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HAAi
ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF A NEW ALBUM
DIGITiSE – OUT OCTOBER 9, 2026
10-TRACK SEQUEL TO HER ACCLAIMED ALBUM, HUMANiSE – OUT NOW ON MUTE
LISTEN / WATCH THE TITLE TRACK HERE
AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS HERE
ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF A NEW ALBUM
DIGITiSE – OUT OCTOBER 9, 2026
10-TRACK SEQUEL TO HER ACCLAIMED ALBUM, HUMANiSE – OUT NOW ON MUTE
LISTEN / WATCH THE TITLE TRACK HERE
AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS HERE
London-based, Australian-born producer, songwriter and DJ, HAAi (aka Teneil Throssell) has announced details of a brand-new album, DIGITiSE - a dancefloor focused companion piece to her acclaimed album, HUMANiSE, out on October 9, 2026.
The album, which introduces new collaborators - Echonomist and Skybreak plus Cantoalegre, a children’s choir from Medellin, Colombia - as well as artists she’s worked with previously - Pat Alvarez, ILA, James Messiah and Kaiden Ford - was originally planned to extend the world of 2025’s HUMANiSE, but it soon evolved into something so much bigger: a 10-track album that takes us on a genre-defying dancefloor trip that HAAi has become revered for. She goes on to say, “DIGITiSE was created with intention: I wanted to make music I could play when I DJ. I wanted it to sonically spread across multiple lanes in the way I would play an all night long set.”
While immersed in the production for DIGITiSE HAAi felt that these new tracks emerging had their own heartbeat, and she soon expanded the project into a stand-alone album; a companion piece that further showcases this indomitable artist. Describing the album as its predecessor’s “bigger, ravey sibling”, she explains that “DIGITiSE holds the hand of HUMANiSE and walks it to the club”.
Listen to the first track to be shared, ‘DIGITiSE’ featuring long time creative comrade, producer and songwriter Pat Alvarez. HAAi says, “DIGITiSE" is the nucleus of the whole album. It’s a nod to the dance floor. A space of belonging and connection. Listen loud.”
Listen to ‘DIGITiSE’ HERE
DIGITiSE continues to explore what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. The pace of AI and technology, the division this is causing and the impact felt by many has only increased in relevance since the 2025 release. One antidote to this, for her, has always been to gather people in a room or on a dancefloor to feel community and unity, something she vehemently champions and nurtures throughout her work. DIGITiSE opens up to this spirit of community: from the collaborators on the album, who all represent unique and different voices in dance music, to the team who created the visuals led by Martin Falck (Fever Ray / The Knife / Icona Pop), a playful and camp counterbalance to the dystopia of HUMANiSE, and the live production team that brought new dimensions to the album on the stage, they have all helped usher us into HAAi’s vivid welcoming world.
HAAi, who is Beatport’s Artist of the Month for June, has been weaving elements of the new album into her DJ sets. The album was designed to be played out and seeing audience reactions in real time allowed her to refine breakdowns, tighten grooves and feel the physical response on the dancefloor. A series of intimate headline shows at the Courtyard Theatre, followed by a performance at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year also invited audiences in to the DIGITiSE world early. These rare live performances, which will continue into 2026, have been designed to create intimate and immersive spaces where the lighting – designed by lighting engineer Belinda Best – works with the environment to physically draw you into the performance.
The album came together while HAAi was on the road for her intense DJ schedule. She expands, “I’ve spent so many hours in clubs - on the dance floor and in the booth – and I really wanted to put that into this new album.” ‘Ignition (feat. Echonomist)’ borrows from ‘Go’ [one of the stand out tracks on HUMANiSE] whilst serving the dance floor; ‘I Wanna Feel Like Someone (feat. James Messiah)’ nods to those peak time moments on the dance floor, and, she smiles, “it pushes the elements that I love most in dance music, bass and frequency, and ties it together with Motorik rhythms”; while ‘Talking Walls’ (feat. Skybreak and Cantoalegre) is a sonic journey through some of the sounds and influences that have opened up to her from playing DJ sets. The track showcases both HAAi and Skybreak’s sonic worlds and the addition of a choir – Cantoalegre Colombian children’s choir – is reminiscent of the choirs that appear on the previous album, a thread that brings deep emotion to the track. “It’s one to hug your mates to at the festival.”
