Prospa are a British electronic duo from Leeds consisting of Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi “Gosha” Smith. The two musicians began working together in 2013 and gained widespread recognition following the release of Prayer. Their music brings together house, breakbeat, techno, UK rave and elements of 1990s club culture, although over time their sound has broadened considerably and moved closer to contemporary house. Key Prospa tracks include Prayer, Control The Party, Ecstasy (Over & Over), WANT NEED LOVE, Close Your Eyes, Love Songs and Free Your Mind. In 2026, the duo released their debut album Free Your Mind on CircoLoco Records and entered the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs for the first time, reaching No. 94.
Blumler and Smith met in childhood. Before becoming interested in electronic music, both were connected with live instruments. Gosha played guitar and was interested in metal, while Harvey played drums. Smith’s mother introduced him to classical music and classical guitar, while Blumler’s father played in a band himself.
The musical tastes of the future Prospa members developed far beyond the club scene. They later singled out The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk in particular — artists who showed them that electronic music could simultaneously exist as club material, studio work and a fully realised live performance.
The beginnings of Prospa
The joint project was formed in 2013 in Leeds. At the time, Blumler and Smith were already experimenting independently with electronic music: Harvey was drawn to heavier dubstep sounds, while Gosha had moved through jazz, hip-hop and guitar-based music.
Prospa’s earliest releases were noticeably closer to deep house than the material that would later make the duo widely known. For around two years, the musicians worked actively in this direction before almost completely stopping the release of new music.
The reason was dissatisfaction with their own sound. They continued listening to British rave, French electronic music, house and techno, while their own tracks felt too closely tied to one contemporary club formula.
Rather than continuing to release music simply to remain active, Prospa took a break and effectively rebuilt their production approach from the ground up.
Machines and the change in sound
One of the first notable results of this transformation was the Machines EP, released in 2017 on Suah Records.
The release included Machines and Codex. The tracks introduced heavier basslines, large-scale synth parts and progressively developing arrangements that clearly distinguished the material from their earlier deep house period.
Machines EP reached high positions on the Beatport charts and became one of the first signs that Prospa had found a new direction.
Instead of trying to recreate a specific era of British dance music, they began using its defining elements — breakbeats, rave piano, large chords, vocal samples and emotional climaxes — within contemporary production.
Prayer
The major breakthrough came with Prayer, released in late 2018.
The track combined breakbeat rhythms, sampled vocals and a large euphoric synth theme recalling early-1990s British rave. At the same time, it was built as a modern club record, with a powerful low-end and a structure designed for large sound systems.
Prayer received support from Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Danny Howard, Monki and other British radio presenters and DJs. Annie Mac selected the track for her Hottest Record In The World feature.
The release also became important in the history of Stress Records: it was Prayer that helped bring the British house label back into active operation after a break of around thirteen years.
For Prospa themselves, the success of the track marked the final rejection of the need to belong to a single contemporary subgenre. From that point onward, breakbeat, rave, house and techno became parts of one broader musical system.
Rave Science
Following the success of Prayer, Prospa founded their own label, Rave Science.
The reason was not simply an interest in releasing music independently. The duo explained that even Prayer had initially been difficult to place with existing labels: the track sat between several club directions and did not fit neatly into conventional catalogues.
The first Rave Science release was Control The Party, issued in September 2019. In contrast with the more melodic Prayer, the track was built around direct club rhythms, heavy bass and a repeating vocal motif.
Rave Science gradually became not only a label, but also the name of an entire period in Prospa’s creative development.
Ecstasy and The One
In 2020, Prospa released Ecstasy (Over & Over), one of the most recognisable tracks from the duo’s early catalogue.
The track once again drew on the euphoric side of British rave: a cyclical vocal hook, wide synth chords and breakbeats created the feel of an old warehouse recording, but with modern density and dynamics.
The same year also brought The One, The Thrill and Feel It 92. These releases showed that Prospa had no intention of building their entire catalogue around one version of neo-rave: house, techno and straight four-on-the-floor rhythms were becoming increasingly prominent in their music.
