Block & Crown

Who is actually on the record

Insomniac's artist directory files Block & Crown as a DJ and producer act from the Netherlands working in house. That is accurate as far as it goes, and it hides most of the story. The constant is Adri Blok, a producer based in Amsterdam who also records as Luca Debonaire and, on some credits, as Adri Block. All three names turn up on the same records: Supercircus's Funky House TOP50 2026 compilation carries Block & Crown, Adri Block and Luca Debonaire as separately billed artists on a single tracklist.

The second half of the name depends on which biography happens to be open. The Last.fm entry, last revised in March 2023, pairs Blok with Mitch Crown. Current listings and the project's own radio show credit Blok alongside Jerry Dávila, a producer from Puebla in Mexico; 1001Tracklists bills one September 2026 cut as by 'Block & Crown aka Jerry Davila & DJ Pelos'. A Mexican news profile published on 8 June 2026 goes further and treats the project as essentially Dávila's, crediting him with more than thirty years in electronic music and a sound that folds Latin rhythm into nu-disco. Neither account cancels the other out. What the credits show is a Dutch studio name that has acquired a working base in Mexico, and a catalogue split between the two.

Hed Kandi, a chart claim and the older catalogue

The biography that follows the project around the streaming services states its position plainly: rooted in original disco, out to bring back the feeling called house. It lists releases and remixes on Hed Kandi, Spinnin', CR2, News, Let's Play Music, Mjuzieek, Vamos, Recovery House and Pornostar — the compilation-house economy of the late 2000s and early 2010s rather than the main-stage festival circuit. The same text claims a number one on the US Billboard dance and airplay chart in 2009 with 'Back It Up', a remix for Katy Perry and a collaboration with Eddie Amador. Those three claims originate in the act's own biography and are reproduced unchanged across Last.fm, Viberate and the download stores; no chart archive has been produced to back them, and they are best read as the act's account of itself.

Easier to check is which tracks have actually stuck. Viberate's profile puts 'Don't Go', 'Shake Your Body (Club Mix)', 'Lay Our Love', 'Wonderful Life' and 'Human Nature' at the head of the catalogue, and the same profile records earlier bookings at Ministry of Sound in London, Pacha in Ibiza and Amsterdam Dance Event. The common thread is a recognisable vocal hook over a four-to-the-floor bassline, built for DJs buying from Beatport and Traxsource rather than for radio playlists.

A release schedule measured in weeks

The defining fact about Block & Crown in 2026 is volume. Tracknack's discography lists thirteen separate Block & Crown releases in the first eighteen days of September 2026, spread across thirteen different labels. On 18 September came 'Wanting You (B&C 2026 Remix)' on Ultra Boogie, 'Dance, Dance' on For The Music, 'Move on Up (Afro Latin Mix)' on Culture Vibez and 'You Are Everything (Deep Testimony Balearic Cut)'. On 11 September, 'Cross My Heart' on Freaks Do Dance, 'Make Me Feel the Groove' on Supercircus and a nu-disco recut of 'We Are Family' on SPAZ. On 4 September, 'House Sensation', 'Gimme What You Got', 'Groovin' with a Fake Id' and 'Wanna Get Funky (Casablanca Edits Dubb)' on the Puebla imprint. Late August added 'If I Can't Have You', 'Hip Wonderland' and 'Ride That White Horse'.

The titles give away the method. A large share of the output consists of edits, dubs and re-cuts of disco and soul records, turned around quickly and placed with a network of small funky-house labels — Freaks Do Dance, Puebla, Supercircus, Tactical, Dark Mondays, Rebounce, SPAZ — several of which the project is closely tied to rather than merely signed to. There is a compilation strand as well, the Block & Crown Selected series, which reached an eighth nu-disco instalment. This is not an album-cycle career. It is a supply operation, feeding Beatport's funky house and nu-disco sections week after week and taking its returns from a long tail of DJ purchases rather than from a few large records.

Where it stands in September 2026

The public-facing constant is the Block & Crown Radio Show. Episode 193 went out on 11 September 2026: one hour, twelve tracks, every one of them a Block & Crown production, drawn from Supercircus, Tactical, Sophisticated Elite, Rawtone Black, Stanley Steel Beats, Dark Mondays and Rebounce. An hour of nothing but own material, refreshed weekly, is only possible at that release rate, and the show doubles as the shop window for the week's catalogue.

The live side moves at a very different speed. Songkick's gigography records a US club run in 2024 — DNA Lounge in San Francisco on 29 March, Empire Control Room in Austin on 31 August — then a shift towards Mexico and Europe: Electric Daisy Carnival at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City in February 2025, L'Empire in Bordeaux on 9 July 2025, and Don't Let Daddy Know at the Ecocentro Expositor in Querétaro on 6 December 2025. For 2026 the listings show Barsecco in Miami on 28 March during Miami Music Week, on a bill alongside Jason Walker and Georgie Porgie, and a Tomorrowland Belgium appearance at De Schorre in Boom on 18 July.

Set against dozens of tracks a month in the studio, that is roughly a dozen documented shows across three years. The booking diary is comfortably the smaller half of this career, and the imbalance is worth understanding before reading anything into the thinness of the tour schedule: the records are the business, and the gigs follow them rather than the other way round.

The only date on sale

One Block & Crown date is currently on sale: Saturday 17 October 2026 at HQ2, Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City, with an eleven o'clock start and Block & Crown as the headline name. Both JamBase and Songkick list it as the closing date of the current run. HQ2 is a two-room operation on the Boardwalk, a glass-walled nightclub with an adjoining beachclub, and by mid-October the programming has moved indoors. The venue's 2026 calendar has also carried Joel Corry, Tchami and Valentino Khan, which places this booking inside a mainstream big-room club series rather than a specialist disco night — the crowd will be a Saturday casino-club crowd, not a record-shop one.

No support acts have been announced as part of a touring package; a club of this type fills the earlier hours from its own resident roster, and set length is not published. Nor is there any substantial press review of a recent Block & Crown set in circulation, which is the honest position: the evidence for what the night sounds like comes from the radio show and the release sheet, not from critics.

On that evidence the set is vocal-led funky house and nu-disco at club tempo, mixed continuously and built largely from the act's own edits — a recut 'We Are Family', 'Move on Up' in an Afro-Latin mix, 'Ride That White Horse' — with the older floor-fillers, 'Don't Go' and 'Shake Your Body' among them, available as the recognisable moments. It is a DJ booking in the plain sense: two decks, a house rig, and a catalogue deep enough that almost nothing in the hour need come from anybody else.