seventeen survived the cut, and miami just went full week
fresh grooves friday · issue 004 · 21 august 2026
on time this week. barely, but on time.
big one today. seventeen records survived this week's cut, miami just turned october into a full week, and we've been quietly renovating the site. let's get into it.
on repeat, the seventeen
seventeen survived the cut this week. zero skips, same as always. tap any cover to play it.
🚧 for 1am
the opener. saw max styler drop this live at mission ballroom back in march, been waiting on it since. it finally exists.
track of the week, more below.
the rabbit-hole record. we now follow everyone whose name touches it.
same record, filthier. keep both, no apologies.
🧃 for daylight
found him this week, followed him the same hour. same label as Bad Bitch, make the girls dance is having a week.
track of the week
Dangerous Women · Assaf Michael & Reef Kopel · Terms & Conditions Records
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 carrying its ✅ or ⚠️ so you know exactly how sure we are. the full drop on friday.html 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.
the parts that matter to this page:
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
denver first, as always.
- 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 playlists
fresh grooves friday, the curated survivors, split across three lists.
🧃 good vibe juice for daylight and driving. 🚧 bumpy for 1am. 📈 groovesmaxxing is the highlight reel, short on purpose.
the full drop, all 100-plus releases from artists we follow this week, lives in new house releases, wiped and rebuilt every friday. the web version of this issue has it playable right here.
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.
send this to the friend who's already pricing flights to miami.
that's the ask.
vibes. maxxed.
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