Download free 9 track compilation album and see Soliti artists review their highlights of 2015

Another year ends, another Soliti Zip for you to download. As has become a tradition here at Soliti, we enter the yuletide spirit with a compilation featuring some great tracks we’ve released over the last 12 months, featuring some real gems by Oceans, Puunhalaaja, LOVE SPORT, Mumrunner, Black Lizard, 23:23, Gim Kordon, Black Twig and the Cats of Transnistria.  It’s the perfect way to end our year.

Soliti Zip Vol.5 (Soliti Retro 003) Download Soliti Zip Vol.5

• 1. Oceans: Give All
• 2. Puunhalaaja: Härkä ja paimen
• 3. LOVE SPORT: Deadbeat Time
• 4. Mumrunner: Bond
• 5. Black Lizard : Everything & Nothing
• 6. 23:23:  Letters
• 7. Gim Kordon: Vieläkin ja ikävä
• 8. Black Twig: She’s Still My Friend (Redux)
• 9. Cats Of Transnistria: Violet

Big thanks to all the bands and a special thanks for the compilation artwork courtesy of Mr Kimono. You can also download/stream Soliti Zip Vol.5  from our Soundcloud page.

We’ve been going back over Soliti’s 2015 over our social medias the whole of December. Check out our Tumblr for year highlights here, our webpage feature Soliti Releases In The Frame where you can listen to all of Soliti’s 2015 releases and this special You Tube video playlist

Also, here’s a 22 track Soliti singles playlist for you to enjoy

Thanks to everyone who’s supported the label this year, be you someone who bought an album, posted a song on a blog, wrote a review, came to a show and much more besides. A big thanks in 2015 to Royal Mint Records who have shown great support to Soliti this year, Niklas and Maria for behind the scenes endeavour and all the people who have given so much time to the label in 2015. Finally, extra big thanks to all the bands on Soliti for being a part of this. xoxox

Best Of 2015

As usual, we asked Soliti artists to give us a rundown of their year. Happy Christmas and a great New Year. See you in 2016!

Teemu Tanner (LOVE SPORT)

• Institute – Catharsis (LP)
• France – Do Den Haag church (LP)
• Juho Hänninen (the man!)
• Tabu (a play by Kristian Smeds)
• Philip Ridley – Plays –  volume 1 & 2 (books)
• Brooklyn Bridge (TV-series, I fucking love you, youtube!)
• No One’s Child (a film by Vuk Ršumović)
• Folk Boyz (a band)
• Braille (tactile writing system)
• (whatever works, 2015 and beyond)

• Jukka Tulensytyttäjä (Mumrunner)

• 

• The soundtrack of my year
• Traffic Island – Johnny Had a Boyfriend
• Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin
• Majical Cloudz – Downtown
• Lower Dens – To Die in L.A.
• Lake Jons – I Come Clean
• Craft Spells – Breaking the Angle Against the Tide
• Julia Holter – Feel You
• Youth Lagoon – Rotten Human
• The Soft Moon – Far
• Rooxx – Breathe In
• Hisser – Forget
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round And Round
• Cats Of Transnistria – San Francisco
• Lasten Hautausmaa – Kiputyttö
• Neov – Aurora
• Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
• Sufjan Stevens – A Little Lost
• I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper – Keep Your Secrets
• Burning Hearts – Ticket
• Alt-J – Every Other Freckle
• Siinai – Vasikka
• Lapko – Money for Nothing
• Future Islands – Spirit
• Shamir – Call It Off
• LCMDF – Fooled
• Drake – Hotline Bling

https://play.spotify.com/user/duksu/playlist/1nFAErrLxMLiA9rTv1fapi

Astrid Swan

• Highlights of 2015 for Astrid Swan
• 1. Trip to Austin Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico
  2. Monokini 2.0 catwalk show on August 29th
  3. New friends (you know who you are)
  4. The concert by Perfume Genius at Sideways festival
  5. Reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
  6. The discovery of ghee and how easy it is to make
• 7. Listening to Diver by Joanna Newsom
• 8. Green chile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexican_cuisine)
• 9. April 2015, because it was the last month that I needed to go to the hospital every three weeks.
• 10. my first pair of Fiorentini & Baker boots

