This is a new phase of my life and I find myself going in various new directions. I’ve decided to sign a lot of my gear and put it on eBay for auction. I have not quit music. I’ve simply quit Experiment Haywire. Who knows what will be next for me though? I’m currently planning a huge multi-media arts festival in addition to writing a new book and running a digital clothing store. Being a musician is not a choice after all. I know that I’ll be back writing more in the future. Who knows under what name or what genre? What matters to me is that I will be happy.

This gear was very meaningful to me during my years as Experiment Haywire and it still holds a very special place in my heart. It’s a shame to see it go but I want my biggest fans and supporters to have it.

All of my gear is in perfect condition and signed by yours truly.

M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 Keyboard: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160558504324&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT#ht_500wt_1156

Akai Miniak synthesizer: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160558505761&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1156

Yamaha MW10c USB audio mixer: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160558511770&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_485wt_1158

Numark DXM06 DJ audio mixer: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160558507189&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1126

I hope that you guys are able to win these auctions and that my gear will inspire you toward new levels of decadent creation.

Blacklist 23 was originally released in the middle of a move. I went through a giant whirlwind of chaos and decided to quit Experiment Haywire. Yet with so many people asking me what happened to Blacklist 23 I decided to put the album back up. I am 100% about the music and it would be silly not to release the album due to pressure from situations I can’t control. Experiment Haywire is over but I want you guys to enjoy the music and share it with as many people as possible.

Blacklist 23 features remixes from Annihilation Chic and my never-was-to-be studio album Grrl Interrupted. This is the final Experiment Haywire release.

You can now download the album for free but fans have the option of paying what they would like. Download Disc 1 and Disc 2 here at Bandcamp or simply click on the picture of the album below. Do enjoy!

Mastering by Johan Ess.

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

1. Fuck You Haywire
2. Mean Enough Hot Enough (Mind:State mix)
3. Blacklist (Freakangel mix)
4. New World Order Show (Fernthal Highway mix)
5. Will to Glamour (Lucidstatic Facelift mix)
6. Blacklist (amGod Deathlist Scatter mix)
7. Mean Enough Hot Enough (DJ T-1000 mix)
8. New World Order Show (Skerror CEOcto mix)
9. Occult Casualty (Ego Likeness Do As Thou Wilt mix)
10. Blacklist (Daniel Cox mix)
11. Autist (Ninja Spice mix)
12. Will To Glamour (Reverend Havoc Stockings in Solidarity mix)

Disc 2:

1. Blitzkrieg the Scene
2. Insane Membrane (VS. Daniel Cox)
3. Butterfly (Ninja Spice Flutterby mix)
4. Will To Glamour (Vicious Alliance Triumph of the Ill mix)
5. Blacklist (TERRORFAKT !Blackpower! mix)
6. Mean Enough Hot Enough (Studio-X mix)
7. Blacklist (UCNX Defecation of Character mix)
8. Autist (Dream into Dust mix)
9. Butterfly (Daniel Cox mix)
10. Blacklist (Vigilante mix)
11. New World Order Show (Punish Yourself VS. Sonic Area mix)
12. Blacklist (PRODUKT Middle School mix)

Who said that stickers were dead? Check out these new stickers we just created for Experiment Haywire, (you are here) machineKUNT Records, and Transhuman Separatists. I’m selling them for only $2 a piece and will include a special treat for anyone who buys one. What do you guys think? Just click on the buttons to the right of each sticker to check-out at the new MK Store.

Support underground music, radical thought, outside-the-box-culture, and the socially maligned. Buy an antisocial media sticker today!

It’s been a crazy year for me. At times it appeared like I was going to lose it once and for all. Yet this didn’t stop me from collaborating with some extremely talented artists. One of these artists was Lucidstatic who recently released ‘Symbiont Underground’ featuring our collaboration track Little Human Puppets.

Disc One:

01: Burning Embers (vs. Manufactura)
02: Noiz3Rush (vs. Nereus)
03: Viscera (vs. Angel Of Violence)
04: Dissection (vs. Mono Penguin)
05: Untitled (feat. Jerry B.)
06: The Awakening (Mothboy remix)
07: Moments At A Cliff (vs. Skullduggery)
08: Book Of The Dead (vs. Recevier)
09: Perpetuate (vs. Pig Fat)
10: N.E.P. (vs. Human Error)
11: Desire To Be (vs. Iammynewt)
12: Misplaced (feat. Scalper)

Disc Two:

01: Boneyard (vs. Shad0w)
02: Re_volve (vs. Impurfekt)
03: Invocation (vs. Pig Fat)
04: According To Plan (feat. ESA)
05: A New Low (vs. Human Error)
06: A.L. (vs. Mono Penguin)
07: Headhunter (Filter Mix vs. Mono Penguin)
08: Fractured (Nick R61 Remix)
09: We Created The Epidemic (vs. Mangadrive)
10: Little Human Puppets (feat. Experiment Haywire)
11: Fakt (feat. Servo Hatred)

This album has something for everyone yet it’s definitely not for the top 40 dance world. It’s pretty much an avant-garde explosion of experimental chaos. You can check it out over here if you’re ready to go outside your limits.

