What happened? For the past few years I’ve been nailing the death of the Internet into the coffin. I recently posted about The Death of Memetics and was all but ready to give up on creating any sort of digital revolution. The cancer had spread too fast and we were completely outnumbered. The new generation of cyber-thugs decided to shit on the city that we built for them. Anonymous was no longer about free information but getting depressed 12 year old goth girls to kill themselves. The mobbing of innocent people was not related to natural selection but sexual rejection. Bullycide everywhere.

Enter Julian Assange. Enter Wikileaks. Enter the beginning of Information War I. Suddenly Anonymous wakes up and suddenly we are rewriting the manifestos. The cancer is no longer relevant. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive and we do not forget. We support the freedom of information. We are against digital mobbing.

Now we have found secret documents that our own government has kept us from viewing: secret documents that were used to kill innocent civilians: secret documents that gave validation to everything any so-called conspiracy theorist claimed. There are hundreds of mirror sites to Wikileaks. We cannot be stopped.

http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

All of this is completely exhilarating for me. I now feel the pulse of the revolution that I thought had died. We are reclaiming our territory. The Internet is being used for to spread free information again. Memetics are reborn. We are experiencing a new digital culture and I must say that it doesn’t contain very many lolcats. I love the Internet.

Update: This article was just published by Disinformation. http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/how-the-rise-of-the-information-war-gave-birth-to-a-new-digital-culture

One of the things I find interesting about being an intellectual on the fringes of culture is the conservatism of the academic movement. Recently The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto was published over at Humanity + Magazine. As many of you know I have been uniting “people like us” for over a decade as a multi-media artist. My goal is to inspire people who understand our universal struggle as artists and intellectuals without giant bank accounts. Le Petit Bourgeois.

Upon publication of The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto I was labeled a “dangerous extremist” and told that a Waco Siege would be a viable way to deal with thinkers such as myself. A Waco Siege over my ideas? That was something else right there. It was brought to my attention that what I proposed was in clear violation of U.S. laws. What exactly did I propose? My vision of a mutant utopia for the youth. I found it very comical that rich academics began discussing, with extreme sincerity, how these ideas were akin to terrorism.

In contrast I also received a lot of support and much of it came from academics who were also on the fringes of thought and culture. This was extremely refreshing to me. People began debating a topic that is the very essence of my being. Is non-conformity a product of the new evolution? We formed a facebook group for other Transhuman Separatists and within 24 hours we had over 50 members. This was my favorite response:

“Thank you for helping me feel like all the opinions I have about humanity have a place. I truly felt good about myself for the first time in a long while.”

This is why I wake up in the morning. This is why I make music and this is why I write. To find other people who know what it feels like to be this way and empower them. It is appalling that we live in a society that shuns us for being different and it is those of us with the will and determination to be extreme individuals who I consider to be the higher species.

Here is the video I made for the “It Gets Better” campaign to fight against gay teen suicide and cyberbullying. I encourage all of you to make your own.

The word on the streets is out. Sanity is slavery!

For this past year machineKUNT Records (home to Experiment Haywire, Trimetrick, Lady Parasyte, Syrenn etc.) are hard at work on the “Sanity is Slavery” compilation to fight against psychiatric abuse through music. This is a 2 digipack CD compilation which also includes a digital bonus disc. 10% of proceeds are going to MindFreedom International which is an organization dedicated to mental health rights. 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 mastered by Kolja Trelle of Soman.

machineKUNT is currently giving away packages to anybody who pre-orders the compilation as they count down the last days of their Kickstarter fund. With everything from paintings made specifically for the cause to customized songs by Experiment Haywire and Society Burning to customized photoshoots of machineKUNT models to professional remixes by De-Tached to rare Attrition posters there are 14 different packages available to everyone who helps machineKUNT reach their Kickstarter goal. In an age of digital media the cost of printing physical albums in astronomical but Rachel Haywire of machineKUNT Records is interested in releasing a collectors item that will be remembered for its meaning and message. The large booklet of this digipack will contain pictures, bios, and testimonials from the artists on the compilation along with testimonials from psychiatric survivors all over the world.

