Miami Music Week, a dance industry party marathon fueled by adrenaline, alcohol and passed apps, got an extra jolt of excitement with the Friday (March 27) announcement that Swedish House Mafia‘s Saturday night set on the Ultra Music Festival mainstage would feature a reunion with Eric Prydz.
The lore here is heavy, as Prydz was an original member of the founding Swedish House Mafia crew who famously decided not to join the group as it formed 2008, instead pursuing a solo career under his own name and as his aliases Pryda and Cyrez D. Both Prydz and Swedish House Mafia of course went on to become dance music superstars, helping define the sound and aesthetic of the progressive house and the EDM era itself.
The Saturday night set on the Ultra mainstage was the first performance by the original Swedish House lineup in 20 years, happening as part of a set billed as a “festival within a festival” that saw SHM’s Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso (the only SHM members on the originally announced Ultra 2026 lineup) welcoming a rotation of friends onstage to each play a few songs.
Guests included U.K. garage producer MPH, Boys Noize dropping his Skrillex collab “Fine Day Afternoon,” Kelly Lee Owens playing her edit of Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place,” Afrojack dropping songs including “Pon de Floor” (the 2009 Major Lazer track he co-produced), and Armand Van Helden dropping a few of his classics including “Bonkers” and “My My My.”
Then, the third member of SHM, Axwell, came onstage with Prydz, who was dressed in his standard outfit of a T-shirt and backwards baseball cap. (Prydz had also played his own solo set at Ultra on Friday night.) The four artists then played a 17-minute set featuring a few newer Swedish House Mafia tracks, a handful of Prydz classics and a few other EDM and post-EDM essentials.
Here’s the complete setlist from the Swedish House Mafia and Eric Prydz reunion.
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“Turn On the Lights again..” x “Pjanoo”
The reunion set launched with a mashup of Swedish House Mafia’ “Turn On the Lights again..” made with Fred again.. and Future (and hailing from the trio’s 2022 album Paradise Again), with Future’s “turn on the lights!” vocal fused into a mashup with Prydz’s 2008 progressive house essential “Pjanoo.”
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“Pjanoo” x “Leave the World Behind”
The guys left “Pjanoo” rolling, fusing the song into another mashup, this time with the vocals and some of the melody from “Leave the World Behind,” the 2009 EDM essential from Axwell, Ingrosso and Angello with Laidback Luke and singer Deborah Cox. “Pjanoo” did the heavy lifting during this segment, with the song’s insistent piano stabs playing in time with the lights and lasers of the mainstage.
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“It Gets Better”
The ominous, kick heavy banger from SHM’s 2022 Paradise Again kept the set rolling, with the guys playing a choppy, sped-up version that they eventually transitioned into a sort of chime-heavy celestial house.
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“Every Day”
The “It Gets Better” edit faded into Prydz’s 2012 progressive house single “Every Day,” with all of the guys lifting their hands in the air when the vocal dropped and Axwell seen singing along to the emotive song’s “If every day is like this, how do we survive?” lyrics. When the camera panned to the crowd during this moment, audience members were seen not just dancing, but crying and grinning ear to ear.
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“Allein”
Released in 2012 under Prydz’s Pryda alias, this progressive house classic came into the set as Axwell stood up on the decks to declare “Ultra Miami, this guy, Eric Prydz, used to be and forever will be a part of the original Swedish House Mafia. Make some noise for Eric Prydz!” The statement coincided with the swell of the track as Axwell danced on the decks and Prydz, Angello and Ingrosso jumped around onstage. “Let me see those hands Miami,” Ax demanded as the beat dropped and fireworks shot from the stage.
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“On Off” x “Lazer Beams”
The guys next graced the crowd with a mashup of 2020’s pulsing “On Off” by Cyrez D (another of Prydz’s aliases) with the pure driving hype of Green Velvet and Harvard Bass’ 2017 techno heater “Lazer Beams.”
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“Midnight City” x “Sweet Disposition”
“It’s all love here tonight,” Angello announced as “Lazer Beams” faded. “Miami let me see your beautiful hands in the air. It’s a family affair right here.”
The guys then dropped M83’s 2011 classic “Midnight City,” with another round of fireworks going off as the song’s iconic synth chorus played out. It felt apt that the guys then faded into The Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition,” a 2008 indie song that became an EDM era essential when scores of DJs remixed it into their sets. The guys played the song’s isolated vocal (the strains of “Midnight City” still playing underneath) before building the track as “Sweet Disposition”s iconic “a moment, a love, a dream, a laugh” chorus played and everyone in the audience and watching on the home had big feel flashbacks to peak EDM. The climax was, naturally, punctuated by even more fireworks.
“Ladies and gentlemen make some f–king noise for Eric Prydz!” Angello demanded as Ax and Prydz hugged and Ax then declared “OG Swedish House Mafia!” And with that, Prydz left the stage, with the performance then segueing into a Saturday night closing show from Swedish House Mafia, who played most of their big hits and served up a special moment when mixing “Don’t You Worry Child” with Avicii’s “Wake Me Up,” a song Avicii debuted to the world on the very same stage 13 years ago.
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