Rockstar named Justice as GTA 6's original score composers on October 15, 2026. For a lot of players that name means a specific decade of club music, and for a lot of others it means nothing at all. Here is who they are and what their twenty-three year catalogue suggests about the sound of Leonida.
The basics
Justice are Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, a Paris duo formed in 2003. They came up on Ed Banger Records, the label that defined the mid-2000s French electro wave, and have since released through Because, Elektra, Atlantic and others.
The breakthrough was a remix. Their 2003 rework of Simian's "Never Be Alone" became "We Are Your Friends," which circulated for years before a formal 2006 release. By then they were already the loudest act in a loud scene.
The albums
| Album | Year | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Cross | 2007 | The debut. Disco and funk structures run through distortion. Contains "D.A.N.C.E.", "Waters of Nazareth", "Stress" |
| Audio, Video, Disco | 2011 | The duo's own description was "a progressive rock record." Guitars, prog structures, "Civilization" |
| Woman | 2016 | Cleaner, more soul and disco forward, live-band textures |
| Hyperdrama | 2024 | Returned after a seven-year gap. Heavy on guest features, including "Neverender" with Tame Impala |
Alongside those: A Cross the Universe (2008), a concert film and DVD; Access All Arenas (2013), live; Woman Worldwide (2018), a remix album; and IRIS: A Space Opera by Justice (2019), a live film. Augé also released a solo record, Escapades, in 2021.
The awards
They won a Grammy in 2009 for Best Remixed Recording for their take on MGMT's "Electric Feel." Cross picked up nominations for Best Dance Recording and Best Electronic/Dance Album. Hyperdrama was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 67th Grammys, and "Neverender," the Tame Impala collaboration, won Best Electronic/Dance Recording.
That last detail is the one to hold on to. Tame Impala appear on "Flower in a Hurricane," the GTA 6 launch trailer track. Justice are not reaching for a new collaborator there, they are returning to one that already worked.
What their sound actually is
Strip away the genre tags, which run from electro house to French house to nu-disco to electroclash, and the consistent elements are:
- Compression as a texture. Justice records are famously squashed. Instruments do not sit in a clean stereo field, they fight.
- Distorted analogue synth bass, usually chopped into short cut-up phrases rather than played as long lines.
- Disco and funk skeletons underneath, which is why the records groove even when the surface is abrasive.
- Rock and metal production habits, including real guitars and drum sounds borrowed from heavy music.
The result is music with a period flavour, usually late 1970s, that does not sound like a period piece. That is a genuinely useful instinct for a game whose setting constantly references Vice City's 1980s from a modern vantage point.
Have they scored anything before?
Essentially no, and this is worth being straight about. Justice's film work is their own concert and live films. They mentioned working on music for Mr. Oizo's Rubber back in 2009. Their tracks have appeared in television and advertising. There is no published record of a video game score before GTA 6.
So Rockstar has handed its biggest ever score to an act with no score credits. That is either confidence or a signal about what Rockstar wants the music to do, and probably both. Compare it to how the studio has historically handled music: licensed catalogue as the identity, score kept functional and anonymous. See the soundtrack overview for that pattern.
What it might mean for Leonida
Reading the signing, not reporting the game:
A Justice score would sit forward in the mix rather than underneath it. Their production does not do subtle ambience well, and it does chases, heists and escalation extremely well. If the score is adaptive in the way the dynamic score explainer discusses, their habit of building from short loopable cut-up phrases is structurally convenient: those pieces layer and drop out cleanly.
The risk is the other side of the same coin. A signature this strong can fight a world that already has dozens of radio stations competing for the player's ear. How Rockstar balances score against radio is completely unknown, and the station count has still never been published.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are Justice doing the GTA 6 radio stations?
No. They are credited with the original score and one album track, "Flower in a Hurricane." Radio programming is separate and mostly unannounced.
Have Justice worked with Rockstar before?
There is no record of it. This appears to be their first Rockstar project and their first game score of any kind.
What should I listen to first?
Cross for the signature sound, Hyperdrama for the version of the duo that exists now and includes the Tame Impala collaboration that reappears on the GTA 6 track.
Is the full GTA 6 score released anywhere?
No. Only "Flower in a Hurricane" is out, and it is a song rather than score. The score itself arrives with the game on November 19.
The Bottom Line
Justice are a twenty-three year old Paris duo with four albums, two Grammys and a sound built on distortion and disco bones, and they have never scored anything before. Rockstar gave them GTA 6 anyway. On the evidence of "Flower in a Hurricane" the brief leans loud and modern rather than nostalgic, but one trailer cue is a thin basis for predicting 80 hours of music. The real test is what plays when nothing is happening.