Odd Mob

Brisbane, and the half that stayed

Odd Mob is Harry Hope, born in 1993 and based in Brisbane. The name started as a duo in 2013 with Robbie Jacobs. Jacobs left in 2017 and Hope kept the project, which is why an act with a plural name has been one person on stage for close to a decade.

The formative influence was not house at all. Hope has described obsessing over Skrillex records in the early 2010s and pulling them apart to work out how the sounds were built — an interest in sound design rather than in DJing, which still shapes how he talks about his work. In an interview published on 7 April 2026 he put it plainly: "I get so much joy out of making new sounds and having that feeling that you've made something that might not have ever been heard before."

Is It a Banger?, and the long second act

The first record that travelled was "Is It a Banger?" in 2014. It landed at number 70 in that year's triple j Hottest 100 and has since passed eight million streams. It also did what a novelty-adjacent breakout tends to do, which is define an artist to an audience that never followed the next step.

The step that mattered came eight years later. "Left to Right" in 2022 was picked up by Skrillex, Diplo and Disclosure and has since run to roughly 8.8 million Spotify streams, and it reset Odd Mob as a club producer rather than a triple j curiosity. The following year he played Coachella in April 2023 and EDC Las Vegas in May 2023, appeared at Hard Summer, and finished 42nd in the 1001Tracklists Top 100 producer poll.

August 2023 brought the Club Rompas EP, a deliberately unserious record — "the whole EP is a bit silly and random" — built around "XTC", whose vocal Hope recorded in a single take, plus "Underground" with Birthdayyy Partyy and "Guest List" and "Blisters On My Feet" with Basura Boyz. He described the aim as catching a few stank faces in the club rather than polishing anything.

The Beatport number one and the radio record

"Losing Control", made with the Los Angeles producer OMNOM and featuring a topline by XKYLAR, went to number one overall on Beatport in September 2023 and was signed to John Summit's Experts Only. It was assembled largely across time zones, in chunks, including a fifteen-minute timed writing challenge conducted over Zoom; Hope's reaction at the time was that he could not believe they had snagged the top spot. It took 1.5 million streams in its first fortnight.

The commercial ceiling lifted again in 2025, when Hope worked with Tiësto and Goodboys on "Won't Be Possible". It became the most-played dance record on US radio and passed 40 million streams within months — a different order of exposure from a Beatport chart. His 2024 remix of Sean Paul's "Get Busy" was certified Gold by ARIA in 2025.

The touring caught up in the same period. Through 2025 he was main support on John Summit's sold-out Australian run, returned to Coachella, and sold out his own headline shows at home. In 2026 he won Breakthrough Artist at the Queensland Music Awards, twelve years after the first Hottest 100 entry.

Never Alone, and a deliberate swerve

On 20 February 2026 Odd Mob released "Never Alone" featuring Lizzy Land on Experts Only. It is the outlier in the recent catalogue: progressive and melodic rather than bass-led, drawing on old-school progressive house and minimal tech rather than on the hardgroove end of his club sets.

Hope has said the record came out of a period in which he found melodic writing difficult, and that it is an ode to people he has lost. He has also said a fan told him the track had helped them process trauma, which changed how he read his own work — he had been sceptical that it carried that kind of weight.

The same April 2026 interview contained an unusually direct statement of intent about the career around the music: "I'm not that type of person. I don't want to be the next Dom Dolla or John Summit where I push everything to the side and just tour, tour, tour." He described preferring to be the one in the back adjusting knobs, and said he still handles logistical detail himself rather than delegating it.

Where things stand, September 2026

Odd Mob played Tomorrowland in Boom, Belgium in July 2026: a back-to-back with AYYBO at the Crystal Garden Stage on 25 July, then a Mainstage set on 26 July. The slot was 14:30 on the closing Sunday, before most of the site had filled. A festival round-up of the weekend judged that he pulled a strong crowd anyway and had it moving as though it were peak time, describing the decision to debut a run of unreleased IDs on one of the largest stages in dance music as high risk, high reward, and naming it the set to watch of the weekend.

He also holds a Las Vegas residency at Wynn for a second consecutive year.

The Australia Vol 2.0 headline tour was announced in mid-April 2026 through Untitled Group, with presale on 21 April and general on-sale on 22 April, both at 10am local. It opened at The Timber Yard in Port Melbourne on 19 September 2026 with a 6pm start, and continues to Metro City in Perth on 27 September, The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on 3 October, Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide on 4 October and the Roundhouse in Sydney on 10 October. Ten dates are currently on sale across his own listings: the four remaining Australian shows plus six in North America through late October — III Points in Miami on 16 October, SILO Dallas on 17 October, Mission Ballroom in Denver on 23 October, Ductwork Houston on 24 October, Drake's: The Barn in West Sacramento on 25 October and Factory Town in Miami on 30 October. A New York SummerStage booking is already set for 29 May 2027.