Extreme Futurist Festival: TED Conference for the Counterculture

All Coked Up at  'Dave and Busters'!     

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2gQoWXpWRw&feature=channel&list=UL

Electric Hellfire Club / Terrorfakt Responds To Nazi Allegations by Rachel ‘Haywire’ Mendelson

posted May 18, 2010 at 12:44 PM by xFiruath. (1 Comment)

Wilhelm Curse of The Electric Hellfire Club has checked in with the following statement about allegations that Terrofakt band mate Ben DeWalt is involved with Nazism:

“For any of the fans of the EHC who are into rhythmic noise and hard industrial; some of you may have heard the escalating rumor that Ben DeWalt, my friend, co-conspirator, and the founder of Terrofakt, is a Nazi. This could not be further from the truth. Ben has been our close friend for nearly 15 years, and we know that he is anything but a white supremacist. For the last few years I have had the privilege to play with Ben, as a member of Terrorfakt. During this time, I have come to know Ben much better than I ever did during the years that he represented the EHC. He is my close friend, and comrade in arms. He is a proud patriotic American, who firmly believes in the values that this great nation was founded on… among those being that all of us are created equal.

“My time with Terrorfakt has introduced me to many other associated acts and musicians, and to Terrorfakt’s fanatically loyal fan base, all being of various ethnic and even religious backgrounds. Accordingly, I can categorically deny that any of these accusations have any merit to them. This smear campaign against Ben is perpetuated by an Industrial music outcast named Rachel Mandelson. She is more ‘popularly’ known as the idiot behind ‘Experiment Haywire.’ She is an individual who has failed to garner any success on her own, and has taken to making slanderous and libelous accusations against a much more popular and successful act, in order to gain attention for herself.

“Her entire issue with Terrorfakt stems from Ben’s refusal to peddle her merch at a music festival that she gained illegal entry to, thereby denying the performing bands (and promoter) their just compensation. She blames everyone but herself for her failure as a musician, and claiming that Ben has ruined her ‘career’ because of her Jewish heritage is her way of trying to garner sympathy through portraying herself as a victim, rather that simply a failure. I have long been a believer in the old show business saying of ‘There is no such thing as bad press,’ and to automatically confirm any rumor told about me (or the EHC) as being true. However, Ben finds the contention of his being a Nazi to be offensive, and clearing his name is of personal importance to him. To that end, I have felt the need to address the issue publicly, and to support my friend. I ask you, our fans, to help put a stop to this rumor, by correcting anyone that you hear repeating it, and to not support Rachel Mandelson or Experiment Haywire in any way.”

Kent Below is a repost from Kinetik Productions Inc.:

Kinetik Productions Inc Montreal (Qc) Canada NEQ: 1164635469 http://www.festival-kinetik.net

Object : Rachel Haywire / machineKUNT Records / Experiment Haywire

Montréal, November 29th 2009,

Kinetik Productions wishes to bring to your attention the continual attack from Ms. Haywire against the Kinetik Festival and Kinetik Productions company image. Over the past 3 years, we have asked several websites to remove her harmful and derogative comments concerning the Kinetik Festival and the musical acts present during the festival.

Unfortunately, she had made a personal business to attack the festival and some bands performing during Kinetik festival, without investigating the alleged facts. She tried to put down the festival based on her statements. The severity and frequency of her false allegations gives us no choice but to warn you against Ms Rachel Haywire.

For the past three years, we had to get in touch with Ms Haywire in order to ask her to stop these repeated, intrusive and unwanted words, intended to adversely affect the reputation of the bands and the Kinetik festival. She, unfortunately, neglected to answer our demands and continued attacking the festival and its acts.

The Kinetik festival mission is to cultivate originality, innovation and diversity in the musical performance arena. During this event, several emerging and well-established artists gather in Montreal to celebrate. We have worked hard to bring together this dream and cannot tolerate Ms Haywire incessant and derogatory comments.

The Festival past editions have shown the audience, the industry and the musicians how professional, distinguish and well organized the festival is. In collaboration with the major labels, production companies and bands, Kinetik Festival is pleased to bring together the largest North American electro-Industrial festival.

