international news _ 21st November, 2006
Mstrkrft’s Canadian Club
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
James F Keeler from electro duo Mstrkrft chatted to One Week To Live this
week about the band’s influences and his background growing up in Canada and
suggested his nationality has had minimal impact on their music.
“Canada isn’t a country like others I’ve been to,” he explained, “We define
ourselves by what we are not and how we are different from other places, but
we don’t have our own identity separate from making comparisons.”
His somewhat harsh assessment matched that of fellow Canadian music maker
Misstress Barbara who last year told Skrufff she felt more affinity with the
culture of her Italian roots.
“In Canada and the United States the mentality is the same; there’s that
kind of by-the-book mentality where you can’t really reason with people. And
everything is so by-the-book that sometimes the rules make no sense,”
Barbara complained.
“People can have a gun in the United States but they can’t go out to bars
until they’re 21. What the fuck is that?”
More recently, however, the Supreme Court of Canada struck a blow for
Canadian individuality and enlightened rules, legalising group sex at
private members’ swinging clubs throughout the country.
"Consensual conduct behind code-locked doors can hardly be supposed to
jeopardize a society as vigorous and tolerant as Canadian society," said
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, announcing the swinging law.
"The causal link between images of sexuality and anti-social behaviour
cannot be assumed, Attitudes in themselves are not crimes, however deviant
they may be or disgusting they may appear," he added.
Mstrkrft’s new single Work On You is out now on Modular.
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