Prospa: The Leeds Duo Who Took Rave Science to an Album

Prospa are the Leeds duo Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi Smith, known as Gosha, and they spent a decade building to their debut album. They started producing together in 2013, broke through with Prayer in 2018, built their own label Rave Science under Polydor, and released Free Your Mind on CircoLoco Records on June 5, 2026. It is one of the cleanest label stories in modern UK dance music.

Who Prospa are

Blumler and Smith are childhood friends from Leeds, West Yorkshire. They crossed paths in the early 2010s with very different backgrounds: drums and dubstep-leaning production on one side, guitar, metal, and jazz-infused hip hop on the other. They joined forces as producers in 2013, spent about two years on deep house, then fell out of love with that sound and rebuilt around classic rave energy.

The sound

Prospa make classic house and rave-era dance music with modern production weight: surging breakbeats, ecstatic synths, and diva vocal samples over club-ready drums. Their named influences, the Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk, explain the shape of it: big-room rave feeling, written like songs. Tracks like This Rhythm and You Don't Own Me, both featuring RAHH, show the 2025 version of the formula.

The label story: Rave Science

Prospa release on their own imprint, Rave Science, which sits under Polydor Records. The label carried their two Rave Science EPs in 2021 and gave them a home that no A&R department could reassign. The album then landed somewhere bigger again: Free Your Mind arrived on CircoLoco Records, the CircoLoco and Rockstar Games label, which is a statement about where a self-built Leeds catalogue can end up.

Key releases, dated

• October 2018: Prayer, released on Stress Records. Annie Mac picked it as her Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1, and it helped revive the Stress label.
• 2019: Control the Party, the debut EP, on Polydor.
• 2021: Rave Science Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 on their own Rave Science label.
• 2022: Close Your Eyes, the collaboration EP with KETTAMA.
• 2025: This Rhythm and You Don't Own Me, the second of them with Josh Baker and RAHH.
• June 5, 2026: Free Your Mind, the debut album, on CircoLoco Records. It peaked at No. 24 on the UK Official Albums Chart.

Live, and why they matter now

The duo's records are built for the biggest rooms they play, and the album year put them on main stages: they were billed for Parklife 2026 on The Valley main stage. For any house night, Prospa are a benchmark for how a rave record holds a peak-time crowd without losing the song inside it.

Where to start listening

• Start with Prayer for the 2018 break, then the Rave Science EPs for the label sound.
• Play Close Your Eyes with KETTAMA, then Free Your Mind front to back for the album statement.

Sources

Facts in this profile were checked against the Prospa entries on Wikipedia and AllMusic and against CircoLoco Records and Official Charts listings, in October 2026. No British Columbia connection is claimed or implied: Prospa have no BRCH or BC link, and this profile exists because their catalogue is part of the sound this series covers.