With this letter, we wish to raise the concern and bring to your attention this abnormal situation, as some of you may have worked in collaboration with Ms. Haywire in the past.

In many occasion, Ms Haywise made disparaging comments concerning the Kinetik Festival and among other, the band Terrorfakt. Erroneously giving them a Neo-Nazi / white power denominate. She opened numerous website and posted several comments in order to gain some visibility and credibility with these disparaging remarks and trying to affect the festival.

Being officially recognized by the Canadian government and other governmental institutions, we cannot, under any circumstance, endorse this form of harassment. We trust that you will take similar action and no longer work with her on any level.

Jean-Francois Fortin Gadoury Director Kinetik Productions jffor…@festival-kinetik.net

Cc : Metropolis records, Out of Lines records, Blackrain records, Noitekk records, Artoffact Records, Pronoize, Storming the Base, Music None Stop, DSBP, Neuwerk management, Protain management, Soman, Blank, Caustic, Leaether Strip, XP8, Ambassador 21, Grendel, Feindflug, Terrorfakt, Hocico, KMFDM, Kommor Komando, Autoclav 1.1, FGFC820, Noisex, Alter Der Ruine, Kiew,

*Please feel free to forward this to anyone that may find it interesting and beneficial.

and right here are backers of Rachel's original fraudulent Kickstarter scheme for which she got 3k$ and delivered nothing that was promised. http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/machinekuntrecords here are the quotes from the unhappy backers of that project that did nothing but take money for Rachel's personal use. "If you’re a backer of this project, please log into read this post. 5of 5View Previous Comments. Robert Breighneron January 26, 2011. thanx for posting this update. we'll hang in there"\. Erik Roy Tomrenon September 26, 2011. so when is this coming out? the hard copy version, not the download. Caton February 24. It's a year after this posting, almost two years after this was funded, and I have yet to receive my hard copy of this album. Very displeased. :/ Steve Crosson March 15. Is the hard copy ever going to appear. A further update would be nice. I am not very happy! Caton April 14. Apparently this is going on (http://rachelmarone.com/banned-from-kickstarter-for-being-a-stalking-victim.html), but there's no mention of this Kickstarter at all. I highly doubt we'll see anything soon.

See also this band who sought law enforcement help as they claim Rachel was STALKING... them.   Rachel "Haywire" Mendelson aka Rachel "Marone" threatened with legal action for STALKING a rival band :    http://tinyurl.com/786aqtw

....

Congratulations, estranged daughter!

