The French production team of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay (aka: JUSTICE) first came onto the electronic scene around 2004, but it wasn’t until their debut full-length in 2007, that they really began to gain widespread international prominence.  The album was simply titled † or “Cross“, due to it’s black album cover, which featured the silhouette of a giant 3-dimensional cross outlined in gold, not unlike the artwork  from T.REX‘s Electric Warrior.  The songs were driving, fragmented and crushing disco house dance mixes with heavy robotic warps and laser blasts in the vein of incredibly influential predecessors and countrymen, DAFT PUNK.  The DAFT PUNK comparisons were unavoidable for the duo and Kanye West found no issue with biting elements from either of the groups, adding irony to his pre-Taylor Swift stage crash at the 2006 MTV EMAs in protest of losing to the Justice VS Simian “We Are Friends” video.  Over the last 4 years, their stock has continued to rise along with their fan-base, they’ve played large musical events like Coachella and the Reading Festival, and even took home a Grammy.  This year Justice is slated to release their sophomore effort.  It’s already one of the most anticipated releases of the year and we have just received a fairly impressive video for the first single off of their follow up entitled, “Civilization“. Read the rest of this entry →