Prospa Free Your Mind: The 13-Year Rise Behind CircoLoco's First Album Artist

Prospa are the Leeds duo Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi "Gosha" Smith, and their debut album Free Your Mind came out on 5 June 2026 on CircoLoco Records, the label's first full-length album, reaching #24 on the UK Official Albums Chart while its title track with Cloonee peaked at #6 on the Official Singles Chart. Their next UK dates are two sold-out You&Me nights with Josh Baker at Depot Mayfield, Manchester, on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October 2026, and a b3b headline with Josh Baker and KETTAMA at Embrace LDN, a new Finsbury Park festival on Saturday 3 July 2027, with presale from 10am on Tuesday 29 September 2026 and general sale from 10am on Wednesday 30 September. For the duo behind "Prayer," "Ecstasy (Over & Over)," "This Rhythm," "Don't Stop" and the title track, with further guest turns from KETTAMA, Kosmo Kint, Nafe Smallz and Murda Beatz across the 11 tracks, the record closes a 13-year arc from teenage Leeds production sessions to global festival routing, Parklife's Valley main stage, and one of dance music's most recognisable club brands turning their album into the imprint's first long-form statement.

The album landed inside a busy 2026 album-cycle tour that, as listed in April 2026, took in KOKO London (13 March 2026), a Coachella debut, the CircoLoco DC-10 Ibiza opening party (27 April 2026), Higher Love Malta, EDC Las Vegas, the Parklife main stage (20 June 2026), Sónar Barcelona, Awakenings Netherlands, Creamfields and Experts Only New York. This is MNEEMO's editorial analysis, first written before the release and updated in September 2026, on why Free Your Mind is the cleanest 13-year arc in current UK rave revival.

Fact-check note: This article distinguishes between confirmed facts, reported press details, and editorial interpretation. Tour routing and set times below are as listed in April 2026, before the album came out. Streaming numbers are April 2026 figures and shift daily. Chart peaks are from the Official Charts Company as of September 2026.

Prospa: quick facts

• Members: Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi "Gosha" Smith
• Origin: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
• Born: 1997 or 1998 (Mixmag gave both as 19 in July 2017 and 21 in May 2019; no exact birth dates published)
• Current base: reported as London in 2021 press; their Bandcamp still lists Leeds, UK
• Project formation: 2013
• Genre: UK rave revival, breakbeat, big-room electronic, classic '90s house
• Stated influences: The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk
• Spotify monthly listeners: Approximately 5.1 million (April 2026)
• Total Spotify streams: Over 247 million across catalogue
• Beatport ranking 2025: 5th best-selling tech house act
• Current label: CircoLoco Records (Free Your Mind, 2026)
• Own imprint: Rave Science (founded 2021, distributed via Polydor / Universal Music)
• Debut album: Free Your Mind, 5 June 2026, CircoLoco Records, 11 tracks, 2x12" vinyl and cassette; #24 on the UK Official Albums Chart
• Title track: "Free Your Mind" (with Cloonee), released 27 March 2026, peaked #6 UK Official Singles Chart, #13 Official Singles Sales Chart
• Parklife 2026: Saturday 20 June, The Valley main stage, provisional 14:00 to 15:30 set time
• Next UK dates: You&Me at The Warehouse Project, Depot Mayfield, Manchester, Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October 2026 (both sold out); Embrace LDN, Finsbury Park, Saturday 3 July 2027 (b3b with Josh Baker and KETTAMA)
• Notable past UK shows: Parklife 2019, Parklife 2025 (Matinée), KOKO London (March 2026), TESTBED Leeds (PROPHECY production, December 2025)
• First major hit: "Prayer" (Stress Records, October 2018), Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record in the World
• Stress Records revival: "Prayer" reopened a 13-year-dormant heritage UK dance label

The thesis: a 13-year arc finally finishes its sentence

Prospa is not a 2026 breakthrough. Prospa is a 2013 project that finally arrives at its album moment in 2026.