Kinetik Productions Inc. Montreal (Qc) Canada. NEQ: 1164635469. www.festival-kinetik.net. Object : Rachel Haywire / machineKUNT Records / Experiment. Haywire Montréal, November 29th 2009, Kinetik Productions wishes to bring to your attention the. continual attack from Ms. Haywire against the Kinetik Festival and. Kinetik Productions company image. Over the past 3 years, we have. asked several websites to remove her harmful and derogative. comments concerning the Kinetik Festival and the musical acts. present during the festival. Unfortunately, she had made a personal business to attack the. festival and some bands performing during Kinetik festival, without. investigating the alleged facts. She tried to put down the festival. based on her statements. The severity and frequency of her false. allegations gives us no choice but to warn you against Ms Rachel. Haywire. For the past three years, we had to get in touch with Ms. Haywire in order to ask her to stop these repeated, intrusive and. unwanted words, intended to adversely affect the reputation of the. bands and the Kinetik festival. She, unfortunately, neglected to. answer our demands and continued attacking the festival and its. acts. The Kinetik festival mission is to cultivate originality, innovation and diversity in the musical performance arena. During this event, several emerging and well-established artists gather in. Montreal to celebrate. We have worked hard to bring together this. dream and cannot tolerate Ms Haywire incessant and derogatory. comments. The Festival past editions have shown the audience, the. industry and the musicians how professional, distinguish and well. organized the festival is. In collaboration with the major labels, production companies and bands, Kinetik Festival is pleased to. bring together the largest North American electro-Industrial. festival. With this letter, we wish to raise the concern and bring to. your attention this abnormal situation, as some of you may have. worked in collaboration with Ms. Haywire in the past. In many occasion, Ms Haywise made disparaging comments. concerning the Kinetik Festival and among other, the band. Terrorfakt. Erroneously giving them a Neo-Nazi / white power. denominate. She opened numerous website and posted several comments. in order to gain some visibility and credibility with these. disparaging remarks and trying to affect the festival. Being officially recognized by the Canadian government and. other governmental institutions, we cannot, under any circumstance, endorse this form of harassment. We trust that you will take. similar action and no longer work with her on any level. Jean-Francois Fortin Gadoury. Director Kinetik Productions. jffor...@festival-kinetik.net. Cc : Metropolis records, Out of Lines records, Blackrain. records, Noitekk records, Artoffact Records, Pronoize, Storming the. Base, Music None Stop, DSBP, Neuwerk management, Protain. management, Soman, Blank, Caustic, Leaether Strip, XP8, Ambassador. 21, Grendel, Feindflug, Terrorfakt, Hocico, KMFDM, Kommor Komando, Autoclav 1.1, FGFC820, Noisex, Alter There Ruine, Kiew, *Please feel free to forward this to anyone that may find it. interesting and beneficial. over a year ago. Kent. In my opinion Ms Haywire is one crazy person! over a year ago. Rebekka. Well duh. The good thing is that everyone knows it....... :) over a year ago. Rodentsky. Thank's for the official post. I'll put on my group as well. over a year ago. Len. She's definitely off her rocker! I've known Ben for 17 years, and a Nazi (or neo-Nazi) he's not! Why does Ms. Haywire have to. start stuff every year? over a year ago. Su. That not just your opinion Kent she has been pretty vocal about. her "issues" on her personal page. Len I have noticed that people with chemical imbalances tend to. peak seasonally in the spring and fall. I am not sure why (?) Ironically she came up in conversation just a few says before. this most recent spontaneous combustion and I remarked that she was. in some ways admirable. THIS nonsense is just a level of. unnecessary crazy and I think she has done irreparable damage this. time. I wish she could have funneled her energy more productively. It is rather tragic.

Great Blog!! That was amazing. Your thought processing is wonderful. The way you tell the thing is awesome. You are really a  master.  Best Deals

Read my commentary on the event here.

