Prunk’s Footprints feels like the kind of album a label founder can only make after years of building rooms around other people’s records. PIV has become a respected house platform in its own right, but this LP brings the focus back to Prunk as an artist, DJ, collaborator, and curator whose own sound helped shape the label’s identity in the first place.
Out September 11, 2026 via PIV Records, Footprints follows Prunk’s 2023 debut LP Le Funk and lands after a major summer for the Dutch house figure.
Between his PIV Ibiza residency and label showcases across Amsterdam, Miami, Santiago, and London, the album arrives as a document of movement, people, places, records, and dance floors that have fed back into his writing.
The title says a lot without needing to overstate the concept. Footprints is about the marks left by places, collaborators, rooms, and long-running creative relationships. It is not framed as a nostalgic exercise. It feels more like Prunk tracing what those experiences have turned into musically.
Ibiza, Chicago, and the PIV Sound
The album opens with “Eivissa,” which immediately places Ibiza in the story. That makes sense for Prunk, especially after a summer where the island played a visible role in the PIV universe. Ibiza can easily become shorthand for excess, but in the right house context, it also means long nights, tested records, and crowds that can tell when a groove has real legs.
That is the part of Footprints that feels most connected to Prunk’s DJ life.
These are not tracks built from a distance. They sound tied to booths, residencies, label nights, and the long feedback loop between testing music and refining it. The album moves through silky textures, brighter vocal moments, and heads-down club pressure without losing the sense that each track is meant to exist in motion.
For readers who want a little more context on the kind of spaces that shape this side of dance music, my article on underground clubs in Ibiza is a good adjacent read. Footprints speaks to that same idea: the room leaves a mark on the record, and the record eventually finds its way back into another room.
The Collaborations Give the Album Its Shape
Prunk uses collaborators carefully across Footprints, and that is what keeps the project from feeling like a solo statement stretched too far.
Verso appears on “Earth,” Retrouve joins for “Tell You,” Rona Ray features on the title track, Riva Starr links with Prunk on “I Want Your Love” with Danny Losito, Nate Katz appears on “Move Your Body,” Midas Field joins for “The Getaway,” Darius Syrossian appears on “Checking You Out,” and Coral O’Connor closes the main physical run with “Destination.”
The Riva Starr collaboration is one of the obvious anchor points. “I Want Your Love,” featuring Danny Losito, was the first glimpse of the album and quickly became a key DJ record for the rollout. Riva Starr has long had a way of bringing classic house and modern club pressure into the same frame, and that makes him a natural fit for this album’s wider tone. For more context on his outlook, my earlier conversation with Riva Starr remains a useful reference point.
The title track with Rona Ray gives the album its emotional center. Her voice brings warmth and musicality into the project without pulling it away from the dance floor. That balance runs across the LP. Prunk is not using features to chase random variety. Each collaborator seems to represent a different part of his musical network.
Footprints Is Out Now on PIV
Prunk’s Footprints is out now via PIV Records.
The album includes “Eivissa,” “New Life,” “Earth” with Verso, “Tell You” with Retrouve, “Around,” “Footprints” featuring Rona Ray, “No More Waiting,” “I Want Your Love” with Riva Starr featuring Danny Losito, “Lost in Chicago,” “Move Your Body” with Nate Katz, “The Getaway” with Midas Field, “Checking You Out” with Darius Syrossian, and “Destination” with Coral O’Connor, plus the digital-only tracks “The Time Is Now,” “All The Time,” and “The House Side.”
Across the record, Prunk brings together the artist, label founder, DJ, collaborator, and scene-builder parts of his career into one album. Footprints is personal, but not closed off. It is built from the people and places around him, and that is exactly why it feels like a natural second album.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
