The London-via-Western Australia producer was once sceptical of dance music. Thankfully that changed – when she stepped foot in Berghain
eneil Throssell’s origin story as Haai goes a long way to explaining her dense and tactile club music. Born in Karratha, Western Australia, and spending her formative gig-going years in Sydney, Throssell relocated to London in her 20s as part of psych-rock outfit Dark Bells. Initially turned off by what she saw as the strictures of dance music, her scepticism was undone by a chance trip to Berlin’s Berghain.
Dancing for hours to club resident Ben Klock’s hypnotic, tunnelling techno, she realised what she’d been missing. Pretty soon, the Haai sound clicked: part rough-hewn and psychedelic, part London bass culture by osmosis, and part sleepless weekend in Berlin. Take, for example, Haai’s 2021 track Keep on Believing, which opens with a bracing kick drum before charging through tempo shifts and skittering, half-submerged vocal snippets.: “I kind of came out of nowhere.
As her cachet has grown, Throssell has also embraced being a queer artist in dance music. “When you have a lived experience of being queer, you can invite people into a space without feeling so tokenistic,” shein 2023. Last month, she hosted Unison, a “community-focused” all day and night party in London featuring surprise back-to-back sets with Romy, Boys Noize and fellow Australian transplants Surusinghe and DJ Boring.
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