on repeat, the seventeen 🔁

zero skips, same as always. every cover, title and artist is a link, and the play button drops you straight into spotify with the track rolling.

track of the week 🔥

track of the week coming off a mexican record label. love it. out today, and it won the week the honest way, by refusing to leave the rotation.

contraband of the week 💎

no pick here today, on purpose. tomorrow the page gets a post that's contraband-only gems, front to back, so the 💎 lane is getting the full spotlight instead of a footnote. keep an eye out.

what we've been building 🛠

some housekeeping, because the site got better while you weren't looking.

the artist wing grew again. twenty-plus new profile pages in the latest wave, beltran, ben sterling, chasewest, yamagucci, walker & royce, no static, and more. every page carries verified dj sets you can actually watch, and interviews in the artist's own words. no bios copied off press kits. if we couldn't verify it, it's not on the page.

and the weekly dig got deeper. more labels scanned every friday, every pick verified before it's written down. the full drop keeps getting broader for it.

the follow roster blew past 700 this week. every friday the crate now gets audited against who we actually follow, and anyone who earned a slot gets followed on the spot, twenty-seven new names came in through that door this week alone. more follows means a deeper radar means better fridays for you.

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 📡

sep 11-12 · Global Dance Festival · national western complex · chris lake headlining, ten minutes from home.

oct 13-20 · III Points + Satellite week · miami · see above. yes, still going.

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 📺

four 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.