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I love seeing Gaspy and Xavy bein’ a little bit sillie for once. While I like thinking of them as rockNrollers with ‘attitude’ who ‘make bangers (not mash),’ it’s good to see that they are embracing their power animals.
Gaspy & the Justices on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
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But SRSLY yall, I learned a lot from the Busy P interview on P4K. There was a lot of name dropping, banger-referencing, and tales from a meaningful+fun youth. Here are some of my fave parts:
********WTF IS BLOG HOUSE?*******
Pitchfork: Do you think the term “nu rave” describes the music that acts like Justice, Digitalism, or Boys Noize produce well?
Busy Pedro: I think nu rave is already over. One term I really like to describe this kind of music is “hooligan disco.” A guy from French label Institubes came up with that name, and I think it fits perfectly.
****OMG I WANT HIS ALT-CELEB LIFE S0 BAD*****
Pitchfork: You’re a DJ, producer, and manager in addition to running a successful record label. Do you always know what to do first when you get in the office in the morning?
Pedro Winter: One the one hand, I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine. I first check emails and communicate with our artists by iChat. Then I go for meetings at Because Music, which is a licensing partner for Justice.
On the other hand, my job at the moment is a bit similar to that of a taxi driver because I don’t know what will happen– there are always surprises. The other day Rick Rubin calls to say that he likes our music. Then I had to explain to Madonna why Justice doesn’t want to support her on tour. It’s crazy.
****NVR 4GET ‘WE R UR FRIENDS’ ******
Pitchfork: Did Justice’s success surprise you?
Peddy Winter: Of course! We sold 250,000 albums worldwide, almost 100,000 in France alone. There’s no other electronic dance act selling like that at the moment. It’s crazy. It’s incredible. We sold more copies of the Justice album in France than of the last Daft Punk album. This is just crazy. And I just met them at a raclette dinner that [Ed Banger's graphic designer] So-Me invited me to. I was the oldest one at the dinner, and they later told me that they were a bit impressed that I was there. At the end of the evening they asked me if they could play me a track, which was “We Are Your Friends”. I took the track, told them to come to my office the next day, and signed a contract with them. That night I had a party at the Le Pulp club in Paris. I played the track, and the club went crazy. I knew I had something special. For me this record is a generational anthem, and I think it will be something that the kids of today will still like to remember when they are 30 years old.
Note: This song will be played at my funeral.
***When did u discover myspace?***
“I discovered MySpace in 2005, maybe a little bit before it blew up. “
-Pedro Winter
NOTE: I DID NOT MAKE THAT UP. Is being on myspace before it blew up kind of like ‘knowing about the Arcade Fire when they had under 10K myspace pageviews’?
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I expect less & less of you daily
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“I discovered MySpace in 2005, maybe a little bit before it blew up. “
lololol
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i n33d top 10 most tuggable/most deffies bangable “famous” alt girl countdown
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“I think it will be something that the kids of today will still like to remember when they are 30 years old.”
who’s this cat kidding. when the party is over i’m going back to college, craigslisting my turntables, and popping in my i have dreams demotape
as a jaded post-alt warlock of the west i command thee, hro, to construct an alt-fixedgear-arc to save the most important dj’s of the period from the imminent electro-depression of 2k10 so alas they will not be entirely forgotten.
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//////////Reply by h8rbro
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@post-alt warrior, the depression came earlier than that bro… 2k9 and bangers is dead
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myspace is soooo 2003
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For once i have got to be honest when commenting here, lets face it half the people that comment are so self aware even if they are anon. STFU with all this alt shit and just enjoy your life, listen to whatever wear whatever as long as you don’t turn into the twats being produced by some of the council estates it’s all good.
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Remember when they’re thirty? I thought all the alt trash kids listening to Justice were pushing mid/late 20’s as is.
That is if they don’t get too blown out from coke.
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top 10 tugable girls?
CARLES THINK ABOUT THE W0M3Nz TOO.
top 10 alt B0YZ list yall!
(NOT INCLUDING JULIAN CASABLANCAS)
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MUST DRILL 4 OIL AT SEA WORLD OR ISLAMO FASCISTS WILL KILL KILL KILL
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hahaha to the myspace pre-blowup.
its you guys’ turn to post yourselves as animals now!
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“For me this record is a generational anthem, and I think it will be something that the kids of today will still like to remember when they are 30 years old.”
you guns don’t agree, at least to some extent? cross DEFINED my summer 2k7 - i had just gotten into all this “blog” stuff and their sound completely blew my mind, and i played it for every friend i could and we danced to it at parties and i went to their show and it blew my mind, etc… i will definitely be nostalgic for their music in my older ages.
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actually arcade fire didnt have a myspace until like 07
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please tell me we can talk about this…
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/142152-the-month-in-techno
the bottom half after the real article is amazing.
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Y R U GAY!
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i cant wait to buy me some hooli-disco pants !
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gud p0st
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I plan to die when im 30 yall, after i hear that life-affirming justice cut one last time.. soooooooo old
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lol bangers not mash
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im definitely going to more raclette parties
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if only we COULD become less painfully self-aware. hipsters cant afford not to be, or bitches like aggy take over all the fame that should have been yours!
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HILARIOUS
busy p is good at shooting himself in the foot
bonus LOL at busy p in the m&m costume
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Blog more alt-animals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cats
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r u aware that mainstreamin’ collar poppin’ frat bros go to partiez like [BLOW UP] to hear the song D.A.N.C.E. and try to get tuggs from alt hoez? those tuggs are rightfully OURS and this is WRONG.
r u aware that justice is no longer what you would consider ‘alt’ or ‘hipster runoff?’
have you seen them perform on the jimmy kimmel live television variety program? can u even call that performing? i dno.
plz stop posting about justice. it iz over. they have not come out with new material for almost 2 yrs now. oh, unless you count that britty spears rmx that didn’t get pushed too hard in america. i wonder why…
thank u for being such a trendsetter/tastemaker carles. what iz new and exciting right now? is there any cool music coming out of sweden right now? I like your post about scandy pop. do more of that.
thnx.
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ur such a fuckin douche
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and btw, person above me, yes they have, Electric Feel-MGMT-justice remix.
and its amazing.
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‘JOE’ a couple comments up, im 100 percent behind you. sites like hro, vice and such just smash every single sub-genre there is and smear its guts all over the fucking place so that all there’s left for ‘actively internet aware’ kids to feel good about is to go back to the fucking mainstream and wear polo. i guess all im looking for at the bottom of the barrel is to be an individual while expressing my interests/passions and not turn out like a total ‘FGGT’.
ps- im not saying any of this criticism is wrong, which worries me
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if hro rattles your sense of self worth, you are prolly a ghey kunt
like bloc party says, “why’d you go thinking thoughts that are above you?”
just get a job now, youre not going to become famous for the amount of music on your external hard drive, you could probably just marry that chick that you think doesnt deserve you and pop out a couple of kids
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