“Someone Could Have Been Killed”: Four Tet’s Agent, Teksupport Shows, and Emails Now in State Court
Four Tet at Brooklyn Storehouse, September 2026. Photo by Claire M. Hankin
“Someone could have been killed,” wrote Evan Hancock of The·Team (previously Wasserman Music) in an email to Rob Toma, which Toma’s attorney, Ross Fox, quotes in his letter to Judge McCloskey of the New Jersey state court. Three weeks before this email surfaced, Four Tet played two nights for Teksupport at Brooklyn Storehouse.
Letter of Ross Fox to Judge McCloskey, October 9, 2026, with Exhibit 1 (email of Evan Hancock, October 8, 2026), Toma v. Vitacco, MID-C-000018-26 (N.J. Superior Court, Chancery Division, Middlesex County)
Fox’s letter says a large piece of equipment fell from the ceiling minutes before doors, and that the production team, Technical Arts Group (TAG), now in bankruptcy court in New Jersey, risked people’s lives. Fox did not have to dramatize anything. He let Four Tet’s agent speak instead, and attached the email. “A large piece of equipment fell from the ceiling minutes before doors,” Hancock writes. “Someone could have been killed.” He says the production team “literally risked peoples [people’s] lives that night,” and that “due to this complete negligence Four Tet was not able to utilize a major production element in the show.”
The situation is problematic to say the least, whichever way you pick to look at it, but the main issue raised in the email is money. Hancock writes that he spoke to Camarda “last week” and “let him know we were expecting a compromise on the around $90k in charge backs.” Camarda, he says, “assured me it was being sorted and he would come back with a resolution.” That was “last Thursday.” “This week he has not returned my calls or texts.” Fox uses the email to argue, in effect, that neither TAG nor Teksupport can organize an event without Toma’s supervision.
On October 13, earlier this morning, the Vitaccos’ lawyers start their response with “Unfortunately… we are forced to respond to Mr. Fox’s litigation-by-letter’s tactics.” Apparently, this is not their preferred method of handling disputes. But set that aside. The Vitaccos’ lawyers dismiss the letter, and they go ahead and submit Exhibit A, the correspondence between Mitch Camarda, a talent buyer at TCE Presents, and Hancock, Four Tet’s booking agent. Another person in these emails is Kati Goldberg, a touring manager at the agency, then Wasserman Music New York.
TAG’s internal report tells it differently. In an email to TCE talent buyer Mitch Camarda dated September 23, J.G., whom the lawyers call TAG’s production lead, wrote that at around 9 p.m. on September 18, “while the artist was sound-checking, we were testing the two motors supporting the 10-foot truss. After bringing the truss to trim, I noticed that a section of chain had come down.” A motor cable had been positioned around the chain-bag side and fouled the chain, he wrote. He fixed it and cycled the motors several times. When the artist’s tour manager asked what happened, J.G. explained, and the tour manager chose not to use the motor movement. “The movement was only planned for one moment in the show,” J.G. wrote. “To clarify, the issue occurred during the programming and testing period—not during the artist’s performance.” Then this: “My understanding is that the artist was not informed before the set to avoid creating unnecessary concern.” Mike Vitacco was copied on the email.
Camarda had asked for the explanation the day before: "I was alerted to an incident involving a chain coming loose on the kinesis. Can you explain exactly what happened? The artist is particularly upset, and I need to provide him with an explanation." J.G. opened his answer with "Sorry for the delay," and said he was "managing several shows and closeouts and am currently onsite."
The Vitaccos’ lawyers read that report as a defense. They write that “the truss did not fall,” that “no one was injured and no member of the public was present,” and that a fault “found in the testing that exists to find it … is not a near-fatality.” They call Fox’s letter “a cheap, bothersome tactic.” Fox, as they quote him, described “a large piece of stage equipment” falling from the ceiling. The filing does not say how far the chain dropped, who was standing under the truss, or when doors opened. A thread filed with the letter lists the second night as “9PM - 2AM.” Unmixed has not independently verified either account.
