Artist Spotlight: Prospa & Cloonee — "Free Your Mind" Is the House Track of Summer 2026

Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi "Gosha" Smith have been making music together since 2013, when the childhood friends from Leeds decided to channel wildly different musical backgrounds — Blumler rooted in dance and electronic production, Smith in metal guitar and jazz hip-hop — into something neither had tried alone. After two years exploring deep house, they shed that skin and emerged as Prospa: a duo chasing a harder, more kinetic kind of groove.

Their breakthrough came in 2018 when "Prayer" landed on BBC Radio 1 as Annie Mac's "Hottest Record in the World." From there, Prospa built a reputation for tracks that straddle the line between club tool and anthem — records with enough low-end muscle to drive a peak-time set but vocal hooks warm enough to hold a room past 4am. The 2025 single "Love Songs" (with Kosmo Kint) topped the Beatport chart and delivered genuine crossover momentum going into 2026.

"Free Your Mind," their debut album released June 5, 2026 on CircoLoco Records, is the culmination of that arc — and it carries a notable milestone: it's the first full-length album the legendary DC10 Ibiza label has ever put out. Learn more about Prospa on Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/dj/prospa

David Bissett grew up in Sheffield and built his name as one of the UK tech house scene's most reliable hit-makers. His stage name — Cloonee — is taken from Cloone Lake in Ireland, a place he visited every summer with his grandfather, the kind of personal detail that hints at the warmth embedded in his otherwise groove-forward productions.

He announced himself properly in 2019 with "Be Good to Me," which hit #1 on Beatport's Tech House chart and set the template: polished, infectious production with a sense of playfulness. Since then, Cloonee launched his own labels (CLNE, then Hellbent), collaborated with Chris Lake on the 2022 floor-stopper "Nightmares," and built a festival career spanning Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, and Parklife Manchester. His collaboration with Prospa is a natural meeting of stylistic equals — two acts who know exactly how to make dance music that works in real rooms. Check Cloonee's full discography on Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/artist/cloonee/451186

Running at 128 BPM in B Minor, the track is built around a deceptively simple vocal hook — "Just free your mind, my love is what you'll find" — placed over a groove that quietly escalates from warm house into something more urgent.

The opening sets the mood with crisp clap patterns and a kick drum that punches without overwhelming, leaving DJs room to blend in without forcing transitions. The chord progression reaches back to the '90s house organ tradition: thick, slightly overdriven chords that hit with that instant recognition factor — the kind that makes crowds raise their arms before they consciously know why.

Where the track reveals its craft is the second verse, where Cloonee's production fingerprint comes through most clearly. The low-end firms up into a tighter, more mechanical techno-inspired bassline, briefly shifting the track's texture before the vocal hook and organ warmth pull it back. It's a structural move that keeps the six-minute extended mix earning its runtime — the kind of production decision that separates genuinely memorable dance music from tracks that just fill space. The breakdown is patient and deliberate, filtering down through percussion before releasing into a drop that feels earned. DJ Mag called the album "a glittering, euphoric, no-let-up collection of festival anthems" — this title track is the thesis statement. Listen and buy on Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/track/free-your-mind/26919525

The four-month gap between release and chart peak tells its own story. "Free Your Mind" didn't spike on release-week hype — it built steadily through DJ support, appearing in sets from DC10 Ibiza to US festival circuits throughout spring and summer 2026. That sustained, word-of-mouth ascent is the most reliable indicator of a record's staying power.

The wider context matters too. In 2026, house music with genuine melodic and vocal identity is dominating festival main stages in a way that stripped-back tech house couldn't a few years ago. Prospa's sound sits precisely at that intersection — club-functional enough for a dark room but accessible enough to work under an afternoon sun. The CircoLoco association amplifies all of it: the DC10 brand carries enormous cultural authority, and its decision to anchor its first-ever album around this duo sent a clear signal about where the label sees house music heading. It also helps that the "Free Your Mind" title quietly nods to classic house lore without being derivative — En Vogue's 1992 hit lives in every dance music fan's memory, and the echo is flattering rather than cheap.

For more on what's shaping the 2026 dancefloor, check our Electronic Music Trends round-up: https://soundstashhq.com/blog

"Free Your Mind" is the kind of track that makes you want to be standing in a room full of people when the kick drops back in. It's not reinventing the wheel — it's building the best version of a wheel the house genre already loves — and Prospa and Cloonee execute it with genuine craft and warmth. The tension between Cloonee's harder production instincts and Prospa's melodic sensibility gives the record a dual nature that serves DJs across contexts, from warm-up to peak hour.

Rating: 8.5/10. Essential for anyone who needs something big enough to move a crowd but sophisticated enough not to feel throwaway. Festival house done right.

- Buy on Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/track/free-your-mind/26919525

- Stream on Spotify, Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/free-your-mind/1884730177), and SoundCloud

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"Free Your Mind" is a house and tech house track released on CircoLoco Records, running at 128 BPM in B Minor.

The track is available to purchase and download on Beatport (https://www.beatport.com/track/free-your-mind/26919525), and to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud.