Ten Walls Offers Apology For Homophobic Comments Earlier This Year

Lithuanian producer, DJ Ten Walls, real name Marijus Adomaitis, caused outrage and was widely condemned earlier this year when he wrote a lengthy bigoted post on his personal Facebook account towards homosexuals. It was quickly taken down after probably someone on his team noticed it, but the rant was noticed and spread online, causing the producer's career to come to a quick standstill after several hit underground records a busy summer festival season planned ahead. Written back in June, he has just now apologized for his actions.

In a nearly 400-word email sent to DJ Mag that has some PR-sheen on it, Ten Walls apologized for his actions, saying he "deeply regrets" his "very offensive post.

"I am ashamed to have hurt so many people: my family, my country, my colleagues, my friends, the Global LGBT community and many others. Since then I have taken time out to reflect on what I did and work out a way of apologizing that expresses how sorry I am.

I am saddened by my own behavior and the impact of my actions on others. I offended a lot of people, was the cause of horrible debates, wrecked both my own and the confidence of others and ruined the plans for many people I was working with. Understandably, I was labeled homophobic and I am not and never have considered myself to be this way. I have to tell you that my action was completely out of character and done at a particularly angry and stressful time in my life. This is not an excuse, but I would like you to know that the content of my post is not a true reflection of my feelings. For many years I have been happily working and collaborating with people from different cultures, religious and sexual attitudes. I have always respected everyone.

My post made no sense, even to me. I'm a musician. My music is for everyone in this world. I always try to unite people to promote respect, equality and tolerance, love and peace. It is my priority as a music maker, in music there is no space for discrimination. It is my intention to do something in my home country of Lithuania, to support LGBT groups and educate others on acceptance and tolerance. I am now part of a group of people who have created an electronic opera 'Carmen' with a strong message of this. I hope my involvement in this project will be the first step to educating others in my home country that homophobia is simply not acceptable and that everyone should be free to live the life they choose.

I am sorry for what I have done. I am sorry I let myself down. I hope you can forgive me and that one day through my actions and future behavior, I will once again be accepted for my music."

One has to wonder why it took so long for Ten Walls to respond. He could have been waiting for the uproar to die down after he was denounced by promoters, DJs and fans from across electronic music. No matter the timing, the damage was done and it will take a lot for him to restart his career in any meaningful way. The first promoter to take a chance on him in a country where his views are not widely accepted will be immediately derided and could sign their own death wish with other agents. His only hope may be to become a ghost producer.

Back in June, he wrote a lengthy rant on his Facebook page, where he described homosexuals as "another breed" and compared homosexuality to child abuse. The disgusting post was deleted, but not before getting picked up by Gay Star News and going viral. Festivals such as Mysteryland and Creamfields quickly took him off of their bills and released statements condemning the words of the Lithuanian. Even the Lithuanian president got invovled, expressing his outrage at what Adomaitis wrote online.

This has special impact not just because it is 2015 and gay rights is a hot button issue globally, but electronic music's roots in the homosexual community. Gays were among the first the accept dance music in clubs across the United States and Europe in the late 1970s and 1980s, not the overtanned, creatine throngs that have overtaken many festival crowds today.