Dear gentlepersons of the internet: once more I bid you hello and good day. Things have been pretty quiet around here for a bit, which has been (as per usual) the result of extensive craziness happening BTS IRL. So much, in fact, that I’ve missed the year-end deadline for compiling my year-end list by a couple of weeks now. I’ve got it narrowed down to a manageable collection of contenders, just need to revisit them to cut that number in half and then put them in order — which I’ll hopefully accomplish in the near future, now that I’ve finally emptied my inbox of everything from 2024.

Speaking of which, over the past two months we’ve been dormant here, Food Desert Recordings put out another of their esteemed fundraising compilations, which I’ll take a rare minute of downtime to bring to your attention. Welcome to the Spectrum benefits The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a very worthy cause, since unlike some other well-known organizations, it does not view Autism as a disease to be cured or eradicated…

Various Artists – Welcome to the Spectrum: A Compilation to Support the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (Food Desert Recordings, 27 September 2024)

From Food Desert Recordings‘ Bandcamp page:

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people. ASAN is a national grassroots disability rights organization for the autistic community. They fight for disability rights, work to make sure autistic people are included in policy-making, so that laws and policies meet our community’s needs, and work to support all forms of self-advocacy and to change the way people think about autism. Their members and supporters include autistic adults and youth, cross-disability advocates, and non-autistic family members, professionals, educators, and friends.

ASAN works to make our society more inclusive for autistic people. They work to make sure that autistic people are in control in our own lives, and have a say in policies that affect us. They work to protect disability rights and civil rights. They celebrate and promote autistic community and culture. They do this work in many ways, including policy and legal advocacy, making educational resources, creating advocacy tools, and leadership training for autistic self-advocates.

To find out more about Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), please visit autisticadvocacy.org. All proceeds from this album will be donated to ASAN every month to help them achieve their mission. As always, thank you for your generosity and support.

Welcome to the Spectrum, 24 tracks of highly varied material — ranging from blackened metal to electronica, ambient noise to darkwave — is available for purchase here.
 

 

 
Featured artists include:

D-Class
Non Serviam
18 Slashes
Burnt Heaven
Champenoise
Gloom Mouth
Danica Wetzel
Stormland
Through Mists
Kapnas
Tenebrae Annex
Eight.Fold.Path
Coffin Womb
Elizabeth Short
Flincher
SALT THE WOUND (Mark Doubt x livelivid)
The Rights
Educated Owls
Soft Glass
Wooden Vessels
MEGAFAUNA
Hallucinogenic Bulb
Hiverlucide
Global Extinction Enterprises

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