Photo by Windy Timana

You know DJ Haram, even if not explicitly by her name. She is the uncanny sound in recent efforts from Armand Hammer or Moor Mother where real world violence and abrasive, electronic futurism collide on the same timeline, and has made her one the underground rap and experimental noise communities’ most alluring weapons in soundcrafting in recent years, having contributed production and collaboration with the aforementioned (see: her 700 Bliss project alongside Moor Mother) as well as others. It’s on “Voyeur”, the first single from the Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary propagandist’s first proper debut full-length, Beside Myself, where she fully embraces her intent as an antithesis to all, leaving you pondering what truly exists. Industrial in its severity as much as it is a clash of the influence of middle eastern traditionalist in its brain melt of barreling drum lines and violin loops holding equal ground in the rave as its hardcore ragers, it could only be translated without words into something disruptive against the culture: when you create like there is no expectation of a future, ideas are boundless.

DJ Haram’s Beside Myself will be released July 18th on Hyperdub.