Belters Only & Reggie team up on 'To The Max' | out now

Belters Only team up with fellow Irish mainstay and Dundalk rapper Reggie on their first collaboration To The Max. A track that brings together two parts of the Irish scene that don’t often meet on record.

“When two Irish worlds collide, the first summer release of many from us. Reggie reached out to us & from there it’s history - turn the volume up to the max on this one, it’s a cracker.”

For a while now, those worlds have been running in parallel. On one side, Belters Only have become one of Ireland’s biggest dance exports, building a catalogue of club records that have travelled far beyond Dublin. On the other, Reggie has been part of a newer wave of Irish rap artists coming up outside the capital, shaping a sound that is local, direct and unfiltered.

They’ve shared audiences and increasingly the same spaces across festivals, radio, playlists but not many records. This is one breaks that bound.

Belters Only, Bissett and RobbieG, broke through with Make Me Feel Good featuring Jazzy, a track that went on to become the first Irish dance release to achieve diamond certification, alongside platinum status in the UK. Follow-ups like My Mind and Don’t Stop Just Yet have kept that momentum going, alongside sold-out shows at home and internationally, including Dublin’s 3Arena.

Reggie’s rise has taken a different route. Coming out of Dundalk, he was among the earlier voices in Ireland’s rap and drill scene helping shape a movement that has grown quickly over the past few years. His work leans heavily on tone and presence: a deep, steady delivery paired with writing that draws on experience.

His profile stepped up with “Talk of the Town”, a collaboration with Fred again.. and Sammy Virji, which spent nine weeks in the UK Official Charts. Since then, he’s been moving closer to electronic spaces, something heard more clearly on ‘El Paso (365)’ with David Keenan and in recent support across BBC Radio 1 from Sian Eleri, Danny Howard and Sarah Story.

The link with Belters Only feels like a natural extension of that shift.

There’s no big departure on either side as it is more of a meeting point as the production keeps Belters Only’s club focus intact, while Reggie’s vocal sits front and centre, cutting through it rather than being smoothed out by it.

It’s the kind of crossover that’s been building for a while, simply overdue not forced.

And it says something about where things are at now. Artists coming up in Ireland aren’t sticking to one lane in the same way anymore whether that’s by choice, or just because the lines between scenes aren’t as fixed as they used to be.

For Reggie, coming out of Dundalk, that shift carries a bit more weight. The gap between local scenes and wider reach is narrowing and records like this make that visible. For Belters Only, it’s a step slightly left of what’s worked for them so far, without losing the core of it.

The track lands somewhere between club-ready, but not anonymous. Built for big systems, but still carrying a sense of who’s on it.

Belter’s Only - To The Max ft. Reggie is out now