Lee Foss: CANCELED

Published: June 21, 2019 Cancel Culture, Lee Foss, MeToo, monkey loft, Seatttle EDM events, Uniting Souls Music

Lee Foss, an internationally renown house music DJ scheduled to headline Uniting Souls Music’s 4th of July event, has been dropped from the event’s DJ lineup after posting an inappropriate photo on Instagram. The event will still go on with Anabel England and Pillowtalk headlining. The photo has since been deleted, but the internet is forever. Ramiro, head of Uniting Souls, stated via Facebook:

He won’t be playing after this. He will not play our event, I will lose thousands of dollars which I’ve already paid, but I cannot work with a guy who objectifies women much less as a form of self-promo. Disgusting.

EDM.com updated their reporting to indicate that Lee canceled the gig after discussing the situation with his agent. We spoke directly with Ramiro, who told us:

I have yet to hear from his agent, which is an issue itself. He did not cancel. I am going to cancel his appearance.

Either way, here’s to hoping that Uniting Souls can recoup some $ if Lee did cancel first!

Lee released the following statement to EDM.com:

Damage control? Lee then revised his statement to be less offensive:

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A similar, yet unrelated, situation recently happened in Seattle related to DJ Mr. C (Richard West) Cascadia Festival and a DJ from the TUF collective:

TUF’s Mission is to uplift marginalized folks including people of color, women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming identities. We challenge white-cis-male power structures within electronic music, art, and media by creating spaces to connect and collaborate.

It is with this mission in mind that TUF would like to formally show our full support for and solidarity with Cascadia Music Festival; when presented with the blatant and public misogyny of an international artist playing their upcoming festival, they took a stand and cut this artist from their bill.

This bold act sends a message that the PNW and Seattle electronic music and art scenes will not tolerate bigotry in any form, and acts of aggression or abuse towards any groups of people for any reason are not welcome here. We deeply applaud and commend them for this action and their commitment to making safer spaces.

The artist, Richard West, aka DJ Mr. C, producer, founder of Superfreq, Plink Plonk, End Recordings, and The Shamen frontman and co owner of The End, engaged last week in a multi-day campaign of sexist, vitriolic, and abusive hate speech against one of our collective members, prompting many of his followers to do the same in hundreds of comments.

He refused invitations to reconsider his words. He was not receptive to attempts of being called in. His threads were eventually shut down by Facebook as they were deemed to meet the community standards for harassment.

As this scenario unfolded, a related scene transpired in the electronic music community when an artist booked for a 4th of July Party in Seattle released a debasing promo-shot that can only be described as a blatant illustration of systemic sexism and misogyny. That artist will also no longer be playing that event due to Seattle’s response; we stand in full support of Uniting Souls Music + Shameless Productions Crews in this action as well.

We do not believe that anyone is fully bad, but acts of misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, and/or physically/sexually/verbally aggressive behaviors are not tolerated in the Pacific Northwest electronic art and music communities. They should not be tolerated anywhere.

These actions by these crews to cancel misogyny from their bills is what dismantling systems of oppression looks like. We are so proud of Seattle and Pacific Northwest Crews for doing their part, and we question the integrity of those who would support artists engaged in these behaviors, and their ability to make safer spaces for their communities and events.

Artist communities have the power, flexibility, and creativity to be leaders in building the world we want to live in. These are the kinds of actions that can build that world.

-TUF Collective via Facebook

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Published: June 24, 2019 at 7:42am

A similar, yet unrelated, situation recently happened in Seattle related to DJ Mr. C (Richard West) Cascadia Festival and a DJ from the TUF collective:

TUF’s Mission is to uplift marginalized folks including people of color, women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming identities. We challenge white-cis-male power structures within electronic music, art, and media by creating spaces to connect and collaborate.

It is with this mission in mind that TUF would like to formally show our full support for and solidarity with Cascadia Music Festival; when presented with the blatant and public misogyny of an international artist playing their upcoming festival, they took a stand and cut this artist from their bill.

This bold act sends a message that the PNW and Seattle electronic music and art scenes will not tolerate bigotry in any form, and acts of aggression or abuse towards any groups of people for any reason are not welcome here. We deeply applaud and commend them for this action and their commitment to making safer spaces.

The artist, Richard West, aka DJ Mr. C, producer, founder of Superfreq, Plink Plonk, End Recordings, and The Shamen frontman and co owner of The End, engaged last week in a multi-day campaign of sexist, vitriolic, and abusive hate speech against one of our collective members, prompting many of his followers to do the same in hundreds of comments.

He refused invitations to reconsider his words. He was not receptive to attempts of being called in. His threads were eventually shut down by Facebook as they were deemed to meet the community standards for harassment.

As this scenario unfolded, a related scene transpired in the electronic music community when an artist booked for a 4th of July Party in Seattle released a debasing promo-shot that can only be described as a blatant illustration of systemic sexism and misogyny. That artist will also no longer be playing that event due to Seattle’s response; we stand in full support of Uniting Souls Music + Shameless Productions Crews in this action as well.

We do not believe that anyone is fully bad, but acts of misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, and/or physically/sexually/verbally aggressive behaviors are not tolerated in the Pacific Northwest electronic art and music communities. They should not be tolerated anywhere.

These actions by these crews to cancel misogyny from their bills is what dismantling systems of oppression looks like. We are so proud of Seattle and Pacific Northwest Crews for doing their part, and we question the integrity of those who would support artists engaged in these behaviors, and their ability to make safer spaces for their communities and events.

Artist communities have the power, flexibility, and creativity to be leaders in building the world we want to live in. These are the kinds of actions that can build that world.

-TUF Collective via Facebook

One thought on “Lee Foss: CANCELED”

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