Teased all summer from Ibiza to Las Vegas: HUGEL and Kurd Maverick have released a track whose title is the instruction

HUGEL has released a joint track with German producer Kurd Maverick — ‘PYHU (Put Your Hands Up)’.

The outlet Essential House reported it.

The release came out on the British label Cr2 Records, one of those imprints that has kept a dance catalogue going since the nineties and still pushes new club material.

The track was in clubs long before the release

It came as no surprise: the label said as much in the release description on its own site.

“It’s been teased all summer long… from Ibiza to Las Vegas, and everywhere in between it’s one of the highlights of HUGEL’s summer sets, and now Cr2 Records can finally release this massive collaboration with Kurd Maverick: ‘PYHU (Put Your Hands Up)’ is an instantly recognisable anthem that is ready to damage dancefloors all over again,” the label’s description reads.

The title hides nothing: PYHU stands for ‘Put Your Hands Up’, meaning the track is built for exactly the moment a DJ lifts the room.

In genre terms it is Afro house again — the territory the Frenchman has worked consistently for several years and the one that made him recognisable.

For HUGEL this is already the fourth release of the 2025 season, and the most direct of them: no guest vocalists, no Latin ornament, just rhythm and function.

A billion streams and an Ibiza residency

By the time of this release HUGEL had passed a billion streams, with a monthly Spotify audience of more than 27 million. His record includes gold and platinum certifications and collaborations with David Guetta, Diplo and J Balvin, and he spends the 2025 season holding his own residency at Hï Ibiza.

What tracks like this are made for, HUGEL once put like this:

“The crowd really connected with my groove and it was beautiful to see people going crazy,” he said about his own sets.

We reported earlier that HUGEL joined David Guetta for the first time on ‘Think Of Me’.