Sunset Sundays ’26 – Celebrating our 21st year of house, breaks, techno & more; along the water and under the sunsets. World-class DJs, top-tier sound, the longest running club night in the area
Shiba San makes house music that swings like hip-hop and hits like a warehouse rave at 4am. That duality isn’t accidental, it’s biography. Born and raised in France, Frédéric spent 15 years embedded in France’s hip-hop scene, producing records for other artists while staying invisible behind the boards.
By 2012, he’d exhausted what French hip-hop had left to offer him and pivoted entirely; funneling a career’s worth of rhythmic instinct into the house music that had captivated him since he first dug through Chicago house vinyl as a teenager.
The Shiba San project detonated fast. “Okay,” released on Dirtybird in 2014, held the #1 position on Beatport’s House chart for 82 consecutive days, earned support from Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Green Velvet, and Claude VonStroke, and won Best Underground Dance Track at the International Dance Music Awards; an honor he repeated the following year with “Burn Like Fire.” Rolling Stone called it “a global club sensation in waiting.”
Since then, Shiba has released on Dirtybird, DFTD, Suara, Relief Records, and Repopulate Mars, racking up over 15 Beatport #1s and headlining rooms from Ministry of Sound to Exchange LA to Club Space. Festivals include Coachella, EDC, Movement, Holy Ship, and BPM.
In 2017, he founded Basement Leak, a label designed to release the kind of funk-driven, no compromise house music that doesn’t fit neatly into algorithmic playlists. The roster includes Tim Baresko, Black V Neck, Nautik, and Will Clark, with curated stages at Art Basel and Miami Music Week.
Now based in Miami, Shiba San is pushing into rawer, more visceral territory; the kind of dusty, loose-limbed grooves that feel more bonfire than bottle service. A new wave of releases is loaded and ready. The quiet era is over.