Justice: the experimental disco revivalists who've got jaws dropping, tongues wagging, and mirror balls once again twirling

The new Daft Punk? That's how Justice often gets labeled--and not without reason. Like Daft Punk, Justice is a mysterious duo comprising two Parisian producers (Xavier de Rosnay, 25, and Gaspard Auge, 28) who happen to make the funkiest, funniest electronic dance music known to humans and robots alike; completing the comparison is the fact that they are represented by charismatic Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter, who signed the group to his new label, Ed Banger Records. "Daft Punk is great, and we love them," says Aug& "But there will never be a new Daft Punk. It's a bad comparison, because our music is different. We're more like the new Phil Collins, but we still have hair."

Indeed, on Justice's highly anticipated new album, The Sign of the Cross (Ed Banger/Vice), Auge and de Rosnay admirably souffle kitsch and killer with a mix of distorted, aggressive grooves and shameless pop hooks. "We tried to make a disco record," de Rosnay explains. "This is how we see the disco of today."

As such, Justice's influences span everything from Dario Argento soundtracks to musique concrete, Metallica to Hall & Oates. "We are obsessed by pop music made with modern tools of production," says Auge "To be surrounded by machines is the aesthetic. We make pop music, but with a different kind of tool."

"People are ready to party again with simple things," de Rosnay offers. "We never wanted to make music for revolution--we just wanted to make music for girls to listen to. You don't have to listen to it 20 times to understand what it means."

Matt Diehl is a contributing music editor for Interview.

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