Surrounded by corn, freedom blasts from the speakers as a handful of freak shows' wrestle in a hand built 20' mud pit. A make shift kitchen cooks up food for any and all. A pig roasts on an open fire tended to by an older Croatian man that wonders what he is doing here. Beer flows freely. As the sun begins to set, a blaze is lit up on the hill above the barn. The music gets harder, louder, faster. Cars begin to wander in, wondering if this can really be the place the phone line directed them to. As the night wears on, the felling builds to one of complete chaos, complete freedom. Naked people frolick into the mud, roll around and then head back to the dance floor. People hang from the rafters and shout random crude poetry at the performers, becoming part of the performance themselves.

Depending on the eye of the beholder, the barn in East Troy, Wisconsin was complete idioticy or beautiful art. We at Addict Recordings saw it as both. For five beautiful summers, the Barn served as a drawing board for a community of musicians from around the world. Artists like Venetian Snares, Bogdan, Neon Hunk, Doormouse, Emotional Joystick, Stunt Rock and the famed band MEAT used it as a creative testing field; bouncing around insane musical ideas to a greatly appreciative audience. Boats were burned, whole cars flipped, smashed and destroyed. Countless wanderers thrown into mud, ears turned 180 degrees by the foreign sounds.

Flash forward, summer 2003, and the barn has seen better days. The property owners are seeing some legal, and this is our way to help. All tracks are donations, and original unreleased music. Each artist was asked to make a song dedicated to the barn, about the barn. We think it's a pretty amazing collection of what has become known as "midwest hardcore". In the end, all profits go directly to the owners, and you get a damn fine listen. Limited to 500 worldwide. For the 12" version, 6 of our favorites have been lifted from the CD. In addition, the abelcainsong is available on addict018 and the v. snares 'doormouse megamix' is available on addict015."