Tony Bowes, aka Justice, is one of the UK’s most adventurous producers. At the forefront of electronic music from the very start of his 32-year career, from his beginnings in the breakbeat hardcore scene through to ambient jungle excursions and latter day experimentalism, he’s often led the way.
Cutting classic tracks alongside production partner Blame, like early rave gem ‘Death Row’ and seminal, synth-laden Moving Shadow cut ‘Anthemia’, his solo cuts for Basement, Creative Wax and Hardleaders have been championed by everyone from Fabio and LTJ Bukem to Gilles Peterson and Mixmaster Morris. His defining albums for Hydrogen Dukebox, meanwhile, like debut ‘Viewpoints’ and ‘Modern Retro’, have demonstrated the versatility and playfulness of an artist who refuses to be pigeonholed: records spanning everything from Detroit-infused drum & bass to blissed-out ambient and soul-leaning broken beat.
Here we find justice fusing together a selection of influences, favourites past and preset as well as a handful of his own productions.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WAlb1qoQTcjl59CCeZJp6?si=5TjW_GfkRk2vo3BQ42S7Tw
track listing:
peroration six- floating points
Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest
Change (Makes you want to hustle) - Donald Byrd
We live in Brooklyn, Baby - Roy Ayers
westside centre - justice
Low Rider - Youssef Kamaal
Humpty Dumpty - Placebo
Street Scene (4 Shazz) - St Germain
What Am I to Do ? - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner
Follow the ear worm - Move 78
Keine meinungen erlaubt - Aver
Change - Toshio Maatsura Group
Dujii - Kool and the Gang
Didgeridoo - Duke Ellington
My Favourite Things - John Coltrane
Third Eye Visions - Icons
Procrastination (Justice remix) - Rebecca Vasmant
The Man with the Red Face - Laurent Garnier
Belfast - Orbital
Belize - Dangermouse/ Black Thought Feat MF Doom
Move (Make it funky reprise) - DJ Nappa
The Nervous track - Nuyorican soul
Makin’ a Livin’ - Powerhouse 3
I can’t go for that (no can do) - Hall and Oates
God Make Me Funky - HeadHunters
Kool is Back - Funk Inc
Carino - T Coy
HumptyDump Pt.1 - The Vibrettes
Footprints - A Tribe Called quest