Sunday 29 March 2026, 7.30pm
We’re excited to welcome DJ Haram to OTO for a rare live show, and their first London date since the release of Beside Myself on Hyperdub. It is a debut that feels like the culmination of years of vital fringe work, hitting like a fully-formed world, fusing together concrète noise, Jersey kicks, brickwall low-end, politically-charged rap and darbuka-driven percussion. A huge record, built with a wide circle of collaborators, Moor Mother, Armand Hammer, KAYY DRiZZ, El Kontessa, Dakn, bbymutha and others. One of the standout releases of 2025.
DJ Haram is an electronic music producer, multi-disciplinary propagandist, and self-described anti-format DJ, originally from New Jersey and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Stylistically versatile, Haram is known for a sound that folds experimental bass and club music into analogue synths and percussion, concrète and noise pressure, politically-charged rap collaborations, and Middle Eastern instrumentation and sampling.
In July 2025, Haram released their debut album Beside Myself on Hyperdub, a long-awaited full-length that ties together more than a decade of vital fringe activity into a tightly authored statement. The record moves with DJ logic and mixtape velocity, swaddling surreal spoken exchanges and voice-led writing with Jersey kicks, brickwall low-end, darbuka-driven rhythm, electroacoustic abrasion and smoke-stained horns, while pulling in a wide network of collaborators including Moor Mother, Armand Hammer, KAYY DRiZZ, El Kontessa, Dakn, bbymutha and more. Beside Myself received major year-end recognition, landing in The Wire’s Releases of the Year 2025 and Boomkat’s Albums of the Year 2025.
Haram makes up half of 700 Bliss, a hip hop and noise project with Moor Mother, whose album Nothing to Declare (2022) was widely acclaimed. They also run Monday Night Raw, a monthly show on Brooklyn staple The Lot Radio, curating open format DJ b2bs alongside live rap and experimental performance, and previously held a five-year residency at Rinse FM London with Rage Radio. Alongside solo releases including Grace (Hyperdub, 2019) and Handplay (2023), Haram’s collaborative orbit spans billy woods and the Backwoodz ecosystem, plus remixes and collaborations with artists including Armand Hammer ft. Pink Siifu, Ghias Guevara, Debby Friday, and Fever Ray.
Internationally, DJ Haram has played stages including Dekmantel, Unsound, Roskilde, Le Guess Who, Pitchfork Festival, Tashweesh and Bonnaroo, and has toured widely from Tokyo to Istanbul.
