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One set
Thirty minutes to two hours, recorded in one take. Send it to us as a link.
SA–OC · Open Crate
Open
crate.
Every good crate has one record nobody saw coming. Be that record.
Open Crate is how new names get a paid night behind our decks. First set or fiftieth, all it takes is one set, a few honest lines and three records that made you.
- Paid nights
- New names welcome
- Any genre
- Heard in full
A01
Who it’s for
You don’t need a name yet. You need a crate you love.
- 01First sets
- 02Bedroom DJs
- 03Record collectors
- 04Producers who play their own
- 05The friend who always picks the music
If you love what we love and want to share it, there’s a place for you behind our decks. We value the selection, not the follower count.
A02
How it works
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A few lines
Who you are, where you’ve played, what you put on when nobody’s asking. Tell it the way you would at the bar.
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Three records
The three that made you. We read them before we press play.
We listen to every set, start to finish. If yours belongs to one of our nights, we book you.
You play a paid night at SIDE A, with your name on the poster and on @weareside.a. These are SIDE A Selects: nights numbered like releases, built around new names.
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What we listen for
- A point of view you can hear from the first track
- Records chosen for the people in front of you
- A journey: a set that starts in one place and takes us somewhere elseBuild it like a night. An opening that lets people in, a middle that earns the peak, and an ending they carry home. We listen for the whole progression.
- Any genre, as long as it’s unmistakably yours
TipRecord it live, in one take. We love a set that breathes.
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Send a set
First set ever? Say so. We love a beginning.
Received · Open Crate
In the crate.
We’ll listen from the first track to the last.
If it belongs to one of our nights, we’ll write to you to book a date. A note confirming it arrived is on its way to your inbox.
Until then, follow @weareside.a: we announce every Selects night there first.
Back to SIDE AA05
The set stays yours
We listen to it, and we ask you first before it goes anywhere else. Your details are deleted after six months, unless you play for us. Want them gone sooner? Write to [email protected].
SIDE A · More than what’s playing.