Consider trippy music and, as you light that joss stick, it might bring to mind long-haired, bearded men in tunics bent over guitars. Or trance, with its fluffy boots and angel wings, in a desert. But Teneil Throssell, AKA Haai, has a knack for searching out hypnotic sounds and blending them together without it ever feeling forced, mining the psychedelic end of Middle Eastern rave one minute and African drumming the next.<\/p>\n
Throssell moved to London from Australia to make a go of her rock band but, when they split, she quickly became a superstar spinner in the ascendant. She was discovered playing Turkish oddities at a small Dalston bar in 2016, given a residency at Brixton nightclub Phonox and hasnt looked back since. Her wide-ranging sets go from techno to attitudinal body music, brash Eurodance and even Bruce Springsteen, a dynamite combination that led to her winning the Radio 1 essential mix of the year 2018.<\/p>\n
The music Throssell makes herself is darker. Last month she released her first EP on Mute, Systems Up, Windows Down a bolshy collection of vibrant face-melters, taking in big-room breaks, shards of trance, playful samples inspired by her travels and punishing beats that could crack bones under a strobe light at 6am. Snobs have bemoaned her supposed lack of cohesion but while its easy to blag conformity, you cant fake personality and Throssells tracks have tons of it. A debut album and a huge 2020 await.<\/p>\n
Systems Up, Windows Down EP is out now on Mute<\/p>\n
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