HAAi in session for Lauren Laverne at BBC6 Music – recorded on October 7th at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios.
Teneil Laetitia Throssell, known professionally as HAAi, is an Australian electronic music producer and DJ from Karratha, Western Australia.
Throssell began her musical career in a series of rock bands, eventually moving to the UK as part of duo Dark Bells. She began DJing only after the band split up, going on to hold a residency at club Phonox in London from late 2016 for two years. HAAi gained wider prominence after winning the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix of the Year 2018.
She released her debut EP in November 2019 with Systems Up, Windows Down. This was followed-up by her debut album, Baby, We’re Ascending, in May 2022. She has collaborated with various other electronic artists, including Fred Again and Jon Hopkins.
In 2025, she announced her next album, Humanise, which is intended to release on October 10 (only two days away).
Humanise includes collaborations with Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, poet James Massiah, and the Trans Voices choir. Throssell said she intended the album to be for her “trans and queer family and our allies”, describing the incorporation of queer creators in the album as “active resistance”.
DJ Magazine described the album as incorporating more vocal elements than HAAi’s previous work and her output as a DJ; all of the tracks excluding one include vocals. She stated that this change came about as she felt she needed to “start writing more directly about my own experiences”. Clash described the sound of “Can’t Stand to Lose” as being influenced by both electronic music and other genres such as shoegaze.
The first singles of the album, “Can’t Stand to Lose” and “Shapeshift” were released on 11 February and 11 April 2025 respectively. The album was announced on 28 May, alongside the first single “Satellite”. This was followed by “Hey!” on 22 July and “Stitches” on 10 September.
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