrki Nissinen
- Georgia O´Keeffe´s exhibition in Helsinki

- Jiri Trnka´s animation movie The Hand (1965) at Orion theater

- Reverb Conspiracy release festival in London

- Ty Segall and storm at Kuudes Aisti festival
- ∞- Näyt Kauas - casette album

- Black Twig

Paltsa (Black Lizard)

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Highlights of 2012:

- Trip to Estonia with Merries (+ getting to know them)

- Fuzz Club Records

- Supporting Brian Jonestown Massacre

- Dark Knight Rises

- Music and members of Black Twig

- Meeting loads of great new people

- Dead Rabbits at Reverb Conspiracy Festival, London
- Finally having TV and Playstation 3

- Breaking up with my girlfriend

- Old friends, family and some cats

Ville (Cats On Fire)

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2012 music stuff top 12:

David Byrne – How music works (book)

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes (LP)

Swans – The Seer (LP)Barry Andrewsin Disko – Kuka siellä? (LP)

John Maus – A Collection of Rarities and Unreleased Material (LP)

Molly Nilsson – History (LP)

New Tigers & Top Sound – Top Tigers Play New Sound (7”)

Grimes – Visions

(LP)Lau Nau – Valohiukkanen

(LP)Lightships – Every Blossom (Sonic Boom remix)

(song)Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Walk Like A Giant (song)

Musette – Little Elvis (song)

Mattias (Cats On Fire)

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Top Three Strange Places We’ve Visited This Year

3. Sideria (any of ‘em), Oviedo, Spain

Oviedo has a proud cider tradition. In fact, they seem to be bursting with pride over their fermented apple juice. You can fool me with just about any local curiosity, so I was excited when I heard about it. But during the night, the excitement turned into frustration. It may have been the fact that the monitoring system at the concert didn’t do its job, but when we left the venue, I was cursing the cider and the pompous little men serving it. Because that’s the thing, it can only be drunk after it has been served by a waiter. And it’s not just that. The waiter pours it from a height, which isn’t wrong in itself, of course, but he does it in an ceremonial manner, which started to annoy me after the third serving. You only got half a deciliter or so each serving, which then had to be drunk in one go. That’s not wrong in itself either, but coupled with the fact that it couldn’t be bought from the store and the argument that it somehow loses its potency when it’s transported over the mountains to Madrid or anywhere, it’s clear that this is one juicy gimmick that needs to go. Free the Oviedo apples!

2. Lynch’s Irish Pub, Jülich, Germany

This is not a strange place in itself. Everybody knows that there are Irish pubs all over the world and the one in the small town of Jülich in Westfalen is indeed what could be called a standard Irish pub. Still, it was a strange place for us to visit. We went there and played a semi-acoustic set in front of a Monday crowd made up mostly by my sister’s colleagues. She was working at the uni research facilities there and helped us set up the gig. We wanted to play there because we had a day off from the ordinary tour program. I must say I’m delighted to have come up with the idea, since everybody involved benefited from it. The bar owner sold a lot of unexpected Monday beer. We got some money – some from the hat that was passed around and some that wasn’t agreed on before, from the bar owner. I got to visit my sister. Her colleagues got some Monday entertainment. My sister may have lost out though – she had to put up with accommodating five people in the living room. We payed her with a generous quantity of left-over backstage beer, which we had transported around Germany. We had this idea – 1. Take all alcohol from backstage, it’s ours! 2. Put it in the car and drive. 3. ??? 4. Profit!. In Jülich, we abandoned this plan.

1. An 18th century house in a village near Manresa, Spain.

This was the first of the two rather chilly Catalunyan houses we slept in during our last visit to Spain. You couldn’t really decide if it was the work of a genius or of a madman. It was completely reinvented and renovated, with ultra-modern, cleverly utilized furnishing details. The owner was very kind and obviously a young, creative mastermind. I thought his spartan approach to the Toilet was a bit over-the-top, though – it had no door. You just sat there, out in the open. Jesus, I think one lock is essentially one too few. Kenneth was too friendly with the three-legged dog in the house (yes, it had one of those as well), resulting in a half-hour long attempt at copulation. From the dog, I mean.Teppo (Big Wave Riders)

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Check Teppo’s best tracks via his 2012 spotify playlist

Aki (Black Twig)

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Some of my favourite releases this year, not in any particular order,

even though Sun Kil Moon might be my #1 album of this year..

Sun Kil Moon – Among the Leaves (Caldo Verde)
King Tuff – King Tuff (Sub Pop)
Kiki Pau – Pines
Delay Trees – Doze (Soliti)
Swans – Seer (Young God)
Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)
Beachwood Sparks – Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
Talmud Beach – Talmud Beach (Helmi Levyt)
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance (Kranky)
Mac DeMarco – Rock and Roll Night Club EP (Captured Tracks)

Astrid Swan

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10. sugar in its various forms
9. rereading familiar books (like Easter Parade by Richard Yates)
8. sleep
7. Grizzly Bear (the band)
6. ordering clothes (or anything really) online
5. self-cut hair and visible root
4. 2 Days In New York (directed by Julie Delpy)
3. salad with dressing
2. lyric writing/poetry making – when there is no time to do the music
1. Pablo Augusti (my son)

Rami (Delay Trees)

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Here’s my TOP lists for 2012.

My 5 Favourite Restaurants in Helsinki and Recommended Meal:
Sushi Bar & Wine – Yaki Hotate, Caesarmaki & Sparkling Wine
Putte’s – Funghi Pizza & Newcastle Brown
Gaijin – Drunken Chicken & Brooklyn Ale
Kasvisbaari – Student Lunch & Water
Du Dii – It’s all good, extra points for the Jesus clock and Barca-scarf

Top 3 cafés:
Kaffecentralen
Good Life Coffee
Ihana Kahvila

Top 5 songs performed by lovely ladies:
Amanaemonesia – Chairlift
Brains – Lower Dens
Laura – Bat For Lashes
Lazuli – Beach House
Oblivion – Grimes

Paperfangs

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The most inspiring (non-Soliti) records of 2012:
Allah-Las – s/t
Beach House – Bloom
Burning Hearts – Extinctions
Chairlift – Something
Chromatics – Kill For Love
DIIV – Oshin
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
The Magnetic Fields – Love At the Bottom Of the Sea
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Tennis – Young & Old
The Wake – Here Comes Everybody (reissue)
Wild Nothing – Nocturne

The most inspiring (non-Soliti) cover art of 2012:
Crystal Castles – III
Daughter – The Wild Youth EP
Kishi Bashi – 151a
Purity Ring – Shrines
The Shins – Port Of Morrow
White Lung – Sorry

Triani (Head Chef Soliti)

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