Rave Science Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
In 2021, Prospa organised the material they had accumulated into two Rave Science releases.
Rave Science Vol. 1 arrived in February and contained three tracks: Sira with DJ Seinfeld, Burns No More and Boy Racer.
In November, Rave Science Vol. 2 followed with Love Someone, Voyage and Bloodshot.
These two releases clearly capture a transitional phase for Prospa. Breakbeat and rave aesthetics remained important, but alongside them came more direct house grooves, atmospheric passages and less predictable forms of club dramaturgy.
WANT NEED LOVE
One of the duo’s key tracks of 2021 was WANT NEED LOVE.
Here, Prospa moved noticeably closer to a direct house rhythm while retaining their characteristic large synth themes and emotional delivery. The track later received remixes from Dimension and LSDXOXO.
It was during this period that it became especially clear that the duo’s original rave aesthetic was not a final formula, but one source among many, alongside classic house, techno and contemporary British club music.
Close Your Eyes with KETTAMA
In March 2022, Prospa joined forces with Irish producer KETTAMA and released the collaborative Close Your Eyes EP through Technicolour, an imprint of Ninja Tune.
The release featured Close Your Eyes and A Place 4 MNU. The first combines heavy rave rhythms with a euphoric synth theme and a hypnotic vocal motif, while the second leans more strongly toward trance and more melodic club music.
The EP became an important point in the relationship between Prospa and KETTAMA. The artists later crossed paths on stage repeatedly and continued working together in the studio.
Moving to CircoLoco Records
The next major stage in Prospa’s development was connected with CircoLoco Records.
In 2024, Prospa released the two-track project If You Want My Loving, featuring the title track and Motions.
Both tracks present a more mature version of their club language. The influence of the 1990s remains, but no longer dominates the arrangement. If You Want My Loving combines acid elements with soulful house vocals, while Motions is built around a deeper and more direct groove.
This period became the bridge between the rave-oriented releases of the early 2020s and the significantly more house-focused music of their album era.
You Don’t Own Me
In 2025, Prospa teamed up with Manchester producer Josh Baker and vocalist RAHH for You Don’t Own Me.
The track emerged from a joint studio session and combined Josh Baker’s elastic house groove with Prospa’s more expansive production style.
RAHH’s vocal plays a central role, making the track feel not merely like a tool for DJ sets, but like a fully developed club song.
Love Songs
In October 2025, Prospa released Love Songs featuring vocals from Kosmo Kint.
The track marked an even clearer move toward house, disco and funk. Instead of breakbeats, it uses a straight four-on-the-floor groove, while the vocal performance becomes the central element.
Love Songs became one of the main singles leading into the debut album and showed how far the duo had moved from the early perception of Prospa purely as part of the British rave revival.
Free Your Mind
In June 2026, Prospa released their debut studio album Free Your Mind on CircoLoco Records.
The album arrived more than ten years after the project began and contained eleven tracks. Contributors included Cloonee, KETTAMA, Murda Beatz, Kosmo Kint, Nafe Smallz and Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton.
Track list:
- Intro
- Love Songs — featuring Kosmo Kint
- The Situation
- Free Your Mind — with Cloonee
- Break Free — with KETTAMA
- Body Heat — featuring Kosmo Kint
- Masterplan
- Let the Music
- Party People — featuring Nafe Smallz
- Baby — with Murda Beatz
- Dreams — featuring Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton
Free Your Mind brought together several stages of Prospa’s development. The album contains classic house, harder club tracks, vocal songs and rave elements, but none of these components defines the record completely.
CircoLoco Records described the album as a meeting point between the traditions of classic house and contemporary international dance music. For Prospa, it represents a logical outcome of their long evolution from deep house and breakbeat toward a freer and broader club sound.
Free Your Mind with Cloonee
The title track Free Your Mind, recorded with British producer Cloonee, became one of the standout works of the album period.
