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" The French duo Justice is often referred to as an EDM (read: electronic dance music) act, but in fact their music&amp;#039;s always felt closer in spirit and in sonics to Black Sabbath and the legendary Italian horror movie composers Goblin (whom the pair have sampled on numerous occasions) than to anyone connected to the ongoing global rave renaissance. After ten years together, Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Aug\u00E9 are releasing that most classically rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll of formats, a live album: Access All Arenas, recorded at a Roman amphitheater in France last year while touring behind their prog-heavy 2011 sophomore album Audio, Video, Disco. I interviewed Aug\u00E9 via Skype IM, because as he says, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s easier for both of us with my terrible accent.&amp;quot; Listen to Justice&amp;#039;s new live album Access All Arenas on Spotify below...       ESQUIRE.COM: What inspired you to record a live album in the first place? GASPARD AUG\u00C9: We wanted to keep track of almost a year of touring, so we recorded a few shows, and we picked the Arenes de Nimes one, for the symbol and the energy of it. And when we listened to it a few weeks after, we felt it was worth a release. It&amp;#039;s almost like a best of Justice ten years after we started. ESQ: People who think that electronic performers like yourselves just get on stage and press &amp;quot;play&amp;quot; would probably find the idea of a live Justice record ironic. GA: It would be less stressful to press play indeed, but we would get really bored after three gigs, so we made everything to have the more flexible setup. We brought a simplified version of our studio on stage: 16 split tracks with MIDI controllers, keyboards, and drum machines. We didn&amp;#039;t want to have extra musicians on stage, so we kept ourselves pretty busy on stage. But indeed it&amp;#039;s tough for most people to get the difference between a DJ set and a live show. ESQ: That&amp;#039;s a pretty complex setup. Do you ever make mistakes? GA: We do, and that&amp;#039;s the point. We were trying every night to do the best one-hour-and-a-half sequence with all the elements of the tracks we had. It took us a lot of time and adjustments to find the perfect order to perform those tracks. Once we found it after a few months of playing, we tried to recreate it as good as we could, sometimes better, sometimes less good. And when you&amp;#039;re playing piano, it&amp;#039;s really easy to fk up, and it happened more than once, haha. ESQ: I associate live albums with the big rock bands of the &amp;#039;70s, and it seems like there are a lot of ways in which Justice is more similar to a rock band from back then than to current EDM musicians. Do you think so? GA: We never made proper dance music. The point has always been to move people emotionally. We&amp;#039;d rather have people crying or fighting than dancing.  -- Miles Raymer is a music writer based in New York City who has contributed to the Chicago Reader, Vice, Pitchfork, and others. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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