Hi,
My name is Joe and I run Don Giovanni Records. Sex Stains label. I can't claim to understand anything about what you are all trying to investigate as far as the bigger picture and political connections or Comet Ping Pong or anything involved in your broader investigation. I also believe that this kind of stuff is really important and worth investigating, I just haven't had any time to read up on anything related to the broader scandal.
With that said, it seems like my label and one of our bands, Sex Stains is now somehow part of your investigation. Instead of being investigated though, we are just being harassed.
I've had people email me and ask me questions which I've answered but I guess those answers aren't getting back to this community so I made an account to come answer whatever you want to know about us and Sex Stains with the goal of you realizing we really have nothing to do with this whatsoever and that hopefully it will lead to us not being harassed. As a label, and as artists we are all very outspoken with our music and writing about sexual assault and exploitations in all its forms. We work to police and investigate matters our own punk/diy community. I know what its like for victims not to be believed.
When someone told me that there was symbol for pedophelia in one of our videos I was horrified. Even if it was unintentional since i don't think most non-pedophiles are aware of those symbols (I certainly wasn't till someone linked me to the FBI document because of its supposed connection with the video), I wouldn't want it showing up in the video. But when I looked at the symbol in the document and the one in the video they really didn't seem all that similar. In an email I wrote someone else it would be like the difference between an "M" and an "N" or something. There are similarities, but they have different amounts of lines in different directions and thus have different symbolic meaning. This site I am on right now (Voat) seems to have a blue triangle for a logo, for example. I doubt it is part of this whole (though if people feel its worth investigating, then maybe it is).
I guess the point of this all is that I really have no issues with the investigation of pedophelia or any kind of abuse whatsoever, in fact, I agree it should be investigate if there is reason to. Like many of you, I also believe that there are large scandals especially in the mainstream that are covered up by the MSM and the government.
I don't know how the rest of your investigation is being conducted, but I can tell you that what is happening with Sex Stains and our record label isn't investigation. For every email or tweet I have received asking em questions about it, I have received a dozen of harassing comments. Please investigate. Ask me any questions you have about Sex Stains and my label and I will answer them as fast as I can (I am home with my family on thanksgiving. I was hoping to deal with this on Monday but the harassing comments are too numerous and piling up too fast).
I am, and always have been very accessible. My email is public, my label has no walls to hide behind and is fully owned and operated by me. I will now answer all your questions here too (or if you tell me a better place I will do it there too).
Joe
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Vigilia_Procuratio ago
Ah, well there we have it then. Maybe she's the one who needs to be answering these questions?
dongiovannirecords ago
Hi,
She finally had time to write a statement about this and hopefully it explains where the design came from:
"I was asked to write a statement concerning the video I made for the band sex stains. I say this because I don't believe any artist should ever be required to explain themselves (freedom of expression is at the crux of creativity and inventiveness) let alone face persecution, harassment or even death threats, all of which I have encountered the last couple of weeks. That being said, any ideas I believe in concerning creative integrity weigh very little in comparison to the very serious and heinous crimes that we are dealing with today. Let me make this very clear. I do not promote violence or harm in anyway against any human being. I was in no way representing any symbol or image other then the design itself , what is commonly referred to as an 80's vector pattern. more over, the band Sex Stains had no involvement in the creation of the images included in the video "Land of La La". Iv included a lot of the images I used as visual reference guides when creating the video, but I also encourage you to google "80's vector patterns" where you will find triangles, spirals, squares, circles, squiggly lines etc. You can clearly see that I used many geometric designs and patterns in the video, not just triangles and spirals. In fact I had absolutely no idea that that symbol ever had a specific meaning attached to it prior to the band alerting me of this controversy. I hope this clears up any confusion concerning the interpretations of the art I have created. "
Vigilia_Procuratio ago
It doesn't explain why she has a picture on her website of a woman in front of a pizza with a pentagram on it. That's kinda weird in itself.
I've just seen a few pictures of hand-print vector art and some of them are quite dubious - small hand in big hand, spiral in the hand, gender identification, and so forth. One of them is seemingly a common reference for massaging, that itself leads to questions. This might be unrelated in a sense, but since she mentioned vector art then she made it relevant. So these look odd...
They might not look odd to a lot of people, but for people like myself having looked into all this Pizzagate nonsense they stand out like a sore thumb. As does the spiral in the video.
These are surely subtle references in respect of paedophilia.
dongiovannirecords ago
I guess I don't know what to say at this point then other than that the band and myself had zero knowledge of this stuff or these symbols even if you are saying they are in the video.