Let Justice be fun

Actually Gaspard Aug and Xavier de Rosnay - the Gallic geezers behind the woofer-warping Waters Of Nazareth - are already on our island having kicked off a whopper of a UK tour in The Smoke last night.

Viewed by some as the new Daft Punk, their dance music for rock kids has led to a knack for incendiary dancefloor practices, as fully illustrated on their debut album † in the spring.

Leather jacket wearing and chain smoking, the duo further extend an already cross-pollinated genre which has dissolved boundaries so that Ibiza now has rock bands and dance producers can look more like BRMC.

“I really hope we didn't do something too weird or too ambitious,” said Gaspard of their brand-bending, style-moshing album. “We tried to make something a bit universal. Some tracks are happy, some are sad, some victorious. We didn't try to do mental music or show off our producing skills. It was just about emotion.”

Since emerging with their 2003 reworking of indie act Simian’s Never Be Alone to create the anthem We Are Your Friends, Justice have been messing up the hair of electronic music with a manifesto of distorted, chopped up, body slamming beats and bleeps, furthered by the singles Phantom and the Jacko-dedicated D.A.N.C.E.

The former graphic designers have also filthed up several of their neighbours, Soulwax, Death From Above 1979, Fatboy Slim and Franz Ferdinand included.

“We are making music by chance,” says Xavier. “We didn't know we would be musicians for the next few years. We were graphic designers then one morning we woke up and we were musicians. We started from zero. It's cool to arrive in a discipline and just try to do things.”

Adds Gaspard: “We don't have enough knowledge of sound engineering to use really fancy equipment. That's what makes it exciting for us - just to do music without really knowing how to do it.”