West Dixie Music CorridorStreet Economics® · Detection #1, the network map · 1958 to 2026
Network metrics

Who carries the connections

The figures below are computed on this dataset and nothing else. Degree is the number of edges attached to a node, with every edge type (personnel, lineage, records, labels, adjacency, plans) weighted equally and parallel edges between the same pair counted separately; distinct is the number of different neighbours. Betweenness is the share of shortest paths between all other pairs of nodes that pass through the node, on the simple undirected graph; it rewards nodes that bridge otherwise separate parts of the map. The people and production figure (personnel betweenness in the workbook and the map panel) repeats the calculation on the subgraph of worked at, founded or owned, moved to, spawned, became, linked venture, produced and mentored edges only, which is the lineage proper. Jurisdiction nodes are excluded and countywide venues, which have no documented act tying them to the corridor, score zero by construction. Criteria's degree of 108 against a second place of 16 (Tom Dowd) is the shape of the corridor in one number: a star, with the anchor at the centre and a ring that does not yet connect to itself.

RankNodeKindLayerDegreeDistinctBetweenness
1Criteria Recording StudiosstudioAnchor: Criteria across its eras1081060.352
2West Dixie HighwayplacePlaces and development12120.066
3Miami Beach Recording StudiosstudioRecording studios770.031
4Audio Vision StudiosstudioRecording studios770.014
5Allure North Miami (1810 NE 146th St)placePlaces and development770.011
6Hit Central RecordsstudioRecording studios330.010
7Afterhours MusicstudioRecording studios330.010
8The Hit FactorylabelLabels and publishers550.010
9Space MusicshopGear, repair and record stores330.010
10Emerman era, 1958 to 1991eraAnchor: Criteria across its eras220.010
11Steve AlaimopersonProducers, engineers, owners550.008
12Hit Factory Criteria, 1999 to 2017eraAnchor: Criteria across its eras330.005
13Bay Eight Recording StudiosstudioRecording studios440.005
14Set By DesignstudioRecording studios220.005
15Wynwood SoundshopGear, repair and record stores220.005
16SAE Institute MiamischoolSchools440.005
17The Guitar NookshopGear, repair and record stores220.005
18Dezerland Park West (1890 NE 146th St)placePlaces and development440.005
19Alston RecordslabelLabels and publishers440.005
20Atlantic Studios South, 1969 to 1975eraAnchor: Criteria across its eras220.005

People and production network

This view removes adjacency, record credits, labels and plans, leaving the documented people and organisational relationships (worked at, founded or owned, moved to, spawned, became, linked venture, produced or engineered, mentored) through which knowledge, ownership, production practice and institutional continuity move. It is broader than personnel in the musician's sense and the workbook column keeps the engine's name, personnel betweenness, for comparability with the other maps.

Restricting the graph to people and production relations keeps Criteria at the top (0.114) and brings the connective people forward: Tom Dowd, Karl Richardson, Steve Alaimo, Arif Mardin and Bill Szymczyk carry the bridges between the anchor, the labels and the ring, where the full graph hides them behind records and adjacency. Every studio in the ring other than Audio Vision and Miami Beach Recording Studios scores zero on the people and production graph, which is the measurable form of the detection's claim: the rooms share a street and an anchor, not people, on the record so far.

RankNodeKindLayerPeople and production betweenness
1Criteria Recording StudiosstudioAnchor: Criteria across its eras0.114
2Tom DowdpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.015
3Karl RichardsonpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.010
4Steve AlaimopersonProducers, engineers, owners0.010
5Arif MardinpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.010
6Bill SzymczykpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.009
7Eric SchillingpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.009
8Martin BirchpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.009
9Ron AlbertpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.007
10Howard AlbertpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.007
11TimbalandpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.006
12The Hit FactorylabelLabels and publishers0.006
13Emerman era, 1958 to 1991eraAnchor: Criteria across its eras0.006
14Albhy GalutenpersonProducers, engineers, owners0.004
15Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)recordArtists and records0.004

People who moved between mapped institutions

Every person on the map with a documented role at two or more studios, labels, shops or projects, in order of first year.

PersonClassChain
Mack Emermanpersonnel connectorCriteria Gold Coast founded or owned, 1950 → Criteria Recording Studios founded or owned, 1958
Tom Dowdpersonnel connectorAtlantic Records worked at, 1954 to 1970s → Criteria Recording Studios worked at, 1969 to 2002
Jerry Wexlerpersonnel connectorAtlantic Records worked at, 1953 to 1975 → Criteria Recording Studios worked at, 1969 to 1975
Arif Mardinpersonnel connectorAtlantic Records worked at, 1963 to 2001 → Criteria Recording Studios worked at, 1969 to 1975
Howard Albertpersonnel connectorCriteria Recording Studios worked at, 1969 to 1983 → Audio Vision Studios founded or owned, 1987 → Vision Records founded or owned, 1987
Steve Alaimopersonnel connectorAlston Records founded or owned, 1969 → Criteria Recording Studios worked at, 1971 → TK Records founded or owned, 1972 → Audio Vision Studios founded or owned, 1987 → Vision Records founded or owned, 1987
Henry Stonepersonnel connectorAlston Records founded or owned, 1969 → TK Records founded or owned, 1972
Ed Germanopersonnel connectorThe Hit Factory founded or owned, 1975 → Criteria Recording Studios founded or owned, 1999 to 2003
Troy Germanopersonnel connectorThe Hit Factory worked at, 1999 to 2026 → Criteria Recording Studios worked at, 1999 to 2012
Grover (Jeep) Harnedpersonnel connectorMCI (Music Center Incorporated) founded or owned, 1955 → Criteria Recording Studios worked at, 1958
Luciano Delgadopersonnel connectorSYNC Studios founded or owned, 1979 → Miami Beach Recording Studios founded or owned, 1997