Hikaru Utada's Latest Track 'Electricity - Salute Remix' Set to Drop into March 31
HIKARU UTADA'S LATEST TRACK "ELECTRICITY – SALUTE REMIX” SET TO DROP ON MARCH 31
TOKYO, JAPAN — Hikaru Utada's latest single "Electricity," featured on the 2024 best-of album SCIENCE FICTION, has become a standout in the artist's catalog. The track was performed as part of the encore at multiple shows during their 2024 tour, winning over fans and serving as a testament to Utada's ongoing creative brilliance. Since its December release, the official music video has surpassed 1.9 million views, further solidifying the track's impact. Building on this momentum, two remixes came out earlier this year — one by Karen Nyame KG on February 15 and another by Arca on February 28 — continuing to fuel excitement for the song well into 2025.
Now, the latest remix comes courtesy of salute, the Manchester-based producer making waves in the global electronic scene. Critics hailed salute's 2024 album TRUE MAGIC as one of the year's best dance albums, while his 2022 Boiler Room performance in Melbourne has already exceeded 1 million views. They've performed at world-renowned festivals, including Glastonbury, Field Day, and Coachella. In 2024, salute was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Act at the MOBO Awards, alongside Aluna, Nia Archives, PinkPantheress, Shygirl, and TSHA. With over 1.89 billion total streams across platforms and a DJ Mag cover feature in April 2024, salute is undeniably one of today's most exciting electronic artists.
The highly anticipated salute remix of “Electricity” marks the third official rework of the song and is set for digital release on March 31.
[Release Information]
Release Date: March 31
Electricity (salute remix)
Pre-order: https://cp.digle.tokyo/utadahikaru/electricity_saluteremix
[Available Now]
■ Electricity (Arca Remix)
Linkfire: https://erj.lnk.to/CwOF5S
■ Electricity (Karen Nyame KG Remix)
Linkfire: https://erj.lnk.to/Oj6fGe
■ Hikaru Utada "Electricity"
https://erj.lnk.to/dOl1bQ
About Hikaru Utada
Since their debut on 9 December 1998, Hikaru Utada has achieved numerous remarkable milestones in their career. Their debut single “Automatic/time will tell” sold over two million copies, propelling them to become one of Japan's top artists at the young age of 15. Just a few months later, their first album “First Love” shattered Japanese CD sales records that still stand unbroken today. In 2022, their eighth album “BAD MODE”, which includes collaboration songs with artists such as Skrillex, A.G. Cook, and Floating Points, garnered high praise both domestically and internationally, and was crowned as the best album of the year by the internationally renowned music media, Pitchfork. In the same year, they made their festival debut at the globally recognized Coachella Festival in California, joining celebrated label 88rising as part of their exhilarating showcase. The Netflix series “First Love,” inspired by Utada's eponymous single, achieved tremendous success in Japan and across Asia. On December 9, 2023, Utada celebrated the 25th anniversary of their major label debut in fantastical style, announcing the much-anticipated release of their inaugural greatest hits album SCIENCE FICTION, which was released in April 2024 and followed by their first tour in six years, the nationwide HIKARU UTADA SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024, which included stops in both Hong Kong and Taipei.
About salute
Growing up in Vienna to Nigerian parents, salute's musical education began with their parents playing jazz, gospel, funk and reggae at home, before their older brother played r'n'b and 90s hip hop to them as a toddler, before they began learning to play a Yamaha keyboard. In their early teens, Salute became heavily influenced by the likes of Rustie and Hudson Mohawke and began producing their own beats on Fruity Loops. “I was making drum ‘n’ bass on my family computer to start with and just got better and better at it,” they say. “Then I got influenced by people like James Blake and Mount Kimbie and I basically spent all my teenage years producing music back home in Austria.”
Their first release, ‘Silver Tides’, came in 2015 and wore its Lucky Me influence on its sleeve, with the producer showing their deft production skills in a burst of future bass tinged beats. Moving to Brighton at 18 and eventually ending up in Manchester, the UK is where salute fully embraced club culture for the first time hitting venues like Patterns and Soup Kitchen weekly. “Manchester is where I was introduced to so many types of music,” they say. “It's such an amazing city and had a huge impact on how I make music.”
Eventually releasing the ‘Condition’ Trilogy - a three-part mixtape on 37 Adventures in 2018 and 2019. The ‘Condition’ Trilogy saw the producer develop their sound further, embracing pitched up vocals and a more refined approach to his music, catching the attention of everyone from Four Tet to Mall Grab.
Signing to NINJA TUNE in 2023, they released the EP ‘Shield’ on the Technicolour imprint, winning praise from the likes of Mixmag, Forbes and Billboard, before playing a Boiler Room in Melbourne which has already received over a million views and playing high profile sets everywhere from Glastonbury to Field Day and Coachella. They were also nominated for Best Electronic/dance act at the 2024 MOBO's alongside Aluna, Nia Archives, PinkPantheress, Shygirl and TSHA and have racked up an impressive 189 million streams across all streaming platforms. salute recently graced the cover of DJ Mag, for their April 2024 issue.
salute is passionate about raising awareness of marginalized communities in dance music and is committed to only playing events that represent diverse and inclusive line-ups. They are proud to enforce this in their rider which states that the promoter must agree to book at least one or more artist who identify as being a member of an under-represented group playing on the same stage or bigger.
