Review · OCT 9, 2026
Osprey brings two new names to Blackout with "Waiting For The Sun / Move"
In brief
Blackout's BLCKTNL215 is a two-tracker that puts three producers on the Utrecht label for the first time, with Gvozd on it inside a week.
Blackout Music NL has spent 2026 mostly servicing its established roster — Merikan's debut album Nightreign in June, the Audio & Balron material in August — so a single that introduces three names at once is worth noting. The label announced the release on 18 September with the line that it was "welcoming 3 new faces to the Blackout family" via Osprey's two-tracker: Waiting For The Sun, made with Laetho and featuring LAUD, backed with the solo Move. Wider store listings carry the catalogue number BLCKTNL215 and a 2 October date, which is the usual Blackout pattern of a direct-channel head start followed by a full digital rollout.
The metadata on the A-side is the detail that tells you most about it before you hear anything: Waiting For The Sun is logged at 86 BPM in F sharp minor, running 3:49. That half-time figure is how the distributor has indexed a 172 tune, and the vocal credit to LAUD sits at the front of the billing rather than buried in brackets, which is not how Blackout usually files a straight roller. Credited artists are Osprey, Laetho and LAUD across the one track; Move is Osprey alone.
Support arrived fast. Gvozd dropped it into Record Club 1298 on Radio Record on 25 September, logged on 1001tracklists simply as a Blackout Music play — a week after the announcement and before the general release date, which is the usual tell that the label pushed it hard on promo rather than letting it find its own level.
Where it sits
Blackout's A&R has never been a wide net. The label's recent output has run through Merikan, Audio, Gancher & Ruin and Disprove — the names that appear across Nightreign's thirteen tracks — and newcomers tend to arrive via a single rather than an EP. Taking on three at once, with a feature vocalist, is a more exposed way to do it than the usual one-off club tool, and it suggests the label sees more than one record in these three.
Clips and the full release are on Blackout's own SoundCloud and across the stores; the Beatport label page has both sides. Anyone tracking where the next wave of Blackout signings comes from should file the names now, because on this evidence the label is not treating it as a one-off.