Brooklyn-based producer DJ Haram releases “Fishnets” ft. Bbymutha, SHA RAY & August Fanon, the third single from her debut album, Beside Myself (Hyperdub), out July 18th. “Fishnets” follows the single “Distress Tolerance” which was deemed by The FADER as a “Song You Need In Your Life.” Featuring MCs Bbymutha and SHA RAY with co-production by August Fanon, “Fishnets” is a groovy avant-garde boom-bap track with a sharp edge. The song finds equal space in its tormented live production of electro-acoustic instrumentation, violin, and rumbling bass. DJ Haram comments: “‘Fishnets’ is for the eclectic bad bitches. The people united will never be defeated.”

Beside Myself is testament to the survival of the spirit as an artist reckoning with the present global hellscape. A reference to rage, grief, and the alienation of feeling out of step with the world, the album title functions as a double entendre. The self-proclaimed “multidisciplinary propagandist” and “anti-format DJ” insists on evolving in times of war and weaponized entertainment, challenging herself and her peers, asking: “how can this be, how can we live with ourselves, how can we find each other and the truth, how can we get free?” The album finds the producer sharpening her technical production and lyricism to a new focus and intention, blending Middle Eastern music with Jersey club, punk, noise, hip-hop, and more anchored around Haram’s own poetic verse.
 
DJ Haram is joined by a swarm of friends and collaborators collectively navigating pain, purpose, and in occasional moments of joyful respite, mocking the strife. In addition to Fanon, Bbymutha, SHA RAY, the album also features MCs Armand Hammer (billy woods + ELUCID), her 700 Bliss partner Moor Mother,  Dakn, Egyptian producer El Kontessa, Jersey Club producer Kay Drizz, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, and guitarist Abdul Hakim Bilal. Beside Myself has a grungy, pessimistic futurism that offers no easy resolutions. As the title suggests, there are frictions at the heart of this album— inner and outer. Yet the catharsis and drama it produces are rarely so defiantly delivered.
 
To celebrate the release of Beside Myself, DJ Haram will host an album listening party on Wed. July 23 at Brooklyn’s Public Records featuring a Q+A with Kode9. Tickets are available here. This fall, DJ Haram will tour the EU and UK, including a run of dates opening for billy woods. A full list of dates is below.

DJ Haram Tour Dates
Sat. July 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Good Room ^
Mon. July 7 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Lot Radio
Wed. July 23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records (Album Listening Party / Q+A with Kode9)
Sat. Aug. 23 – Brooklyn, NY @ House of Yes ^
Sat. Sept. 13 – Oslo, NO @ by:larm
Fri. Oct. 3 – Dublin, IE @ Opium *
Sat. Oct. 4 – Glasgow, UK @ St Luke’s *
Sun. Oct. 5 – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall *
Tue. Oct. 7 – Bristol, UK @  Strange Brew *
Wed. Oct. 8 – Cardiff, UK @ Globe *
Thu. Oct. 9 – London, UK @ Scala *
Fri. Oct. 10 – Bologna, IT @ Robot Festival
Sat. Oct. 11 – Krakow, PL @ Unsound Festival
Fri. Oct. 24 – Berlin, DE @ 90mil
Wed. Oct. 29 – Geneva, CH @ Cave12
Thu. Oct. 30 – Paris, FR @ Badaboum
Fri. Oct. 31 – Lisbon, PT @ ZDB
Sat. Nov. 1 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz ^
Sat. Nov. 1 – Barcelona, ES @ Casa Montjuïc
Mon. Nov. 3 – Zagreb, HR @ Kset
Fri. Nov. 7 – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who?
Sat. Nov. 8 – Amsterdam, NL @ Murmur ^
 
* = supporting billy woods
^ = DJ set