Ready for sun, surf and sand and the soundtrack that goes along with hot summer nights? While the season may not have arrived just yet we’ve got you covered on the music side: “1-2-3-4-5”, a collaboration between electronic music artists Salme Dahlstrom and Mikey P is your quintessential summer banger with an ice cream melting “can’t get it out your head after one listen” chorus, a beach party atmosphere and lyrics about girls in bikinis (duh).
The song continues the Dahlstrom tradition of endlessly poppy and strikingly approachable music, this time with a light Latin twist:

-“I wanted to make a upbeat, summer track that incorporated old Latin swing horns and a bit of a hip-hop feel, something that would get the party started on Bradley Beach or a rooftop in L.A.”, Dahlstrom says. “I spent weeks in the studio tweaking a hoard of samples, filtering and re-sampling to get just the right sound and create those horn lines. When I had the horn hook and the beat the chorus came quickly. I instantly thought of Mike