That distance between formation and debut LP is the actual story. Most modern UK dance acts release a debut album within two to four years of breakthrough, sometimes sooner. Prospa formed as a duo in 2013, spent two years making deep house they later called "out of love" with, pivoted around 2017-2018 into breakbeat-leaning rave, broke through in October 2018 with "Prayer" reviving the 13-year-dormant Stress Records label, signed and built their own Rave Science imprint inside Polydor by February 2021, and only in 2026 stepped into their first full-length record. Free Your Mind is the album that closes a thirteen-year gap between two friends who met as kids in Leeds and CircoLoco Records putting them on its first ever LP.

The patience is also the proof. UK rave revival is currently the most over-served sub-genre in British electronic press. Bicep have a multi-album catalogue. Overmono have Good Lies (2023). Disclosure have a multi-album catalogue. Fred again.. has the Actual Life trilogy. Prospa have built streaming and festival scale without leaning on the debut-album format until now. That is unusual, and in 2026 it pays out.

What this article is not claiming

This article is not claiming Prospa invented UK rave revival, or that they sit above Bicep, Overmono or Disclosure in cultural authority. It is not claiming they are the only UK rave act worth covering in 2026. The narrower defensible claim is that Free Your Mind arrives at the precise structural moment when their thirteen-year build finally matches the infrastructure around them, major-label distribution via Polydor, festival main-stage capacity via Parklife, global festival routing, and a first-ever album release for CircoLoco Records, the label the Italian-founded Ibiza party brand CircoLoco runs with American video game publisher Rockstar Games. The album is significant because the arc behind it is significant.

Who is Prospa? The names, the origin, the meeting

Prospa is Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi "Gosha" Smith, both from Leeds and born in 1997 or 1998 (Mixmag's May 2019 feature gave both as 21). They met as children, when Smith played guitar and Blumler played drums. "Leeds is quite a small place, so when you're into that kind of thing you run into each other," Smith told Mixmag. Smith did not like dance music until a trip to Leeds Festival changed his mind, and the pair started producing together as Prospa in 2013.

Their pre-Prospa musical backgrounds are deeply contrasting and provide the structural explanation for their sound. Blumler's father "was in a band." Blumler played drums until he was about 13, then started producing on a computer, making heavy, dubstep-inspired material during the genre's mid-2000s explosion. Smith's mother played classical music in the car and wanted him to learn an instrument, so he trained on classical guitar, then switched to rock as a teenager, complete with a mohawk while Blumler had hair "down to my arse", in Blumler's words, and moved through metal guitar to jazz to jazz-infused hip-hop production. Smith told Mixmag he did not like dance music until Leeds Festival changed his mind.

That contrast between Blumler's rhythmic, percussion-first approach and Smith's harmonic, classically-grounded melodic approach is exactly what Prospa sounds like in 2026: aggressive, sidechained breakbeat percussion underneath sweeping melodic synth progressions and chopped soul vocals. The duality of the music is literally the duality of the duo's upbringing.

How old is Prospa? The age question

Mixmag's July 2017 coverage described both members as 19-year-old Leeds producers, and its May 2019 feature described them as 21. Those dates place their birth years in 1997 or 1998, so Harvey and Gosha are 28 or 29 in September 2026. No exact birth dates have been published. They were about 15 when Prospa formed in 2013 and 20 or 21 when "Prayer" broke through in October 2018. They have spent close to half their lives running this project: a timeline that is rare in current dance music, where most successful electronic acts release albums within four to six years of formation.

Where are Prospa from? The Leeds-via-London structure

Prospa are Leeds-born. Both Harvey and Gosha grew up in West Yorkshire, met through the local band scene, and built their early production work inside the Leeds independent music infrastructure. By 2021, some press reports placed them as London-based. As of 2026 the Leeds origin is still emphasised in official Parklife artist copy, Crack Magazine coverage and their own Bandcamp page, which lists Leeds, UK, while the operational base is reportedly London. The cleanest framing in 2026 is that Prospa are a Leeds-rooted duo with a London studio infrastructure, Northern UK rave heritage, capital city access.

"Prayer" and the Stress Records revival: October 2018

"Prayer" is the foundation of Prospa as a public name.

Released on Stress Records in October 2018 alongside "Information", the track was made Annie Mac's Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1, a sequence that turned an underground Leeds duo into a national radio breakout. It later reached #92 on the Official Singles Sales Chart and #18 on the Official Physical Singles Chart in 2019. The detail that elevates the moment is that Stress Records itself had been dormant for thirteen years before Prospa's release. Stress was a heritage British house and progressive label in its 90s and 2000s prime; its reactivation around "Prayer" turned Prospa's breakthrough into a heritage label revival simultaneously. Two stories were told at once: a duo arrived, and a label came back. That dual function is what made "Prayer" structurally different from any other UK dance breakthrough single of the late 2010s.

