There's a specific kind of pressure that comes with being first. When Prospa's debut album "Free Your Mind" lands on June 5, it won't just be the first full-length from Harvey Blumler and Gosha Smith — it will be the first-ever full-length album release from CircoLoco Records. That's a label born from the partnership between one of Ibiza's most storied party brands and Rockstar Games, a label that has spent years curating some of the sharpest club music around. Choosing a Leeds duo as the act to break that seal says something about where the UK dance scene sits right now.
Blumler and Smith have been building to this moment since 2013, when they started making music together as childhood friends drawing from a very specific canon: Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy. That lineage is audible in everything they do — the sense that a track should feel like an event, that the dancefloor deserves to be taken seriously. Their breakthrough came in 2018 with "Prayer," a release that also marked the revival of house imprint Stress Records after a thirteen-year hiatus. Even then, Prospa had a knack for arriving at historically significant moments.
The campaign for "Free Your Mind" has been a masterclass in building heat the right way. The title track — a jacking vocal house cut with Cloonee, built around swung percussion, sharp vocal chops, and a rolling organ riff — was released on March 27 and climbed to No. 20 on the Official Singles Chart. It's the kind of track that earns its chart position honestly, by becoming a staple of live sets before it's even officially out. The follow-up single "Baby," made with Canadian hip-hop pioneer Murda Beatz, was first teased during a back-to-back set with Josh Baker at Miami Music Week — and again at Coachella — where clips moved fast enough online that it became one of the most sought-after IDs of that period. When it finally dropped, it confirmed what the live circuit already knew: Prospa build records with crowd response as the primary design principle.
The Murda Beatz collaboration is worth pausing on, because it's the kind of move that could have gone wrong. "Baby" marks Murda Beatz's first foray into house music, and bringing a hip-hop production heavyweight into a house album risks feeling like a press release move — a "crossover moment" that satisfies a publicist and alienates everyone else. But "Baby" works because Prospa keeps the architecture house-first. The rolling bassline and stripped-back percussion do the heavy lifting; Murda Beatz's contribution is felt as a wider sensibility rather than an obvious sonic intrusion. It's a track that has the social lift of a viral ID, the club function DJs actually need, and just enough crossover curiosity to bring in listeners who wouldn't normally be paying attention to CircoLoco's catalogue.
2025 had already given the duo a strong run of form — back-to-back Beatport chart-toppers with "Don't Stop" and "Love Songs" featuring Kosmo Kint, alongside the Josh Baker and RAHH collaboration "You Don't Own Me." But an album is a different statement. The eleven-track "Free Your Mind" synthesizes the traditions of classic house with the sounds of modern global dance music — tracks that feel rooted in the warmth of '90s house without being retro, modern without chasing whatever sound is currently winning on playlists. The album arrives digitally and on vinyl, which feels right for music that has always been designed for rooms, not headphones.
The live picture adds context. Prospa made their Coachella debut in April, headlined Magazine in London, and have DC-10 Ibiza, Awakenings, and Creamfields still ahead of them on the calendar. Behind the momentum and the label milestones and the chart positions, there are two people from Leeds who have been at this for over a decade, trying to make something that lasts. The album's release next month feels less like an arrival and more like the beginning of a very long summer.