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TOKYO, JAPAN — Hikaru Utada's latest single "Electricity," featured on the 2024 best-of album SCIENCE FICTION, has become a standout in the artist's catalog. The track was performed as part of the encore at multiple shows during their 2024 tour, winning over fans and serving as a testament to Utada's ongoing creative brilliance. Since its December release, the official music video has surpassed 1.9 million views, further solidifying the track's impact. Building on this momentum, two remixes came out earlier this year — one by Karen Nyame KG on February 15 and another by Arca on February 28 — continuing to fuel excitement for the song well into 2025.
Now, the latest remix comes courtesy of salute, the Manchester-based producer making waves in the global electronic scene. Critics hailed salute's 2024 album TRUE MAGIC as one of the year's best dance albums, while his 2022 Boiler Room performance in Melbourne has already exceeded 1 million views. They've performed at world-renowned festivals, including Glastonbury, Field Day, and Coachella. In 2024, salute was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Act at the MOBO Awards, alongside Aluna, Nia Archives, PinkPantheress, Shygirl, and TSHA. With over 1.89 billion total streams across platforms and a DJ Mag cover feature in April 2024, salute is undeniably one of today's most exciting electronic artists.
The highly anticipated salute remix of “Electricity” marks the third official rework of the song and is set for digital release on March 31.
[Release Information]
Release Date: March 31
Electricity (salute remix)
Pre-order: https://cp.digle.tokyo/utadahikaru/electricity_saluteremix
[Available Now]
■ Electricity (Arca Remix)
Linkfire: https://erj.lnk.to/CwOF5S
■ Electricity (Karen Nyame KG Remix)
Linkfire: https://erj.lnk.to/Oj6fGe
■ Hikaru Utada "Electricity"
https://erj.lnk.to/dOl1bQ
About Hikaru Utada
Since their debut on 9 December 1998, Hikaru Utada has achieved numerous remarkable milestones in their career. Their debut single “Automatic/time will tell” sold over two million copies, propelling them to become one of Japan's top artists at the young age of 15. Just a few months later, their first album “First Love” shattered Japanese CD sales records that still stand unbroken today. In 2022, their eighth album “BAD MODE”, which includes collaboration songs with artists such as Skrillex, A.G. Cook, and Floating Points, garnered high praise both domestically and internationally, and was crowned as the best album of the year by the internationally renowned music media, Pitchfork. In the same year, they made their festival debut at the globally recognized Coachella Festival in California, joining celebrated label 88rising as part of their exhilarating showcase. The Netflix series “First Love,” inspired by Utada's eponymous single, achieved tremendous success in Japan and across Asia. On December 9, 2023, Utada celebrated the 25th anniversary of their major label debut in fantastical style, announcing the much-anticipated release of their inaugural greatest hits album SCIENCE FICTION, which was released in April 2024 and followed by their first tour in six years, the nationwide HIKARU UTADA SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024, which included stops in both Hong Kong and Taipei.
About salute
Growing up in Vienna to Nigerian parents, salute's musical education began with their parents playing jazz, gospel, funk and reggae at home, before their older brother played r'n'b and 90s hip hop to them as a toddler, before they began learning to play a Yamaha keyboard. In their early teens, Salute became heavily influenced by the likes of Rustie and Hudson Mohawke and began producing their own beats on Fruity Loops. “I was making drum ‘n’ bass on my family computer to start with and just got better and better at it,” they say. “Then I got influenced by people like James Blake and Mount Kimbie and I basically spent all my teenage years producing music back home in Austria.”
Their first release, ‘Silver Tides’, came in 2015 and wore its Lucky Me influence on its sleeve, with the producer showing their deft production skills in a burst of future bass tinged beats. Moving to Brighton at 18 and eventually ending up in Manchester, the UK is where salute fully embraced club culture for the first time hitting venues like Patterns and Soup Kitchen weekly. “Manchester is where I was introduced to so many types of music,” they say. “It's such an amazing city and had a huge impact on how I make music.”
Eventually releasing the ‘Condition’ Trilogy - a three-part mixtape on 37 Adventures in 2018 and 2019. The ‘Condition’ Trilogy saw the producer develop their sound further, embracing pitched up vocals and a more refined approach to his music, catching the attention of everyone from Four Tet to Mall Grab.
Signing to NINJA TUNE in 2023, they released the EP ‘Shield’ on the Technicolour imprint, winning praise from the likes of Mixmag, Forbes and Billboard, before playing a Boiler Room in Melbourne which has already received over a million views and playing high profile sets everywhere from Glastonbury to Field Day and Coachella. They were also nominated for Best Electronic/dance act at the 2024 MOBO's alongside Aluna, Nia Archives, PinkPantheress, Shygirl and TSHA and have racked up an impressive 189 million streams across all streaming platforms. salute recently graced the cover of DJ Mag, for their April 2024 issue.
salute is passionate about raising awareness of marginalized communities in dance music and is committed to only playing events that represent diverse and inclusive line-ups. They are proud to enforce this in their rider which states that the promoter must agree to book at least one or more artist who identify as being a member of an under-represented group playing on the same stage or bigger.
LISTEN TO HIKARU UTADA
SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | AMAZON MUSIC | YOUTUBE
CONNECT WITH HIKARU UTADA
WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | X
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