Prospa themselves framed the moment plainly. In Mixmag's May 2019 profile, Harvey said of the Stress signing: "We were absolutely gassed." Of the Hottest Record, Gosha said: "That was such a moment, we just didn't think it would happen!"

The Polydor era: "Ecstasy" and Rave Science

Prospa's second-stage move came inside the global lockdown.

"Ecstasy (Over & Over)" was released in 2020 via Polydor Records, a major label deal, and had passed 28 million Spotify streams by April 2026 (Kworb). It peaked at #77 on the UK Official Singles Chart and #33 on the Official Singles Sales Chart, their first Official Singles Chart entry. The track functioned as a pandemic-era escape anthem, released into a market with no clubs and no festivals, and became their biggest pre-album commercial moment.

In February 2021, Prospa formalised their own imprint Rave Science, with Rave Science Vol. 1 EP released on 26 February 2021 (Discogs confirms phonographic copyright held by Prospa, licensed to Universal Music Operations Limited via Polydor Records). Rave Science gave them an indie-feeling label identity inside major-label distribution: exactly the kind of "inside-on-major" structure modern dance acts increasingly build to balance creative autonomy with global reach. Rave Science Vol. 2 and a steady run of singles through 2022, 2023 and 2024 followed.

The CircoLoco era: "This Rhythm" through "Free Your Mind"

The current chapter began on 8 November 2024, when Prospa released "This Rhythm" featuring vocalist RAHH on CircoLoco Records. From then on, the duo's singles came out on CircoLoco, building toward the 5 June 2026 album.

The 2024 to 2026 CircoLoco singles run, in order:

• "This Rhythm" feat. RAHH: 8 November 2024. About 66.5 million Spotify streams by late April 2026 (Kworb), their highest-streaming track at the time.
• "Don't Stop": 11 April 2025. A Beatport #1 that held the spot for weeks (Beatportal), and #36 on the Official Singles Sales Chart. About 29.6 million Spotify streams by April 2026.
• "You Don't Own Me" feat. Josh Baker and RAHH: 20 June 2025. Charted #94 UK Official Singles Chart and #21 Official Singles Sales Chart. The collaboration with Manchester producer Josh Baker bridges the Leeds and Manchester ends of the current Northern UK club music wave.
• "Love Songs" feat. Kosmo Kint: 3 October 2025. A second Beatport #1 of 2025 (Beatportal). Charted at #29 on the UK Official Singles Sales Chart.
• "Free Your Mind" with Cloonee: 27 March 2026. Title track and first album preview. Peaked at #6 on the UK Official Singles Chart and #13 on the Official Singles Sales Chart, their first UK Top 10 single, with 26 weeks on the chart.
• "Baby" with Murda Beatz: 8 May 2026. Peaked at #52 on the UK Official Singles Chart.

The aggregate result of that run, per Beatportal's reporting, was that Prospa ranked as Beatport's fifth best-selling tech house act of 2025. They were not arriving at the 2026 album as a new act. They were arriving as one of the genre's most commercially active artists.

Free Your Mind: the album that took 13 years

Free Your Mind was released on 5 June 2026 via CircoLoco Records. It entered the UK Official Albums Chart in June 2026 and peaked at #24.

The album is CircoLoco Records' first ever full-length release. CircoLoco itself is a heritage Italian-Ibizan club brand built around DC-10's parties on the island since 1999, run as a label imprint in joint venture with American video game publisher Rockstar Games. Prior CircoLoco Records output has been built around compilations, EPs and singles. Free Your Mind is the institutional first studio album for the imprint. That detail is industry-significant: a Leeds duo are delivering the first long-form release of one of dance music's most prestigious global brands.

The title track features Cloonee, the British tech house producer behind Hellbent. It was released on 27 March 2026 as the first preview of the album, with a tightly sequenced groove built around swung percussion, an analog-modeled bassline and a soul-inflected vocal hook.

