The Power of Suggestion by Swizz Beatz

This video, created by DJ Eloy and Terry Urban (who may be the most diligent Jay-Zist on Earth), perfectly illustrates why The FADER has been on Swizzy’s side over the years no matter what anyone else has to say. A lot of producers, when turned on to something new, will take it literally, chunking whole pieces under a beat and acting like they just broke music open. Swizz did the exact opposite with Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.,” taking a lyric snippet out of its context, hearing something no one else would and making something weirder than anyone else tried in mainstream rap production last year. And it’s not even a big deal because he does weird shit all the tim. Nah Right (via MTV) has video of Swizz talking about Q-Tip and Pharrell putting him on to the song in the first place, so if they’re listening, please continue to do that. We can send you some Zomby mp3s or something.

Freeload: Lenny Kravitz, “Let Love Rule (Justice Remix)”

Once upon a time, there was a dreadlocked satyr who danced in the forest, sang about love and deflowered Cosby kids. In another part of the land were leathered elves who brought forth the sounds of hell from a mighty cross made of light. For many eons the satyr and the elves walked peacefully and innocently, naive of each others powers. Until one day, when the heat fell upon the great city of New York and forced all from their enclaves to gather at the Shake Shack, the satyr and the elves met on common ground and from then on the world was never the same, for their mighty energies merged to form ONE OF THE MOST AMA… oh wait this is kind of exactly what you’d expect. Oh well!

Download: Lenny Kravitz, “Let Love Rule (Justice Remix)”

TAKE JUSTICE (and maybe a weiner) INTO YOUR OWN HANDS!

Easy, vigilante tough guy, we’re only talking about artist Ron Winter’s crackily-addictive new flash keyboard that appears to have patched into Justice’s GarageBand and George Michael’s loins circa Wham! If someone can tell us how to actually record the fucking amazing songs we’re playing on this thing we’ll give you a cut of our post-blowup tour revenues.

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FADER TV: LA Is A Nice Place To Live #2

On each episode of FADER TV’s LA Is A Nice Place To Live, the West Coast staff takes in some of the city’s culture and fun good times. This edition has us leaving the office and crossing the street to Nike Sportswear’s Los Angeles retail and event space, The Montalbán, to check out the West Coast premiere of Justice’s tour documentary A Cross the Universe and launch of Busy P and So Me’s rainbow-soled Air Force 1s. While there, we chatted a bit with the Ed Banger crew and co-director Romain Gavras about the film and Los Angeles while avoiding the Halloween traffic.

Video: Justice “A Cross the Universe” Documentary Trailer

We’ve spent enough time front and center at Justice shows to know that they inspire mayhem pretty much everywhere they go. Now Ed Banger and Because are out to prove it with the new “A Cross the Universe” tour documentary, which you can get the gist of from this trailer. Generally, it goes: longhair weirdos, people freaking out, boobs, people freaking out, guns, longhair weirdos, people freaking out, fight, boobs. Multiply that by about ten and you get a pretty good idea of what the movie’s going to be. Directed by So Me and Romain Gavras, the man behind Justice’s controversial “Stress” video. (We got it from Kanye.)

Freeload: We’re Confused. Ibiza Is Supposed To Be Corny, Right?

In our minds, dating back as far as we can remember, the word “Ibiza” (especially when it’s pronounced “ee-bee-tha”) has been synonymous with a sort of Valhalla for sunburned English dudes wearing choker necklaces and doing lazy, drunken version of Tektonik and then throwing up Red Bull everywhere. Is it not like that? Because Justice DJ’d a set there last week at Amnesia (geesh) and it sounds like it might’ve been kind of cool. But hey, what do we know? When they played our 50th Issue party last year, we were stagediving onto girls’ heads and passing out in the bathroom. Glass houses. We apologize, Ibiza. Here is a rip of Justice’s set from August 2nd, as well as their set from the FADER party. Beware: that “Short Dick Man” remix is on both of them.

Download: Justice Live At The FADER 50 Party
Download: Justice Live At Amnesia, Ibiza, August 2, 2008, BBC Radio 1 Broadcast (from Asian Dan)

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Video: Shopping With Colette

Listen, we love our jobs, but sometimes it takes a Parisian to make us feel like maybe we spend a little too much time working and not enough time Jazzercizing with Zorro. At the Colette shop, Kate Moss performs musical numbers, Zorro wears Justice leather, Busy P is a violet and Menthos turn staffers into murderous zombies. All in the name of capitalism.

Video: Justice, “Stress”

We were so busy watching the Spinning Studio that we didn’t even notice Kanye posted the new Justice clip, directed by Romain Gavras. For the video, Romain followed the FADER editorial staff on our way to the office one morning. We hate cloudy days!

Video: Justice, “DVNO”

Who would’ve thought that there are companies out there that could’ve made the first FADER TV episode look like the premiere of 3-2-1 Contact? Machine Molle motion-graphicked So Me’s concept of retro-illustrated lyrics for “DVNO” so well that not only did it make us jealous but it once again reminded us that I Met The Walrus was robbed at the Oscars. And then it made us want to eat pudding pops. REGRESSION!

Video: Justice, “Phantom Pt II”

This video looks as legitimate as any other, so we’re going to ignore the fact that we were hoaxed into posting that fake Justice track a few weeks back and ride this pony into the web statistics sunset. Also we’re posting it because old people ARE HILARIOUS.

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