Vienna-born Manchester producer salute drops ‘infinite passion’ mixtape via Atlantic Records, sharing lead single ‘check check’ with a Special Request remix
Vienna-born, Manchester-based producer and DJ salute has released infinite passion, a new mixtape out June 12 via Atlantic Records. The project arrives with a lead single, “check check,” alongside a remix from Special Request, and marks salute’s first major project release since their acclaimed 2024 debut album TRUE MAGIC on Ninja Tune and a milestone fabric presents entry in October 2025. It is also a direct distillation of something salute has been building in real rooms for years.
Infinite passion takes its name and its energy from the club night series of the same name that salute ran across London, New York, and San Francisco. Those events drew lineups that mapped the edges of contemporary club music, with appearances from HAAi, AceMo, Nikki Nair, Call Super, Kyle Hall, Bambounou, Effy, and ATRIP. The mixtape is designed to carry that experience into a recorded format without losing the heat that made the nights what they were. It unfolds through exclusive productions, deep cuts, and dancefloor-tested material shaped as much by the energy in the room as the artists behind it.
‘check check’ and the Special Request Remix
Lead single “check check” introduces the mixtape’s sonic approach through elastic grooves, driving low-end pressure, and hypnotic mantra-like vocals. It is a deliberate departure from the harmony-dense, emotionally layered sound that defined TRUE MAGIC. “It was an attempt at making a stripped back club tool that anyone would be able to play, a departure from my more dense, harmony heavy material,” salute explained in a statement. “I’m stoked to be releasing it as part of a series of club tunes I’ll be dropping for the rest of the year.”
Special Request’s high-octane remix of “check check” arrives alongside the original, and it is the first in a wider run of guest remixes set to emerge throughout the project. Special Request, the project of UK producer Paul Woolford, brings a harder, more accelerated edge to the original’s stripped groove, widening the sonic range of the mixtape at its very first point of entry. Woolford has spent two decades operating at the intersection of hardcore, techno, and UK dance music, and the pairing with salute’s club tool sensibility makes formal sense.
From TRUE MAGIC to the Dancefloor
The context behind infinite passion is significant. TRUE MAGIC, released in July 2024 on Ninja Tune, was a fully collaborative debut album built in a countryside house with peers including Rina Sawayama, Disclosure, Empress Of, Sam Gellaitry, piri, and Léa Sen. The record earned salute sets at Coachella, Glastonbury, and All Points East, as well as their entry into fabric’s iconic fabric presents compilation series.
Talking to Clash Magazine ahead of the infinite passion release, salute described the fabric presents project as a way of contextualising two years of writing: “I wanted to include bits of all the things that make up the salute sonic palette: loopy, sample based house music, dense and soulful chords and beautiful synths, slick and groovy drum work.”
Infinite passion operates from a different premise: less about pop crossover, more about returning to the pure dancefloor function that originally built salute’s audience. This year, that return continues live with sets booked at 909 Festival, Hï Ibiza, DC10, We Out Here, and Lost Village, alongside a series of special live shows tied to the mixtape itself. For an artist who described TRUE MAGIC as “an album to play loud and lose yourself in,” infinite passion is the next logical step: music made for the exact rooms where that instruction actually gets followed.
