Art Department brings deep house to Café Grooves at Sable

Jonny White plays a Saturday-afternoon Café Grooves session in Wynwood on Nov 14, in the city that has booked Art Department more than any other.

Most Miami house nights start when the rest of the city is going to bed. This one starts at lunch.

Art Department plays Sable in Wynwood on Saturday, Nov 14, at 12:30pm, with Natalia Roth. It's a Café Grooves session, and tickets are $34.99 through Shotgun. Get there for the opening set; a daytime party moves on a different clock than a club night, and the early hours are part of the point.

Café Grooves is the right frame for it. Miami New Times described the series as a daytime experience "where deep house meets cold brew, and sunrise sets the tempo," a party that grew quickly into a monthly ritual. Sable is a natural home. A deep-house set there in mid-November, when the heat has finally broken, is about as good as Miami daytime gets.

Art Department isn't from here, but Miami has a fair claim on the project. Resident Advisor's stats list Miami as Art Department's most-played region, ahead of Ibiza, New York and London, and in our own show records Miami tops the list too, with 20 dates. That makes this less a tour stop than a return to one of the cities that has kept the name in circulation.

Resident Advisor lists Miami as Art Department's most-played region, ahead of Ibiza.

The project has changed shape over the years. Jonny White started Art Department with Kenny Glasgow in 2009, and the pair became one of the defining names of the deep-house revival that followed; Glasgow left in 2015 to go solo, and White has carried Art Department on his own since. The catalog includes a *fabric 82* mix for the London club's long-running series and a home on the Crosstown Rebels label. In a Noisey interview, White argued that "deep house is back" — a line that, a decade and a half into the project, reads less like a forecast than a résumé.

Natalia Roth's support slot is worth catching, too. On a day party bill the opener shapes how the room feels by the time the headliner steps up.

Wear something you can stand in the sun in, and plan to stay longer than you think.

Sources: Café Grooves Miami — Shotgun (shotgun.live); Art Department — Shotgun artist page (shotgun.live); Art Department — Resident Advisor (ra.co); Jonny White — Resident Advisor (ra.co); Art Department — Crosstown Rebels (crosstownrebels.com); Art Department — fabric 82 (store.fabriclondon.com); Deep House Is Back: An Interview with Art Department's Jonny White — Vice/Noisey (vice.com); Café Grooves gets Miami moving — Miami New Times (miaminewtimes.com)