Return To Justice?

Justice, not in fact a trashy rework of the name Justine but a French musical duo of Gaspard Auge and Xavier De Rosnay. Justice are an electronic music duo and French, this bodes well think Air, think Daft Punk. Justice are probably not as well known as the former two.

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Their first work of note was the winning of a Paris radio station remix contest with their rework of Simian's 'We Are Your Friends'. It was both a club and internet hit shortly after it's release and saw the group signed to Ed Banger. What followed was more remixes, ones for Britney, Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim being the most notable.

A single soon followed; 'Waters Of Nazareth' which was received very favourably in DJing circles, eliciting praise from Erol Alkan amongst others. The song itself has an interesting sound one that veers dangerously close to sounding like a distressed cockpit at times. There is no doubt Waters of Nazareth is a fine dance tune and it was a high moment for Justice.


An album followed in 2007 the untypably named; †. The album was pretty well received amongst critics. Pitchfork named it at 107 in their list of the top 200 albums of the noughties. There seemed to be discrepancies amongst critics when it came to defining the musical style. Some critics dismissing it as dance music but heralding it as electronic pop and comparing it favourably to Kraftwerk. 


They released a live album in 2008 entitled 'A Cross The Universe'. They seemed to still do most of their best work with other peoples work! They won the 'Best Remixed Recording, Neo Classical 2009' for their remix of MGMT's 'Electric Feel'.


Between 2008 and early 2011 they released only sporadically and appeared to focus on different areas of the music industry with the recording of a mix for the Dior Homme 2009 Fashion show as well as on the soundtrack for Rubber.


In mid March the duo announced the upcoming release of a new single; 'Civilization'. The single certainly has shades of The Chemical Brothers about it although I was not a massive fan of the vocals it certainly seems to indicate a slight change in direction, seeminn poppier and not unlike Belgian music duo Aeroplane. Justice have indicated they plan to appear at Lollapalooza this summer to promote a new album titled 'From Dust We Shall Return'.


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