HAAi Lights The “Ignition”
London-based, Australian-born producer, songwriter and DJ, HAAi (aka Teneil Throssell) shares a new single, ‘Ignition (feat Echonomist)’, the latest to be taken from her dancefloor-focused album, DIGITiSE, out on October 9, 2026 on Mute.
‘Ignition (feat. Echonomist)’ is a high energy crystalline track, that steers the listener into an intense four-to-the-floor banger.
On the track HAAi shares, “‘Ignition’ is a collaboration with Echonomist, someone whose music has shaped many of my sets since I started touring. Sonically, it’s a driving broken beat track that maintains a lot of innocence. Lyrically, it is deeply personal: documenting my coming-of-age as a queer kid in a small town, desperate to leave.
In the true spirit of DIGITiSE, ‘Ignition’ serves as a sequel to Go!, from my previous album HUMANiSE. Both tracks are so important to the storytelling of the albums, I’m glad to be able to take it to the place we feel the most free, the dance floor.”
Talking about the track, Echonomist explains, “From the moment HAAi and I started talking, we connected through music in a really genuine way. It didn’t take long to realize we shared a similar musical language, and that made this collaboration feel incredibly natural. She reminded me of how much I love breaks, and that inspiration became the starting point.”
“I’ve spent so many hours in clubs – on the dance floor and in the booth – and I really wanted to put that into this new album” explains HAAi and DIGITiSE takes us on a genre-defying dancefloor trip, the kind that HAAi has become revered for.
‘Ignition (feat. Echonomist)’ follows the release of the title track, featuring long time creative comrade, producer and songwriter Pat Alvarez, described by HAAi as “the nucleus of the whole album.”
DIGITiSE was originally planned to extend the world of 2025’s album HUMANiSE, but it soon evolved into something so much bigger. While immersed in the production for DIGITiSE HAAi felt that these new tracks emerging had their own heartbeat, and she soon expanded the project into a stand-alone album that further showcases this indomitable artist. Describing the album as its predecessor’s “bigger, ravey sibling”, she goes on to explain that “DIGITiSE holds the hand of HUMANiSE and walks it to the club”.
The album expands HAAi’s community bringing in new collaborators Echonomist and Skybreak plus Cantoalegre, a children’s choir from Medellin, Colombia – as well as artists she’s worked with previously – Pat Alvarez, ILA, James Massiah and Kaiden Ford.
DIGITiSE continues to explore what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. The pace of AI and technology, the division this is causing and the impact felt by many has only increased in relevance since the 2025 release. One antidote to this, for her, has always been to gather people in a room or on a dancefloor to feel community and unity, something she vehemently champions and nurtures throughout her work. DIGITiSE opens up to this spirit of community: from the collaborators on the album – who all represent unique and different voices in dance music, to the team who created the visuals led by Martin Falck (Fever Ray / The Knife / Icona Pop), a playful and camp counterbalance to the dystopia of HUMANiSE, and the live production team that brought new dimensions to the album on the stage, they have all helped usher us into HAAi’s vivid welcoming world.
DIGITiSE picks up where HUMANiSE left of – quite literally: the last track of HUMANiSE fades out with the choir, which picks up again on the opening track of DIGITiSE before we hit the dance floor. Talking about the album, she explains, “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.”