HAAi
HAAi SHARES BRAND NEW SINGLE
‘I WANNA FEEL LIKE SOMEONE’
FEAT. JAMES MASSIAH
LATEST FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM
DIGITiSE — OUT OCTOBER 9VIA MUTE
HAAi CELEBRATES DIGITiSE IN NYC WITH 10-HOUR MARATHON SET AT REFUGE OCTOBER 18, FOLLOWING iii POINTS MIAMI +
A VERY SPECIAL SAN FRANCISCO SHOW TBA
“I WANNA FEEL LIKE SOMEONE” IS AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS HERE
REFUGE TICKETS ON SALE NOW TICKETS HERE
[HAAi credit Lamia Karic] Download hi-res art HERE
Listen to DIGITiSE’s previously released singles & videos:
Listen / Watch “Ignition”HERE
Listen / Watch “DIGITiSE” HERE
For Immediate Release September 2, 2026 ” — Fresh from a busy summer across Europe, London-based, Australian-born producer, songwriter and DJ HAAi returns with the brand new single “I Wanna Feel Like Someone” feat. James Massiah, the latest preview of her forthcoming album DIGITiSE, out October 9 via Mute.
The release arrives as HAAi prepares to bring DIGITiSE stateside this October, with iii Points Miami on October 17, before continuing into the night at the festival’s official Satellite afterparty at The Ground at Club Space, followed by a 10-hour marathon album celebration at Refuge in New York City on October 18, where she’ll play from 4 PMstraight through to 2 AM. Details of a very special San Francisco appearance will also be revealed soon.
More than simply an album release party, the Refuge marathon gets directly to the DNA of DIGITiSE. Written between HAAi’s marathon DJ sets, road-tested in clubs and shaped by the response of people in the room, the album was built ON the dancefloor rather than simply made for it.
“I’m so excited to return to North America this October for a run of super fun dates. I’m preparing for my 10-hour set at Refuge in support of my new album DIGITiSE. Following my last NYC set at Public Records, which was eight hours, I decided to switch into another gear and give myself an extra two hours to really explore my collection. Playing long sets is how I came up as a DJ, so 10 hours really feels like my comfort zone. I can’t wait to get stuck in.” — HAAi
“I Wanna Feel Like Someone” shifts the focus squarely back to those peak-time moments that helped inspire the album. HAAi explains, “‘I Wanna Feel Like Someone’ is a track that is purely made from memories of my sets over the years. It’s a nod to so much of the music I play and have played, and was a really fun track to make for the dancefloor.”
LISTEN TO “I WANNA FEEL LIKE SOMEONE” FEAT. JAMES MASSIAH HERE
James Massiah, talking about the collaboration, said, “Love working with HAAi, always grateful when an artist I respect finds a new way to present my voice.” Massiah, who also collaborated on HAAi’s previous album HUMANiSE, is one of several artists who expand the community at the heart of DIGITiSE. HAAi adds, “James Massiah’s vocals are an important anchor in the song and give it a moment to breathe in amongst the textural heaviness.”
DIGITiSE follows HAAi’s acclaimed 2025 album HUMANiSE, a pivotal record that saw her step further beyond the DJ booth and into the foreground as a singer and songwriter, placing her own voice and vulnerability at the heart of the music. For HAAi, “using my own voice felt like the most human thing I could do for the story of the album.”
With DIGITiSE, HAAi takes that emotional core back to the club. Originally planned to extend the world of HUMANiSE, the new music quickly developed its own heartbeat and evolved into a standalone album. Describing it as HUMANiSE’s “bigger, ravey sibling,” HAAi explains that “DIGITiSE holds the hand of HUMANiSE and walks it to the club.”
Previous single “Ignition” feat. Echonomistbrought HAAi’s personal story into that space, documenting her coming-of-age as a queer kid in a small town, desperate to leave and ultimately finding freedom and community on the dancefloor. Now “I Wanna Feel Like Someone”turns toward the peak-time moments she remembers from years behind the decks. “It pushes the elements that I love most in dance music, bass and frequency, and ties it together with Motorik rhythms,” she explains.
At the center of both records is community. For HAAi, the dancefloor remains one of the increasingly rare places where people can come together in real life, across identities and backgrounds, to feel connection, freedom and belonging. As a queer artist, she has consistently championed inclusive spaces and diverse dancefloors, something that remains central to DIGITiSE.
The album continues to explore what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. As the pace of AI and technology accelerates, one antidote for HAAi has always been to gather people in a room or on a dancefloor to feel community and unity. DIGITiSE opens itself fully to that spirit, through its collaborators, who represent different voices in dance music, Echonomist, Skybreak and Cantoalegre, a children’s choir from Medellín, Colombia, alongside Pat Alvarez, ILA, James Massiah and Kaiden Ford — as well as its visual world led by Martin Falck (Fever Ray / The Knife / Icona Pop), a playful and camp counterbalance to the dystopia of HUMANiSE.
It’s that spirit that makes the 10-hour Refuge set such a natural album celebration: the time and space to move across genres and tempos, build a room over the course of a night, and create the kind of shared experience that sits at the very center of DIGITiSE.
HAAi heads into the October dates following a busy summer across Europe, including World Pride Amsterdam, Sziget and Maiden Voyage in London, where she opened the vault for her first-ever 100% HAAi production set,alongside Ibiza dates and B2Bs with the likes of DJ Tennis, DJ Seinfeld and Sally C.
DIGITiSE also includes “Talking Walls” feat. Skybreak and Cantoalegre, a sonic journey through sounds and influences HAAi has discovered through her DJ sets. The track creates another thread between the two records through its use of choir, with HAAi describing it simply as, “It’s one to hug your mates to at the festival.”
DIGITiSE picks up where HUMANiSE left off quite literally: the final track of HUMANiSE fades out with the choir, which picks up again on the opening of DIGITiSE before taking us back to the dancefloor.
“DIGITiSE was created with intention: I wanted to make music I could play when I DJ. I wanted it to sonically spread across multiple lanes in the way I would play an all night long set.” — HAAi
DIGITiSE is released by Mute on October 9, 2026 on vinyl, CD and digitally
Pre-order DIGITiSE HERE
High res artwork and press photographs HERE
[HAAi DIGITiSE album artwork]
DIGITiSE TRACKLISTING (CAT # STUMM529)
RE-HUMANiSE (feat. Kaiden Ford and ILA)
Printerlude
Depth Perception
Technology
HUMANiSE Radio
THANK U
I Wanna Feel Like Someone (feat. James Massiah)
Talking Walls (feat. Skybreak and Cantoalegre)
HAAi DJ DATES
4 Sep – Sheffield (UK), b2b Sam Alfred, Electric Loves: Mall Grab at Electric Studios
19 Sep – Ibiza (ES), Bugged Out
26 Sep – Brussels (BE), b2b DJ Tennis, Place Simon Bolivar
30 Sep – Ibiza (ES), b2b Sally C, Mau P at Pacha
9 Oct – Geneva (CH), Electron Festival
10 Oct- Manchester (UK), IPC curates b2b with DJ Seinfeld The Warehouse Project
16 Oct – San Francisco CA (US) TBA
17 Oct – Miami, Florida (US), iiiPoints Festival
18 Oct – New York (US), Open to Close, Refuge
22 Oct – Manchester (UK), 20 Years of the Warehouse Project
23 Oct – Amsterdam, (NL), b2b Adiel, Audio Obscura x Raw Factory
25 Oct – Athens (GR), b2b Romy, Eden
31 Oct – London (UK), HAAi All Night at EartH
18 Dec – Bristol (UK), b2b Special Request, Mastery x Glade at Prospect