Justice (French band)
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.jpg) Xavier de Rosnay (left) and Gaspard Augé |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Electro House / French House |
| founding | 2003 |
| Founding members | |
| Gaspard Augé (* 1979) | |
| Xavier de Rosnay (* 1982) | |
Justice (proper spelling: Jus † ice ) is a from the two DJs Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay existing French Electronica - Duo . It has the same manager as Daft Punk in Pedro Winter and is the most successful band on the Ed Banger Records label . Their logo is a Latin cross (†), which illuminates the room as a large, luminous installation at concerts of the band.
history
Justice first became known in 2003 for her remix of Simian's song Never Be Alone, which was created for a Paris radio station . As a result, the label Ed Banger Records became aware of the two, signed a contract with them and officially released the remix. They then worked as a remixer for various French bands as well as for international stars such as Britney Spears , NERD , Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk . With Waters of Nazareth , the first single was released under his own name in September 2005 . In the course of the next year remixes for Franz Ferdinand , Mystery Jets , Soulwax and Mr. Oizo were created.
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After the EP D.ANCE was released on May 28, 2007 , their debut album † was released on June 11 . The video for DANCE was nominated for the Video of the Year Award at the MTV Video Music Awards 2007 for best video. In 2007 the video for DANCE won the Video Star Award at the European Music Awards in Munich .
The 7-minute video clip for the song Stress, the next single from the debut album, staged by Romain Gavras , was controversially discussed and criticized with accusations of racism and glorification of violence in French and international media . It is about a gang of thugs made up of black, Maghrebian and white youths who brutally rampage in the style of clockwork orange through a Parisian satellite town and Montmartre .
In April 2011, the first single Civilization from the following, later album was released. This track was previously used in a brand campaign by Adidas . The album Audio, Video, Disco was released in October 2011.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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 CH
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| 2007 | Cross (†) |
FR11 (59 weeks) FR |
DE56 (1 week) DE |
AT71 (1 week) AT |
CH36 (10 weeks) CH |
UK49  (2 weeks)UK |
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Ed Banger Records
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| 2011 | Audio, video, disco |
FR5 (12 weeks) FR |
DE67 (1 week) DE |
AT49 (1 week) AT |
CH15 (4 weeks) CH |
UK35 (2 weeks) UK |
US37 (1 week) US |
Ed Banger Records
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| 2016 | Woman |
FR17 (12 weeks) FR |
DE70 (1 week) DE |
AT44 (1 week) AT |
CH16 (1 week) CH |
UK47 (1 week) UK |
US154 (1 week) US |
Because Music
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Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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US
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| 2008 | A Cross the Universe |
FR34 (17 weeks) FR |
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Ed Banger Records
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| 2013 | Access All Arenas |
FR12 (4 weeks) FR |
- | - |
CH86 (1 week) CH |
- | - |
Ed Banger Records
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Remix albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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FR
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DE
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AT
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US
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| 2018 | Woman Worldwide | - |
DE48 (1 week) DE |
AT38 (1 week) AT |
CH29 (1 week) CH |
- | - |
Because Music
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EPs
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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FR
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DE
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AT
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CH
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US
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| 2013 | Helix |
FR146 (1 week) FR |
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More EPs
- 2007: DANCE Remixes (Ed Banger Records)
- 2008: DVNO Remixes (Ed Banger Records)
- 2008: Planisphère (Ed Banger Records)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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CH
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| 2006 | We are your friends |
UK20th  (14 weeks)UK |
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vs. Simian
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| 2007 | Waters of Nazareth Cross (†) |
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FR88 (6 weeks) FR |
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| DANCE Cross (†) |
UK48 (3 weeks) UK |
FR11 (49 weeks) FR |
CH49 (17 weeks) CH |
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| DANCE (remixes) |
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FR90 (3 weeks) FR |
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| 2008 | DVNO Cross (†) |
- |
FR94 (3 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 2011 | Civilization audio, video, disco |
UK5 (4 weeks) UK |
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| 2012 | On'n'On audio, video, disco |
UK75 (1 week) UK |
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| New Lands audio, video, disco |
UK128 (1 week) UK |
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| 2013 | Helix audio, video, disco |
UK86 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 2016 | Safe and Sound Woman |
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FR48 (2 weeks) FR |
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| Randy Woman |
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FR102 (4 weeks) FR |
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| Alakazam! Woman |
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FR90 (1 week) FR |
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| 2017 | Pleasure (live) |
UK148 (1 week) UK |
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More singles
- 2003: Never Be Alone (vs. Simian) / Steamulation (vs. Gambit)
- 2006 :, Waters of Nazareth (Part 2)
- 2007: Phantom (Ed Banger Records)
- 2009: Tthhee Ppaarrttyy (Ed Banger Records)
- 2011: audio, video, disco (Ed Banger Records)
- 2018: Stop (Ed Banger Records)
Remixes
| year | Original interpreter | title |
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| 2003 | Vicarious Bliss | Theme from Vicarious Bliss |
| gambit | Steamulation | |
| 2004 | NERD | She wants to move |
| Scenario rock | Skitzo Dancer | |
| 2005 | Britney Spears | Me Against the Music |
| Death from Above 1979 | Blood on Our Hands | |
| Fatboy Slim | Don't Let the Man Get You Down | |
| Daft punk | Human After All | |
| Soulwax | NY Excuse | |
| Mystery jets | You Can't Fool Me Dennis | |
| 2006 | Franz Ferdinand | The fall |
| Mr. Oizo | Nazis | |
| Justice | Waters of Nazareth | |
| 2007 | Justin Timberlake | LoveStoned |
| Justice | DANCE | |
| ZZT | Lower State of Consciousness | |
| Klaxons | As Above, So Below | |
| Metallica | Master of Puppets | |
| 2008 | Justice | DVNO |
| MGMT | Electric feel | |
| 2009 | U2 | Get On Your Boots |
| Lenny Kravitz | Let Love Rule | |
| 2013 | Boys Noize | I RU |
| 2019 | Frank Ocean | Dear April |
- ^ Remix by Justice & The Chemical Brothers
Awards
- They won an award in the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical category at the 2009 Grammy Awards for remixing MGMT's Electric Feel .
- Justice got 2006 for Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends won the Best Video Award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 .
- The video for DANCE was nominated for the Video of the Year Award at the MTV Video Music Awards 2007 . In the same year it won the Video Star Award and the Best French Act Award at the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards .
- The Musikexpress voted † at number 18 in the album charts, DANCE at number eight among the singles.
- At Spex , † reached number two in the album charts, DANCE number nine in the single charts.
- Grammy Awards 2018 : Best Dance / Electronic Album for Woman Worldwide
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- ^ Ed Banger: Teaching the rock kids to dance again. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
- ^ Will Hermes: French Electronic Dance Music . In: The New York Times . July 1, 2007, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 18, 2019]).
- ↑ residentadvisor.net ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article in the 3sat broadcast Kulturzeit on May 30, 2008
- ^ Henning Lohse: French video of violence: Advertising with hatred . In: Spiegel Online . May 12, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Justice. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Youtube video
- ^ Justice Talk New Album: audio, video, disco . The arena-rock-inspired LP is due out October 25.
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: FR DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b Grammy.com ; accessed on February 24, 2019
- ↑ a b Poplist.de ; Accessed December 18, 2007
