Capitol Hill's Neumo's offers its services as a booze-money-hungry 21 and over nightclub, Oct. 12 hosting this foreign disco death squad Justice from Paris and Midnight Juggernauts from Melbourne

Justice is an electronic group composed of two shaggy Frenchmen: Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay.

With questionably ironic Christian iconography and many confused Myspace lurkers, the French house duo Justice may be poised to steal the hearts of music fans in the States. Justice showcases the trans-Atlantic sounds of sizzling French house doused in digitally sampled Americanisms.

As an international act, Justice began somewhere in the murky music blogosphere of the mid-2000s when they won a Paris college radio competition with a remix of a Simian song then called "Never Be Alone."

Justice became a successful duo in 2004 when they signed to Ed Banger Records (run by Daft Punk's manager, Pedro Winter aka Busy P). From that point, buzz grew over Justice's potential to record a wide-release LP.

For Pitchfork Media types and followers of the progressive dance scene (some may read New Rave in that turn of phrase), Justice is old news. Some have even dubbed Justice "Blog-House" because of the intense online debate about the band's genre. Without the typical 4/4 kick drum of deep, euro-house, some old-guard dance music fans have difficulty accepting the new album (Cross).

Instead of going with the traditions of the last 10 years, champions sparse gothic drone synths and the dark romance of an urgent strings section on, for example, "Stress." This new instrumentation calls the forces of darkness onto the dance floor for a Michael Jackson vs. Prince showdown of pop ethos. The big single "D.A.N.C.E" is as funky as European dance music has ever been.

Justice manages to co-opt the attitude and instrumentation of American heavy rock and funk magic and catalyze the progression of dance music and DJ culture. They manage to take the imaginary robotic energy of Daft Punk and kick the club kids out of the slick sound stage of the mind and into the streets of gritty urban life.

Self-aware indie-electronica that aspires to stadium dance, Midnight Juggernauts compliment Justice nicely. The band sounds like equal parts Cut Copy, M83 and prog rock.

Much of their promotional material and album art bears some relation to the darker themes of both New Rave, '80s pop and '70s space rock: nature in chaos, the occult, mystical healing and primitive human culture.

Tickets are $16 through Neumo's Web site and still available as of deadline. I sullenly say again: 21+.