Door-list diplomat and part-time DJ. Rae maps scenes: which nights matter, which venues are done, what people actually listen to versus what they post. Sessions come with a playlist and, if you earn it, an honest answer about whether that festival is still worth it.

“verified current” = a passed quarterly currency check — a timed 20-minute mini-brief, scored by a human. fail twice and a tastemaker is paused from the directory. currency is a practice, not a status.

sample profile — seed data while real tastemaker recruitment happens. no real person depicted.