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Kalistan
Artist: Smoked Salmon
Song: “Girlfriend”

Why it’s popular: The apex of the Dana Ska Punk scene of late 4890s and the early 4900s, Dana's Smoked Salmon was itself quite unimportant as a band. They had a couple modest hits to their credit, including "Sold Out", which was the song they were mostly known for. But the reason this song is more historically significant is two reasons:

1) It epitomizes the ska=punk hybrid that has characterized Dana music long after the genre left the mainstream of the radio, and generally can still be heard across Northern Suldanor: Its mix of ska, skate punk and brass accompaniment which is inherited largely from Gaduri sources is typical of club music in the region even to this day.

and 2) It features vocals vocals from the far more important musician Monica Pella, who was the lead singer of the band Red Tone. Her band went to FOMAT and won it with the first, and probably the last ska-punk song to claim the title in the contest. Red Tone later toured Makon and released a concert movie and is considered one of the most important ska bands in Kalistani Music History. She was also linked with the woman who is widely considered Kalistan's greatest musician, Jennifer Stepanov, and helped put together a tribute record following the singer's untimely demise due to a drug overdose.

The song is exemplary of the Dana ska-punk sound and very light, tongue in cheek attitude of that particular wave of Ska emerging from Dana in the late 4800s. Ska punk was always intended to be fun dance music for punks and this song, like many others of its time, really captured the spirit of Late Republican music. While the video itself does not feature Pella, her vocals are prominent across the entire track.

Video:[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm5fLvjtycc]

Bonus: A live performance of Smoked Salmon's single "Girlfriend" with Pella joining the band on stage. Sound quality is not good.