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release dates in dance music are wrong often enough that somebody should be checking.
15+ survived the cut from 240+, DEDRO's Banger is the contraband, and ten full sets went up this week, from Michael Bibi b2b Franky Rizardo at Robot Heart to Luch in Mexico City. plus a favor to ask about the site.
halloween weekend, so we went door to door through every new house release. heat only: 15+ came out of the bag, Brunello's Clown Shoes opens the haul, and five sets for halloween night close it out.
Brunello b2b Rafael in a full florida downpour, the sets that snuck up on us, an honest iii points debrief, and Mau P's new label. 19 survived the cut from 177, four became top picks.
late on purpose, we were at club space for vintage culture. 15+ survived the cut and four became top picks. kino todo opened up about his year, five portola sets are spotify only, and next friday's drops sit at the bottom.
the dance floor has a talking problem and two of our guys finally said it. 15+ records survived the cut and four of them became our first top picks. iii points set times are out, both nights end in a three-way clash, and five tagged sets sit down the page.
100+ records dropped and 20+ made it through the cut. one track of the week was not going to cut it, so three share it. the contraband pick is a free download, and the sets card is back with five from the last seven days.
30+ records made it through and one track of the week was not enough, so dirty dancing and stay share it. six tracklists went up, the site grew 60+ label pages, and the contraband will never see a store.
nineteen records made it through. peace control and luca saporito take track of the week, and peace control happens to be playing denver in three weeks. five tracklists went up, six IDs came straight from the artists who made them, and iii points finally showed its hand. no set times yet, we checked.
broken hill took the week with girlfriend, adam ten took the tracklists with a 34-track sunset in barcelona. 20+ survived the cut, contraband sat this one out, and there were almost twelve hours of soundcloud-only sets down the page.
on time this week. barely. mau p wins the week with just a little bit more, fifteen survive the cut, two edits land in contraband, and cloonee's red rocks set gets the full timestamp treatment on our youtube. plus five sets of the week and a taste of the 100+ drop.
seventeen for the club, four for daylight, gkat's disco powder on top. two edits into contraband, five full sets from the week, and the dj sets on our youtube start getting timestamped, unreleased ids included.
on time this week. barely. seventeen records survived the cut, a track of the week off a mexican label, and III points quietly turned october 16-17 into october 13-20. plus what we've been building on the site while you weren't looking.
a late one, and a heavy one. michael bibi and KETTAMA land on circoloco, AYYBO takes apart a tiga and chris lake record, and the track of the week isn't even from this week, which is the whole point of the section.
solomun and max styler put records out on the same friday. eight picks, the first contraband of the week, and the story of how max styler nearly quit in 2020 and who talked him out of it. plus the label nobody's talking about yet.
the first one. eight picks, a track of the week that had been sitting in a soundcloud upload since the 15th, and the receipts on what it took to find them.