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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