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Experiment Haywire
Latest Journal Entry: New "Cooler Than Genocide" review (Alterati) March 20, 2008, 11:17pm
Profile: Experiment Haywire started in late 2004, destined to explore chaos in a way that went beyond what had unfortunately become typical. As an avid listener and DJ of electronic, punk, industrial, and noise music (Deconstructed, QXT's Diva Weekend, Abstraction, etc.) it was only a matter of time before Rachel gave birth to her own musical explosion. Experiment Haywire would express themes of political dissent, female empowerment, war, (internal and external) torture, insanity, contradictory aesthetics, the devaluing of the human condition, and a post-apocalyptic future in this game called life.Influenced by artists ranging from Einstürzende Neubauten, The Plasmatics, Atari Teenage Riot and S.I.N.A. Rachel decided to form an all female industrial band in New York City called Nuclear Riot Party. She began playing at well known venues such as the Knitting Factory and the Continental and quickly gained a devoted cult following among the local (de)population. Fed up with the group mentality of the Nuclear Riot Party, Rachel soon decided to get back to Experiment Haywire. While Haywire was originally an avant-garde noise project based on desolate field recordings at weird hours of the morning (banging, stomping, smashing, kicking, screaming, scrap metal, railroads, broken glass, metal fences, generators, etc.) it soon turned into a rhythmic industrial invasion that incorporated these elements into the harsh and abrasive sound of an electronic punk assault. The first Experiment Haywire single, "Army or Two," was released on a 3 CD compilation entitled Women Take Back the Noise. (also featuring Cosi Fanni Tutti, VyL8, and Dark Muse). In 2006 she performed at Digital Hardcore Fest in Toronto with Phallus Uber Alles. Simultaneously, World War 23, her first collection of songs was distributed in limited release and received favorable reviews. Soon Rachel was playing for wider audiences in bigger cities (aside from New York) such as San Francisco, Washington DC, Miami, and Denver along acts such as Informatik, Cesium 137, God Module, Alter Der Ruine, Boyd Rice, (NON) and Z'EV. In early 2007 Experiment Haywire began working with Producer/Engineer Xris Flam of Mindswerve Studios, NYC. Having worked with a variety of artists such as KMFDM, Mindless Self Indulgence, DJ Spooky, Merzbow and Public Enemy he’s produced the controversial 4-song EP known as Cooler Than Genocide. He’s also produced her upcoming full length album Annihilation Chic.  In late 2007 Rachel founded machineKUNT Records, a new label for independent females creating dark electronic, noise, and industrial music outside the confines of the existing male-dominated industry. Extreme Women in the Dark Future shall be released in May 2008 as the first machineKUNT compilation.  Rachel is also a published author who is featured in the Disinformation anthology Generation Hex. Her first full length book is called Acidexia which is an authentic, highly personal coming of age autobiography and a cultural artifact documenting the fringes of culture at the dawn of the Information Age.  [[[[ EP: Now available: 50 out of 250 copies: comes with patch! ]]]  :: Order through Vendetta Music or directly through this profile :: **************************************************************  [ Comp: "Endzeit Bunkertracks - Act III" song: "Game Called Life" ] ************************************************************** Help support Experiment Haywire. Link to this page with the banners below. Play EH songs in your profile. Spin them at the clubs. Play them on the radio. Get in contact!   Sounds Like: "Classic Nitzer Ebb gone riot grrrl." -ReGen Magazine"Returning to a more old-school EBM sound reminiscent of acts like SINA and Suicide Inside, Rachel (Experiment Haywire) brings real attitude to the scene, breaking and shattering things, dominating and flogging people in the audience, and generating a torrent of irreverence and intimidation. Her live performances are thoroughly amusing and engaging." -David Callaham at DC show "Take Kenji Siratori, Takashi Miike, Throbbing Gristle and Laibach. Add a feminine militant touch and you get The Haywire. -DJ TeKslave of Synthetike Kakophonie "This girl starts beating tin painter pans on the floor slowly but rhythmically while the screaming lady comes out, still screaming of course. There is more screaming and pan pounding and then the music comes up. This continues as I realize that this is NOTHING that I expected. My thoughts are confirmed as pans and metal pipes are kicked, thrown and all around ejected into the audience. Needless to say I didn't care for the show and left the club for a good bit of it." -Witness in Vegas Influences: Ambassador 21, Android Lust, Atari Teenage Riot, Babyland, Coil, Consolidated, Download, Einstürzende Neubauten, Front Line Assembly, Hanin Elias, Laibach, Lydia Lunch, Nic Endo, Nitzer Ebb, The Plasmatics, Proyecto Mirage, S.I.N.A, Skinny Puppy, Snog, SPK, Suicide Inside, Throbbing Gristle, yelworC, and all of my friends who were doing this before me-The freedom to hate as a female in a pathetic society where hate is considered a non-female perspective -The need to rip a hole in the fabric of sound because ripping a hole in the fabric of reality was getting way too fucking easy Homepage: http://thehaywire.net Link 1: http://machinekunt.com Link 2: http://myspace.com/experimenhaywire Link 3: http://myspace.com/machinekunt
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