The Wall Street Journal dubbed musician Salme Dahlstrom a “savvy singer” and “music licensing queen” when, like Moby before her, she managed to license every track from her 2008 album The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade to various corporations and television programs.  At the time, Dahlstrom was not only just getting noticed, she was just getting started.

“C’mon Y’All”, one of catchiest numbers on an album of catchy numbers climbed Billboard’s Dance Chart and eventually received prominent placements in major ad campaigns for CoverGirl, Suave, and Kellogg’s that ran on primetime network television for months.

Trust us, you know this song!

 

While managing what inevitably became a highly successful licensing business, Dahlstrom continues to do the work that got her there, releasing music - funky, hooky and fun; the kind of songs that you hear once and then can't get out of your head.

In 2011 Dahlstrom released "So Delicious", a funky dance floor number that made it all the way into Top 10 on the Billboard Dance Chart and featured a remix by her hero Junior Vasquez. A 3 EP/album collection titled Pop Propaganda followed featuring titles such as Lux Punk and Pop Ur Heart Out. The albums garnered great reviews from the likes of Entertainment Weekly who called Dahlstrom's music "relentlessly hooky and ridiculously accessible" and many of the songs were successfully licensed to ad campaigns (eos lip balm, Saks 5th Avenue) TV shows and movies.

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With her latest release “Dance You Funky Animals” (THH Records) Dahlstrom continues to deliver her unique brand of high energy trashy electro pop to dance floors around the world, but this time she is introducing some new sounds and leaning on a heavier dance beat mixing tribal drums and techno chords with her signature funky beats and catchy pop hooks creating a world of fun uplifting energy where all you want to do is put your helmet on and lose yourself in dance. The lead track “Shake Your Soul” featuring guest vocals by the divine Lydia Renè showcases Dahlstrom’s ability to transcend genres as she seamlessly mixes a 60’s r’n b horn section and disco guitars with the latest electro sounds. 

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-“My commitment when it comes to creating music is and has always been to have fun and stir some s**t up, start a fire and then walk right through it”, Dahlstrom says slyly. “Because after all, if you don’t have fun then what do you have?”

"I love the fact that I am self-contained; I produce, I play most of the instruments, I sing, I program, I do my own editing and mixing. It gives me the control to put down on tape (well, hard drive) exactly what is in my head. That is exciting to be me."

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