salute soul reply is out now, and it puts one of house music’s most restless young producers next to one of its most stubbornly independent veterans. Released on July 31, 2026, the track pairs Manchester based salute with Naples born Riva Starr, and it arrives as the second preview of infinite passion, the mixtape salute has been building toward all year.
It is a small record with a lot of context around it. Two singles in, the shape of salute’s next project is starting to show, and the choice of collaborator says as much as the music does.
What we know about salute soul reply
The single runs just under three minutes and came out on July 31 through Queens Road Music and Atlantic Records UK, under exclusive licence to Warner Music Limited. It did not arrive alone. Riva Starr also delivered a rework of the track, listed on streaming services as soul reply (Riva warehouse love mix), which pushes the original toward the rawer, more physical end of his catalogue.
That two version rollout is a deliberate move. The main mix works as a salute record, tight and vocal led in the way their singles usually are, while the warehouse love version gives DJs something with more room to breathe across a long set.
The infinite passion mixtape, explained
salute announced infinite passion in June 2026, alongside lead single check check. It is their first long form project since TRUE MAGIC, the debut album that landed in July 2024 and charted at number five on the UK Dance Albums Chart.
The name is not new. infinite passion started as salute’s own club series, a run of sold out nights in London, Manchester, New York and San Francisco, and the mixtape is essentially that room translated to record. No release date has been announced yet, which fits the format: a mixtape can keep absorbing new material until it is ready.
salute, born Felix Angyumanu Nyajo in Austria and based in Manchester since 2016, has described their own lane to Billboard as fast, soulful house music. The publishing entity behind these singles is literally called Fast and Soulful Limited, which is either a very good joke or a very clear mission statement.
Why Riva Starr makes sense on this one
Riva Starr, real name Stefano Miele, has been a fixture in house for close to two decades. He founded Snatch! Records in 2010 and has run it as a home for both new producers and established names, and most listeners outside the club world still know him for Eat Sleep Rave Repeat with Fatboy Slim in 2013.
His most recent full length was Keep Me On The Dancefloor, thirteen tracks released on Snatch! in April 2025 with guests including Chromeo, Flight Facilities and Harry Stone, and a deluxe edition followed in 2026. That record leaned disco, funk and filtered house, which is the exact territory soul reply is standing in. Pairing him with salute is not a novelty booking, it is two people working the same seam from opposite ends of a generation.
A loud year either side of the release
The single lands in the middle of an unusually busy stretch for salute. Shortly before it, they remixed Madonna’s Love Sensation for Confessions II: Afterhours, on a remix package that also featured Peggy Gou and Floorplan. In 2025 they delivered a fabric presents mix, one of the more meaningful invitations a DJ can get in the UK.
There is also the small matter of how salute books their own shows. Since 2022 they have attached an inclusion rider to live contracts, requiring that a portion of any lineup they appear on comes from an underrepresented group. If a promoter will not agree, the show does not happen.
Where infinite passion goes next
The infinite passion banner has already travelled this summer. salute played Fuji Rock in Japan, appeared at UNVRS in Ibiza and took the concept to Berlin’s ELSE, on top of UK festival dates. Later this year the series heads to Lost Village.
What is still missing is the thing everyone actually wants: a date for the mixtape itself. Two singles in, with a veteran collaborator on the second one and a remix package already attached, the campaign looks like it is accelerating rather than stalling.
The short version
salute soul reply is a three minute record doing more work than its runtime suggests. It confirms that infinite passion is aiming squarely at the club rather than the playlist, it brings in a producer with genuine house credibility to make that point, and it keeps a mixtape campaign warm while the release date stays under wraps. For anyone tracking how house keeps renewing itself, this is a useful data point.
Source: Dork. Reported from a carousel published by @housemusic.us.