‘Multidisciplinary propagandist’ presents “A striking synthesis of Middle Eastern sounds, hip-hop, club music and experimental sound design” (The Wire)

Brooklyn-based DJ Haram (US) – real name Zubeyda Muzeyyen – describes herself as “a multidisciplinary propagandist”. She disregards formats and intentionally calls herself an “open-format DJ”. DJ Haram: “I’m like, no – we’re doing other art over here. We’re doing multidisciplinary propaganda!” 
 
DJ Haram is also ½ of 700 Bliss, her duo with Moor Mother, and was described by The Quietus as “Abrasive, politically charged noise-rap meets fractured club sensibilities”.  
Her debut Beside Myself was recently released on Kode9’s hyperdub label that she sees as the answer to “the present global hellscape”. On it, she welcomes a series of musical kindred spirits, such as Armand Hammer (Billy Woods x E L U C I D), trumpet-player Aquilles Navarro (Irreversible Entanglements), DJ El Kontessa (present at BRDCST last year) and Palestinian producer/rapper Dakn. 
 
The album made it into the top 5 of The Wire’s influential Releases of the Year 2025, as well as the top 20 of Pitchfork’s Best Electronic Albums 2025, which wrote: “Her fusions are even more radical than on previous releases, smashing together club beats, Egyptian darbuka and blasts of noise.”