
Baby, We're Ascending
HAAi
- 2 x LP
- Label
- Mute

Teneil Throssell?s full-length debut is break-neck techno that tries to transcend the club without turning its back on it.
There?s rarely a dull moment in HAAi?s high-octane techno because Teneil Throssell is a master of the quick cut. Sometimes she attacks her music with surgical precision, carving out breathtaking pockets of silence before slamming the beat back. At others, she works with a field medic?s intensity, slashing diagonally across mangled breakbeats, then suturing the wound with an overdriven blast of bass. But for all its frequent change-ups, HAAi?s music never suffers from a short attention span. Channeling the hypnotic, tunnel-vision effects of classic Underworld, vintage drum?n?bass, and the early-?00s output of labels like Border Community and Kompakt, it?s a sound as heady as it is physical. Throssell works like a film editor, piecing together stray threads into a form that is cinematic in scope; her cuts always contribute to an overarching sense of continuity.









