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“My goals are righteous, focused not flawless / Ruthless never been so gorgeous.” Those are just a couple of the bars from “Distress Tolerance”, the latest preview from DJ Haram’s debut album, Beside Myself, but arguably, they’re an encapsulation of the powder keg of prose she laying down with the softest lips you’ll hear them slip through here. While the Brooklyn experimental producer has an affliction for bombarding the soundboards with aggro blastbeats and unruly electrocution, it’s her words that reign down the violence for her against fame-chasing narcissists, fake allies, and the corporatization of even our purest virtues like love over a collision of field recordings, a violin outstretched, and synthetic fractures in the continuum. And yet, even DJ Haram knows there’s a place for a good self-own amid the self-seriousness. “I coulda been this world’s thickest eco-terrorist / But I’m in the green room drunk looking for cannabis,” she says. Even the resistance needs a much-deserved smoke break every now and then to get everything heavy breathed out of its chest…

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