Free Your Mind
by Prospa (featuring Cloonee)

Album: Free Your Mind (2026)
Charted: 6
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Songfacts®:

  • Built as a euphoric declaration of emotional release, "Free Your Mind" works in that classic club tradition where personal intimacy and communal ecstasy blur into one pulse: the same double meaning that powered everything from Robin S' "Show Me Love" to CeCe Peniston's "Finally." In one reading, it's about romantic trust; in another, it's about the collective, cathartic release of the dancefloor. Dance music has always been very good at that sort of thing.
  • "Free Your Mind" prominently samples Sybil's 1993 deep-house classic "Oh, How I Love You," written and produced by Victor Simonelli and Sam Mack. The lush, soulful vocal is woven directly into the track, and Simonelli and Mack are accordingly credited as co-writers alongside Prospa and Cloonee.
  • Prospa are an electronic dance duo comprising childhood friends Harvey Blumler and Gosha Smith. They have been making music together since 2013, though their roots were in rock before they found machines.

    Cloonee (Dave Bissett) arrived in 2019 as a tech-house force with "Be Good To Me," and has been a regular collaborator in Prospa's orbit.
  • "Free Your Mind" was tested in clubs long before release, becoming a fixture of their live sets and building a sort of underground familiarity before its March 27, 2026 drop. This is often how dance records prove themselves - not in boardrooms, but by surviving repeated exposure to sweaty people near strobe lights. It's a surprisingly rigorous scientific method.
  • The song is the title track to Free Your Mind, Prospa's debut album, and a milestone in another sense: it was the first album released on CircoLoco Records, the imprint co-owned by Rockstar Games and DJ Harvey.
  • Cloonee began the basic idea for "Free Your Mind" around 2020, creating a short sketch built around its bassline, simple drums and chopped Sybil vocal. He shelved it for several years.

    During a later studio session at his home with Prospa's Gosha Smith, a power cut ended the day's work. After meeting Prospa's Harvey Blumler for dinner, Cloonee promised to dig through his old ideas; while on a flight, he rediscovered the "Free Your Mind" demo in his SoundCloud archive and sent it to the duo. Prospa quickly saw its potential. Cloonee refreshed the dated drum programming, while Prospa added the signature stab, chords and further drum layers, turning the abandoned sketch into the finished collaboration.
  • "Free Your Mind" became the first Billboard #1 for both Prospa and Cloonee when it topped the Dance Airplay chart dated September 5, 2026.

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