It's party time, Hong Kong, say French crossover DJ duo Justice

Since they explodedinto the public consciousness a decade ago with a seminal indie-dance crossover track, Justice have been unavoidable - and unclassifiable. Frenchmen Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay's blend of dance, rock and pop is sometimes dark and distorted, sometimes sweet and upbeat, but always dazzlingly catchy.

Justice will play a DJ set at Kitec in Kowloon Bay on May 15, although they've also been known to play live, or as live as two guys playing electronic music can get. De Rosnay says the two types of shows are rewarding in their own way.

"At our live shows, we're not expecting people to dance that much, whereas when we DJ, it's party time. Honestly, we love to do both, but to DJ is more relaxing, less stressful; live, there's always the possibility of it not working."

Justice emerged as part of the second wave of the so-called French Touch scene, following the likes of Daft Punk, Air and Étienne de Crécy. They share many of the same stylistic flourishes: the heavy use of filters and phasers, with unpredictable electronic squirts and squelches cutting into and washing across the music; the heavy distortion; the square-wave gaps in the production; the maximalist approach to composition that eschews all notions of subtlety and restraint; the influences from disco and funk in the slap-basslines and catchy vocal hooks.

There's also an ever-present rock influence, sometimes verging on heavy metal. It's part of their image as much as their sound: rock-band trappings include leather jackets (they buy cheap ones and get a tailor to adjust them), preposterously skinny jeans and heavy metal band T-shirts; the huge banks of Marshall amps beside them onstage when playing live; and the antics on display in their 2008 documentary A Cross the Universe, including Augé at one point marrying a groupie he had known for three hours in Las Vegas - even though there's heavy irony in their depiction of stereotypical rock-band excess.