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Justice is a Grammy award winning French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé (born 21 May 1979 in Besançon, Doubs) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July 1982 in Ozoir-la-Ferrière, Seine et Marne). The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter. Justice is known for incorporating a strong rock and indie influence into their music and image.
Their debut album † was released in June 2007 to critical acclaim. The album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and came in at number 15 on Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2007 an
Justice is a Grammy award winning French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé (born 21 May 1979 in Besançon, Doubs) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July 1982 in Ozoir-la-Ferrière, Seine et Marne). The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter. Justice is known for incorporating a strong rock and indie influence into their music and image.
Their debut album † was released in June 2007 to critical acclaim. The album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and came in at number 15 on Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2007 and number 18 on Blender's "25 Best Albums of 2007" list. It was nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Prize, losing out to The Reminder by Feist. Their remix of the MGMT song "Electric Feel" won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical in 2009.
In September 2009, it was announced that Justice would be moving to WMG/Atlantic's newly relaunched Elektra Records label. The band reportedly started work on their second album in mid-2010, with no release date yet announced. On 11 March 2011 the band put up on their official Facebook page what seemingly is a new album cover with no description. On 14 March 2011 they confirmed that they are working on a new album, and the first single entitled "Civilization" was released on 28 March 2011. The band confirmed that their second album, Audio, Video, Disco, will be released on October 25, 2011.
†, alternatively known as Cross, is the debut album of the French electro house duo Justice, released on June 11, 2007. It was certified as Silver in the UK March 13, 2009 for sales of 60,000 copies.
The track "Genesis" has been sampled several times throughout mainstream media. It was featured in an episode of the television series Shark and in television advertisements for Cadillac and Levi's. The song also appears in the video game Electronic Arts' Need for Speed: Undercover, and used in a gameplay trailer for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II. "Genesis" also appears in the trailer and ending credits of the film Echelon Conspiracy, and in the film Punisher: War Zone. It was featured in episodes of Top Gear Series 13, Episode 3, where Jeremy Clarkson tests the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series and Series 17, Episode 1, where he tests the BMW 1 Series M Coupe. It was used for a BMW promotional video of the M3. It is also featured on the cinema advertisement for series 3 of the E4 comedy The Inbetweeners. "Genesis" also appeared on the Season 5 Top 10 of America's Got Talent for Fighting Gravity's act.
"Phantom Pt. II" was used for a Telus commercial in 2007, as the intro music to Channel 5's Football Italiano, sampled by Swizz Beatz for a 2010 Gucci Mane song called Gucci Time, and featuring in Richard Hammond's review of the Holden Maloo ute during an episode of Top Gear. The Soulwax remix of the track was the final boss track in Tap Tap Dance.
"Waters of Nazareth" appears in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV under the Electro Choc radio station and in DJ Hero 2. Jay-Z's song "On to the Next One" from the album The Blueprint 3 features a sample of "D.A.N.C.E.". The Game has also used a sample of Genesis in his song "American Dreams". "Genesis" appears in multiple setlists in the DJ Hero video game. "Newjack" has been featured in the Cartoon Network block, "You Are Here", at the beginning of the program. "Let There Be Light" is featured in the videogame Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. "D.A.N.C.E" is also featured in Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 and Just Dance 2. The song was also used in college basketball commercial for ESPN as part of its "It's Not Crazy, It's Sports" promotion.
The British television show Misfits uses the song "Stress".
Audio, Video, Disco is the second studio album from the French Electro band Justice.
According to Xavier de Rosnay of Justice, the band wanted to incorporate more "hard rock" elements into their signature electro house style. Most of the tracks will include heavy guitar riffs, and real drums, in order to give their music more "flesh".
In contradiction to this, Xavier has also said that this would be a lighter album than the previous. With the first album being darker, and this one being "daytime music", not as aggressive as the first. The album also features more collaborations than on †.
The album's first single, "Civilization" was released digitally on March 28, 2011.
"Audio, Video, Disco" was confirmed as the second single and is due to be released on the 19th September 2011. A preview of the single was released on the 19th August 2011, via the BBC. The official video was released on the 6th September 2011, via the band's Facebook page.
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