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Label: Ed Banger/Because/Vice
Length: LP
Rated: NONE
Media: CD
Format: Album
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Evidently there are dairy celebrations in Europe; Ed Banger Records head honcho/Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter met his future signees Justice at a French cheese party, and probably had little idea that the DJ/production duo would soon garner more stateside face time than Paris Hilton does when she climbs onto the latrine. Although â?  keeps to the crushingly-distorted-synths formula and epic disco kick of 2006 single ‘Waters of Nazarethâ?� (included here), Justice’s story is worth hearing. The hubbubbed debut full-length from members Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay is a lurid love letter to disco, but Justice pummels any semblance of safe dance-floor music into one gripping, seamless phenomenon on â? . No in-between track breaks are here to cushion us from the blistering riffs that fire in and out of ‘Phantomâ?� or those that barrel through ‘Phantom Pt. 2â?�; there are only dramatic string swoops on the second round that steal little attention from the hulking drone buzzes overhead. Affiliated MC Uffie doesn’t devalue this record for much more than three forgettable minutes, thankfully, and when she’s gone, it’s back to Justice’s plan: to conquer. Awesomely. With disco.

This article appears in Jul 11-17, 2007.