DIGITiSE picks up where HUMANiSE left of - quite literally: the last track of HUMANiSE fades out with the choir, picking up again on the opening track of DIGITiSE - and drops us squarely on the dance floor, 10-tracks that sonically spread across multiple lanes, “kind of in the way I would play an all-night-long set”.
DIGITiSE is released by Mute on October 9, 2026 on vinyl and digitally
Listen on streaming platforms HERE // Pre-order DIGITiSE HERE
High res artwork and press photograph HERE
[HAAi DIGITiSE album artwork]Listen on streaming platforms HERE // Pre-order DIGITiSE HERE
High res artwork and press photograph HERE
DIGITiSE TRACKLISTING (CAT # STUMM529)
RE-HUMANiSE (feat. Kaiden Ford and ILA)
Printerlude
Ignition (feat. Echonomist)
Depth Perception
DIGITiSE (feat. Pat Alvarez)
Technology
HUMANiSE Radio
THANK U
I Wanna Feel Like Someone (feat. James Messiah)
Talking Walls (feat. Skybreak and Cantoalegre)
HAAi DJ DATES
June 25- b2b SG Lewis, Solid Grooves @ DC10, Ibiza (ES)
June 26 - Malta Festival, Poznan (PL)
July 4 - Studio Club, Malaga (ES)
July 10 - Love International Festival @ The Garden, Tisno (HR)
July 17 - Dour Festival, Dour (BE)
July 18 - Phillgood Festival @ Plovdiv Rowing Canal, Plovdiv (BG)
July 19 - WHOLE United Queer Festival @ Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen (DE)
July 24 - Virage, Paris (FR)
July 25 - Tomorrowland (b2b The Blessed Madonna) @ Provinciaal Recreatiedomein De Schorre, Boom (BE)
July 26 - Brunch Electronik, Barcelona (ES)
July 26 - Outro Official Brunch Electronik Afterparty at Nacar Club, Barcelona (ES)
August 1 - Herrensauna x Knit @ TILLATEC, Amsterdam (NL)
August 2 - Pride On The Park @ Preston Road, Brighton (UK)
August 6 – World Pride Amsterdam at Museumplein, Amsterdam (NL)
August 7 - CRX Festival, Grottaglie (TA), Italy (IT)
August 8 - Maiden Voyage Festival @ Burgess Park, London (UK)
August 12 - Sziget Festival, Budapest (HU)
August 14 - Dom Dolla support b2b DJ Seinfeld, Hi Ibiza (ES)
August 15 - WeCanDance, Zeebrugge (BE)
August -30 Are You Affiliated @ King Street Social Club, North Shields (UK)
September 19 - Bugged Out, Ibiza (ES)
September -23 Todomedre, Madrid (ES) – LIVE
September 26 - b2b DJ Tennis, Place Simon Bolivar, Brussels (BE)
September -30 b2b Sally C, Mau P @ Pacha, Ibiza (ES)
October 10 - IPC curates b2b with DJ Seinfeld The Warehouse Project, Manchester (UK)
October 16 - Dom Dolla support b2b DJ Seinfeld @ Cow Palace, San Francisco CA (US) 17 October - iiiPoints Festival, Miami, Florida (US)
October 23 - b2b Adiel, Audio Obscura x Raw Factory, Amsterdam, (NL)
December 18 - b2b Special Request, Mastery x Glade @ Prospect, Bristol (UK)
Editor’s Notes
HAAi
HUMANiSE – one of Rough Trade, Disco Pogo and Resident’s Albums of the Year 2025 – was described by The Quietus as “transcendent” and by DJ Magazine as “…organic and synthetic sounds working in beautiful unison”. The album includes the singles ‘Satellite' (feat. Jon Hopkins & Obi Franky & ILĀ & TRANS VOICES), ‘Can’t Stand To Lose’, and ‘Stitches’, all A-listed by BBC Radio 6 Music, plus the 6 Music B-listed ‘Hey!, and her collaboration with KAM-BU, ‘Shapeshift’, which was performed on Later… with Jools Holland.
An accompanying film, HUMANiSE (live album performance, from Drumsheds), by New Vision Originals captured a performance that unfolded inside a meticulously crafted installation of a ‘90s office: a time capsule lined with ring binders, Rolodexes, fax machines, reams of A4 paper, and landline telephones - reimagined within the cavernous shell of London’s Drumsheds. The set becomes a surreal workplace with HAAi bringing the conceptual world of the album to life alongside album collaborators Jon Hopkins, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Obi Franky, KAM-BU, TRANS VOICES, and the poet Kaiden Ford. Watch the film HERE. She also popped into the DJ Magazine studios to DJ an hour of bangers. Watch the performance HERE.
