Justice - A Cross The Universe (Ed Banger)After nearly 2 years of filling the world's electro-lover's ears. The French duo have released this live album. When I first saw this album mentioned on
'The Lemur Blog', I thought to myself, "Aw no, not another attempt to make just a bit more money". Because at this stage, I think almost everybody is a bit sick of the pair.
But I was clearly intrigued, so I downloaded it. And to my surprise, I was instantly impressed. Even though I had seen this exact live show a few times. It sounds great recorded. It opens up with a self remix of probably their coolest track
'Genesis' and mixes nicely, using their steam-like sounds into
'Phantom Part 1'. Also when you realize what track is coming in, the crowd realize at that same moment and let a huge roar, which for me, gives me a tingle down my spine. On this album Justice were not afraid to admit and use two remixes of their songs, using
Mstrfkrft's D.A.N.C.E and
Soulwax's Phantom Part 2. Which, for me, are both better than the original mixes.
So the album instantly grabbed me and only got better. Not one track is the same as the original mix and is either remixed by themselves or producers that are just as good. Every track is just that bit heavier. Which is, in fairness, what I think most of us want from the Parisians.
The best track on album is '
Phantom Part 2'. They start the 10 minute version of this song with a sample from
'Killing In The Name' by Rage Against The Machine' and goes into a choppy, teasier and heavier version of the
Soulwax version.
For me, this was a bit of nostalgia. It made me remember exactly why I was in love with Justice for a good 4 months. And as live albums go it is not far off the perfect
"Alive" from Daft Punk.
8/10TRAX:01. Intro
02. Genesis
03. Phantom Part 1
04. Phantom Part 1.5
05. D.A.N.C.E.
06. D.A.N.C.E. Part 2
07. DVNO
08. Waters Of Nazareth
09. One Minute To Midnight
10. Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
11. Let There Be Lite
12. Stress
13. We Are Your Friends (Reprises)
14. Waters Of Nazareth
15. Phantom Part 2
16. Encore
17. NY Excuse (Soulwax/Justice Remix)
18. Justice X Metallica
http://rapidshare.com/files/171136624/justcross.part1.rar
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The film:
http://rapidshare.com/files/167415619/J-ATU.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/167415883/J-ATU.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/167415994/J-ATU.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/167411206/J-ATU.part4.rar
And the English subtitles:
http://rapidshare.com/files/167632345/JUST-ACROSSTU-ENG-SUBS.rar
I've been rinsing a version of Kings of Leon's 'Sex on Fire' of late and to be honest it's getting a bit old. Right on time, Dolby Anol have come through with a new remix in the shape of King's new tune 'Use Somebody'... Think this is a rough edit, but I like it anyway!
My Top 5 are:
My top 5 of 2008:
It took me a while to finally choose only 10 tracks of this year. But I think I'm happy with my final 10.
I found these lads last year and thought they would be huge by now based on this song...
Ed Banger are a funny old label. I know I shouldn't like their stuff coz it's all a bit cliché but every so often they come out with some really good music. Forget your Justice, Feadz and Uffie, for me, Ed Banger is all about Mickey Moonlight, Oizo and Mehdi. 
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having", apparently. The NY hipsters are back, this time with the help of Spankrock. He's traded in the bootay bass for floaty electro dreaminess... The result is below. I'm really into this at the mo. My iPod tune of the week.
I first got into DJing through my love for all things New Jack. This was way back in the mid 90s and I was being educated in this field by a dude I went to school with. We missed the boat on the whole thing first time around on account of us being about 5 when Teddy Riley and Bobby Brown were doing their thing, but the discovery of films like 'Boyz N the Hood', 'House Party' and obviously 'New Jack City' opened up a whole new world of music for us. I've posted below, just for nostalgia's sake, a few of my favorites and also a sweet remix of Bell Biv Devoe's classic 'Poison'
First post in a long time, moved gaf and had no net for like 2 weeks... Head-wrecker... Anyway, I'm gonna keep the posts coming thick and fast and first up is this new banger from London's own Foamo. I'm a huge fan. First introduced to him a few months back through his simply flawless Summer Mix, which I grabbed over on Discobelle. The chap's only 21 and turning out some ridiculous production that's seriously rivaling some of the big boys.
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