I’ve decided to become a blogger now. An actual blogger as opposed to another voice on facebook on twitter. One of the things that people like about Experiment Haywire is that they get to know me as a person and that I’m not living in some ivory tower. It’s easy to get a hold of me.

Not everything that I say makes people happy but one thing I will never be is fake-to-appease-the-masses. I think it’s silly that I should have to “watch what I’m saying” online when I’ve worked this hard to establish my own company where I don’t need to follow social rules. Yet I must admit that posting so much personal information to my social networks (and posting about legal issues, music industry drama, etc.) was a pretty stupid move. It’s hard for me to realize the obvious sometimes but a few good friends confronted me and I didn’t lash out on them. Instead I decided to fix the problem. Confrontation doesn’t cause me to lash out. Being passive aggressive does. I have made a lot of mistakes and I would like to correct them.

I will still be talking to people on facebook on twitter through personal messages and I will still be making public posts. Many of them will lead here. This website is currently being redesigned and ever since LiveJournal I have seriously missed blogging. So here it begins. A new blog. Where I can have social rants, discuss my personal issues, post updates about my music, share lyrics, share feelings, and do whatever the hell I want without the limitation of 140 characters.

-Rachel Haywire

Hey all,

Thanks to all of you for the support over the past few years. Or maybe just the past few months. Or maybe from the beginning. People say that there is a rotating door and that no matter how many people leave there will always be new people to take their place. Yet some of you have been here with me from day one and that is something I will never forget. I want you guys to know I read all of your emails and only wish that I had the time to respond to everybody. I do what I can. I consider my long time fans to be my friends.

Anyone who asked for a free code for “Cooler Than Genocide” has been given one. If your code didn’t work please let me know. It’s through fighting against fascism that we can make the world of music a better place. I’m not just talking about the underground either. I’m talking about everywhere. There have been some recent changes in EH that I would like to mention. I guess the main thing is that I’m no longer considering my project industrial. I’m sure you guys have a bunch of questions so I’m going to try to answer everything now.

Will this effect your sound?

Not at all. I produce the music that I choose to and will continue to do so. While I’m currently in the process of finding a live band the sound of EH is not going to shift. My live shows will be more rock-oriented but the music on “Grrl Interrupted” will be pure electro. There’s a bit of breakcore too.

Will this effect your image?

My image is constantly changing.

So did the assholes win?

I don’t think so. I’m not switching genres because I was forced out. I was forced out ages ago. I’m switching genres because I want to be exposed to a wider group of people. I also feel that I’m a bit idealistic for the industrial subgenre in its current incarnation. When people tell me I’m the one who brought them into the scene I feel a mixed reaction. If industrial was full of people like me I never would have formed this project. Yet I don’t always need to be the odd one out. I’m sick of feeling like a hippie (not sure what else to call it) and want to be in a genre full of people who are more accepting of my personality. With rock anything and everything goes. There’s also the fact that I want more opportunities for gigs and genuinely miss rocking out. I started out fronting rock bands. I miss playing live with a full band.

Will industrial ever be a nicer place?

Not all genres want kindness forced upon them. I think we did a pretty good job though. RANT (Rivetheads Against Nazi Thugs) has almost 1000 members and will never die.

Will this effect machineKUNT?

Nope. There are several industrial bands on my label and I’m not going to tell them to change their genre. My personal affairs have nothing to do with my label. In the past few years machineKUNT grew from a tiny all-female record label to an international music and modeling agency full of alternative talent.

What are you currently working on?

“Sanity is Slavery” and “Grrl Interrupted.” It’s the same as it ever was. Nothing has really changed. This is simply a new beginning. Or a new ending. Take your pick.

Love,
Rachel Haywire

In honor of taking a stand against our oppressors I’ll be giving out free copies of the “Cooler Than Genocide” EP. If you would like a free download please post a reply with your email address. I will send you a code.

Thanks to all of you for fighting with me in this struggle for truth and justice. Not just the industrial scene but all over the creative map. I think it’s time to start over and create a new revolution that is based on creativity, talent, innovation, eccentricity, thinking outside of the box, refusing to obey, and speaking out against injustice. The next time you see someone being attacked by a group of people do something. Don’t watch outside the club as someone gets assaulted for their skin color, sexual preference, ethnicity, piercings, tattoos, way of speaking, way of acting, or way of presenting themselves. Are these all not hate crimes in the end?

