salute

About

One of the most talked about names in dance music, salute comes of age with their thrillingly effervescent and hugely anticipated debut album ‘TRUE MAGIC’ on Ninja Tune. Taking inspiration from early 2000’s French house, garage, 80’s soul, Japanese jazz fusion and classic pop production, the Manchester-based, Vienna-born producer has distilled and honed their sound into a heady concoction of technicolour dance music. Featuring an impressive roll call of collaborations with Karma Kid, Sam Gellaitry, Disclosure, Rina Sawayama, Léa Sen, LEILAH, Empress Of, Nakamura Minami and piri, ‘TRUE MAGIC’ sees salute embrace a more collaborative approach, renting a house in the countryside to work on the album with their peers. “I took a pop approach to the record,” says salute. “I went in quite blindly just with some loops and ideas but there’s much more of a focus on songwriting and collaboration on this album. In dance music there always seems to be this focus on doing everything yourself but I wanted to get a team around me to develop the ideas I had. One thing I’m really proud of is how organic the work with the collaborators is. I’ve managed to get such a breadth of amazing people on the record.” Bringing together a roll call of artists who are long-term friends and supporters of salute, Sam Knowles, aka Karma Kid was central to the album’s creation, working as executive producer on the album. “Karma Kid is one of my best friends,” says salute. “We met 10 years ago in Paris and he’s one of the only people who completely understands what this album is about. I have a million ideas in my head and he’s amazing at helping narrow them down.” Collaborating with close friends who used to DJ together and share studios in Manchester was integral to the creation of ‘TRUE MAGIC’ for salute, a full circle moment of support and long standing friendship. Taking aesthetic and auditory inspiration from old Japanese car adverts, which salute spent hours trawling through YouTube archives to

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