Total tracks: 11. The tracklist runs: "Intro", "Love Songs" (feat. Kosmo Kint), "The Situation", "Free Your Mind" (with Cloonee), "Break Free" (with KETTAMA), "Body Heat" (feat. Kosmo Kint), "Masterplan", "Let The Music", "Party People" (with Nafe Smallz), "Baby" (with Murda Beatz) and "Dreams". "Don't Stop", "This Rhythm" and "You Don't Own Me" are not on it. Bandcamp sells the album as a 2x12" vinyl and on cassette. Mixing engineer Nathan Boddy is credited with mixing the LP, and Dave Bissett, Sam Mack and Victor Simonelli are credited as co-writers on the title track.

Crack Magazine's April 2026 album announcement coverage described Free Your Mind as fusing "contemporary reinterpretations of classic house with hints of global dance, delivering high-octane dance floor anthems while also embracing moments of introspection." CircoLoco's own marketing copy frames it as "a sleek collection of club-ready future classics" combining classic house traditions with modern global dance.

Prospa announced the album on Instagram on 27 March 2026, the same day the title track came out.

CircoLoco and Rockstar Games: the label inside the game studio

The institutional context behind Free Your Mind is worth its own paragraph.

CircoLoco Records is the label spin-off of CircoLoco, the Italian-founded club brand that has run weekly Monday parties at DC-10 Ibiza since 1999. CircoLoco's club identity sits at the heart of Ibiza's underground house and tech-house infrastructure. The label imprint is structured as a joint venture between CircoLoco and Rockstar Games, the American video game publisher behind Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne. Rockstar's interest in music as cultural infrastructure runs deep: GTA V's in-game radio stations are widely cited as one of the most curated music platforms in any video game ever made, and the CircoLoco partnership is one of the highest-profile examples of a major game studio operating directly inside dance music as a label, not just a soundtrack licensee.

That structural backdrop matters for Free Your Mind because Prospa, a Leeds rave duo, are now the album-cycle artist for a label that exists at the intersection of Italian-Ibizan club heritage and American gaming industry capital. The reach implications are obvious: any Rockstar Games platform integration around the release puts Prospa in front of an audience that doesn't usually overlap with traditional dance music press. CircoLoco-Rockstar's broader 2024-2026 release roster, singles and EPs from a roster of CircoLoco-affiliated producers, sets up Free Your Mind as the headline LP statement of that infrastructure. It is the album the label was building toward.

This is also why Free Your Mind connects to a wider story MNEEMO has been tracking. CircoLoco / Rockstar Games as a label is one of multiple major media-and-tech corporations entering UK dance music infrastructure in the 2024-2026 cycle, alongside Pepsi MAX's title sponsorship of Parklife 2026 amid the Wireless Festival collapse. Brand and platform capital is moving toward dance music infrastructure faster than at any point since the EDM boom. Prospa's debut album is one of the clearest products of that movement.

Prospa Parklife 2026: from absent to The Valley main stage

For Parklife 2026, Prospa were billed for Saturday 20 June, The Valley main stage. Before the festival, a provisional set time of 14:00 to 15:30 was published on Clashfinder and in themanc.com Parklife stage splits coverage, with running orders flagged as subject to confirmation.

The Valley is Parklife's main stage. The Saturday booking placed Prospa on the same stage that closed with Sammy Virji (provisionally 21:30 to 22:45) and included Skepta, Nia Archives, 4am Kru and Josh Baker across the day. Their afternoon slot came before the festival's UK garage and grime crossover programming on the day's centrepiece stage.

Their Parklife history is documented and shows clear escalation:

• Parklife 2019: Mixmag's May 2019 feature ended with "Prospa play Parklife on June 9," confirming an early career appearance.
• Parklife 2024: Not on the lineup.
• Parklife 2025: Sunday 15 June, Matinée stage (reportedly 17:00 to 18:30 per Clashfinder provisional). Late afternoon slot on a respected secondary tent.
• Parklife 2026: Saturday 20 June, The Valley main stage, with a provisional 14:00 to 15:30 set time. Promotion to a main stage afternoon, two weeks after the album release.