Electric Hellfire Club / Terrorfakt Responds To Nazi Allegations by

Rachel 'Haywire' Mendelson

Wilhelm Curse of The Electric Hellfire Club has checked in with the following statement about allegations that Terrofakt band mate Ben DeWalt is involved with Nazism: "For any of the fans of the EHC who are into rhythmic noise and hard industrial; some of you may have heard the escalating rumor that Ben DeWalt, my friend, co-conspirator, and the founder of Terrofakt, is a Nazi. This could not be further from the truth. Ben has been our close friend for nearly 15 years, and we know that he is anything but a white supremacist. For the last few years I have had the privilege to play with Ben, as a member of Terrorfakt. During this time, I have come to know Ben much better than I ever did during the years that he represented the EHC. He is my close friend, and comrade in arms. He is a proud patriotic American, who firmly believes in the values that this great nation was founded on... among those being that all of us are created equal. "My time with Terrorfakt has introduced me to many other associated acts and musicians, and to Terrorfakt's fanatically loyal fan base, all being of various ethnic and even religious backgrounds. Accordingly, I can categorically deny that any of these accusations have any merit to them. This smear campaign against Ben is perpetuated by an Industrial music outcast named Rachel Mandelson. She is more 'popularly' known as the idiot behind 'Experiment Haywire.' She is an individual who has failed to garner any success on her own, and has taken to making slanderous and libelous accusations against a much more popular and successful act, in order to gain attention for herself. "Her entire issue with Terrorfakt stems from Ben's refusal to peddle her merch at a music festival that she gained illegal entry to, thereby denying the performing bands (and promoter) their just compensation. She blames everyone but herself for her failure as a musician, and claiming that Ben has ruined her 'career' because of her Jewish heritage is her way of trying to garner sympathy through portraying herself as a victim, rather that simply a failure. I have long been a believer in the old show business saying of 'There is no such thing as bad press,' and to automatically confirm any rumor told about me (or the EHC) as being true. However, Ben finds the contention of his being a Nazi to be offensive, and clearing his name is of personal importance to him. To that end, I have felt the need to address the issue publicly, and to support my friend. I ask you, our fans, to help put a stop to this rumor, by correcting anyone that you hear repeating it, and to not support Rachel Mandelson or Experiment Haywire in any way."     Kent     Below is a repost from Kinetik Productions Inc.:     Kinetik Productions Inc     Montreal (Qc) Canada     NEQ: 1164635469     www.festival-kinetik.net     Object : Rachel Haywire / machineKUNT Records / Experiment Haywire     Montréal, November 29th 2009,     Kinetik Productions wishes to bring to your attention the continual attack from Ms. Haywire against the Kinetik Festival and Kinetik Productions company image. Over the past 3 years, we have asked several websites to remove her harmful and derogative comments concerning the Kinetik Festival and the musical acts present during the festival.     Unfortunately, she had made a personal business to attack the festival and some bands performing during Kinetik festival, without investigating the alleged facts. She tried to put down the festival based on her statements. The severity and frequency of her false allegations gives us no choice but to warn you against Ms Rachel Haywire.     For the past three years, we had to get in touch with Ms Haywire in order to ask her to stop these repeated, intrusive and unwanted words, intended to adversely affect the reputation of the bands and the Kinetik festival. She, unfortunately, neglected to answer our demands and continued attacking the festival and its acts.     The Kinetik festival mission is to cultivate originality, innovation and diversity in the musical performance arena. During this event, several emerging and well-established artists gather in Montreal to celebrate. We have worked hard to bring together this dream and cannot tolerate Ms Haywire incessant and derogatory comments.     The Festival past editions have shown the audience, the industry and the musicians how professional, distinguish and well organized the festival is. In collaboration with the major labels, production companies and bands, Kinetik Festival is pleased to bring together the largest North American electro-Industrial festival.     With this letter, we wish to raise the concern and bring to your attention this abnormal situation, as some of you may have worked in collaboration with Ms. Haywire in the past.     In many occasion, Ms Haywise made disparaging comments concerning the Kinetik Festival and among other, the band Terrorfakt. Erroneously giving them a Neo-Nazi / white power denominate. She opened numerous website and posted several comments in order to gain some visibility and credibility with these disparaging remarks and trying to affect the festival.     Being officially recognized by the Canadian government and other governmental institutions, we cannot, under any circumstance, endorse this form of harassment. We trust that you will take similar action and no longer work with her on any level.     Jean-Francois Fortin Gadoury     Director Kinetik Productions     jffor...@festival-kinetik.net     Cc : Metropolis records, Out of Lines records, Blackrain records, Noitekk records, Artoffact Records, Pronoize, Storming the Base, Music None Stop, DSBP, Neuwerk management, Protain management, Soman, Blank, Caustic, Leaether Strip, XP8, Ambassador 21, Grendel, Feindflug, Terrorfakt, Hocico, KMFDM, Kommor Komando, Autoclav 1.1, FGFC820, Noisex, Alter Der Ruine, Kiew,     interesting and beneficial.   

Extreme Futurist Festival  of Transhumanism 2011 fronted by Rachel

'Haywire' Mendelson : A Review

http://extremefuturistfest.inf...

100$ for 20 minutes of Natasha Vita Moore (phoning her speech in with

a webcam!)  burbling her stale 20 year old unchanged gerbil noise? NO

THANKS!

This event was total bullsh*t, and it was founded by a bullsh*t

artist, thief and serial lying scumbag Rachel ‘Haywire’ Mendelson, who

has the worst reputation imaginable for lying and systematic

harassment in the industrial music community that completely rejected

her.  Rachel has made an entire career out of trying to destroy other music festivals who wouldn't book her - as she is a talentless  and despised outcast with no success of her own.

