Duke Dumont has become one of those divisive producers. House lovers either hail him for putting dance at the top of the UK charts, and signalling the British house invasion – or huff that he has boiled dance down to low-com-denom beats for fans with enough fake tan to last the zombie apocalypse. Still, you can’t dispute that Dumont knows how to craft an inescapably hooky tune – the result, perhaps, of years spent editing big hits into ringtone loops. These days, gone are any of the rough edges he had when starting out 10 years ago as a booty bass-favouring electro DJ: his high-concept pop-dance pivots on a biffing beat, filtered Detroit drum claps, infectious vocal line and simple synth riff that, played on a thwacking sound system, would get sleeping ravers finger-jabbing the air.

His debut live show is just as slick – and similar to house-pop duo Disclosure’s – with guest PAs, a bassist and a drummer. The Duke prods synths in the middle, his dangling earring moving in time to the relentless beat, a gold medallion around his neck. There’s the faint air of a Now Dance 93 compilation, such as when they play the recent track Won’t Look Back, with its triple-lunged, Black Box-inspired vocal line, or when rising singer MNEK steps on stage to sing Hold On, like a one-man Boyz II Men. But the show works best when Dumont weaves his poppiest material, such as the azure-tinted, Whitney Houston-covering summer song, I Got U, and the track that made him, Need U (100%), into a seamlessly high-energy techno-lite revue. The audience leave begrudgingly, wishing it was 6am in Ibiza rather than a midweek night in east London.