The 2025 Matinée tent → 2026 The Valley main stage jump in twelve months is the cleanest single-festival escalation marker available for the duo. Sammy Virji's similar Parklife arc, 2024 The Valley afternoon b2b → 2026 Saturday Valley closer, is the only comparable trajectory on the festival's recent record. Both stories are summarised in MNEEMO's Parklife 2026 lineup analysis.

2026 international touring: Coachella, KOKO, Ibiza, EDC

Prospa's 2026 tour routing was the most ambitious of their career and aligned directly with the album cycle. Dates as listed at the time of writing in April 2026, pulled from Coachella's official set times, Resident Advisor, Songkick, Apple Music venue listings and CircoLoco / Rockstar announcements:

• 13 March 2026: KOKO London, listed as sold out (Prophecy after-party)
• March 2026: Miami Music Week, Prospa b2b Josh Baker (filmed for Raw Cuts)
• 11 April 2026: Coachella Weekend 1 Do LaB, surprise closing b2b with Josh Baker
• 12 April 2026: Coachella Weekend 1 Yuma stage main set
• 16 April 2026: Day Zero campground party, KETTAMA + Prospa + Josh Baker b3b
• 18 April 2026: Coachella Weekend 2 Yuma stage, 7:15pm to 8:30pm slot (between KETTAMA at 6:00pm to 7:15pm and Max Dean x Luke Dean at 8:30pm to 9:45pm, with Gordo closing at 11:15pm)
• 27 April 2026: DC-10 Ibiza, CircoLoco Opening Party (alongside Seth Troxler, Dixon, Palms Trax)
• 29 April 2026: Higher Love Festival, Malta
• 9 May 2026: CircoLoco Warsaw, Poland
• 15 May 2026: EDC Las Vegas, Las Vegas Motor Speedway
• 20 June 2026: Parklife, Heaton Park, Manchester
• June 2026: Sónar Week Barcelona (You & Me presents)
• July 2026: Awakenings Summer Festival, Netherlands
• Summer 2026: Frequency Festival Mallorca, Piknic Électronik Montréal, Experts Only New York, Creamfields

The Coachella Yuma Stage 2026 placement is editorially significant. Prospa shared the Yuma timeline with KETTAMA, Max Dean and Luke Dean, Rossi. x Chloé Caillet, Max Styler, and Gordo as closer: exactly the cluster of acts driving the current festival house-tech-rave wave. Their slot directly after KETTAMA is the key detail: the two acts have played b2b sets together since 2025, and the Yuma stage routing placed them back-to-back chronologically even when not officially billed as a b2b.

Plus a December 2025 hometown anchor: their PROPHECY production at TESTBED Leeds on 6 December 2025, a warehouse show that operated as a victory lap before the album campaign began.

The KETTAMA b2b: Coachella afterparties and the most-hugged DJ partnership in 2026

The KETTAMA b2b Prospa partnership is one of the most consistent peer relationships in current UK electronic music, and the Coachella 2026 routing made it impossible to miss. Across the festival's two weekends, the trio of Prospa, KETTAMA and Josh Baker delivered a near-continuous run of joint sets: Prospa b2b Josh Baker as a surprise Do LaB closer on 11 April (Weekend 1), KETTAMA + Prospa + Josh Baker b3b at the Day Zero campground party on 16 April (Weekend 2 opener), Prospa and KETTAMA back-to-back chronologically on the Yuma stage main lineup on 18 April (KETTAMA 6:00-7:15pm into Prospa 7:15-8:30pm), and KETTAMA b2b Prospa at the Disclosure DJ set afterparty across the Coachella weekend.

What anyone who has watched the Coachella afterparty footage will have noticed is the camaraderie between KETTAMA and Prospa specifically. It is a small detail, but it speaks to the structural point. The KETTAMA, Prospa, Josh Baker triangle is not a curatorial booking pattern. It is a creative friendship between producers from the west of Ireland, Leeds and Manchester, who choose each other on stage when they have the option. KETTAMA's 2026 international tour, as announced in April 2026, included b2b sets with Prospa across Berlin, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Brooklyn dates, alongside Interplanetary Criminal and KETTBOI69. On 25 September 2026 the trio were announced as the first headliners of Embrace LDN, a new festival in Finsbury Park on Saturday 3 July 2027, playing Josh Baker b2b KETTAMA b2b Prospa in what the Official Charts Company called their biggest outdoor headline show to date.

