Prunk's 'Footprints' LP on PIV Records Is a House Music Memoir in Thirteen Chapters

There's a particular kind of album that only makes sense once an artist has spent years genuinely embedded in their scene — not as a branding strategy, but as a natural consequence of showing up, night after night, in rooms where the music actually matters. Prunk's second full-length record, Footprints, out September 11, 2026 on his own PIV Records, is exactly that kind of album.

The premise is transparent. This is a record about collaboration, about the network of producers, vocalists, and DJs that shaped Prunk's sound over the years, and about the music that emerged from those relationships. The Dutch producer has spent the better part of the past decade building exactly this kind of career — releasing on Elrow Music, playing extended back-to-back sets with artists like Hot Since 82, running a PIV Ibiza residency, staging label showcases across Amsterdam, Miami, Santiago, and London. Footprints makes that argument structurally, using eight featured collaborators to map the creative geography he's moved through.

The record arrives three years after his debut LP Le Funk, which established Prunk as a producer with genuine album-making instincts rather than a singles artist forced into long-form format. Where Le Funk was about establishing an identity, Footprints is about acknowledging the influences and collaborators that shaped it. The two records read as a natural progression: here's who I am, here's who made me that way.

The eight collaborators each represent a different node in that creative network.

Riva Starr and Danny Losito contribute the album's first release, "I Want Your Love," which also served as the key DJ record for the album's rollout. Riva Starr's reputation — built across two decades of production, running Snatch! Records, and a career that connects Neapolitan house traditions to the contemporary underground — makes his involvement on the opening statement a deliberate choice. "I Want Your Love" carries that characteristic combination of rawness and forward motion.

Rona Ray appears on the title track, which the album positions as its emotional centre. Ray's career spans multiple decades of dance music, including work with classic house producers on both sides of the Atlantic, and her vocal authority on "Footprints" gives the album something it couldn't have found in a newer voice: the sense that the music connects to a longer tradition than its release date suggests.

Darius Syrossian brings the percussive intelligence that has defined his reputation through years of residencies at Paradise in Ibiza, fabric in London, and sustained international touring. His track on the album has the quality of controlled pressure — the kind of groove that builds without announcing itself.

The remaining collaborators — Verso, Retrouve, Nate Katz, Midas Field, and Coral O'Connor — fill out the album's thirteen main tracks with enough range to keep the record from feeling like a single extended argument. The digital release adds three further tracks, but the thirteen-track core has its own shape: immediate, groove-forward material in the early sections giving way to deeper and stranger territory as the album develops. Classical house album architecture. It trusts the listener to follow.

The "house memoir" form — the album that treats an artist's collaborative history as its organising logic — is arguably the most honest format available to a working DJ-producer. Singles and EPs document individual moments. An album that maps relationships documents something closer to a career: the ongoing negotiation between an individual voice and the community that shaped it.

PIV Records has been building its identity as an imprint for exactly this kind of music — house and tech-house with genuine structural ambition, that functions in a room without flattening into pure functionality. The label's summer 2026 season, which included the Ibiza residency and multi-city showcases, gave Footprints an unusual amount of context before its release: most of these tracks had been road-tested in rooms that matter, which means the album arrives with a proven relationship to the dance floor built in.

That Prunk chose to release through his own label rather than licensing outward reflects a confidence in the material and in PIV's positioning. The catalogue is deliberately varied — ranging from DJ tools to something closer to dance floor impressionism — and Footprints occupies the considered middle of that range. It is an album that can be played out and listened to at home, which is a harder balance to achieve than it sounds.

What distinguishes Footprints from the standard collaborative album is its refusal to treat the featured artists as peripheral. In the usual format, guests appear as name recognition attached to tracks that would sound identical without them. Here, the collaborators shape the material. These tracks feel like genuine documents of specific conversations rather than sessions where a beat was assembled and someone was brought in to sign off on it. Whether that comes through in the listening depends on how closely you attend. For anyone paying attention, it's audible throughout.

Prunk has been making music that earns this kind of treatment. Footprints is him making the case explicitly.

The album is out now on PIV Records across all digital platforms.