STM 308 - No Master, No Servant

No Master, No Servant is a young collective from Montréal, Quebec. Consisting of five collaborators, they mainly focus on sonic creation, but also venture into visual expression, films, photography, and written works. Departing from a firm commitment to social matters, their creative approach seeks to raise both self and social awareness based on collectivity, diversity, and mutual aid. To convey such a necessary game-changing message in this age of barbaric individualism, they wisely and boundlessly leverage the abstract yet meaningful power of sound.

In fact, if eloquence is the cornerstone of every artistic activity, their output speaks for itself, with raw EBM, new beat, early industrial experimentation, electro, and lo-fi, among others. And it is precisely the rawness of their sound, together with the feeling of permanent modernity or postmodernity, inherent to industrial music and early industrial collectives such as COUM, what instills a sense of timeless truthfulness in their discourse, no matter the genre. To prove it —quite successfully— last September they put out the superb cassette LOVE TRANSFORMS US BUT INTO WHAT?, including a 12-page manifesto/zine. Highly recommended.

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