Skrillex and MPH have officially released 'Mirage,' turning one of the most talked-about IDs of the summer into a full release after months of festival plays and fan speculation.
Skrillex and UK garage producer MPH have joined forces on 'Mirage.' The collaboration first started circulating months earlier, when MPH introduced it during his EDC Las Vegas set in May.
At that point, there was no official title. Clips moved quickly through fan pages and forums, where listeners began calling the track 'Bunga.' MPH eventually cleared things up in July, posting another festival clip and revealing the record was actually called 'Mirage.'
The collaboration came together in a single afternoon
For a track that spent months building anticipation, the actual studio process was surprisingly quick. According to MPH, he and Skrillex made 'Mirage' during one afternoon together, passing a laptop back and forth as each producer added ideas.
There was no complicated plan behind the session. Skrillex would work on a section, hand it over to MPH, and the process continued until their sounds began meeting in the middle, a looseness that comes through in the final record, which moves between MPH's UK garage instincts and the kind of detailed, unpredictable production Skrillex has built his career around.
You can hear both producers without one taking over
'Mirage' opens around tight percussion, a bouncing low end and chopped vocals before pulling back into a much more melodic section. It does not sit comfortably in one lane for very long, which is part of what makes the collaboration work.
The track also draws from Jamaican dancehall, sampling vocals from Red Rat's 'ShellyAnn.' Instead of treating the sample as the whole idea, Skrillex and MPH cut and reshape it throughout the production while the instrumental keeps changing underneath it.
The ID had already taken on a life of its own
By the time 'Mirage' arrived on streaming platforms, a lot of listeners already knew it. MPH kept playing the collaboration through his festival run after EDC Las Vegas, letting different versions of the ID spread online before anyone had a release date, which is also why the 'Bunga' nickname stuck around so long. Once MPH finally revealed the real title, the release followed only a few weeks later rather than disappearing into the pile of unreleased Skrillex IDs.
It also arrives during a major year for MPH
For MPH, working with Skrillex lands in the middle of a much bigger breakout period. The British producer has spent the last several years developing his own take on UK garage, bassline and bass music, while 2026 has pushed him onto increasingly larger festival stages.
'Mirage' feels like a natural meeting point rather than a producer simply being added to a Skrillex record. MPH's groove stays at the center of the track, while Skrillex brings the left turns, vocal manipulation and sound-design details around it. After months of people asking what the ID was, the answer ended up being one of the year's more straightforward collaborations: two producers in a room, one laptop, and an afternoon that turned into 'Mirage.'
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