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

(That's a more reliable link than the one I posted just above)

bless!

Yeah Tracer I'm basing it on the words - i just wonder if I'm justified in just assuming that's what it's about:

Reckless with your love
You. Just. Give it up
Fearless with your life
But no-one can you trust
Reckless with your love
You. Just. Give it away
Fearless with your life
Living day to day...

It could just as easily be about being risky with your emotions in general. Which is one reason the lyrics are great.

Yeah exactly.

Of course the very practice of deploying ambiguity in diva house lyrics generally feels historically loaded as well...

That's one thing I love about this kind of camp poppy Chicago house (or in this case recreations of it) - its historical/geographical/cultural specificity and its all-embracing pop universality tend to work with rather than against one another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4g5zTwjMo

anyone wanna work on a SONG ID for the 20JFG Mix? some great stuff on there and all sounds so familiar but i'm blanking on a lot of it

rebotini, "spirit of the boogie"?
late nite tuff guy, "eurotrac"?

whether or not they totally fit here, i'd like to hear more based on these tunes and hear thoughts upon.

i know it's not diva vocal house, and just another chicago/detroit derivative, but this is so dope. (friends of 69)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ce8kAGWjzY

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2010/01/18/trax-to-release-new-azari-iii-material/

That's perfect.

why do i have to buy records from germany in order to get a 'reckless' 12"

finally heard this out on the weekend. BIG tune.

i'm fuckin freakin out about how great Reckless is, I'M FREAKIN OUT MAN

http://www.youtube.com/v/bdnOlBTMLMs

ack....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdnOlBTMLMs

new vocal version of B-Side of HUngry For THe Power

whoa am i the only who got a rip of the instrumental of this track that must be at 33 or something?? i thought it was their slow jam...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3vwRsevDfY

i'm pretty sure both sides of the single/EP whatever are at 33 already, jerk orbison

great name, btw

Only posted a couple times so not sure if own-tumblr-linking is frowned upon here, but mine is mostly devoted to this kind of stuff and so far has mentioned Azari, Tensnake, Permanent Vacation, etc. Also has a very slight Toronto slant to it. Check it out if you like.
http://www.streetsoundswirling.com/

just found this:

HEALTH - We Are Water (Azari & III remix).mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/?zdjk00j5nmy

interviewing one of these dudes in 40 minutes. if anyone has any burning questions— i'm already asking about influences and the whole spectre of AIDS/homophobia thing— do post them here and i'll try to get to them...

Ask 'em if they're gonna do more work with Fitz Helder/Cookie Monster dude from Hungry For The Power.

More music, when? and more Cedric diva house please

okay, these are more requests for themn to follow through with. I think I heard that Cedric is doing something with Friendly Fires, but they may not know much about that.

Erm, album drop?

they're working on an album deal right now, according to their press dudes...i'm asking about that...

any other takers?

Ask them about the "Hungry for the Power" video!

i'm already asking about influences and the whole spectre of AIDS/homophobia thing

with reference to "reckless with your love" ? i'm curious, not that it totally matters, but are they straight? they LOOK like two straight canadian dudes... could be wrong tho

I'm not sure what a straight Canadian dude is supposed to look like but they're not.

I mean they could be, but it would come as a surprise.

have you seen the two white dudes who makes this stuff? the two black dudes who do vocals in hungry are not the production.

also, is their production analogue/digital? probably a mix of both?

i think they've said they use ableton live + hardware.

a few things:

1) the two white guys— Alixander and Alphonse— are amazingly nice and articulate
2) they use 95% analog equipment.
3) the AIDS and homophobia associations with "Reckless" are not far off the mark.
4) Fritz and Cedric, the two non-white dudes in the "Hungry" video, are full members of the band, though they don't have a hand in production. sort of like Kim Ann Foxman in Hercules.

when/where is your interview gonna be up?

have you seen the two white dudes who makes this stuff? the two black dudes who do vocals in hungry are not the production.

― ashra williams (san frandisco), Friday, May 14, 2010 12:28 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes I have, and I'm aware of this.

I just want to know what, as that, a "straight canadian dude" is supposed to look like.

it'll be in the next issue of XLR8R, which comes out in july. which also means it will be online sometime that month, too, along with my review of the new wolfgang voigt album....which is fucking intense listening, to say the least.

looking forward to it table. they were hated on quite a bit by the local SF DJs when they came and played at the Mezzanine here, but i was dancin the whole night. thanks for answering my questions too!

@EDB

two white dudes wearin jersey and caps and shouting HOUSE MUSIC SUCKS at the end of the night is what led me to think they were ironic straight white hipsters into "rediscovering" early house music

sorry if this somehow offended the typifying of this growing demographic

Alright. I still take it you've probably never been to canada though.

is this what a straight white canadian guy (in a tuxedo) looks like?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/3436624034_868f2022e7.jpg

http://www.bongonews.com/StoryImages/carson_kressley_2004-11-17.jpg

Being from the same city as A&III, I just resent the implicit comment on some supposed canadian provincialism, and that there's some sort of look to back this up. Ultimately, however, they do look like straight canadian dudes, that is, fairly nondescript. Nevertheless I don't see how this should conjure doubts about their homosexuality; they need not be tom of finland drawings incarnate for there to be queer subtexts to their work.

Incidentally, they only GIS you get when you enter "straight canadian dudes" happens to be a picture of them, from this thread, actually.

"1) the two white guys— Alixander and Alphonse"

Christian and Alphonse

ha, okay, was trying to get the other proper name right. thx.

from that article upthread...

Azari & III, who featured in our recent “Ones to Watch in 2010” spread, will release “Indigo” on March 30.

this never happened did it?

also, anyone dig any of their remixes? the munk rmx on their myspace is a kinda chicago acid + spanish-language vocals thing that reminds me a bit of that crystal ark track gavin russom put out recently. and like that song, it is amazing. also their voltage remix is pretty solid (the original is nice too, i guess voltage is a project of one of the guys from cut copy)

http://soundcloud.com/retaildj/04-la-musica-azari-iii-remix (actually only goes acid a couple times tbf)
http://soundcloud.com/hypetrak/voltage-all-night-azari-iii-remix

chilled a bit with these guys in Detroit during DEMF/Movement. Cool peoples and they destroyed with their dj set at The R&R Bar.

when is that tensnake remix dropping in full

So how are these dude's live set?

They're doing a free outdoor show for Toronto's Pride week, and I'm debating whether it's worth it for a timid straight individual who doesn't fare well in big/chaotic crowds to trek out in serious heat-wave weather to hear them play (and since there's no one else worth seeing, it would be me arriving at 9 and leaving an hour later, which in itself is kind of weird).

Possibly supporting Madonna's tour?

for the "suggest me some similar stuff" part of the thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnSIrierFE

Mowgli featuring Amber Jolene - Back In The Day

Urgent and key contribution to the similar stuff portion of this thread (i.e. Alex Anwandter - Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo - as discussed in the Paris is Burning thread and here: itt: amazing dancing in music videos.

So are we just not discussing the pretty good solo Dinamo Azari album?

This album is SO GOOD STILL jaysus! Also this was the last gig i went to at Madame JoJo's and it fit that venue perfectly.

yes. i'm rarely buying vinyl these days i picked up the 10th anniversary reissue a couple months ago.

i didn't even know that had happened, i may just grab that