Outside of her own productions, HAAi is known for her dynamic, tempo-shifting DJ sets. Recent DJ sets include Coachella, Movement, Glastonbury (her Glastonbury B2B with Romy that went out on BBC Radio 1 featured the premiere of Romy’s remix of ‘Stitches’), Body Movements. 2025 saw her helming UNiSON, her community-focussed night in London that she founded in 2024, as well as drop in on Glamcult TV to record this intimate version of ‘Can’t Stand To Lose’). Recent remixes have included Fred again.., Kylie Minogue and Nina Simone.
In 2023 she released her acclaimed DJ-Kicks compilation, which RA described as “a thrillingly eclectic journey through sound, where industrial beats meet warm melodies with finesse.” The compilation - which includes a new version of her collaboration with Jon Hopkins titled ‘Always Ascending’ - came soon after her debut album, Baby, We’re Ascending, which opened up her boundary pushing blend of psychedelia, techno and powerful beats to new avenues, prompting the likes of Dazed to say, “[HAAi] transcends to new planes of existence on her full-length debut” and NME to praise her “high-flying, vibrant electronic wonderland”. 2023 also saw the release of ‘Lights Out’, her collaboration with Fred again.. and Romy; a single that solidified HAAi’s place at the forefront of electronic music.
Pat Alvarez is a producer and songwriter who has been writing and producing since he was a teenager in Buenos Aires, before going on to study Music Production and Audio Engineering at Tecson (BA) and Berklee College of Music Online.
His writing and production portfolio includes The Blessed Madonna, Rose Gray, HAAi, Jelani Blackman, Uffie, Jon Hopkins, Adiel, Alexis Taylor and Mette. With multi-instrumentalist skills which sit alongside his production abilities in dance music, his portfolio also extends to pop, hip hop, alternative rock and experimental music.
He is one half of duo 'Solid Wall' alongside Lucas Vedel.
PRAISE FOR HUMANiSE:
One of DJ Magazine, Rough Trade, Disco Pogo and Resident’s Albums of the Year 2025
“The transcendent album… finds her exploring the themes of digital humanism by way of vibrant hues, ethereal choirs and breathy, blissed out vocals” - Electronic Sound
“An expansive producer with a songwriter’s unerring sense of timing, a DJ’s intuition, and a psychonaut’s willingness to plunge ever deeper, on new record HUMANiSE, HAAi is looking to the things that can’t be synthesised; the record is a celebration of found family, and the connections found in person on the dancefloor.” - The Quietus
“For anyone who has experienced HAAi’s DJ sets, the album captures that same sense of euphoria and attention to detail—but adds an intimate, almost confessional dimension that feels wholly original.” – Clash
“…latest installment in this creative journey smudging the lines between psychedelia, mind-expanding electronics and dubby dancefloor thrum” - Juno
“… her solo work — which includes psychedelic electronica, massive breakbeat sounds, anthemic synth-kissed songs and remarkably fun D.J. sets — continues to cement her reputation as a stand-alone talent.” - The New York Times, one of 5 Artists to Watch, 2025
PRAISE FOR BABY, WE’RE ASCENDING
"...something bigger, something that transcends the club without turning its back on it. More than any individual standout tracks, what’s most compelling is the album’s journey.” – PITCHFORK
“Both on and beyond the dancefloor, [Baby, We’re Ascending is] an ascension alright” – DJ
"…reach the astral plane, rinse and repeat." – NYLON
"Baby, We’re Ascending is a sonic journey out to prove that elaborate, transportive electronic music need not be self-serious." - PASTE
PRAISE FOR DJ-KICKS
"Bold, inventive, and full of personality—HAAi’s DJ-Kicks is a love letter to the ever-evolving possibilities of club music." - CRACK
"HAAi's DJ-Kicks delivers pulsating energy and leftfield gems, proving her mastery as a tastemaker in electronic music." - MIXMAG
"A rich and adventurous compilation that offers a deep dive into the mind of one of the most exciting DJs of our time." – THE GUARDIAN
HAAi’s DJ-Kicks is an expansive, kaleidoscopic listen that mirrors her visionary approach to live sets, seamlessly blending disparate genres into a cohesive whole." – PITCHFORK
