salute

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salute moved to Brighton at 18 before eventually landing in Manchester, where he’s currently based. It was in the UK that he started attending club nights, getting wrapped up in what club culture really meant, on the ground, and swiftly evolving as an artist. He met a network of UK producers, started cultivating a sound. “Before I moved to the UK, my music was a lot less clubby, a lot less dancey. So yeah, going to grime, garage and dubstep nights had a huge influence on the way I produce and my sound in general.” Scrolling through salute’s back catalogue, you can hear this evolution play out in real time. His earlier material is often softer, lighter, honey-sweet vocals nestled against lilting down-tempo beats. EPs like Lionheart (2013), Gold Rush (2015) and My Heart (2016) push the vocals and melody front and centre, with the production often flitting between genres: RnB,
dubstep, dance, hip hop, even jazz and gospel.

By the time salute unleashed his CONDITION trilogy – a three-part album released throughout 2018 and 2019 – he had already began to lean a little more towards the club, although not entirely. CONDITION is a dance-focussed album, comprised of neat, chopped up electronics and emotive, garage-style samples. With its pitched vocals and colour-soaked pallette, it’s the kind of album you might listen to on the nightbus home or the morning after, unsure of whether you feel melancholic or euphoric, or somewhere in between.

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