That partnership matters for the Free Your Mind album cycle because Prospa's 2026 live economy is not a solo project. The CircoLoco / Rockstar Games institutional infrastructure puts them on first-album status, but the live and afters routing keeps them embedded inside the same UK / Irish peer cluster they came up with. It is the architecture difference between an act being launched into the headline tier (Bicep, Disclosure) and an act being promoted into it from inside an existing cluster. Prospa are the latter.

Streaming reality: 5 million monthly listeners, 247 million streams

Prospa's commercial scale is no longer underground. As of April 2026, their Spotify monthly listener count sat at approximately 5.1 million, with cumulative Spotify plays estimated by Kworb's third-party tracker at over 247 million.

Top tracks by Spotify stream count (Kworb tracking, late April 2026):

• "This Rhythm" feat. RAHH, approximately 66.5M streams
• "Don't Stop", approximately 29.6M streams
• "Ecstasy (Over & Over)", approximately 28.8M streams
• "Prayer - Edit", approximately 20.1M streams
• "You Don't Own Me" feat. RAHH, approximately 17.5M streams
• "Love Songs" feat. Kosmo Kint, approximately 15.4M streams
• "Free Your Mind", approximately 7.8M streams (a month after its March 2026 release)

UK Singles Chart history (Official Charts Company, September 2026): "Ecstasy (Over & Over)" peaked at #77, "You Don't Own Me" at #94, "Free Your Mind" at #6, "Baby" at #52 and "Dreams" at #84. UK Official Singles Sales Chart peaks: "Free Your Mind" at #13, "Love Songs" at #29, "Ecstasy" at #33, "Don't Stop" at #36. The album Free Your Mind peaked at #24 on the Official Albums Chart. Beatport: 2025's fifth best-selling tech house act, with two Beatport #1s in 2025 ("Don't Stop," "Love Songs"). BBC Radio 1 support began with Annie Mac's Hottest Record in 2018.

Sound profile: rave memory built for festival systems

Prospa's sound sits between rave nostalgia and big-room functional dancefloor pressure. They are less cerebral and IDM-leaning than Bicep, less swung-2-step than Overmono, less pop-song structured than Disclosure, and less confessional than Fred again.. Their core technical approach: aggressive sidechain compression as a rhythmic instrument rather than just a mix utility, swung-but-driving four-to-the-floor percussion typically in the 127-130 BPM range, vintage-emulating Roland TR-909 / TB-303 synthesiser sounds, and large soul / R&B vocal performances from collaborators like RAHH and Kosmo Kint sitting on top of the percussion bed rather than being chopped into micro-samples.

The "rock star ambition" framing they have given the press themselves is technically accurate: "We've always wanted to be rock stars," Blumler told Mixmag in 2019. Their stated influences are stadium-scale UK and US dance acts (The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk) rather than Berlin minimal techno or LA tech-house. The music is engineered for festival main-stage line-arrays, not boutique club rooms. Free Your Mind is the album-form articulation of that ambition.

A primary-source note: Primavera Sound 2022 and Gallery Club London 2025

I first heard about Prospa in late 2018, around the time "Prayer" came out, through a friend who'd been at college with one of them in Leeds.

In June 2022, I was at Primavera Sound in Barcelona for the first time. Same trip I did my first Boiler Room. After the Boiler Room set finished, I walked over to watch Tyler, the Creator perform on 10 June 2022 and ended up standing near Harvey and Gosha while waiting for the headline. They had played their own Primavera slot earlier that day. We had a short conversation. They were warm, unaffected, behaving exactly like the producers and DJs they were before the algorithm noticed them. Same energy I documented when I met NOTION at Mixmag Lab London in April 2026.

Prospa were reported to headline Gallery Club London on 9 May 2025, playing the central 360-degree DJ booth at Kensington High Street. Gallery is the same Kensington club where I opened my own 2026 calendar in January, playing the same booth on the same d&b audiotechnik sound system. Same room, same year-window, same booth. Gallery had opened in March 2025, so it was about two months old at the time, but it was already booking the kind of underground-into-mainstream UK dance acts that define the 2026 cycle.