Was it the first time? Teksupport's name is in two New York State courts, accused of harm. Spence, in New York County, over an October 2023 night at CircoLoco, and Santos Batista, in Kings County, over a July 2024 show, allege that elevated structures broke or fell at Navy Yard events. TCE Presents, Teksupport Worldwide and Toma are named defendants in both. The Navy Yard's development corporation and the City are named in Santos Batista only. Neither complaint names TAG or Vitacco, and neither plaintiff is described as a worker. None of it is proven. Toma's name on both complaints sits awkwardly with the picture of him as the man who kept things safe.
Underneath the Four Tet fight is the older one, over who can run TCE Presents. Read between the lines, Fox's letter makes the case that Toma has always handled problems like this, and that without him TCE is crumbling. The Vitaccos' lawyers say Toma was never cut out of the booking, and they point to Exhibit A: 44 messages from September 29, 2025 to March 11, 2026, with Toma copied on every one. Camarda wrote 24. Toma wrote two. What changed on October 8, they write, is that the agent "removed the person who had been handling his client's matter from the thread and went to Mr. Toma," three days after the October 5 order that ends Teksupport's events on November 7. "That is what an agent seeking funds for his client does when he believes the company is closing," they write. They add that TCE notified Camarda of his termination at 4:26 p.m. that day, twenty-seven hours before Fox filed. Hancock’s own email gives a different account. “You and I did this original deal,” he tells Toma, and “when things with teksupport went south Mitch told Kati and I that we should be talking to him only.”
What we learned here is worth noting for its order: the money request came first, and the email warning that lives were at risk opens “Mitch off and adding Rob.” Hancock also writes that “the venues production team took 3x as long to build our show as any other venue on the tour which ran up our expenses to a ludicrous amount.” Unmixed has not yet heard from TAG’s crew on this.
Letter of Daniel R. Guadalupe, Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, to Judge McCloskey, October 13, 2026, with Exhibits B, Toma v. Vitacco, MID-C-000018-26
Follow the money, because Hancock’s email does. The lawyers call the amount production overages and say Fox’s letter leaves it out. The documents do not tie it to the chain. A chain coming down over a stage is serious. In the same email, the agent moves from a threat to life to a bill for about $90,000.
Hancock has a record in the same exhibit. On October 27, 2025, Camarda offered “175K per show (350K) + the production spend ($108, 987) + 40K support budget (20/night).” On January 15, Hancock replied: "We want to move the $40k line item for support into Kierans [Four Tet’s] fee. So we're good to lock at $390k for the 2." Camarda asked, "Does he not want to kick some of that towards the production? Maybe half?" Hancock answered: "Not particularly :)" Kati Goldberg, the agency's touring manager, asked for deposits of 25 percent before the announcement, 50 percent a month before the show and 25 percent the Monday of show week, and on March 11 Camarda wrote that TCE was "good with that deposit schedule!" In the printed thread Camarda never writes the $390,000 figure himself, and the filing does not say whether any of it was paid.
A new name is not a new history. Hancock's agency was Wasserman Music when this booking began. According to Pollstar, it renamed itself The·Team in March, after its founder, Casey Wasserman, said he would sell it following his appearance in the Justice Department's release of the Epstein files. Several artists left the agency, according to reports. Four Tet's agent stayed.
The October 5 order freezes TCE-related entities from November 7 and starts liquidating their assets, and only open production bills from before November 6 get paid. Whoever is owed for this show is now in the same line, crew included, if they are owed. The filing does not say whether they have been paid, or how many people were on that stage when the chain came down. The order's October 9 deadline to terminate "non-essential" employees does not say who counts as essential, or whether TAG's crew are covered.
Here is how Unmixed reads it: after the October 5 court order on Teksupport's wind-down, it is no wonder more bookers will be knocking on Toma's door for repayment. There will likely be more.
The truth is, the filing from Vitacco's side does not say who was standing under that truss. Neither does J.G.'s report. Somebody knows. If you worked at the Four Tet shows, please reach out and tell us how the night actually went backstage with the production crew. Email us at editor@unmixed.org.
