Ghastly is officially back, everyone.

This Friday, David Crow (under his renowned alias Ghastly) reignites one of electronic music’s most recognizable names with DOPAMINE MACHINE VOL. 1, a 30-minute mix that marks the return of the Ghastly project and signals what could be one of bass music’s most talked-about comebacks of 2026.

With more than 100 million cumulative streams across his career and a legacy as one of the defining forces in bass house and electro house, Crow now re-enters the lane he helped popularize with renewed purpose and a fresh arsenal of music.

Earlier this month, Crow stunned longtime fans with a cinematic social reveal that showed him climbing out of a grave beneath a tombstone reading “Here Lies Ghastly.” This introduced a new era built around the separation of his two identities. After years of navigating the creative tension between different sounds, Ghastly now revisits its roots of 4×4 and experimental bass, while GHENGAR evolves into a fully separate world centered around deathcore-heavy tearout and his own vocals.

The mix opens with Crow plugging audio cables into an old box television as glitch effects, echoing textures, and tension-building atmosphere fill the screen. A vintage clip of deadmau5 praising Ghastly’s music flashes during the intro, a nod to the project’s original rise and influence within the electronic scene.

What follows is a nonstop display of electrifying bass house IDs, edits, and mashups delivered through a hypnotic TV-screen visualizer packed with psychedelic distortions and analog-style glitches. Over the next 30 minutes, Ghastly showcases exactly why his return carries so much weight in the bass music community.

With ‘DOPAMINE MACHINE VOL. 1,’ Ghastly does more than return — he reclaims a lane, reintroduces a sound, and reminds the electronic world why his name once stood at the top of bass house. If this mix is the opening chapter, the rest of 2026 could belong to Ghastly once again.