--------------- WINNER!! • BEST ELECTRONICA ALBUM / Sol-i - Leap Before You Look (JPF Independent Music Awards) NOMINATED 3x's!! • BEST ELECTRONICA SONG / Sol-i - Tingling, There You Are, Young Eyed Being (JPF Independent Music Awards) --------------- (EPITONIC.com) The staple 200 BPM percussion that pummels live audiences and rattles across coffee tables on Sol-i's debut disc Leap Before You Look is supplied by Spit Stix, ex-drummer for the L.A. punk band Fear. Spit also acts as Sol-i's producer and engineer. Vocalist Tai's already liquid vocals are augmented with layers of vocoder and effects processors, while bassist Noah, guitarist Matt, keyboardist Enrique, and "dub master" Victor weave a consistently solid tapestry of jazzy, electronic, and dubbed out melodics and harmonics. With funky roots and bass lines colliding with punk and bass drumming, the mystical tones of Tai's vocals tie the Sol-i sound into a hectic but poetic slab of organic hardcore. --------------- (exerpt from Time Out New York magazine) ... The bill is completed by the stylistic SOL-I. It includes Spit Stix, of the legendary L.A. punk band Fear, who now applies his hyperspeed drumming skills to live drum 'n ' bass rhythms behind a smooth quintet, whose female singer Tai's voice is heavily processed via vocoder and comparable effects. --------------- (exerpt from BREACH magazine) ...SOL-I is fresh, and they are truly a drum-n-bass phenomenon. Their music reflects more choppy Caribbean, African, and West Indian beats (surely influenced by Spit's time spent with the Black Pirate Posse); their music at times reflects the style, rhythm, power, and spontaneity of the toasters. They have capitalized on Noah's ability to mesh reggae/ragga basslines with d-n-b mach madness, spliced it with Enriques technical expertise, ambient chops, and midrange exploration, Tai's periodic bursts of lyrical color, Hiro's power downstrokes and Spit's super-comic book hero skillz to create a music that is almost unreal. If you heard it, you'd think it was a DJ. If you saw the video, you'd think it was looped. If you watched it, you'd become skeptical. But oh. Let me assure you, I've watched it happen before my eyes and it is oh so real, oh so sick, ad oh so drum-n-bass. --------------- To hear more MP3s from Sol-i's award-winning album, visit them at: www.sol-i.tv/docs05/mp3s.html ---------------