JUSTICE JOCK JAMS: FRENCH DANCE DUO ARE MAKING UNLIKELY SPORTS ROCK
Posted on AOL SPINNER Aug 10th 2012 5:00PM by Jesse Ship
Justice, the French dance band made up of duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, will never be confused for jocks, avidly following events like the Olympic or the Euro Cup. But they have a strong connection to the athletic world, regardless.
Mostly they appreciate the energy connected to sporting events.
“We are definitely making music to be on a soundtrack, or for a soccer match,” strong silent type Gaspard Auger told Spinner in a recent interview.
Xavier Rosnay agreed.
“We haven’t been watching the Olympics and we don’t love sports, but we love the simple and strong emotions related to them — like victory and excitement. It’s just like a fantasy,” says de Rosnay.
Certainly athletic types are aware of Justice’s appeal. Last year Adidas used the song “Civilization” for their “Adidas is in all” commercial. The recently launched video for “New Lands,” directed by Canada, the Barcelona-based video production team, takes Justice’s music into even more sporting territory. The video depicts a mash up of various sports being played in a single game, ranging from lacrosse to football to roller derby, complete with robot laser targeting systems and pink glowing electrified balls.
According to Canada’s Luis Cerveró, “It was all about aesthetics and stylization: the ’70s sci-fi films of our childhood, with its gorgeous colors, gadgets and widescreen photography, and hints of Japanese anime, ’80s visual effects and sports films neuroticism.”
So yeah, exactly like sports.
PALLADIUM BOOTS x BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB
The two renowned streetwear labels (Palladium & Billionaire Boys Club) commissioned the design expertise of Japanese street artist and fashion kingpin, SK8THING, to create a new take on a classic camouflage print that will be available in both the Baggy roll down and Pampa Hi silhouettes.
The Palladium x Billionaire Boys Club collection will be available in limited quantities at retail beginning in November 2012.
deadmau5 – album title goes here
Ok, so I passed up a chance to meet, greet and interview the grammatically defiant mau5 at VELD last week because I was just a wee bit preoccupied with Justice and HARDFest TO, but maybe I’ll have a second chance thanks to this great big new album announcment. WOOHOOOO!
Here’s a bit about it, straight from the mouths of PR babes:
All the tracks on > album title goes here < are deadmau5 original productions. They include collaborations with“Animal Rights” co-producer Wolfgang Gartner (“Channel 42”); vocalists Imogen Heap (“Telemiscommunications”) and Chris James (“The Veldt,” the critically acclaimed track inspired by the Ray Bradbury short story); and legendary hip-hop outfit Cypress Hill (“Failbait”). There are also new pieces like the Close Encounters of the Third Kind classic film-inspired “Closer,” the dance floor burner “There might be coffee”and electronica piece “Sleepless.” Like “Fn Pig” and “October,” many of these tracks have been available on deadmau5’sSoundCloud as rough edits. For > album title goes here < they come together as finished songs in the format the way he intends them to be heardby his fans.
The complete track listing for deadmau5’s > album title goes here < is:
Superliminal
- deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner – Channel 42
- The Veldt (featuring Chris James)
- Fn Pig
- Professional Griefers (featuring Gerard Way)
- maths
- There might be coffee
- Take care of the proper paperwork
- Closer
- October
- Sleepless
- Failbait (featuring Cypress Hill)
- Telemiscommunications (featuring Imogen Heap)
J Devil: Jonathan Davis of Korn Tells EDM Audiences to ‘Go F— Themselves,’ Says They Love It
Posted on Aug 7th 2012 3:30PM by Jesse Ship
“When I was 16, before I started Korn, I used to DJ New York freestyle, Miami bass, old school hip-hop, goth and industrial, along with playing high school dances for a production company,” Davis told Spinner. “A few years ago, my buddy DJ C-Minuscame to me and was like, ‘You used to do DJ shows. You were great in high school!’ So I took out my turntables and started playing again. I did my first gig about three years ago and haven’t stopped since.”
VELD – Day 2 – Bassnectar, Avicii, Nicky Romero
HARDFest Feat. Justice, Buraka Som Sistema, Austra, M83 and MORE!
I woke up Saturday noon to a simple one line email from my editor at Spinner, “Can you interview Justice at 330 pm?” Obviously, the answer was yes, I would say yes even if I was in a quadriplegic full body cast. There was no reason to miss out on this opportunity, especially since our initial interview request was oddly denied.
