Dear indie friends,

Eighty.

It’s a strange number when you let it sit for a while.

Not round enough to feel like a grand finale, not small enough to pass unnoticed. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t celebrate by itself. It just stands there, quietly, like a marker on a road you didn’t fully realize you were walking until now.

Eighty weeks. Non Stop.

Eighty letters sent into the world, each one carrying sounds, names, fragments of lives, moments of doubt, flashes of beauty, pieces of chaos carefully wrapped in words and music.

And today, for the first time in a long time, a question lingers a little longer than usual.

Is this the last one?

Because something happens when you reach a number like this.

You start looking back, not in a nostalgic way, but in a curious way. You start asking yourself what this really is, what it has become, what it has done to you, and maybe even more importantly… what it has done to others.

Because Mitxoda Weekly was never just a newsletter.

It was never just a format, a routine, a weekly obligation squeezed between rehearsals, life, family, concerts, radio shows, late nights and early mornings.

It became something else.

A space.

A small, fragile, stubborn space where algorithms don’t get to decide everything. Where music is not reduced to numbers, but expanded through attention. Where a name can appear for the first time, without needing validation, without needing permission.

A place where discovery still feels… human.

But let’s be honest for a moment.

Consistency is a beautiful thing.

And also a dangerous one.

Because when you show up every single week, without interruption, without excuses, without shortcuts… something inside you shifts.

It becomes part of your identity.

And then, one day, you wake up and wonder:

Am I still choosing this?

Or am I simply continuing it?

Eighty weeks is long enough to build something real.

Long enough to create habits, expectations, invisible connections.

Long enough for people to wait for it, sometimes silently.

Long enough for artists to hope to be part of it.

Long enough for this weekly to stop being “something I do” and become “something that exists.”

And that changes everything.

Because once something exists beyond you… you have a responsibility towards it.

But also towards yourself.

So yes, today, the question is real.

Is this the last one?

Not as a dramatic ending.

Not as a final curtain.

But as an honest pause.

A moment where you allow yourself to step back and look at what you’ve built, without immediately rushing into the next issue, the next track, the next discovery.

A moment where you accept that even the most beautiful rhythms deserve silence sometimes.

Because here’s the truth.

Nothing about Mitxoda has ever been about obligation.

Not the music.

Not the Salon Indie.

Not the Weekly.

Everything came from the same place: a need to share, to connect, to explore, to give space to voices that don’t always get one.

And that need is still here.

Very much alive.

But maybe… evolving.

Maybe the question is not:

Is this the last one?

Maybe the real question is:

What should this become now?

Because stopping is not the only way to transform something.

Sometimes, you don’t end a story.

You change its rhythm.

You let it breathe differently.

You allow it to surprise you again.

Eighty weeks ago, this started with a simple idea.

Send something.

Share something.

See what happens.

No strategy. No growth hacking. No performance metrics dictating what should or should not be included.

Just instinct.

Just music.

Just people.

And today, if you look closely, that instinct is still the most valuable thing we have.

In a world where everything is optimized, filtered, accelerated…

Choosing to slow down is not a weakness.

It’s a statement.

So maybe this is the last one.

Or maybe it’s the last one like this.

Maybe the format will change.

Maybe the rhythm will shift.

Maybe silence will take more space between the notes.

Maybe something new is already trying to emerge, quietly, just beneath the surface.

But one thing remains absolutely certain.

This was real.

Every single week of it.

Every artist featured.

Every word written.

Every moment shared.

No shortcuts.

No automation pretending to be emotion.

No noise for the sake of noise.

Just a continuous attempt to keep something human alive in a world that keeps moving faster than we can sometimes follow.

And if this is the last one…

Then it doesn’t feel like an ending.

It feels like standing at the edge of something undefined.

Which, if you think about it…

Has always been the most honest place to create from.

So let’s not rush the answer.

Let’s stay here for a second.

Right on this edge.

Between continuation and transformation.

Between habit and choice.

Between what was…

And what could be.

Maybe next week, something arrives.

Maybe not.

But whatever comes next…

It will come from the same place.

And you’ll feel it.

Love.
Mitxoda

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This week’s Top 10 isn’t about winning prizes, it’s about love, support, and staying in it together.

Listen Back to the last Friday Salon Indie de Mitxoda here.

Later today at 4:00 PM (Brussels time) the 49th episode of Le Salon Indie de Mitxoda, will take place on salon.mitxoda.be, this time, I won’t be there, just music. And you. See you very soon.

This 80th edition was maybe the last one, I don’t know yet.

I need to rest, stay calm and enjoy some happiness. Take care.

Stay true.
🖤 Mitxoda

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