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What’s up Sorry Skaters? It’s been a solid week working to help get orders picked and ready to be packed at the Hive. It’s definitely nice to see it warming back up again. There’s your obligatory comment about the weather. As much as people make fun of the supposed mundane nature of small talk regarding weather, I think deep down it resonates with people. Unless you’re a meteorologist saying that it will snow in Raleigh, there isn’t much bullshit surrounding weather. It’s right in front of and all around you. Hell, it can even give you cancer. Anyways, I’m going with Sotatila’s eight-track EP titled Vituiks Meni for my staff pick this week. Speaking of bullshit, you won’t find any on this record. You can pull out your binoculars, you can pull out your microscopes, but you’re not going to find any bullshit here. This 7” is straight up Finish Hardcore and makes you feel like you’re at a Kaaos show in some weird basement in the early 80s. I really like the back-and-forth vocals on the third track Ei Toimi. I’m a sucker for gang vocals, if you can call them that. Sometimes you just want some no frills hardcore that makes you feel right, and this does that for me. I also want to list some other music I’ve had blasting: Nisses Notter: Knackta Notter, The Insane: Why Die!, No Security: 40 Talisterna. This stuff has been helping me get through a week of very very little sleep and as I’m completing my last day of work/school, I have a sense of relief and I’m very ready to CHILL. I’ll finish up with a quote from Macbeth about sleep. “Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, Great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”