they have another track on their myspace. http://www.myspace.com/azariandiii
and 20 jazz funk greats called their label Hungry For the Power.
― jaxon, Friday, 13 November 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
That video has effectively changed the way I will walk through business district of Toronto at night.
I noticed you mentioned Canyons on the bobbins thread, so it would be moot to mention it here, but still.
― EDB, Saturday, 14 November 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
first post. hai guys. was also going to mention canyons, fire eyes is similar-ish.
eli escobar is making (and playing) this kind of music. see his solo glass house, and money lotion re-edits of people like stevie nicks, the police, feist etc
― haido, Saturday, 14 November 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://rraurl.com/podcasts/frisson/204/Azari__III (podcast w/a few unheard to me tracks)
can download from here http://feeds.rraurl.com/~r/_podcasts/~5/JDJcsoh8fHE/frisson_022.mp3
― jaxon, Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
thks haido and jaxon!
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"reckless (with your love)" is definitely giving me some robin s. flashbacks
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i actually had that one on my hd for a month before i realized it was from this year & not some decades old house track i got off some blog
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
this tune precedes "hungry for the power" on the tensnake beats in space podcast...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glfW6rg8HNg
maybe slightly more low key but definitely in the same vein
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Alright, in literally 3 listens, Hungry for the power has gone from awful, to OK, to amazing for me.
Whats the deal with these dudes, for me at least they seemed to very suddenly come out of nowhere, and I am curious.
― EDB, Sunday, 15 November 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't know too much about these dudes. I was mega-disappointed when research revealed that the two magnetic black dudes aren't actually Azari & III. The black dudes are Fritz Helder (with the long hair / wig) who's in a band called Fritz Helder and The Phantoms.
The other guy is a Rwandan emigre in Toronto called Cedric Gasiada, who also sings on another (and more straight up classic house/disco) song called "Reckless With Your Love"
Azari & III - the producers / beat makers - are the white dudes in the video. I don't know why I was so gutted, but I was. I want more house producers to be more extrovert, making and frontin' their music, like Green Velvet used to do.
These dudes are all from Toronto, I think.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost makes me smile!
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.omgblog.com/images/2009/azari%20III.jpg
― jaxon, Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Even has a "III" in it!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NajxGltmjBA
― EDB, Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Aeroplane played 'Reckless With Your Love' in their set at Bugged Out earlier :)
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
'she's an illusion' is another goddamn winner from these dudes
― andrew m., Monday, 16 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
see 20jfg
― andrew m., Monday, 16 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
as for similar, brings to mind parallels, also from toronto (?). canada at least.
― andrew m., Monday, 16 November 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
― andrew m., Monday, November 16, 2009 3:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― andrew m., Monday, November 16, 2009 3:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
they do have another song bro
http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2009/11/02/basement-suns/
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
movie never loads. what is?
― jaxon, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm really? it's a certain 11-month-old shakin it down to azari & III
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
works for me.
did anyone mention this mix they did for 20jfg yet? it's pretty fun, tho not without it's mistakes
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
did anyone mention this one yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9vWeUZkF8
really starts around 3:30
― one time, Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys are remixing a single by one of my best pals from Dublin coming out on Tensnake's label soon. check it out!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
It's gotten to a point where I just infer the shadow/spectre of homophobia/aids/etc/etc in pretty much any male diva house. "Reckless With Your Love" probably isn't about promiscuous unsafe sex but I can't help but hear it that way.
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Well the words would seem to back it up too.
Of course, the star of this video might not really get that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5Wlowr8T4
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 November 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
(That's a more reliable link than the one I posted just above)
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 November 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
bless!
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 20 November 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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 loveYou. Just. Give it upFearless with your lifeBut no-one can you trustReckless with your loveYou. Just. Give it awayFearless with your lifeLiving day to day...
― Tim F, Friday, 20 November 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It could just as easily be about being risky with your emotions in general. Which is one reason the lyrics are great.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 November 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4g5zTwjMo
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Sunday, 6 December 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2010/01/18/trax-to-release-new-azari-iii-material/
― jaxon, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
That's perfect.
― Tim F, Friday, 22 January 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
why do i have to buy records from germany in order to get a 'reckless' 12"
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:14 (fourteen years ago) link
finally heard this out on the weekend. BIG tune.
