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Shivum Sharma
Keep Hush Live London: Shivum Sharma Presents
There’s a particular breed of DJ set that feels like it was beamed in from a villa party where everyone’s wearing linen and nobody’s checked their phone for hours. Shivum Sharma’s Keep Hush session is exactly that — a sun-drenched, deeply affectionate nod to the house-adjacent pop that defined turn-of-the-millennium radio, but filtered through a crate-digger’s obsession with the edits that made those records breathe on a dancefloor. The room in London is intimate, low-lit, with the kind of crowd that sways rather than jumps — bodies moving in slow, knowing circles.
Sticking largely around 121 BPM and anchored in the warm, open sonics of 12A and 3B, the set leans into a low-energy dominance (0.57 average) that lets every snare hit and vocal delay land with room to breathe. The mixing is unhurried, often letting tracks play out their full four-minute arcs before the next groove sidles in, creating a harmonic corridor that moves from DJ Raff’s languid opener through Alexander’s swinging 'Affirmative Affair' — a record that sounds like a forgotten 90s deep house gem — and into the sly lift of Britney Spears’ 'Lucky' via Jack D. Elliot’s radio edit, which is a masterclass in making a guilty pleasure feel like a sacred text.
HOSH & 1979’s 'Midnight (The Hanging Tree)' injects a little dusk tension before the set resolves with Robin S.’s immortal 'Show Me Love', and somehow it lands not as a cheap singalong but as a genuine moment of release. The opening track — DJ Raff’s 'Momentos' — sets the table with Latin-tinged keys and a loose, almost cassette-warm beat, and by the time we hit the closing strains of Robin S., we’ve been taken on a ride that’s less about peak-time fireworks and more about the pleasure of a well-loved record collection. This is a set for the morning after, for the slow comedown, for remembering why pop music, in the right hands, can be just as transcendent as any white-label obscurity.