Image courtesy of artist Instagram | Sebastian Ingrosso relaunches Refune

Sebastian Ingrosso relaunches Refune label after long hiatus

September 28, 2026

Refune, the label behind “Calling,” “Reload,” and “Million Voices,” is teasing its first new music in six years.

Refune Records is back. Sebastian Ingrosso‘s label, which was at the center of progressive house going global in the early 2010s, broke years of silence this week with a short social media teaser: “Same Label. New Music.”

The message is brief, but it points to new releases rather than reissues from the catalog. Refune hasn’t named any artists, tracks or release dates yet, so for now fans are left to guess what the new era will sound like.

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Alesso gave us one of his most emotional early records with “Years” 🥹 Released in 2012 on Refune Records, “Years” brought Alesso together with Matthew Koma during the period when his progressive house sound was becoming impossible to ignore. The track had the melody, the vocal, and the hands-in-the-air feeling that made so many early 2010s records stay with people. It also came at a key point in Alesso’s rise, around the same era as “Calling,” “City of Dreams,” and his remix of “If I Lose Myself.” More than a decade later, “Years” still feels like one of the records that reminds people why that version of Alesso connected so strongly. Who still remembers when this one was everywhere? 👇 @Alesso
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Ingrosso founded Refune in 2003 as a teenager, working out of his father’s studio in Stockholm. Nearly a decade later, the label was releasing some of the biggest records of the EDM boom. 2012 alone brought “Calling (Lose My Mind),” Ingrosso’s collaboration with Alesso and Ryan Tedder; “Reload,” his festival anthem with Tommy Trash and John Martin; and Otto Knows’ “Million Voices,” which became a mainstage staple around the world.

The catalog goes well beyond those singles. Refune released Alesso’s “Years,” his remix of OneRepublic’s “If I Lose Myself” and his debut album Forever. Deniz Koyu’s “Bong” became an electro favorite, and over the years the label’s artists included Steve Angello, Dirty South and Laidback Luke. Along with the labels run by Ingrosso’s Swedish House Mafia bandmates, Refune helped define that era’s sound of soaring melodies, massive drops and vocals built for crowds to sing back.

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Things went quiet after that. The label’s last release was a 2020 digital reissue of “Umbrella,” Ingrosso’s 2007 track with Steve Angello. In 2022, Ingrosso announced he was closing Refune to focus on a new label, Young Guru Lab, which makes this week’s comeback all the more unexpected.

Swedish House Mafia has been back on festival lineups since reuniting in 2021, so the timing feels right. Whether Refune leans into its legacy or introduces new names, the label that helped build progressive house’s golden era now gets a chance at its next chapter, more than two decades after it began.

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