I recently heard something extremely disturbing that involved a bunch of high school kids participating in a gang rape of another student. Some of the kids went as far as to call their friends to join in. Others simply stood there and watched. Standing there and watching is one of the worst things we can do as human beings. When I was violently attacked at a powernoise show the other people stood there and watched. They know who they are and I wonder how they sleep at night.

Yet I see so much potential ahead of me to make new friends, meet new collaborators, and continue to take my music as far as I can. I hope that you guys enjoy the album.

-Rachel Haywire

The musical fight has begun. Raising awareness on forced institutionalization, stigma and abuse toward the mentally ill, the overmedication of artistic misfits, and a status quo definition of reality- the 2 CD digipack compilation entitled “Sanity is Slavery” will be released on machineKUNT Records in June 2010 and include a free digital bonus disc. 10% of proceeds will go to MindFreedom International, an organization dedicated to mental health rights and stopping psychiatric abuse.

The compilation features 48 diverse (mostly unreleased) tracks from artists across the globe including Attrition, Hanin Elias, Leæther Strip, amGod, Pzychobitch, and Trimetrick. It is being mastered by Kolja Trelle of Soman. The digital bonus disc is being mastered by Johan Ess.

Tracklisting:

DISC 1:

1. Leæther Strip – Happy Pills (Gimmie Gimmie)
2. Pzychobitch – Insane
3. Trimetrick – Beware!
4. Hanin Elias – Do You Know
5. Empusa ft. Miss FD – Therapy III
6. Experiment Haywire – Reality is Dead
7. Necrotek – Supernatural Breakdown
8. Attrition – Predicament
9. Verbalizer – Angels Dwell
10. ICI – Master Slave
11. Society Burning – One Foot Nailed to the Floor
12. UCNX – Burning Slowly Down
13. Azida – Mister Die
14. Psyche Corp. – Wonderland
15. Angel of Violence – Mr. Sleep
16. Psy’Aviah – Demons In Mind

DISC 2:

1. amGod – Like a Prayer (Insanity mix)
2. Cindergarden – Medicine
3. Syrenn – These Skeletons
4. Lucidstatic – Fistula
5. Johan Ess – A Treatise On Dionysian Oligarchy
6. EAT BABIES? – The Tender Surrender
7. Curiosity – Tarpit
8. Nurvuss – Tomorrow
9. Lady Parasyte – Sirens
10. De-Tached – Twitch
11. AfterChain – You Broke It
12. Zen Debris – Lucid
13. Lady Mystery – Breaking
14. Choronzon – Disdain Transcends
15. Darklilly – Happiness Can Be Small
16. Studio-X – Axis Temple

DISC 3: (digital bonus disc)

1. Hate in the Box – Bloody Ballerina
2. Lip Service – Model Actress Whatever (Nerwrak mix)
3. Produkt – Decay
4. Malfaktor – The Seed
5. Autoclav1.1 – Walk On Empty (Rydal mix)
6. Vernian Process – Unhallowed Metropolis
7. Daniel Cox ft. Wei – Lost in Translation
8. The Tleilaxu Music Machine – Bizzy
9. Amber Codon – Violet (Hole cover)
10. Protea – Anansi
11. Cyranoid – The Polygon
12. Apocalypse Vacant – Behind Fiction
13. Sabotage – God is Dead
14. Catherine Elms – Not Sorry
15. JuL!e D:stroy – Ladie’s Night
16. Strangelette – Send in the Klowns

http://machinekunt.com

It was first through Kim of Lady Parasyte (also on machineKUNT Records) that I heard about DJ T-1000. To be honest I was never huge into techno but when I heard Alan was one of the pioneers of the Detroit techno scene I had to check out his work. I was extremely impressed and found a love for this music I had previously not explored. The way Alan was doing things was different. I see him as someone to look up to ended up letting him use my vocals for “Vex.”

You can preview and purchase the album here at bandcamp. I’m very happy to be a part of this and am really looking forward to Alan’s remix of EH.

Synthetic Sensations is an online magazine focusing on technology, audio software, hardware, political activism, modeling, and electronic music. I was honored when they asked me if I wanted an interview. Featured in issue #2 you can download the entire thing here: Synthetic Sensations #2

Though of course if you are lazy you can just read the interview directly:

SS: Please tell me about yourself. What’s your background? Where are you based? How and what made you get into music?
RH: I’m Sweedish, Russian, German, and Jewish. Does that explain me? I’m still not sure! Currently I’m in a transient state because I’m homeless. Looking to change this so I can get back to finishing college. There have been a lot of bricks in the road recently but I’m not going to stop living because of these difficulties. I’ve gotta make the most out of my situation whatever it happens to be. I started taking piano lessons at a very early age and hated it because it was something I was forced into. From there I started fronting punk bands which lead to me creating noise music which lead me to picking up a few synthesizers which lead me to producing electronic music. Initially I was just a writer and street performer but I wanted to reach a wide audience and figured that music was the way to go.