Buraka Som Sistema – Candonga from Jesse Ship on Vimeo. Don’t miss Blaya with the bootyquake on the 3 min mark!
Despite being held at Fort York on what passes for festival ground, Hard Fest TO was not a fest per se, but more of a long extended arm of the LA-based 2-day multi-staged event. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t have a good time. Most exciting for me was crossing off three bands from my must-see bucket list, Austra, Buraka Som Sistema and M-83.
Brewing storms held off until the very end of the night, and broke just prior to Justice’s set, delaying them by 20 minutes or so. Maybe they were scared that the rain would screw up their new hydraulic dj stage / organ contraption which no EDM act these days can be without!
Scion Sessions – Nosaj Thing, Doldrums, Jesse Futerman & More
The last time I saw Alphapup’s Nosaj Thing was about a year ago at a packed show at the Drake Underground. You’d think that a free show would have even more packed-er results? Oddly no, but good for us who had lots of comfortable dance space on the floor. The tunes were a lot more upbeat and tech-inpsired from his last set which I remember being more on the groovy, downtempo funk side of things. I also got a chance to see the much hyped Toronto Doldrums, and my favourite RL Steiner, Mr. Jesse Futerman. And, it wouldn’t have been a real party with friends like Raymi The Minx, Michael Kim and the gang.
There are still a number of other Scion Sessions events left in the week with a free post-hardcore band show from Young Widows at Parts & Labour as well as HardFest, headlined by Austra, M-83, Justice, Buraka Som Sistema, and more!
Buraka Som Sistema Just Discover EDM Scene is Real: ‘I Thought it Was a Joke’
Posted on Aug 1st 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship
Scion Sessions Week is actually launching a slew of musical events, you can sign up for chances to win VIP passes on their site, and follow directions below:
How to get into Happy Endings w/ Scuba, Egyptrixx & Exeter:
1. Win your way in for free via Scion Sessions:
http://scionsessions.ca/happy-
2. Buy a ticket for $15. Tickets available at the door or in advance via Ticketweb.
Win a trip for 2 to Toronto for Sessions Week & TIX/VIP to any and all shows on the calendar: http://
Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk and Downpour
I’m breaking the silence of my inner peace by sneaking notes, and it reminds me of the time I spent 10 days in silence at Suan Mokh, a Buddhist Vipassana retreat at a temple in Southern Thailand. But I’m not in Thailand; I’m in the courtyard of an upscale condo on Queen St W., across from Trinity Bellwoods park. All around me, music journalists sit pensively with their headphones on. The sullen voice.of Jonas Bonnetta, of Evening Hymns, and his autumnal Spectral Dusk album, (supported by members of The Wooden Sky, City and Colour and Timber Timbre) surrounds us communally through our synchronized ipods and mp3 players. Like the old marmalade cat poised on the upper balcony to us, my mind ought to wander with the droning country soundscape. Attached, yet detached, we sit as one.
The gray skies that threaten to burst only add to the delicate tension of the album that deals with the death of Jonas’s father. Songs of sorrow and fat wet raindrops fall like tears on my arms. Another few splatter my screen. It’s not fair to compare but I’d liken him to a mournful Leonard Cohen, with less cryptic lyrics and a focus on life lessons and longings like, the line from Spectral Dusk the title closing track, “I need you if I’m to be a man.” Followed by two minutes of field recordings taken from a country spot known as The Burn, where his dad’s ashes were a scattered. The blowing wind and rushing water do their best to sweep away the spectral catharsis that has set in.
“It’s terrible to put yourself thru the wringer every time you get on stage,” Jonas tells us after during an intimate Q&A. “I’ll be in front of a thousand people in some beautiful hall in Europe and then when I hit the first note, it strikes me ”Oh ya… I don’t have a dad.” Jonas actually can’t wait to release his next album, (he’s got two in the bag even), so he won’t have to keep pouring salt over old wounds. I imagine he’s gone through a whole shaker by now.
When was the last time I actually listened to an album from start to finish with headphones and no distractions? My last conscious memory brings me to high school, maybe TOOL’s Aenema album, but my pride insists it was more recently. Regardless, this exercise made me realize how much a lost past time it has become and how age and time are wearing away at our focus. As Jonas said earlier during his talk, “living out in the forest makes SO much sense.” I only wish I could return to that place inside myself as well.
