Go Yama live set // Keep Hush live w/ Darker Than Wax

Let’s be honest: the moment you hear Koji Kondo’s ‘Lost Woods’ dropped into a DJ set, you know you’re in for something unhinged. Go Yama’s Keep Hush session with Darker Than Wax is less a cohesive mix and more a fever dream of a crate digger who’s raided every genre bin in existence. The room feels like a sweaty basement where the lights are just a single strobe and the crowd is nodding along to the sheer audacity of it all. The BPM average sits at 136, but that’s a lie – it jumps from 115 to 167, held together by sheer will and some key clashes we choose to forgive (the 2B to 8B pivot is chaos, but we’re here for it).

The low end carries 40% of the energy, with mids doing the heavy lifting at 53%, meaning the groove is loose but never flabby. This is a set built on left turns, not mixing. The crate digger section is a treasure hunt: GoldLink’s ‘Unique’ (feat. Anderson .Paak) gets a Louis Futon remix that flips the R&B into glitch-hop territory, while Denzel Curry’s ‘Ultimate’ lands like a brick through a window, all 150 BPM of it.

Sam Gellaitry’s ‘Long Distance’ is the longest track at 11 minutes, a slow-burn electronic jam that lets you catch your breath before Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey close the set with ‘I Know What You Want’ – a full-on 2002 radio hit that somehow works in context. The journey begins with Nintendo nostalgia, peaks somewhere in the chaos of SubStance & Music System Power’s ‘Maldives’, a weird tech-house outlier, and ends with that R&B-hip-hop singalong. It’s a mess, but it’s our mess.