SS: Please tell me about your experiences as a performer / musician. How hard has it been?
RH: When I was just starting out as an underground artist things were actually pretty easy. I was having a blast and doing everything I ever wanted to. It wasn’t until I started building a name for myself and “getting on the map” that things became difficult. I faced a lot of slander, harassment, stalking, and was actually the target of a hate campaign due to my Jewish ancestry. People felt that I “bought my way into the industry” and decided to come after me for this. I don’t understand why people think anyone who is Jewish has money though I certainly wish this was true for me! Looking back I was pretty naive and stupid but who wasn’t? I spun a lot of the negative press to my advantage but the damage was already done. I lost a lot of friends and collaborators due to being blacklisted from my own genre. In the end I learned who my real friends were but I never expected it to be middle school all over again. I just wanted to get my music out there. My demographic has now completely changed. Instead of reaching out to industrial types I started reaching out to other eccentric and “off kilter” types. I absolutely love my new fanbase. If you’re not an outsider you shouldn’t be listening to Experiment Haywire. I consider this entire experience to be a thinning out of the herd.
I’ve worked with some shitty producers who have tried to change my sound. Whenever I gave them my personal tracks they discarded them or completely changed them into material I couldn’t stand. Eventually I told these people to fuck off and turned Experiment Haywire back into a solo project. I am much happier this way. I actually wish I never worked with any outside producers. It’s a lesson to be learned. Experiment Haywire started as a solo project and it will end as a solo project.

SS: How hard has it been for you as a woman?
RH: I’m all about female empowerment as opposed to victimization but let’s just say that it was a bad idea to tell my fans and supporters that I was raped. Since a lot of my fans and supporters are survivors themselves I figured I’d go public and reach out to them. Yet this somehow got back to the nasty people who stomped me out of industrial and it became a huge internet joke. People were now threatening to gang rape me to remind me of the initial trauma. They were posting mutilated pictures of me with cocks on them and getting people to threaten me anonymously. In the end I realized they were a bunch of cowardly neanderthal thugs and I laughed it off. I actually feel that it’s a lot easier for me as a woman now than it was several years ago. As more and more female electronic artists pop up I realize that I’m not alone. We’ve built a pretty damn strong network for ourselves and are very supportive of each other.

SS: When did you start machineKUNT Records?
RH: 2007. It was after a controversial incident at a Providence noise festival. It was that show I was accused of “sneaking into” because I stood outside protesting the event after being called a “shitwhore cuntbag.” Suddenly it hit me. I was sick of the word “cunt” being used in a derogatory manner and I wanted to reclaim it. machineKUNT was now born though it was always an idea I had in the back of my mind. I just gave it a name. Females at the front. We were going to do things on our own terms now. This was going to be the new revolution.

SS: I love that the label is oriented towards female artists. How has this been received?
RH: Thank you. I’ve gotten a lot of mixed reactions. Everything from being called a feminzai to being told to “shut my stupid kunt up” to being told that I’d started something huge. A lot of other female artists have confided in me and asked me for their advice with their own musical projects. It seems like a lot of them have been through similar situations. I’m now encouraging all women to be their own producers and even to produce other artists. I’ve gotten a lot of press from various media outlets. The reactions are extremely polarized. Either you love machineKUNT or hate machineKUNT. There’s no in between.

SS: Has business been difficult what with people wanting to download MP3s for free?
RH: Of course it is. I think that’s pretty obvious. Yet what I’ve learned is that we need to create merchandise, throw live events, and encourage people to download our music through the proper legal channels. It’s not like anyone gets into running an independent record label to make money. I do this for the love of the art and the manifestation of my vision.

SS: What’s the plan for you and machineKUNT records?
RH: “Sanity is Slavery” is the latest compilation in the works. It’s all genders and genres. The compilation is about fighting against psychiatric abuse in the mental health system and we are donating 10% of proceeds to Mind Freedom International. This is a very important issue for me because I was locked up against my own will as a teenager for being “crazy” when I was really just reacting to the world. It amazed me that so many other musicians were interested in this compilation and that they had also been through absolute hell with the psychiatric industry. machineKUNT recently became a modeling agency. We’re the first of our type because we’re not an alternative porn site. The idea isn’t for our models to get naked but to express themselves creatively. There are so many alternative models with amazing ideas but since they aren’t willing to get naked for the camera it’s really hard for them to find work. We’re looking to change that. Eventually I’d like to combine everything together. Throw machineKUNT parties with live bands, DJ’s, models performing theatre, (if you’re a model you might as well be an actress too) and everything in between.