This event is only 1 centimeter away in importance from any old Star

Trek or Comic Book Con, and it is comprised of and serves fantasy and

the dorks/nerds/goths who have no other frame of reference but

fantasy.

“Energy Through Crystals”? That is exactly the kind of bullshit the

atheistic and rational majority of Singulatarians REJECT VEHEMENTLY.

You paid 100$ to attend this nonsense?You wasted your time and money, this event is bourgeoisie, elitist and Ayn Rand Objectivist Libertarian to its core but with a

weird and really inexplicable veneer of new age occultism.

also, all the music and art with one sole exception was performed by

unknown amateurs, friends of Rachel Haywire. And it was all juvenile

and childish, with nothing of substance to it at all. And performed w/

o even a stage! in a crappy little conference room with people sitting

in chairs! I left and came back for Hanin Elias, but she is tired and

worn out, stale now in her latter day state. This whole event was only

the Extreme Future of 1992. Cyberpunk is bullshit and these people

responsible for this non-event are complete bullshit artists, the sole

medium in which they excel At All.

P.S. ......... I snuck in w/o paying also. this crapfest wasn’t even

worth 15$, needless to say 100$….!

IN REPLY TO:

I write this post from the Starbucks at Union Station mere hours after

the festivities ended. The experience has left me simultaneously

hopeful about the possibilities of the transhumanist movement and

overwhelmed by its absurdity. Our dreams of body and society

transformed via technology become almost unintelligible when read

through the lived realities of the present day – especially for those

of us on the margins of capitalist industrial civilization. Torn jeans

and toes peeking out of worn-out sneakers defined the bus ride here

from the cozy conference hotel in Marina del Rey. Through the lens of

inequality and impotence, I perceive a wealth of productive tensions

in the ideological foundations and material dynamics in effect at

Extreme Futurist Festival 2011.

The event featured an eclectic mixture of themes, aesthetics, and

political positions broadly united under the umbrella of culture and

technology. Speaker topics ranged from the neuroscience of vision to

polyamory. Ian Midgley‘s presentation on Open Source Ecology appealed

the most to me. The decentralization and democratization of the means

of production would prove a great boon to creating revolutionary

autonomous communities. Here we find a point of convergence between

the communist anarchism I advocate and the libertarianism that

permeates the transhumanist scene. The interest in independence and

innovation I encountered from XFF participants resonates with me and

stands out as an site for collaboration. We can at least agree on the

vast negative utility caused by state coercion and above all

corporate-

government collusion;  the Occupy Wall Street movement made various

appearances and received significant sympathy.

However, the transhumanist emphasis on creating alternative systems

rather than engaging in social struggle to dismantle the existing

order comes hand in hand with a problematic conception of power.  I

suspect Michael Anissimov and company underestimate the importance of

established oppressive hierarchies. Access to technology, information,

and physical resources remains profoundly limited for almost all of

us.  The project of escaping inequality through personal empowerment

and open-source entrepreneurship strikes me as primed for failure. I

enthusiastically support the spread of knowledge and spirit of

creativity but consider these things utterly insufficient to undo the

nightmare of heteropatriarchal capitalism I walk through daily. How

can we forge a parallel society when the bosses control the bulk of

the world’s wealth and jealously defend their dominance with extreme

force? In the absence of massive solidarity networks, seasteading

seems doomed to either serve the interests of corporate and elite

sponsors or succumb to violent repression at the first spark of

promise.

The all-to-human details of XFF highlight the chasm between

transhumanist visions of post-scarcity playgrounds and the our

contemporary powerlessness. Unsurprisingly, in practice transhumanists

function rather like anybody else. Michael doesn’t have comic-book

superpowers just yet. When I walked to the location of the XFF VIP

party on Friday morning, I performed the role of biological alarm

clock for the event organizers. We made signs for merchandise that

nobody bought with sharpies and sheets of paper ripped from notebooks.

The plan to cook a meal for the pool party foundered for lack of

funds. Because of student debt and arguably neurosis, I had to get by

on the bags of walnuts and pecans I’d brought with me. My mind raced

through the fascinating conversations I’d had at the party and my

stomach growled as hoofed it the three miles back to the CouchSurfing

host I was staying with.

