HAAi DIGITiSE

Critic's Take

HAAi’s DIGITiSE is unapologetically aimed at dragging listeners onto the dancefloor to work up a glorious sweat, blurring trippy vibes, warm melodies and techno-flavoured beats. The best tracks on DIGITiSE keep the groove going, from the uplifting ambient electronica of “Ignition” to the infectious cosmic wig-out of “HUMANiSE Radio”. There’s glitchy, abstract techno in “Printerlude”, while “Talking Walls” brings things to an atmospheric comedown. Like all fine electronic music, it enhances the grooves of machine-made sounds with an emotional heft, offering a supremely soulful alternative.

Key Points

• “HUMANiSE Radio” stands out for its infectious cosmic wig-out.
• The album’s core strength is its blend of hypnotic dancefloor grooves, warm melodies and emotional heft.

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Critic's Take

HAAi makes the best songs on DIGITiSE feel like invitations to step back from the digital world and get deep down and dirty on the dancefloor. “HUMANiSE Radio” is a staggeringly brilliant, kinetic club-track, the kind of industrial rave track that deserves to be heard in an abandoned warehouse. “I Wanna Feel Like Someone” offers a calming break on a crowded, sweaty dancefloor, while the album’s title track plants you in the heart of the crowd and barely lets up. Then “Talking Walls” guides us to a euphoric close, a life-affirming end to an album that is a vital reminder of the joys of being in a heaving, sweaty collective.

Key Points

• “HUMANiSE Radio” is the best song for its kinetic pounding techno, twinkling keys, and warehouse-rave intensity.
• The album’s core strength is its wildly inventive, thrilling celebration of club life and human connection.

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Critic's Take

After creating something more down to earth with HUMANiSE, HAAi heads back to the club with companion piece DIGITiSE. The best tracks on DIGITiSE are short but full of ideas: “Depth Perception” and “Technology” contain some of HAAi's most daring sound design. “Ignition” elevates from galloping garage beats to more dramatic synths and filtered vocal loops, while the title track swaps euphoric trance vibes for kinetically charged, tightly clipped techno. Even as HAAi pushes her abilities as a producer to the edge, her music never loses its intensely human touch.

Key Points

• “Depth Perception” and “Technology” stand out for sound design the reviewer calls some of HAAi's most daring.
• The album's club-focused ideas and digital-world themes retain an intensely human touch.

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Critic's Take

HAAi has returned with DIGITiSE and, like their DJ set, it does not disappoint. The best songs on DIGITiSE start with the fun, interesting rhythms of “Printerlude”, then “Ignition” takes you out of your life and to somewhere else. “Depth Perception” is a lovely slab of post-dubstep, and it might by my favourite song on the album. The second half is just hard banger, banger, banger, with “THANK U” fitting in perfectly and “HUMANiSE Radio” working perfectly as a proper banger. The songs flow from the speakers and sound immense.

Key Points

• “Depth Perception” is the reviewer’s favourite, with glorious bass wobbles and cut-up beats.
• The album’s core strengths are playful, harder-hitting sounds and sequencing that keeps the songs flowing.

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Critic's Take

HAAi’s DIGITiSE is a purported companion piece to HUMANiSE, and its best tracks show what that sequel can do. The opener, “RE-HUMANiSE,” is the best example: shimmering ambience and sharp synths build around a stoic reading, patiently delivering Throssel’s simple mission as an artist. “THANK U” is the most riveting rave mix here, while “Talking Walls” brings back that transcendent dream-pop feel with stargazing vocals and glistening electronics. These highlights stand among her best, even if the other mixes don’t do much else.

Key Points

• “RE-HUMANiSE” is the best example of the album’s approach, patiently building its beat around a stoic reading.
• The album’s strongest tracks combine evocative dancefloor tension with a return to transcendent dream-pop.

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Critic's Take

HAAi takes the energy of her all-night DJ sets and fashions DIGITiSE into an album that moves between abstraction, pressure and release. The best tracks on DIGITiSE include “Ignition”, where a galloping garage groove gathers speed beneath dramatic, strobe-like synths, and the title track, which turns a chopped vocal into an overheated android struggling to communicate. “I Wanna Feel Like Someone” makes the dancefloor feel both mechanical and deeply bodily, while closer “Talking Walls” opens from shadow into a rush of colour, movement and collective feeling. A few of the shorter interludes feel more like connective tissue than fully developed compositions, but the shifting sounds and rhythms keep the record’s momentum. For all the ingenuity of the machinery, there are some things that still feel better when we experience them, as humans, together.

Key Points

• “Ignition” stands out as the album’s kinetic turning point, its galloping garage groove and dramatic synths driving the record into motion.
• The album’s core strength is how it turns digital textures and machinery into physical, communal dance music.

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Critic's Take

HAAi calls DIGITiSE the “bigger, ravey sibling,” and she’s spot on. The best tracks on DIGITiSE are the uplifting, free-flowing breaks of “Ignition” and the darker, bass-heavy notes of “Talking Walls,” collabs with a pure synergy. Beginning with the lengthy, thought-provoking intro “RE-HUMANiSE,” this collection calls out to the dancefloor while embodying the spirit of human connection.

Key Points

• “Ignition” leads with uplifting, free-flowing breaks, while “Talking Walls” brings darker, bass-heavy notes.
• The album turns toward the dancefloor while its computerized textures embody human connection.

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