Last month, Brooklyn-based producer DJ Haram released her “jaw-droppingly inventive” (Pitchfork) debut album Beside Myself (Hyperdub). The album has received glowing reviews from Bandcamp, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, Treble, and more, with the latter raving “[Beside Myself] provides an indelible mark on one’s memory, steeped in ominous frequencies and beats as harsh and as heavy as the burning hellscape outside.”

Today, she releases the music video for the album highlight, “Stenography” ft. Armand Hammer directed by Alli Logout and edited by Ngu Asongwed. Asongwed comments: “We have entered the Uncanny Valley, made a settlement & subjugated the indigenous population. The act of stenography is to record reality but is reality physical space or based on individual perspective? Have we killed objective truth? That’s what the song and the video pushes me to ask. How real is real? How solid is our reality when someone can just ‘Delete, Delete, Delete!’?”

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 new focus and intention, blending Middle Eastern music with Jersey club, punk, noise, hip-hop, and more, anchored around Haram’s own poetic verse.

On Beside Myself, 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. Alongside Armand Hammer (E L U C I D + billy woods), the album features Bbymutha, SHA RAY, her 700 Bliss partner Moor Mother, Dakn, underground rap god August Fanon, Egyptian producer El Kontessa, Jersey Club producer Kay Drizz, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, and guitarist Abdul Hakim Bilal.

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. 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