November 21, 2008
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Is Justice the electro Milli Vanilli? According to Terry Church, the above photo makes a hard case for it: The MIDI controller on the left ain’t plugged in, but the tall fuzzy-haired one is pretending that it is — he’s got an intense concentrated look on his face whilst moving the faders and knobs. Busted! Church tries to cut the duo some slack, offering that “anyone with a shred of understanding of how the music is made knows that it’s near impossible to play electronic music 100% live,” so as someone with a shred of that understanding, I’d like to posit a different argument: If you feel forced to resort to “playing” a machine that isn’t even plugged in, you should probably just follow the example of countless electronic music legends and stay in the studio.

Is Justice the electro Milli Vanilli? According to Terry Church, the above photo makes a hard case for it:

The MIDI controller on the left ain’t plugged in, but the tall fuzzy-haired one is pretending that it is — he’s got an intense concentrated look on his face whilst moving the faders and knobs. Busted!

Church tries to cut the duo some slack, offering that “anyone with a shred of understanding of how the music is made knows that it’s near impossible to play electronic music 100% live,” so as someone with a shred of that understanding, I’d like to posit a different argument: If you feel forced to resort to “playing” a machine that isn’t even plugged in, you should probably just follow the example of countless electronic music legends and stay in the studio.