seventeen survive the cut,
miami turns october into a week
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.
zero skips, same as always. links straight to spotify, each one verified on the release's own page before it got written down.
🧃 for daylight
the opener. saw max styler drop this live at mission ballroom back in march, been waiting on it since. it finally exists.
🚧 for 1am
track of the week, full spotlight below.
the rabbit-hole record. we now follow everyone whose name touches it. the jesse perez miami bass remix is below, same energy, filthier.
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.
no pick here today, on purpose. the page got a post that's contraband-only gems, front to back, so the 💎 lane got the full spotlight instead of a footnote.
the artist wing. 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. browse the wing.
the weekly dig. more labels scanned every friday, every pick verified before it's written down. the full drop keeps getting broader for it.
the follow radar. blew past 700 artists this week. every friday the crate gets audited against who we actually follow, and anyone who earned a slot gets followed on the spot. twenty-seven new names this week alone. more follows means a deeper radar means better fridays for you.
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.
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 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.
the main festival itself. 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.
tickets. satellite is presale-first: hold a festival ticket by 11:59pm et any day and your code lands at 1:11pm the next day. general on-sale opened monday august 24 at 1:11pm et.
| sep 11-12 | Global Dance Festivalnational western complex, denver. chris lake headlining, ten minutes from home. |
| oct 13-20 | III Points + satellite weekmiami. see above. yes, still going. |
the full map lives on the events radar.
every crate we run, covers and all: good vibe juice 🧃 · bumpy 🚧 · waaavy 🌊 · wen playa 🌴 · contraband grooves 💎 · dj sets · radio sets · the full drop, rebuilt every friday, full list on friday.html.
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.