Prospa
Prospa is proof that childhood friendships can turn into genuinely great creative partnerships. The Leeds duo, Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi “Gosha” Smith, have been making music together since 2013, and honestly their path to where they are now is a pretty fun one to trace. Blumler came up messing around with heavy dubstep, while Smith was more into metal guitar and jazz before drifting toward jazz-inflected hip hop. Somewhere in the middle of all that, the two found common ground in dance music and started building tracks together, cutting their teeth on deep house before branching out into the more genre-hopping, festival-ready sound they’re known for now.
Their real breakout moment came in October 2018 with “Prayer,” a track that caught Annie Mac’s ear and landed as her “Hottest Record in the World” — the kind of co-sign that actually moves the needle. From there, Prospa built out a catalog that pulls from all over the dance music map, with the influence of acts like The Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk running through their production. They’ve released albums like “Machines” (2017), “Control the Party” (2019), and the two-volume “Rave Science” series (2021), the latter also lending its name to their own imprint under Polydor Records.
2026 has been a huge year for the pair. In June they dropped their debut album, “Free Your Mind,” on CircoLoco — a genuinely stacked project featuring collaborators like Cloonee, Kettama, Murda Beatz, Cubeatz, and Felix Leone, plus vocal turns from Kosmo Kint, Nafe Smallz, and GINI. The title track, a team-up with Cloonee, led the rollout, and DJ Mag’s Harold Heath called the record “a glittering, euphoric, no-let-up collection of festival anthems.” That’s a pretty accurate read — Prospa’s whole thing has always been about big, feel-good energy that still has enough grit in the production to work in a proper club, not just on a festival mainstage.
From bedroom deep house experiments to a debut album stacked with A-list collaborators over a decade later, Prospa’s trajectory says a lot about what happens when you let a sound evolve naturally instead of forcing it. They’re not chasing one lane — they’re just chasing whatever makes people move, and right now that’s working out pretty well for them.