You can pledge on one of the 14 packages here: Sanity is Slavery Kickstarter project

Sample clips of the songs are available for listening directly on the machineKUNT website: machineKUNT Records

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

Hello everyone,

Recently I was asked to do a PSA for “Love is the Cure” which is an organization dedicated to giving Borderline Personality Disorder a more positive name. I think that BPD has been stigmatized and that there is a lot of misinformation out there. Many people with BPD have been through repetitive trauma and I feel that it’s harmful to tell us we can’t be cured. I feel that anything is possible.

Here is the original PSA:

Here is my version:

All feedback would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Rachel Haywire

It has recently been called to my attention that my new pictures “go against everything that I stand for” and that I am now using sex appeal to sell my records. Are these people serious? My records don’t sell whether I am using “sex appeal” or not. It doesn’t matter what I look like. People don’t like buying music. People like buying clothes. People like buying houses. People like buying merchandise. Who buys music these days? Seriously. The top artists in our genre (Combichrist and anyone bigger than this excluded) work 9 to 5 jobs. The rest of us are in situations that range from being homeless to living with our parents to living in crappy apartments to finishing school in our early to late 20′s.

I remember when Emilie Autumn posted some pictures that I found to be triggering as a survivor of sexual abuse. I mentioned that I felt betrayed by her because listening to her music had always been a healing experience for me. I felt completely crushed. Yet suddenly it hit me when I went to her book reading in Chicago. She wasn’t betraying us by taking these pictures in the slightest. She was rising above her abuse. She was giving her oppressors a big fuck you. She was taking whatever pictures she wanted to. That was liberation. I confided to her in tears and she gave me a huge hug.

I am proud of my body. If anyone has felt triggered by the recent images I’ve posted I want them to know that this was not my intention. I used to do everything I could to make myself ugly to avoid sexual harassment. No longer will I be that type of person. No longer will I hide my body because that is letting the assholes win. I’m not ugly and I refuse to make myself appear that way due to the sexual oppression I have faced. I am proud of my body and you should be proud of your body too. Whether you are skinny, fat, or anything in between… our bodies are our own and we should never try to hide them.

As for my current departure from the internet my reasons are as follows. A bunch of my friends have told me that I am making things worse for myself by posting about my private life to the public. I can’t believe I told the public I was raped. This caused my enemies to start threatening to gang rape me to remind me of the initial trauma. It was an inhuman thing to do to me and sent me into a downward spiral that effected my mental health in a way that I can’t even begin to describe. Why did I tell the public I was raped? To share my story. To reach out to other survivors. Yet it was still a decision that hurt me in the end.

What I need to do right now is get better. Not post about the way people in the powernoise scene have been fucking with my life. My actual life. It goes far beyond the internet. While the public has the right to know about the way I’ve been treated by the horrible people in my own industry this is much less important than getting in better mental shape.

I am checking myself into a clinic for survivors of sexual abuse. When I am in better mental health I will return to the internet once again. Until then I wish you all a happy new year.

Love,
Rachel Haywire

RANT is a new political movement inspired by the SHARP movement. The SHARP movement was started when a group of neo-nazi’s were infiltrating the punk/oi scene with fascist politics. The SHARP’s decided they weren’t going to tolerate these white power bands having control of their subculture. They decided to create social change by any means necessary.

Since the SHARP’s finally stomped the neo-nazi’s out of the punk/oi movement they turned to goth/industrial/powernoise. We do not need to tolerate this. We are sick of seeing these douchebags at the shows we attend. We are sick of their hateful attacks against people who aren’t a part of “their brotherhood” and their misuse of ancient symbols. Their thug mentality is not what industrial is about. This is not the mafia. This is music.

The neofolk bands with fascists beliefs have already been exposed and pushed underground. It is now the dark electro/powernoise bands with fascist politics that are causing problems within our scene. It is time to stomp these idiots out once and for all.

RANT was founded by Rachel Haywire (Experiment Haywire | machineKUNT Records) in November of 2009 after she was violently attacked at a show and received threats against her life as a musician of Jewish ancestry. She has been the target of libel/slander, identity fraud, serial harassment, psychological abuse, and gangstalking for the purpose of keeping her silent but continues to speak out in the name of justice.

Mission:

-To promote a more tolerant subculture
-To put an end to racist/fascist/homophobic attacks against people in our scene
-To stop white power artists from dominating the genre
-To make this about the music once again

Join the official facebook group here: Rivetheads Against Nazi Thugs

Keep up the fight,
Rachel Haywire