DJ Haram announces debut album ‘Beside Myself’
The artist’s first full-length will be out everywhere on July 18th via Hyperdub.
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New York’s DJ Haram is releasing her first full-length album.
Out July 18th on Hyperdub, Beside Myself includes 14 tracks that bring together Jersey Club, punk, and noise, in which she uses electro-acoustic instrumentation and sampling, as well as tambourines, shakers, darbuka drums, and violin amid synths, 808s, and bass. The title both encompasses the feeling of grief and the feeling of alienation, which is understandable given the world is edging societal collapse.
The project also features a plethora of collaborators from all over the music spectrum, such as Armand Hammer, bbymutha, Kay Drizz, and her 700 Bliss other-half, Moor Mother. For DJ Haram, working with artists is a refusal of individualism. “ We have to start organizing outside the frame,” she said in a press statement. “Music is a liberation technology, a vessel of truth and resistance.”
DJ Haram isn’t just an artist, but describes herself as an anti-format multidisciplinary propagandist, which she first claimed on her HEADS KNOW TAPE.
Listen to “Voyeur,” the first single of Beside Myself and check out the album’s full tracklist below.
Tracklist:
01. Walking Memory
02. Remaining (feat. Dakn & Acquilles Navarro)
03. Fishnets (feat. bbymutha, Sha Ray & August Fanon)
04. Lifelike (feat. Moor Mother & 700 Bliss)
05. Voyeur
06. Do u Love me (feat. Kay Drizz)
07. Stenography (feat. Armand Hammer)
08. IDGAF (feat. Abdul Hakim Bilal)
09. Badass (feat. Carmen Nebula)
10. Loneliness Epidemic
11. Sahel (feat. El Kontessa)
12. Distress Tolerance
13. Who Needs Enemies When These Are Your Allies?
14. Deep Breath (An Ending)
