What is 'infinite passion'?
It is a mixtape, and it is the sound of a party salute has spent the last while building in real rooms. The Manchester producer named it after his 'Infinite Passion' club series, the one with the DJ booth hidden from the crowd and phones left in pockets, and the record is meant to carry that feeling onto wax. He frames it as an extension of the nights themselves, a project shaped by the DJs, producers and friends orbiting it. The events have pulled in HAAi, Call Super, AceMo, Effy and Bambounou, so the company is serious.
This is his first long-form move since the 2024 debut album 'TRUE MAGIC', and the framing as a mixtape rather than an album is doing real work: looser, club-first, a set of tools rather than a statement record. More tracks and a wider run of remixes are promised later in the year. It lands through Ninja Tune.
Why lead with 'check check'?
Because it is the thesis. "'check check' is a track I've been playing out since last summer," salute said. "It was an attempt at making a stripped-back club tool that anyone would be able to play, and a departure from my more dense, harmony-heavy material." That last line matters. salute made his name on busy, melodic, garage-leaning productions, and 'check check' is him deliberately stripping the paint off, building something any DJ can slot into a set without it demanding the spotlight.
A hidden booth, no phones, and a single built to be played by anyone. salute is making a case for the club as a room, not a content backdrop.
The no-phones, hidden-booth setup is not a gimmick either. It is a quiet argument about what a dancefloor is for, made by an artist big enough now to be filmed constantly, choosing instead to make the room disappear the camera.
