Put You On | Salute

If you’ve been craving club music that feels both emotionally rich and physically unstoppable, it’s time to put you on to Salute, the Manchester-raised, Vienna-based DJ and producer reshaping modern dance floors.

Salute is part of a new wave of electronic artists bringing heart back into high-BPM music. Blending UK garage swing, house warmth, breakbeat energy, and flashes of Y2K euphoria, his sound feels nostalgic without being retro. It’s music that is built for movement and feeling. 

He started making music when he was 13, and his introduction was through playing video games like SX Tricky and FIFA Street 2. It was through games that he discovered soundtracks with various styles of electronic music such as grime and electro house. Having never heard anything like it, he was hooked immediately and became obsessed with music by artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Rustie and Hudson Mohawke. Emerging in the late 2010s, the Salute moniker was born and quickly gained attention for his vibrant, groove-driven sound that fuses club energy with melody. He has perfected the combination of punchy drums, shimmering synths, chopped vocals, and basslines that bounce to add the energy and emotion that has been missing from the dance floor.

Drawing from the full spectrum of club music, you can hear a bit of UK garage shuffle, some disco-infused French house (also called French touch), and the punch of modern bass music, all brought together in a fresh, contemporary way. It sounds just as good at 2am in a packed warehouse as it does in your headphones on spring time walk through the park.

Salute’s rise in the scene has been steady and organic, with original releases and DJ sets circulating heavily in underground and online dance communities, he’s earned support from tastemakers across Europe and beyond. Securing high-profile festival slots including appearances at events like Coachella, Lightning In A Bottle and Creamfields helped introduce his sound and mixing style to a global audience. 

Beyond DJing, Salute’s productions and collaborations have become staples in forward-thinking club sets and represent a generation of producers who grew up online. His debut album True Magic (released in 2024) reaches new heights. Made with close friends during a countryside getaway, it mixes ’80s synths with the playful aesthetic of Japanese car commercials while jumping between French touch, glitchy house, jungle, UK garage, and soulful sample flips without missing a beat.

Dance music is in a euphoric revival era, and Salute has been an advocate for artists to introduce the idea of more “inclusion riders” to their booking process. He explained in an interview with Billboard: 

“I was playing a show in Newcastle in the North of England, and I got there and every DJ on the lineup was white and male. It wouldn’t have been an issue for me if they were good DJs, but pretty much everyone sucked. They were like, really bad. Basically, the promoter had just booked his best friends to play. I was there [thinking] like, “So many of my girl mates, so many of my queer mates, so many of my Black mates would have absolutely killed this night.” But it’s just kind of how it is, where a promoter will just book his mates rather than booking a good DJ. 

I got back to my hotel and texted my agent like, “I want to make sure that I am performing among more people who look like me, and among more people who are nonbinary and trans, etc.” I found a template for an inclusion rider online, and it basically stipulates that 30% of the lineup of any stage I play on has to be from an underrepresented group, and has to be approved by me.”

Salute isn’t just making tracks for playlists and mixes, he is crafting moments for a future of more people enjoying the dance. And in a time when dance music is rediscovering joy, few artists capture that feeling as effortlessly.