What I take from Prospa as a producer is the way they layer aggressive sidechain compression underneath open, cinematic synth progressions, and the way they use 90s rave nostalgia as scaffolding for festival-scale modern club music rather than as pure pastiche.

I do not expect Prospa to remember the 2022 Barcelona conversation. But the through-line from that pre-Boiler Room afternoon to a CircoLoco debut album in 2026, with Gallery Club London as a shared venue along the way, is documented continuity from inside the same UK and European underground dance ecosystem.

Why this matters now: the structural moment

Prospa's debut album lands at a structural moment for UK dance music broader than the duo themselves.

UK rave revival in 2026 arrived at peak commercial scale. Sammy Virji headlined Alexandra Palace two nights in April 2026 and Finsbury Park on 7 August. The BRIT Awards left London for the first time in the ceremony's history and were held at Co-op Live in Manchester on 28 February 2026, with three Best Dance Act nominees (Skepta, as part of the winning Fred again.., Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax nomination, Sammy Virji, and Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas) on the Parklife 2026 lineup. NOTION's "The Days" remix crossed 500 million Spotify streams. Pepsi MAX consolidated around Parklife after Wireless Festival's April 2026 collapse around the Kanye West booking. The infrastructure of UK dance music is reorganising itself in real time.

Prospa's Free Your Mind arrives in the middle of that reorganisation as the long-form rave album equivalent of Sammy Virji's Same Day Cleaning in UK garage. Both records are debut or near-debut full-length statements from artists who spent years in the singles economy before committing to the LP format. Both arrive on big-infrastructure labels (Prospa on CircoLoco / Rockstar; Sammy Virji on Capitol UK / Astralwerks). Both are tied to specific 2026 festival main-stage moments that turn the album cycle into a live performance arc.

The two acts are not the same. Sammy Virji is the headline name of UK garage's commercial breakout; Prospa is the headline name of UK rave revival's longest patience play. But the structural function is parallel: 2026 is the year UK dance music's debut-album generation finally delivers, and Free Your Mind is one of the LPs the year is built around.

The London venue side of that infrastructure is just as important. In April 2026, Prospa were reported to play a secret set at XOYO London as part of a London run. XOYO had reopened on 31 January 2026 after a full rebuild under new operator Kirk Allen, framed by the new ownership as a return to the underground after years of more commercial programming. A set there inside that reopening cycle is exactly the kind of artist-venue alignment Allen has said he wants to rebuild the venue around: artists with serious live equity choosing the smaller London room ahead of a global album cycle, not after it. KOKO London on 13 March, XOYO Shoreditch in April, Parklife main stage in June: that was the London-Manchester axis for Free Your Mind's home run.

Why this matters to UK producers

From my perspective as a London-based UK garage producer, watching Prospa close out a thirteen-year arc with Free Your Mind on CircoLoco Records is the kind of moment working dance music producers tend to register more carefully than mainstream festival press do. It is proof that patience is still a viable career strategy in 2026's algorithmic music economy. That a Leeds duo who met as kids can make it to the first ever album release on one of dance music's most prestigious global label imprints, on their own terms, without rushing the catalogue. That the long route still works.

FAQ

Who is Prospa?

Prospa is a UK rave duo consisting of Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi "Gosha" Smith, both from Leeds and born in 1997 or 1998. They started producing together in 2013, broke through in October 2018 with "Prayer" on Stress Records, and released their debut album Free Your Mind on 5 June 2026 via CircoLoco Records.

How old is Prospa?

Both members were described as 19-year-old in Mixmag's July 2017 coverage and 21 in Mixmag's May 2019 feature, which places their birth years in 1997 or 1998. In September 2026 they are 28 or 29. No exact birth dates have been published.

Where are Prospa from?

Prospa are from Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. They met as children through the Leeds music scene, and Smith's first trip to Leeds Festival turned him on to dance music. Some press since 2021 has placed them in London, but their Bandcamp still lists Leeds, UK.

What are Prospa's real names?

Their real names are Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi Smith (Smith goes by "Gosha"). Both members operate under their legal names; "Prospa" is the duo's project name, not an individual stage alias.

When did Prospa's debut album come out?

Prospa's debut album Free Your Mind came out on 5 June 2026 via CircoLoco Records and peaked at #24 on the UK Official Albums Chart. The title track, with Cloonee, was released on 27 March 2026 and peaked at #6 on the Official Singles Chart.

