Carl Crack, Nic Endo, Hanin Elias and Alec Empire, better known as the German DIY-spirited multi-national multi-gender band Atari Teenage Riot, have pretty much created the genre most commonly referred to as digital hardcore, and, although labeling their niche genre can still turn out to be increasingly difficult and unpopular, their legacy of ultra-politicized heavily-distorted electronic/d'n'b punk/HC carries on throughout the decades. Proof of this is that six years after ATR's end, the genre is still alive and kicking (literally!) and 16 bands converged in 2007 to put this tribute CD together under the one label that probably best represents the movement, the genre and the attitude itself: Canadian D-Trash records. Rabbit Junk, Howard Roark, Zymotic, Unitus, Ctrler, Hansel, 64 Revolt, Nocore, DHC Meinhof, The Secret Life of Teenage Girls, Phallus Uber Alles, Evestus, Hercklekot, Cyanotic, The Phoeron and of course Schizoid crowd the line-up of "The Virus Has Spread" and will hopefully contribute to the wide-spreading of the ATR virus of knowledge and anger. I applaud the tribute and the spirit behind it. ATR were so ahead of time with their anthems that hopefully people will start listening to ATR's lyrics sometimes soon and start fighting back already... The time to fight has been right for a while!