Salme
Long Island City, NY United States
Genres:Lounge/Exotica, Country - Alternative, Electronic - Trance, Electronic - Techno, Electronic - House/Dance/Progressive, Electronic - Experimental, Electronic - Pop, Electronic - Electro, Electronic - Drum-n-Bass/Jungle, Electronic - Breakbeat, Electronic - Big Beat, HipHop - Experimental/Alternative, Pop - Teen, Pop Rock, Pop - Electronic, Alternative Pop, Specialty - Sports, Specialty - Promo Music, Specialty - Christmas/Holiday, Rock - Pop Rock, Rock - Alternative Pop
Bio:
Her latest single "SO DELICOUS" - Top 10 on the Billboard Dance Chart (March 2011)
Crowned "The Licening Queen" by The Wall Street Journal (2009)
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Salme Dahlstrom sure knows how to make an entrance. Her album “The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade” is a “no excuses”, in-your- face pop-electronica explosion of four minute adrenaline rushes that fuse pumping break beats with catchy pop melodies - a musical collision course that vibrates through the soul, lifts the spirit and will have you cruising in the fast lane.
Like Moby did with his hugely popular album Play, Dahlstrom has managed to license every track from The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade including syncs with companies such as Suave, Vodafone, Suzuki and Juicy Couture – a feat that led the Wall Street Journal to crown her “The Licensing Queen” and point her out as the poster child for how to make it by your own rules in the music biz.
Hailed as one of the best dance albums of 2008 the record is knee deep in potential hit singles - “C’mon Y’All” spent 6 weeks on the Billboard Dance Chart and was picked by Suave and Juicy Couture as the soundtrack to their latest campaigns; “Hello California” got the royal do over by big beat bad boys Quadrat Beat and went top 12 on Beatport’s breaks chart.
Self-written and self-produced, Dahlstrom wrote and recorded the entire album in her studio in New York City. A hands-on producer,Dahlstrom does all her own programming, editing and mixing. While she invited a couple of friends to perform on a few of the tracks she played most of the instruments her self as well.
–“My idea was to write catchy pop songs with big hooks and dress them up in a cutting edge electronic production”, Dahlstrom says. “I love the bigness in sound of the break beat and I wanted my songs to have the same excitement and edge production wise. But as I am a musician and not a DJ it was important to me to create my own samples rather than search through the old record bin to find them. I would record a slew of guitar riffs, bass lines, live drums, vocals etc. - then cut them up, re-sample, filter and tweak the crap out them. I then used those samples to build the song.
With titles like “Superstar Car Crash” and “G.L.S.” (stands for God Likes Sex) the album’s sole purpose is to entertain.
-“I take music very seriously, but I try not to take myself too seriously, Dahlstrom says. I am here to have a good time. To me music is about entertainment, nothing else. “The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade” is meant to be an hour’s escape from the day-to-day. It’s got great sing-a-long choruses and fun, tongue in cheek lyrics with attitude that’ll put a smile on your face”.
Born in the countryside of Sweden, Dahlstrom began studying classical music at the age of four. She spent her teenage years writing songs and performing with local bands. Dahlstrom’s professional career began when she signed a publishing deal with EMI. She spent countless hours in the EMI studio learning the craft of producing and experimenting with different genres of music. She traveled to the US in 1999 where she soon sparked a buzz in the music scene leading the NYC underground band aboyandagirl. With Dahlstrom center stage, an aboyandagirl show delivered live music with a passion and energy that matched the best. Within a year of its creation, aboyandagirl were signed to RuffLife/Warner Records.
After going solo in 2003 Dahlstrom released an EP version of “The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade” in 2004 and another EP, “Bible Bombastik in 2006 followed by the full length album in late 2008. In 2009 Salme released "The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade" full length album.
Salme's latest single, "So Delicious"(feat. Noa Tylo) is a sultry electro-pop romp that has caught the ear of such dance music giants such as legendary DJ Junior Vasquez who insisted to do a remix if the song. In March of 2011 "So Delicious" went Top 10 on the Billboard Dance Chart.
Look for a full length album from Salme in 2011-2012.
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"Salme Dahlstrom is a charismatic force majeure who should achieve big things with The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade. It’s one of the best dance albums I've heard in 2008. It should end up on some critic's end of year top 10 list"
WILDY’S WORLD
"The album is a pure adrenaline shot of pumped up beats as vibrant as a high definition rainbow after an electrical storm. It's a hi-nrg voyage from the shores of Madonna to the temples of Fatboy Slim via the electroclash of Felix Da Housecat"
THE DEVIL’S BLOG
"This song ("So Delicious") is hot and should be filling dancefloors everywhere real soon"
-Disco Cowboy, Sweet Muzik
