Tenebreuse Justice

On my left, the young new international producers couple
from France, the spiritual sons of Daft Punk and Missy Elliott,
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Justice.
And here's
Phantom (Faex Edit), the EP that had it all started for them.






















On my right, some of the most famous O.S.T. producers of all time, responsible for many of the best terror soundtracks ever, including a bunch for Dario Argento's flicks, Signore e Signori, the Goblin...
And here is Tenebre , from their eponymous album Tenebre, for the Argento's movie that goes by the same title.




Please take some of your precious time to listen to both of them, keeping in mind that the first ones are selling millions of copies of their album released this spring and are considered as very prolific and original producers from the electro scene, whereas Tenebre was simply written in 1982 (yes, 25 years ago) by Simonetti, Pignatelli and Morante.

I could try to set a debate here, trying to figure out wether what Justice does when ripping off Goblin's work is creativity or not; I just know that, as their elder brothers (or spiritual fathers) the Daft Punks, they are obviously and heavily influenced by the schemes and sounds of hip hop productions (wasn't France the only country in the world with the US to have a tv programm dedicated to the early hip-hop scene in the 80es? and hasn't its been for a long time (maybe still is) the second country in the world for rap productions?), but i'd like to point out that eventhough the work of rap djs and producers such as Premier, Dilla, Pete Rock, Dre, etc, is about searching, finding and reworking samples from older original tracks as well, hip hop always creates (created?) its style out of the repetitions of short loops, when Justice simply copies an entire tune to make a "new" one. Just like those guys recently covering Supertramp's "Breakfast in America", and making it sound like crap. The trick always seem to be: "let's make a cover from the eighties, kids won't have known it yet, they might believe we wrote this down ourselves!"
So instead of a debate, i'd rather go for a piece of advice, a warning that's been appearently almost forgotten, quoting the Public Enemy Chuck D:

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!

Summer 2007

It was musical, intense, creative, this I hope, and so so so relaxing.
Congratulations from the heart to Corado and Silvia, the happiest and luckiest newly wed couple ever met, to Niko and Salla for their exceptionnal welcoming in Finland, and to my new friends who I met there, to all the Miki's, Petri, Ilari, Kimi as well, to Kaj and Annali for opening us heaven's gates and having me spent some of the quietest and therefore richest moments of my life by the lakes.
To all of you, hugs and kisses, hope to see you again very soon!

Here's (just) a few pictures from Finland then, since my Ixus decided not to collaborate anymore and collapsed while I was back in Helsinki after our trip to the lakes near Lapeenranta. So sorry, no pix from the prestigious Flow Festival, which happened to be very good!
Special shout-outs to Quiet Village from Uk, and Cosmo Baker, from the US, for the skillfull and so dancy performances!