He now promotes his own club night, Meganite (named after an early 21st-century track of his), which has run for consecutive years annually since 2004 at Privilege Ibiza.
His father ran a mason's yard called CRW, a name Mauro would later use as a pseudonym for his trance side-project.
After winning the Walky Cup competition on national TV,[citation needed] an event for the top DMC DJs in Italy, he met with Daniele Davoli, who was there to promote his Black Box single "Ride on Time", and this led Picotto towards record producing.
[5] As well as Club House, Picotto had remix and co-writing credits on many of Bortolotti's other Eurodance projects such as Cappella (best known for hits like "U Got 2 Let the Music" and "Move on Baby") and the 49ers.
[9] His remix of "On the Beach" by York also helped to propel that song into the UK top 5 in spring 2000,[10] when it was selected by the record company Manifesto to be used as the official radio edit.
On 7 May 2005, Picotto headlined the dance stage at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Sunderland, in front of thousands of people.