Prospa 'Free Your Mind' June 2026: CircoLoco's First Full LP
Dopamine Machine Records · May 14, 2026
When CircoLoco Records announced that Prospa would deliver the imprint's first-ever full-length album, it was the kind of news that needed a moment to settle. CircoLoco — the label born out of the legendary DC10 Monday parties in Ibiza — has always operated on a specific frequency: deep, groovy, uncompromising. Singles and EPs have been its currency for years. Committing to an LP is a statement about where both the label and the artist believe they are standing, and with "Free Your Mind" arriving on June 5, 2026, the answer from Prospa is: somewhere worth documenting.
Who Are Prospa?
The UK duo emerged from the same fertile post-pandemic period that produced a wave of artists rethinking what vocal house could sound like in a contemporary context. Their work has consistently sat at the intersection of classic house sensibility — warm chords, purposeful vocals, a respect for dynamics — and modern club function: tight percussion, Beatport-ready structure, DJ-friendly edits. Their CircoLoco releases have been reliable catalogue highlights, and it is no accident that when the label decided to venture into LP territory for the first time, they chose Prospa to make the argument for it. The duo bring credibility without pretension, and their production output suggests a genuine curiosity about structure and craft that benefits from the longer format.
The Singles That Have Set the Table
Two advance cuts have shaped expectations for the album. The title track, featuring Cloonee, arrived in March and remains one of the stronger examples so far this year of what jacking vocal house can be when it is made with patience: a tight drum arrangement, a bassline that sits low and rolls without ostentation, and a hook that earns its repetition. Then came "Baby" in May, a collaboration with Murda Beatz — an unexpected pairing that works because Prospa's production held its structural integrity even as it absorbed hip-hop rhythm vocabulary. Neither track feels like a calculated crossover move. Both sound like a duo confident enough to let the idea lead and trust the production to follow. Confirmed additional features on the album include Kosmo Kint on "Love Songs" and RAHH on "This Rhythm", which suggests the full record covers some emotional ground the advance singles have not yet shown.
What 11 Tracks on CircoLoco Actually Means
An LP on CircoLoco is a document. It is Prospa making the case that house music built with genuine depth still deserves to be presented as a complete, coherent listening experience — not just a sequence of individual Beatport releases optimised for chart positioning. The singles have shown the duo can operate at peak-time and crossover territory without losing their identity. The album asks whether they can sustain that identity across 11 tracks and different tempos, moods and collaborators. That is a harder ask than a standalone single, and the answer will define how Prospa are remembered in this particular phase of their career. The early signals suggest they are up to it.
The Label Context: CircoLoco Bets on the Long Form
It is worth pausing on what it means for CircoLoco to be releasing an LP in 2026. The label has spent years since DC10 building an identity that sits outside the mainstream tech house wave while remaining deeply club-relevant. Their releases have consistently appeared on Resident Advisor as highlights, and the imprint has resisted the impulse to bloat its catalogue with trend-chasing. An LP is a bet on both the artist and on the proposition that house music can carry a body of work, not just a chart position. If it lands well, it opens a door for other CircoLoco artists to think in the same format. If Prospa deliver, the label's decision will look prescient.
Why June 5 Is Worth Marking
Coming off two months of advance singles that have performed consistently — the title track and "Baby" both charting in Beatport's tech house Top 100 — Prospa arrive at the album release with genuine momentum. The remaining tracks, with their additional collaborators and presumably more varied material, are the real test. Given CircoLoco's curation standards and Prospa's consistency across their releases to date, the expectation is that "Free Your Mind" holds up as a full listen rather than just a delivery vehicle for its two most commercially visible tracks. Pre-order and streaming links are live on Bandcamp and all major platforms ahead of the June 5 release.