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DIGITiSE

'DIGITiSE' picks up where HAAi's 2025 album 'HUMANiSE' left off, dropping us squarely on the dance floor with 10-tracks that sonically spread across multiple lanes, inspired by HAAi’s all- night-long DJ sets.

'DIGITiSE' continues to examine what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world: the relentless pace of AI and technology, the divisions it creates, and the toll it takes, offering up an antidote to that: community. To gather people in a room or on a dancefloor, to feel unity and belonging, is something HAAi has fiercely championed. 'DIGITiSE' opens
itself fully to that spirit.

The album brings the London-based, Australian-born producer, songwriter and DJ together with new collaborators Echonomist, Skybreak, and Cantoalegre (a children's choir from Medellín, Colombia) alongside artists HAAi has collaborated with previously – Pat Alvarez, ILA, James Messiah and Kaiden Ford.

'DIGITiSE' holds the hand of 'HUMANiSE' and walks it to the club.


TRACK LISTING

1. RE-HUMANiSE (feat. Kaiden Ford and Ila)
2. Printerlude
3. Ignition (feat. Echonomist)
4. Depth Perception
5. DIGITiSE (feat. Pat Alvarez)
6. Technology
7. HUMANiSE Radio
8. THANK U
9. I Wanna Feel Like Someone (feat. James Messiah)
10. Walking Walls (feat. Skybreak and Cantoalegre)

HAAi

HUMANiSE

HAAi returns with her bold and brilliant second album, 'HUMANiSE', exploring the sweet spot between machine-led dystopia and emotion-filled utopia.

In all of her work, Teneil has always sought to conquer new frontiers in electronic music, and on the new album, she’s drilling deeper into the grid. 'HUMANiSE' reckons with what it is to be human in an increasingly digital world, as AI threatens to eclipse everything and our screens separate us from each other. The result is an ambitious and thrilling epic: embodying a sonic step up, and a distinct evolution from her 2022 debut, 'Baby, We’re Ascending'.

Voices – both real and digitised – play a huge part on 'HUMANiSE', alongside ideas of community and a sense of belonging. She has returned to work with friends including Jon Hopkins, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, singer Obi Franky, rapper KAM-BU, artist Kaiden Ford, and poet James Massiah, as well as two choirs: Trans Voices with choir leader ILĀ and a gospel choir led by Wendi Rose. Having spent years behind the decks, HAAi also brings her own voice to the forefront in a powerful shift toward vulnerability and self-expression. Her vocals, stunningly delicate, give a newfound dimension to her kinetic productions.

The album’s concept became clear while HAAi was in the studio with Hopkins. The pair were playing with a vocal harmonizer plug-in with a function called ‘Humanize’. For HAAi, a light went off: “The idea of something completely synthetic trying to make an actual person sound more human is crazy,” she says. HAAi blurs these extremes throughout the album: digitising voices, layering them to hazy effect, and even using an AI text-to-speech to generate her voice. But, ultimately, she concludes that experience and memory – what makes us truly human – cannot be replaced.

From the euphoric opener ‘Satellite’, to BBC Radio 6 Music A-listed track ‘Can’t Stand To Lose’, and genre-smashing cuts like ‘Shapeshift’, the album is filled with exhilarating sonic twists and deeply personal lyrics. 'HUMANiSE' is a powerful, emotionally charged leap forward: a celebration of community, self-expression and humanity.


TRACK LISTING

1. Satellite (feat. Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, ILĀ And Trans Voices)
2. All That Falls Apart / Comes Together (feat. James Massiah)
3. Stitches
4. Can't Stand To Lose
5. Shapeshift (feat. KAM-BU)
6. Voices
7. Go (feat. Kaiden Ford)
8. HUMANiSE
9. Hey!
10. Rushing (feat. ILĀ And Trans Voices)
11. New Euphoria (feat. Alexis Taylor, ILĀ And Trans Voices)
12. HQ (feat. Kaiden Ford)

HAAi

Baby, We're Ascending

HAAi's debut full-length album is her most collaborative, energetic and vibrant collection to date. Baby, We're Ascending, a 13-track sonic adventure that takes you along for the ride – from hardcore, echoey beats to sweeping, colourful synth lines and bright, warped vocal samples. The voices on the album are vast and eclectic – from Jon Hopkins and Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor to singer Obi Franky and spoken word poet and activist Kai-Isaiah Jamal.

The album follows the release of ‘Lights Out’, her collaboration with Grammy-nominated producer Fred Again.. and Romy of The xx, and is supported by a series of worldwide shows.

TRACK LISTING

1 Channels
2 Pigeon Barron
3 Bodies Of Water
4 Human Sound Feat. Kai-Isaiah Jamal And Obi Franky
5 Louder Always Better
6 Biggest Mood Ever Feat. Alexis Taylor
7 AM
8 FM
9 I’ve Been Thinking A Lot Lately
10 Purple Jelly Disc Feat. Obi Franky
11 Baby, We’re Ascending
12 Orca
13 Tardigrade

JFC. Last week Matt Ward accused someone (in the shop, not the generalised 'Man') of spiking the Piccadilly brews with one or more narcotics. Naturally we all laughed him out of the shop. But now, as I sit slack jawed and lost to the most profound déjà vu, I'm starting to believe the Kicking Pidge is in fact a pit canary. I walked into work as an out of shape, mildly out of touch 30-something - I still find friends funnier than I do unacceptable and haven't yet given up on Gervais - but now, as the sounds of this Romy 12" rattle through my ear drums, I'm young again, living out a Uni-era euphoria of Mkat and Mad Ferret. 

Things are the same but different. Romy XX is on an indie label, her voice as pristene as ever, but now the line up of remixers represents the more balanced face of the industry, each one female or non binary and selected by Romy herself. Though the POV may be different, the purpose is the same, retool an indie OG for the various dance subsets out there. Jayda G takes the tech-house approach, taking the Innervisions approach of jazzy keys and moody bass whomps, while Planningtorock's "Let It Happen" remix is as close to electroclash as anyone dares to get in 2k21.Though the instrumentation may stray a little too close to Whitey's "Leave Them All Behind" the adventurous use of vocal pitch shift more than makes up for it. Kicking off the flip HAAi's in some sort of MBV meets EDM fever dream, translating the OG into a euphoric call back to Skream's "In For The Kill" remix (on a side note, the isolated vocal in the breakdown here has a distinctly Appalachian flavour - country EDM 2.0?) before local shero Anz pairs breaks and bass oomph with some rather sophisticated keys. 

Four mixes for four different sets and one neat A Capella to show off those vocals in splendid self isolation. 

TRACK LISTING

Lifetime (Jayda G Baleen Mix)
Lifetime (Planningtorock 'Let It Happen' Remix)
Lifetime (HAAi’s Green Lamborghini Romix)
Lifetime (Anz’s Togetherness Remix)
Lifetime (A Capella)

HAAi

Put Your Head Above The Parakeets

‘Put Your Head Above The Parakeets’ is a brand new EP from HAAi, her second for Mute.  The EP features four brand new tracks including the pseudo title track ‘Head Above The Parakeets’, which exudes a woozy summery heat while ‘Rotating in Unison’ embraces positivity, written in response to this year’s enforced slowdown. The final two tracks take us back to the club, where HAAi is known for spinning genre-bending and spellbinding DJ sets.




STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Twisting breakbeat, braindance, brutalist techno and IDM into an utterly postmodern sonic collage, HAAi brings the past into the future wonderfully on this fierce four tracker for Mute.

TRACK LISTING

1. Head Above The Parakeets
2. Rotating In Unison
3. Bon Viveur
4. Bass Is The Place


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