― well-hung parliament (haitch), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm fuckin freakin out about how great Reckless is, I'M FREAKIN OUT MAN
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 3 February 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/bdnOlBTMLMs
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
ack....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdnOlBTMLMs
new vocal version of B-Side of HUngry For THe Power
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― jerk orbison (another al3x), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3vwRsevDfY
― jed_, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure both sides of the single/EP whatever are at 33 already, jerk orbison
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
great name, btw
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― SSS, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
just found this:
HEALTH - We Are Water (Azari & III remix).mp3
http://www.mediafire.com/?zdjk00j5nmy
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Thursday, 25 March 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 May 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Thursday, 13 May 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
basically agreed.
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
wasted my first listen of this cleaning my apt mad at my roommate :/ didnt really catch much
― back in a .gif ;) (flopson), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
chromeo comparison seems on-point but I'm surprised this bothers anybody that was into herculues & love machine or whatever they were called
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It's much colder sounding than that implies though. More like Hercules and Love Affair as remixed by Carl Craig. Except not as good as that sounds. Wish they hadn't gone with that huge cavernous warehouse sound, although it should be catnip to me for some reason I can't connect with it, although Reckless is basically a perfect record.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 August 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like you know that feeling you get when you put on a really great techno record in the morning and have to turn it off because your brain's just not ready for techno yet? That's kind of the feeling I get with this in a lhousier form.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 August 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Matt DC captures it exactly i think
fwiw i didnt love H&LA although "Blind" was still a jam .... and that one with the 'little boy herculeees' chorus that i imagine being used in a disney film (in a good way?)
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Friday, 12 August 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i wanna see the live jam sesh incarnation
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KpB-tmVn2w&feature=related
― The Reverend, Friday, 12 August 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
...but not on youtube
oh xpost
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ok deej that statement + complaining about camp & homosploitation = mind fuck
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
haha this is OTM
― Tim F, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
still feeling the album, but as far as 'suggest me some similar stuff'... this is almost TOO similar to "hungry for the power"- the stabs at least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3pBoMcj9Vw
regardless of that i still can't stop listening to it
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't sleep on the Isolee remix of that either, it really draws out the melancholy drama in the vocals.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
B.C. x Delivery should have been posted to this thread a while ago:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4FGyassgs0
the Munk remix kills it imo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFepH_Ajxmg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 6 October 2011 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
those lyrics are making my eyes water.
― jed_, Thursday, 6 October 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, yeah. I heard the first line and was like....ok, I'm just gonna tune out the lyrics now.
― turfin' bird (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
k i'm no expert but why am i not seeing any mention of the jamie jones mix around here????? SO GOOD.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 2 June 2011 18:28 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the melody from that reminds me of "walking away" by craig david!
― Suggest Banter (Local Garda), Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:07 (4 months ago) Bookmark
heh this mix is getting picked up by uk garage/funky guys (pioneer, cameo) now! wouldnt have expected that.
― r|t|c, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyMPmEcMQC8
does this go without saying or is it being slept on...? save for knowing i have to do everything myself i have no idea with these matters tbh
― r|t|c, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
it is sick and trounces the og anyway
― r|t|c, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
<3 maceo plex
― racks on top of racks on top of rack on racks on racks (tpp), Friday, 14 October 2011 08:42 (twelve years ago) link
does this go here?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvHE069X44
NSFW VIDEO
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 14 October 2011 08:49 (twelve years ago) link
Does it feature Maceo Plex's trademark growling bass noise? If so count me in.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
finally caught them live at White Heat tonight. worth the wait x 1000000000.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Damn. Was too ill to get to that show. Glad it was great.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it was packed and their live show is sooooo much fun. can't wait to catch them again.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey they finally made a video for "reckless"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEhf9iw55M
― The Reverend, Sunday, 15 January 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly supporting Madonna's tour?
― du mein bestie (micarl), Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 27 August 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
So are we just not discussing the pretty good solo Dinamo Azari album?
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 28 June 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
yes. i'm rarely buying vinyl these days i picked up the 10th anniversary reissue a couple months ago.
― davey, Monday, 28 June 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
i didn't even know that had happened, i may just grab that
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 28 June 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link