The fun last night concluded with a drunken romp through the Courtyard

Marriott. We hummed in unison, channeled energy through crystals, and

sang slurred Christmas songs in Michael’s room. Once an ultimatum came

from hotel security, we scattered to the hot tub are only to be

evicted again. Under the influence of alcohol, XFF attendees started

to resemble the bro culture they earlier criticized. Despite the

notable embrace of queerness and feminism, there’s still plenty of

straight white dudeness to work on in the transhumanist scene. Our

reliance on the labor of the hotel staff and unseen workers across the

globe to make this sort of technological conference possible went

completely unacknowledged and unexplored.

Because CS hosts frown on surfers stumbling in at the wee hours of the

night, I found myself without a place to sleep when the curtains

finally closed. Thanks the generosity of fellow attendees, I ate and

socialized until at an IHOP until about 4am. Only then did I trudge to

bus stop and take a long trip back to downtown LA with a bunch of

homeless folks. Here at Union Station, the driver hustled eir sleepy

passengers out of the bus. What does transhumanism mean to people on

the street and those toiling to facilitate our speculation? Apart from

millionaires like Ray Kurzweil and Peter Thiel, does the movement have

even a silver of the material power required to turn fantasies into

reality?

I share this story and raise these questions with twin intentions of

entertainment and constructive criticism. I thoroughly enjoyed XFF

2011 and extend my appreciation to the organizers and performers. In

an echo of Kim Solez’s goal to mass appeal, I encourage the

transhumanist movement to engage more substantively with workers,

local community, and social justice activism. Let’s continue to expand

this compelling conversation.

P.S.S.

Electric Hellfire Club / Terrorfakt Responds To Nazi Allegations by

Rachel 'Haywire' Mendelson

posted May 18, 2010 at 12:44 PM by xFiruath.  (1 Comment)

Wilhelm Curse of The Electric Hellfire Club has checked in with the

following statement about allegations that Terrofakt band mate Ben

DeWalt is involved with Nazism:

"For any of the fans of the EHC who are into rhythmic noise and

hard industrial; some of you may have heard the escalating rumor

that Ben DeWalt, my friend, co-conspirator, and the founder of

Terrofakt, is a Nazi. This could not be further from the truth. Ben

has been our close friend for nearly 15 years, and we know that he

is anything but a white supremacist. For the last few years I have

had the privilege to play with Ben, as a member of Terrorfakt.

During this time, I have come to know Ben much better than I ever

did during the years that he represented the EHC. He is my close

friend, and comrade in arms. He is a proud patriotic American, who

firmly believes in the values that this great nation was founded

on... among those being that all of us are created equal.

"My time with Terrorfakt has introduced me to many other associated

acts and musicians, and to Terrorfakt's fanatically loyal fan base,

all being of various ethnic and even religious backgrounds.

Accordingly, I can categorically deny that any of these accusations

have any merit to them. This smear campaign against Ben is

perpetuated by an Industrial music outcast named Rachel Mandelson.

She is more 'popularly' known as the idiot behind 'Experiment

Haywire.' She is an individual who has failed to garner any success

on her own, and has taken to making slanderous and libelous

accusations against a much more popular and successful act, in

order to gain attention for herself.

"Her entire issue with Terrorfakt stems from Ben's refusal to

peddle her merch at a music festival that she gained illegal entry

to, thereby denying the performing bands (and promoter) their just

compensation. She blames everyone but herself for her failure as a

musician, and claiming that Ben has ruined her 'career' because of

her Jewish heritage is her way of trying to garner sympathy through

portraying herself as a victim, rather that simply a failure. I

have long been a believer in the old show business saying of 'There

is no such thing as bad press,' and to automatically confirm any

rumor told about me (or the EHC) as being true. However, Ben finds

the contention of his being a Nazi to be offensive, and clearing

his name is of personal importance to him. To that end, I have felt

the need to address the issue publicly, and to support my friend. I

ask you, our fans, to help put a stop to this rumor, by correcting

anyone that you hear repeating it, and to not support Rachel

Mandelson or Experiment Haywire in any way."

