contraband added 💎

two edits into the crate this week. soundcloud only, you won't find these on streaming. tap to play.

what we've been building 🛠️

we've been timestamping the dj sets on our youtube. every track gets marked with its exact cue and its name, the unreleased IDs included, the ones shazam can't catch. open a set, check the pinned comment, the full corrected tracklist is right there. more going up every week.

miami just went and did it 🌴

remember when i said we're going to III points? the satellite program dropped this week and october 16-17 quietly became october 13-20.

for the first time satellite runs a full week. fifteen-plus venues, one hundred-plus artists, 250-plus hours of music across seven miami neighborhoods, all orbiting the main festival at mana wynwood. lineups landed tuesday, presales rolled out through this week, and general on-sale opens monday august 24 at 1:11pm et.

maccabi house takes over hialeah park casino. sunday october 18, 3 to 11pm, in the garden. adam ten x mita gami, rafael, yamagucci, miluhska. the label this newsletter won't shut up about, running its own room at a casino. we'll be there.

the 33-hour closing marathon at club space. doors sunday 11pm, closing time officially "unknown," runs into tuesday. set times are out and they read like our playlists: honey dijon at 12:30am, adam ten b2b mita gami at 2am, marco carola at 5am, brunello b2b rony seikaly at 11am, seth troxler b2b maher daniel at 8pm, max styler b2b OMRI. at 11pm. sunrise on the space terrace with that lineup is a bucket-list item.

and the main festival itself still has max styler b2b vintage culture, marco carola b2b franky rizardo, brunello b2b rafael, PAWSA, cloonee, KETTAMA, and odd mob on the bill, with charlotte de witte, four tet and underworld up top.

satellite tickets are presale-first: hold a festival ticket by 11:59pm et any day and your code lands at 1:11pm the next day. everything else opens monday.

where the grooves are 📡

global dance festival · denver · sep 11-12. chris lake and chris lorenzo on the bill, and their long jacket is in the cut above. ten minutes from home.

the full map lives on the events radar.

the playlists 🎧

the curated survivors, split across three lists, and the unfiltered week in one.

the web version of this issue has the full drop playable right below.

sets of the week 📺

five full sets that dropped this week, from artists we follow. tap to watch on youtube.

one more thing 🧾

every pick above got verified on the release's own page before it got written down. dates, labels, spellings. if we couldn't verify it, it didn't make the email.

that's the ask.