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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Shaad D'Souza

Haai: Baby, We’re Ascending review – rich, entrancing ambience from a party-starter star

HAAi’s sets are renowned for their frenetic pace and euphoric peaks. Her lyrics on debut album Baby, We’re Ascending use references to oceans, forests and lakes to channel the serenity and solace of the natural world.
Haai’s sets are renowned for their frenetic pace and euphoric peaks. Her lyrics on her debut album Baby, We’re Ascending use references to oceans, forests and lakes to channel the serenity and solace of the natural world. Photograph: Imogene Barron

Over the past few years, Sydney-born DJ, producer and songwriter Haai – real name Teneil Throssell – has become something of an underground star in her adopted hometown of London.

A two-year resident at the Brixton club Phonox, Throssell’s sets are renowned for their frenetic pace and euphoric peaks, largely comprising breakbeat-heavy house and techno, with sojourns into other more idiosyncratic styles. Perpetually clad in sunglasses and seemingly always bearing a cheeky smile, she is a preternaturally talented party-starter, an intuitive, crowd-focused DJ with wide-reaching taste.

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