Behind Celvin Rotane you'll find the Cologne based DJ and producer called Mike van der Viven who's part of the German Techno/House movement since the early 90's. He started DJing in 1986 when the first Chicago-House tracks came over to Europe. He became a producer when he joined an "EBM" band in 1989, he wrote songs/lyrics for the band and supported several Live-Acts as keyboardist. A couple of years later he left the band to realise own projects with other artists.

In 1993 Mike met Ramon Zenker (Hardfloor). Ramon offered Mike to do a Remix of his first Celvin Rotane Production called "I Believe" and searched for a Record Company to release the Tracks. Some weeks later Alphabet City Records called Ramon with licensing-purposes and all agreed.
In summer 1995 "I Believe", licensed to Edel-Company, broke the German media control charts and reached position 16. Since then Celvin Rotane was part of the European dance scene. Mike had national/international DJ-bookings as "Celvin Rotane" (Italy, Spain, Hungria, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Canary Islands, Croatia...) and a lot of remix offers.

In 1997 Alphabet City and the partners from Edel Company had differences about the product treatment and Celvin changed to Orbit/Virgin Records who released the singles called "Theme From Magnum" and "Houze Muzique".

In 1999 he founded "Steel-Alley Production", in Spring 2000 he started working with DJ Sebbo, in Autumm 2001 with Niko Krist founded the label DJookee Records.