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The last time I saw Midland (Harry Agius) play will remain a core memory.

I’ll forever recall the sun climbing into the sky, ringing in a new day, as he lay it down by the lake on the grounds of Houghton Hall.

I even have a video of him cracking a beer as he spins  “The Beach” by Miss Kittin & The Hacker. Although you can’t make out his facial expression, you can tell he’s beaming. Heavenly vision. “Oh, we should send a postcard to the label; it must be freezing in Munich right now.”

Somehow, that was three years ago now…

Fast forward to the present day, and Harry has a new original for us – “All Crews”. There’s plenty more where this one came from, I assume, given this snippet from an email he sent me just a few days ago.

“2026 has been a year of a lot of uncertainty, with a lot of chaotic energy as the backdrop, and so my urge has been to make as much music and create as much art as I can in the face of so much chaos. There has never been a more important time for good, flawed human art.”

“All Crews” has a one-track mind: limb movement. Built on motherboard-like stabs, mean bass, and synths that remind me of elevators on their longitudinal journeys, its got pulse. Around the halfway mark, Harry makes its intention abundantly clear, dropping in a woozy sample of what sounds like a university professor delivering a lecture on rave culture.

What I love most is the sexy, sleazy energy coursing through it. It’s the kind of music that helps loosen the knots that life in the fast lane causes.

Nights spent partying are elongated affairs, and Harry timestamps “All Crews” for the backend.

As his email continues:

“I picture this heard in a field, or an outdoor club like Barbarellas (Love International), sun rising, dancing with your closest friends, old and new. Something that keeps the energy gently locked in but lands everyone softly.”

The track possesses an incessant rhythm, delivered with enough restraint that it never grates on the ears of those who’ve already been partying for an eon. It takes cues from the sounds that swirled around UK cities like Sheffield in the ’90s – what Harry calls “bleep records.”

“All Crews” is the third single to land in 2026, alongside “In The Mood For Love” and “Without Pause” – all delicious slices of pie out through GRD LTD.

Play it in full below.

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