  Kent

  Below is a repost from Kinetik Productions Inc.:

  Kinetik Productions Inc

  Montreal (Qc) Canada

  NEQ: 1164635469

  www.festival-kinetik.net

  Object : Rachel Haywire / machineKUNT Records / Experiment

Haywire

  Montréal, November 29th 2009,

  Kinetik Productions wishes to bring to your attention the

continual attack from Ms. Haywire against the Kinetik Festival and

Kinetik Productions company image. Over the past 3 years, we have

asked several websites to remove her harmful and derogative

comments concerning the Kinetik Festival and the musical acts

present during the festival.

  Unfortunately, she had made a personal business to attack the

festival and some bands performing during Kinetik festival, without

investigating the alleged facts. She tried to put down the festival

based on her statements. The severity and frequency of her false

allegations gives us no choice but to warn you against Ms Rachel

Haywire.

  For the past three years, we had to get in touch with Ms

Haywire in order to ask her to stop these repeated, intrusive and

unwanted words, intended to adversely affect the reputation of the

bands and the Kinetik festival. She, unfortunately, neglected to

answer our demands and continued attacking the festival and its

acts.

  The Kinetik festival mission is to cultivate originality,

innovation and diversity in the musical performance arena. During

this event, several emerging and well-established artists gather in

Montreal to celebrate. We have worked hard to bring together this

dream and cannot tolerate Ms Haywire incessant and derogatory

comments.

  The Festival past editions have shown the audience, the

industry and the musicians how professional, distinguish and well

organized the festival is. In collaboration with the major labels,

production companies and bands, Kinetik Festival is pleased to

bring together the largest North American electro-Industrial

festival.

  With this letter, we wish to raise the concern and bring to

your attention this abnormal situation, as some of you may have

worked in collaboration with Ms. Haywire in the past.

  In many occasion, Ms Haywise made disparaging comments

concerning the Kinetik Festival and among other, the band

Terrorfakt. Erroneously giving them a Neo-Nazi / white power

denominate. She opened numerous website and posted several comments

in order to gain some visibility and credibility with these

disparaging remarks and trying to affect the festival.

  Being officially recognized by the Canadian government and

other governmental institutions, we cannot, under any circumstance,

endorse this form of harassment. We trust that you will take

similar action and no longer work with her on any level.

  Jean-Francois Fortin Gadoury

  Director Kinetik Productions

  jffor...@festival-kinetik.net

  Cc : Metropolis records, Out of Lines records, Blackrain

records, Noitekk records, Artoffact Records, Pronoize, Storming the

Base, Music None Stop, DSBP, Neuwerk management, Protain

management, Soman, Blank, Caustic, Leaether Strip, XP8, Ambassador

21, Grendel, Feindflug, Terrorfakt, Hocico, KMFDM, Kommor Komando,

Autoclav 1.1, FGFC820, Noisex, Alter Der Ruine, Kiew,

  *Please feel free to forward this to anyone that may find it

interesting and beneficial.

  over a year ago

  Kent

  In my opinion Ms Haywire is one crazy person!

  over a year ago

  Rebekka

  Well duh. The good thing is that everyone knows it....... :)

  over a year ago

  Rodentsky

  Thank's for the official post. I'll put on my group as well.

  over a year ago

  Len

  She's definitely off her rocker! I've known Ben for 17 years,

and a Nazi (or neo-Nazi) he's not! Why does Ms. Haywire have to

start stuff every year?

  over a year ago

  Su

  That not just your opinion Kent she has been pretty vocal about

her "issues" on her personal page.

  Len I have noticed that people with chemical imbalances tend to

peak seasonally in the spring and fall. I am not sure why (?)

  Ironically she came up in conversation just a few says before

this most recent spontaneous combustion and I remarked that she was

in some ways admirable. THIS nonsense is just a level of

unnecessary crazy and I think she has done irreparable damage this

time. I wish she could have funneled her energy more productively.

  It is rather tragic.