Ville Hopponen (The New Tigers/ Cats On Fire)

• Mikko Sulonen (LOVE SPORT)

• 

• BEST OF 2015:
• Parquet Courts – Monastic Living (EP)
• Kosto – s/t (EP)
• Likainen Etelä – Kirkkonummi (LP)
• Tame Impala – Currents (LP)
• Deerhunter – Fading Frontier (LP)
• Sideways (festival)
• Beck @ Flow Festival (gig)
• Steve Reich & Colin Currie Group & Avanti! @ Musiikkitalo (concert)
• Everyday Is Like Sunday (Tuesday activity)
  Fallout 4 (video game)

• Appu Jasu (The New Tigers)

• 

• Very good records 2015:
• Lau Nau – Hem. Någonstans
• Pelkkä Väliviiva – Palaa ajassa taaksepäin
• Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
• Björk – Vulnicura
• Beach House – Depression Cherry

Cats Of Transnistria

• CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA: BEST ALBUMS OF 2015
  Julia Holter: Have You In My Wilderness
• Lau Nau – Hem. Någonstans Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
• Olimpia Splendid – s/t
• Black Lizard- Solarize
• The Sandwitches – Our Toast
• Sheer Mag – II
• Jessica Pratt: On Your Own Love Again
• Mac Demarco: Another One

• “The year 2015 has been unbelievable for us cats. We played 24 shows, including Flow Festival and a great trip to St. Petersburg.
  We released our first EP in January and “Thunder Comes”-single in August .
  Sofia Okkonen and Silja-Riikka Seppälä did amazing music videos for us. We joined Stupido Booking. We were featured in Forbes, Elle Canada, Soundi, Rumba, Blue Wings and many fantastic music blogs around the world.
  Most of all we enjoyed the hell out of everything we did together and recorded our debut album, which will be out March 2016. Next year has to be quite amazing to compete with this one, but we are very excited to show you what we have been working on.”

Valtteri Virtanen (The New Tigers)

• Songs:
• Toro Y Moi: Run Baby Run
• Julia Holter: Feel You
• Swervedriver: Autodidact
• Tame Impala: Disciples
• Emmele: Golden Streets
• Ippe Nilsson: She
• Hey Chica!: Algún Día
• Onoila: Pelagia
• Gigs:
• Beck @ Flow
• X-Hevonen @ H2Ö
• Personal highlights:
• Getting my tonsils out
• Buying a Gibson Les Paul
• Visiting the Alps
• Best records i bought this year:
• Best of The Delfonics
• Best of The Bee Gees
• Best of The Raspberries

Rami Vierula (23:23/Delay Trees) 

Puunhalaaja

•   Vuoden tanssibileet: Dizzee Rascal / Sideways
•  
• Vuoden keikat:
  – Verneri Pohjola Quartet, Bullhorn -levynjulkaisu / Kansallisteatteri
  – Perfume Genius / Sideways
  – Olli Aarni / Lal Lal Lal -festivaali
• 
  Vuoden levy: Joanna Newsom – Divers
  
  Vuoden laini: “Vedän sushii, kunnes mä oon olemas” -Khid

Nick Triani (Head Chef at Soliti)

• pros
• soliti bands
• jeremy corbyn
• I am zlatan ibrahimovic (book)
• soliti winter beach party (event)
• ned rifle (film)
• carrie & lowell (album)
• helsinki
• sight & sound magazine
• radio helsinki
• cina polada: Y.D.D.M (song)
• the cutting edge: bob dylan (reissue)
• meillä on unelma
• feminism
• sunshine
• soliti promotion
• gotham (tv series)
• the jinx (documentary)
• my family
• cons
• mainstream
• the prevalent right wing media
• adele
• phil collins comeback
• mark gardner’s hat
• the west’s attitude to refugees
• the lack of music criticism (old skool)
• the soundbite
• the need for a story over content
• the finnish neo-conservative / right wing government (hopeless)
• poverty
• old skool sexism

Happy Holidays! See you in 2016!

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