Azari & III - Hungry For The Power (and suggest me some similar stuff)

Ok..I actually didn't listen all the way through before. Did he just say "the final solution" in Manic? Wtf?

Wow, undecided really develops!

Manic is SO !!!
by which i mean chik chik chik not EXCLAMATORY
though it's kinda that too

stoked

LOVE this album.

this album is p hokey

how so?

it's a lot better than i was expecting. actually it's properly good, no caveats.

makes me think of the first chromeo record. directionless pastiche w/out the songwriting. aside from reckless, obv, which is still amazing

obviosuly amazing but still only their 3rd best single imo.

after what

hungry >into the night >reckless.

i have no idea if those are all on the album though.

They are but no way are any of them touching reckless. "hungry" is exactly what i'm talking about wrt pastiche. And "into the night" works well as an intro track but no way is it as good a song... Its all buildup

i've never heard it on the album and so i don't think of it an an intro track. i really love it.

This album is killer. The comparison to Chromeo is way off mark. It's not some ironic joke for students who wear flat caps.

really that comparison makes no sense.

i dont think chromeo was an 'ironic joke' either esp by the 2nd album, but it was str8 revivalism much like this

azari's camp-revivalism is too cynical

I guess there's never any way of determining a band's motives unless you're in the band, so fair enough, but I've been to see them live and it was a fucking blast. They obviously put their heart and soul into it, whatever their 'deeper' motivations may or may not be.

Which is certainly not something I could say about Chromeo.

what do you mean, cynical? if anything you could accuse it of being too reverent but what's cynical about it? tbh i think you're just giving it a name like "camp revivalism" then criticising it based on the tag you yourself gave it.

http://wac.47f5.edgecastcdn.net/8047F5/jamjar/jamjar/_cracks/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Azari-III-CD-packshot-602x602-sized-217-217.jpg
hmmmm....

Come on! That's an awesome cover. It's slightly camp but in a straight up superb way.

makes me think of the first chromeo record. directionless pastiche w/out the songwriting. aside from reckless, obv, which is still amazing

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 5:26 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

where did i say anything about motives or reverence?

i brought up the reverence to counter your accusation of cynicism which i don't understand.

azari's camp-revivalism is too cynical

You can't be cynical without having some kind of ulterior motive in this context.

idk it taps into a strain of revivalism that doesn't really strike me as particularly coy or ironic (the daniel wang school maybe). there was a discussion i think somewhere here about how reckless makes more explicit the AIDS context of early house/boogie that they're drawing on and that seems to say something about the particular approach to appropriation they're taking.

can't really understand not thinking reckless is the best though

oh yeah no one has ever agreed with me about that.

thread got deej'd

uh oh someone's harshing gr8080s good timez

my concern is that the cynicism w/ which they appropriate the past too often on this record (although not exclusively) expects the signifyers of past dance hits to do most of the work, which means they dont worry about songwriting / track construction. its too much of a game of 'remember this 90s house trick??' + frankly a somewhat weird homosploitation vibe for two straight producers (i.e. a track called "manhooker" and a BUILDING IS LIKE A COCK cover art) + general laziness

can i flip this question and ask, what are these guys bringing to the table that old songs dont already have? they dont sound very reverent at all, that i agree with.

i agree with plax, there's a brittle menace to azari & iii that transcends the obvious pastiche. plus a very well-defined aesthetic that isn't just retro at all.

"reckless" probably is the best but "indigo", "undecided" and "manic" run it pretty close

homosploitation vibe for two straight producers

fyi the two gay vocalists are officially part of the group as well, isn't it slightly dodgier politically to overlook their (huge) contributions

i do like "indigo" a fair amount

i'd guess that the two "straight" producers have enjoyed dabbling, too

fyi the two gay vocalists are officially part of the group as well, isn't it slightly dodgier politically to overlook their (huge) contributions

― lex pretend, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 6:20 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im not overlooking them & they were added to the group retroactively iirc?

fyi the two gay vocalists are officially part of the group as well, isn't it slightly dodgier politically to overlook their (huge) contributions

― lex pretend, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 6:20 PM (46 seconds ago)

otm, the vocals are what really sets them apart for me.

they were on the first single and became members shortly afterwards.

i don't think they were added "officially", more gradually as they contributed more and more

(i asked them this and it's in the i/v recording somewhere but i don't have time to dig out right now)

maybe its not actually true, but that is the version of the truth that i've come across a few times so i would let that one slide, but they have been in the group for the entire gestation period of this album. they are half the band.

yeah that's basically right

idk i just get a jocular "lol gay" vibe from some track titles like "manhooker" & the cover art & promo photos. maybe im just being a overly cynical myself but instead of camp it feels like, "lol camp"

anyway im curious if gr8080 would play any tracks off this record out to a dancefloor & if so (i imagine there are some) which ones would make the regular rotation?

i only really play the tensnake and art dept remixes

i might start fucking w/ Manic (the original)

i would not particularly associate their music with camp tbh.

homosploitation is a great phrase

considering the extent to which gay culture has been mined by the mainstream, it seems a little weird to target a band that is 50% homo for this

I had assumed the two producer guys were gay.

Anyway, I love this album.

plax otm

one of the things that i *like* about this vibe is the homosploitation vibe anyway. it made me realised how many old traxx records have lyrics about, like, girls.

money quote on the issue from one of the producer dudes during my interview: "i'm pretty sure everyone in this room has had sex with a guy."

(then he paused and said something like "and a girl", at which the singers made little protesting noises)