The breakbeat character associated with early Prospa is almost entirely absent. Instead, the track is driven by a straight house beat, heavy bass and a vocal hook.
This track in particular clearly demonstrates the duo’s transition toward the contemporary house scene while preserving the large-scale dramaturgy designed for major venues.
Break Free with KETTAMA
Their collaborative history with KETTAMA continued on the album track Break Free.
The track brings together elements characteristic of both projects: fast house grooves, rave rhythms, large synth themes and emotional transitions.
Where Close Your Eyes EP reflected the harder and faster side of their partnership, Break Free shows a more mature interaction between two projects that by then had spent years existing within the same British-Irish club environment.
DJ Mag Top 100 DJs and Prophecy
In 2026, Prospa entered the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs for the first time, placing No. 94.
DJ Mag linked their debut in the ranking primarily to the success of Free Your Mind, summer performances in Ibiza and major collaborative sets.
During the same period, the duo launched a new label and event series called Prophecy.
Unlike the earlier Rave Science, which primarily helped Prospa release their own music independently, Prophecy is developing as a broader platform for releases, events and emerging artists.
One of its first notable releases was Reason Why by producer Sapian.
Prospa’s musical style
Prospa’s sound has changed noticeably several times. Their early period was associated with deep house, after which the duo moved toward darker and rhythmically more complex electronic music.
After Prayer, the key elements became breakbeat, rave, house and techno, influenced by British dance music of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Later, straight house rhythms began to play an increasingly important role, although the earlier influences did not disappear. Rather than relying on literal nostalgia, Prospa use characteristic elements of the past — rave piano, breakbeats, vocal samples and large synth chords — within modern studio production.
One of the duo’s defining traits is their desire to create club music with a strong emotional centre. Even their most functional tracks are rarely built around rhythm alone: they usually contain a memorable vocal, chord progression, piano part or synth riff.
This is why the influence of The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers is more important to Prospa than any simple genre classification. The duo think not only about how a track functions inside a DJ set, but also about its ability to exist as a complete standalone work.
Production approach
Within Prospa, there is no rigid division between the roles of DJ and studio musician. Both members came to electronic music through live instruments, and both are involved in creating material.
Their experience of playing in rock and metal bands can be heard in their approach to dynamics. Tracks are often structured almost like live compositions: build-up, pause, climax and a new wave of energy.
Even when using a standard house rhythm, Prospa’s arrangements are usually far more dramatic than a purely functional club tool.
Discography
Studio albums
- Free Your Mind — 2026
Main EPs
- Machines EP — 2017
- Rave Science Vol. 1 — 2021
- Rave Science Vol. 2 — 2021
- Close Your Eyes EP — with KETTAMA, 2022
- If You Want My Loving — 2024
Selected singles and tracks
- Prayer — 2018
- Control The Party — 2019
- The One — 2020
- Ecstasy (Over & Over) — 2020
- WANT NEED LOVE — 2021
- Sira — with DJ Seinfeld, 2021
- Close Your Eyes — with KETTAMA, 2022
- If You Want My Loving — 2024
- Motions — 2024
- You Don’t Own Me — with Josh Baker featuring RAHH, 2025
- Love Songs — featuring Kosmo Kint, 2025
- Free Your Mind — with Cloonee, 2026
- Break Free — with KETTAMA, 2026
- Body Heat — featuring Kosmo Kint, 2026
- Baby — with Murda Beatz, 2026
- Party People — featuring Nafe Smallz, 2026
- Masterplan — 2026
Prospa began their career long before the new wave of interest in British rave. Prayer brought them international recognition, but the duo never turned the formula they had discovered into a permanent template. Rave Science, their collaborations with KETTAMA, the move to CircoLoco Records and the debut album Free Your Mind all demonstrate a consistent evolution from breakbeat and rave toward a broader house sound. Despite every change, Prospa’s central principle remains the combination of club functionality with emotional dramaturgy and the large-scale approach inherited from artists such as The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers.
