Twelve Years of EPs, and Budakid Finally Made the Album on His Own Terms.

Why did the album take twelve years?

Budakid, the Berlin producer Kevin Huising, has spent more than a decade putting out EPs. His records landed on labels people in this corner of house respect: Anjunadeep, Exploited, Lost & Found, Last Night On Earth. That is a long run of singles and short releases, each one a self-contained idea rather than a bigger arc. A debut album at this stage is not a rush job. It reads as someone who waited until he had something to say across a full record, and until he could say it without a label steering the outcome.

What is different about doing it on Flores?

The part that gives this weight is where it landed. Dreams Stretched Beyond came out on Flores, the imprint Budakid runs himself, in collaboration with Atomnation. Vinyl distribution goes through Atomnation and !K7. On someone else's label, a first album gets shaped to fit a roster and a house sound. On his own, the calls are his: the sequencing, the pacing, what stays deep and organic and what does not. He has described it as his first full statement made completely without compromise, and the setup backs that up.

The EPs proved he could write a great track. The album is where he gets to say what kind of artist he actually is.

How can you hear it?

The record arrived on 3 July 2026 as a 2LP vinyl and in digital form. The single Endless came out ahead of it as the first piece of the picture. For a sound built on deep, melodic and organic house, the double vinyl is the format that fits: room to let the record breathe across four sides rather than compress it into a playlist.