Zubeyda Muzeyyen, better known as DJ Haram, cut her teeth in movements: within New Jersey’s grassroots club scenes, in resistances like Students for a Democratic Society and Occupy Wallstreet, in Philadelphia’s noise and improv communities – and at the root of it all, the Middle Eastern diaspora of her own family lineage.
This breadth of experience manifests in Haram’s unmistakable lingo behind the booth – a daredevil bundling of the experimental with the infectious. Daburka drums dovetail with digitised noise; hip-hop sampling, field recordings and analog sounds intermingle in cathartic, militant ways that feel poetic, radical and cheeky – liberating them from their fetishised defaults.
DJ Haram’s eclecticism has attained many fascinating collaborations in recent years: next to her solo music, she is also one half of experimental electronic outfit 700 Bliss alongside Moor Mother, worked with the likes of Armand Hammer (billy woods and ELUCID, who both perform Roadburn 2026 as well), Pink Siifu, Fever Ray and Ghais Guevara.
