From "Grindthieves" -
BADMPFree004 - Various Artists - We Are Legion
"Ahoy there, maties! Sorry for the relatively small lack in audio updates, was busy settling fully into my new/old home town & enjoying a nice weekend of partying it up with friends in/from the new/old homeland while enjoying some musical performances & partying it up with friends from/in the old/new homeland. If that makes any sense. Anyways …
The middle of this last summer Will from Bad Sekta hit me up & nudged me in the direction of his fine establishment of ruckus & noise. Bad Sekta is a fine melding of artists releasing music via CD & free MP3 (& vinyl, soon!) in the experimental, breakcore, IDM, noise, etc. realms. I’ve, admittedly, only delved into their most recent mammoth compilation but what I’ve heard has me on further download as I sit in front of my screen & prepare this entry.
I’m on my fifth listen of the first batch of material I’ve checked out, the massive compilation entitled “We Are Legion”, & it grows on me further with each listen. Which is not to say it’s taken repeated listens for me to enjoy, quite the opposite - I enjoyed it straight away. But at a whopping 23 tracks, it’s quite the main course to take in one sitting.
There really is, literally, a bit of everything from the depths of the hard, weird, & wild realms of experimental & leftfield electronic music. I can’t even begin to pick which of the 23 tunes on here to run down in order to give you an idea of what to expect, but rest assured it’s all well wicked for what all of them are. There’s atmospheric beat fuckery, grindcore/breakcore hybrids, futuristic drum.n.bass, straight up frenetic IDM, noise, & more… All of it awesome.
On an aside, someone close to &/or involved with Bad Sekta was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness & they are looking for donations to St. Helena Hospice, so demonstrate how reciprocity makes the world go round & toss a few at them, eh."
- Decker, September 18, 2008