Child in Disguise Dresses Up New Album

He went from drumming in a thrash metal group to programming electronic dance music.

He's Jason Justice, and he's the mind behind Child in Disguise, a Temecula-based electronic music project.

Justice is working on a new album, which he expects to release in early 2011. This album is going to break the monotony of the local dance scene, Justice said in an interview Wednesday.

He has local singers and musicians lined up and ready to lay down tracks.

Being a musician, he wants to break from the technique most electronic music producers use, such as sampling other bands to get their loops, their musical building blocks.

He started playing music as the drummer of his high school jazz band. Later, he joined a thrash metal group, he said.

Maybe he was following in his older brother's footsteps. Jason is the younger sibling of Jake Justice, the drummer of broken-up Temecula bands Cetas Aspire and Chapters.

By having local musicians makes tracks for him - and making a few himself - each instrumental track has a personality of its own.

"I approach every song without a real approach", he said. "I start writing and manipulating, then I imagine them as characters the way a writer does when they sit down to write a story. My songs are very conceptual." 

He mixes his hand-crafted samples to make dubstep, drum and bass and two-step so he can entertain big crowds at dance parties, but he can still express himself as a musician, he said.

The album will also be free online. "I think if anyone wants to put my music on a torrent website, they should do it. I'm more worried about people hearing it than album sales."

This is in part a statement towards the Recording Industry Association of America, a trust that represents distributers in the recording industry who became infamous for suing individual pirators of music.

"Music should be genuine, something worth beyond money," Justice said. "If you can't exploit it, you'll realize the worth. As long as I can make music in the future, I'll be happy."

Look for Jason Justice and Children in Disguise in local clubs and festivals all around Temecula and California.

Justice can be contacted at http://www.myspace.com/c.i.d and http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115323478506466_