What label is Prospa signed to?

Prospa's current album label is CircoLoco Records, a joint venture between Italian-Ibizan club brand CircoLoco and American video game publisher Rockstar Games. They also operate their own imprint Rave Science, distributed via Polydor Records / Universal Music. Earlier breakthrough single "Prayer" was released on Stress Records in 2018.

When did Prospa play Parklife 2026?

Prospa were billed for Parklife 2026 on Saturday 20 June 2026 on The Valley main stage, with a provisional set time of 14:00 to 15:30 published before the festival. The slot put them on the same day and stage as Sammy Virji (provisionally closing 21:30 to 22:45), Skepta and Josh Baker. Full Parklife 2026 lineup analysis is in MNEEMO's Parklife 2026 piece.

What are Prospa's biggest songs?

By Spotify streaming volume in April 2026 (Kworb), Prospa's biggest tracks were: "This Rhythm" feat. RAHH (~66M streams), "Don't Stop" (~29M), "Ecstasy (Over & Over)" (~28M), "Prayer (Edit)" (~20M), "You Don't Own Me" feat. RAHH (~17M) and "Love Songs" feat. Kosmo Kint (~15M). Their highest UK Singles Chart peak is "Free Your Mind" with Cloonee at #6 (2026).

What does CircoLoco Records have to do with Rockstar Games?

CircoLoco Records is operated as a joint venture between the Italian-Ibizan club brand CircoLoco (which has run weekly parties at DC-10 Ibiza since 1999) and the American video game publisher Rockstar Games (creators of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne). The label functions as Rockstar's primary infrastructure entry into dance music release. Free Your Mind is the label's first ever full-length album.

Who produced Prospa's debut album Free Your Mind?

The album is primarily produced by Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi Smith themselves. Mixing engineer Nathan Boddy is credited with mixing the album. Dave Bissett, Sam Mack and Victor Simonelli are credited as co-writers on the title track, which is a co-production with Cloonee. KETTAMA co-produced "Break Free", and Murda Beatz and Cubeatz are among the producers on "Baby".

How do I get Prospa tickets?

Upcoming dates include You&Me at Depot Mayfield, Manchester, on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October 2026 (both sold out, per The Warehouse Project), and, per Resident Advisor, Awakenings ADE: Prophecy by Prospa at the Sugarfactory, Amsterdam (25 October), EDC Orlando (6 November) and CircoLoco CDMX (28 November). Embrace LDN, their b3b headline with Josh Baker and KETTAMA at Finsbury Park on Saturday 3 July 2027, has a presale from 10am on Tuesday 29 September 2026 and general sale from 10am on Wednesday 30 September. Check Resident Advisor (ra.co), DICE and Skiddle for individual ticket availability.

Did Prospa play Coachella 2026?

Prospa were on the Coachella 2026 lineup, their Coachella debut, as Crack reported in April 2026. Their wider 2026 routing, as listed in April, included EDC Las Vegas, DC-10 Ibiza, Higher Love Malta, Sónar Barcelona, Awakenings Netherlands, Creamfields, and Experts Only New York.

Is Prospa a duo or one person?

Prospa is a duo, not a single artist. The two members are Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi "Gosha" Smith.

This editorial is part of House of MNEEMO's ongoing coverage of the electronic and club music scene, written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO, millions of streams to his name and a party series running through some of London's best clubs. Listen to MNEEMO: Spotify · Instagram · YouTube

Sources and verification: Official artist and label pages, Beatportal (27 March 2026), Crack Magazine (2 April 2026), Mixmag (21 July 2017 and 10 May 2019 features), Official Charts Company (Prospa artist page, and the 25 September 2026 Embrace LDN announcement), Parklife, Clashfinder, CircoLoco Records and Prospa Bandcamp pages, Deezer release data, The Warehouse Project You&Me event pages, Resident Advisor, Songkick, Discogs, Apple Music, Kworb, Rockstar Games release notices, Wikipedia (Brit Awards 2026), themanc.com Parklife stage splits, and primary-source observation from Primavera Sound 2022.

Last updated: 26 September 2026, after the album release, Parklife 2026 and the Embrace LDN announcement.