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

fwiw i think 'reckless with your love' is their best jam -- 'hungry for the power' feels like, i dunno, a bit forced

were talking the diff between a 9.5 and an 8.5 but still

maybe insomnia by faithless is similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBrUjvONIrA

actually video version is better but u cant embed because record companies are idiots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0x3ScdT80

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jeez, this song, is amazing, I love it, and it describes me perfectly -.-

haha otm:

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2:19 !!!

its evocative of late 80s / early 90s club mixes / house trax but i'm flailing trying to recall specifics.

yeah otm - ralphi rosario's "you used to hold me", frankie knuckles' "baby wants to ride", kym sims' "too blind to see it" might fit too.

was listening to "reckless with your love" and "hungry for the power" last night trying to work out which i liked better - the answer so far is that i like them the same. the american psycho x paris is burning video for "hungry..." might push it over the top.

uk people, there's an ep on itunes which includes "hungry for the power", "she's an illusion", matias aguayo remixes &c

Did Stevem and I kick this off by tweeting about them last night? I like 'Reckless With Your Love' the best because of the diva vocals. It's totally aping late 80s/early 90s copies of Chicago house but this is pretty much the one style of music where I really do not care if it's the most derivative thing in the world.

Permanent Vacation is a scarily consistent record label, isn't it? Sally Shapiro albums aside, there's hardly anything on there I don't love.

Okay... been diggin' through old records and spotify and contenders for similar sounds are:

Virgo Four - In A Vision (instrumental)
The Rude Boy Farley Keith - Give Yourself To Me
Master C & J - Face It
M.E. - Ride

all of which helpfully appear on the Dave Clarke compilation "Back In The Box" from 2008 (and on spotify)

it's worth checking out the recent House Of House mix on Beats In Space - the East Village Loft Society intro (produced by Ashley Beedle :o) is brilliant

Thanks will check out the House of House mix.

Also, closest in mood to "Hungry For The Power" that I think of is Secret Knowledge "Ooh Baby" - its got the same darkness and spoken vocal hinting at menace, and sung soul/disco-diva style chorus

oooo hot damn another track!

(mult xposts to deej)

they have another track on their myspace. http://www.myspace.com/azariandiii

and 20 jazz funk greats called their label Hungry For the Power.

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.

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

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

thks haido and jaxon!

"reckless (with your love)" is definitely giving me some robin s. flashbacks

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

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

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.

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.

xxpost makes me smile!

http://www.omgblog.com/images/2009/azari%20III.jpg

Even has a "III" in it!!!!!

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

Aeroplane played 'Reckless With Your Love' in their set at Bugged Out earlier :)

'she's an illusion' is another goddamn winner from these dudes

see 20jfg

as for similar, brings to mind parallels, also from toronto (?). canada at least.

'she's an illusion' is another goddamn winner from these dudes

― andrew m., Monday, November 16, 2009 3:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see 20jfg

― 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

movie never loads. what is?

hmm really? it's a certain 11-month-old shakin it down to azari & III

works for me.

did anyone mention this mix they did for 20jfg yet? it's pretty fun, tho not without it's mistakes

did anyone mention this one yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9vWeUZkF8

really starts around 3:30

these guys are remixing a single by one of my best pals from Dublin coming out on Tensnake's label soon. check it out!

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.

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

(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.

For me it would have to sound very like one particular band/producer or label from a certain period for it to be a problem. If, say, it sounded exactly like Virgo IV or Inner City then I probably wouldn't like it but it casts a far wider net than that and gives it all a bit of a reboot to boot. The time frame it covers is too wide for it to be pastiche and there's simply something of recombinant brilliance about it for me.

i don't see the camp in azari & III's music.

― jed_, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

camp is more in their videos i think

threads that make u wish Carles posted to ilx

The groups presentation certainly dabbles in it. I do find "hungry for the power" to work from in that way in particular, the theatricality of it certainly.

i don't see the camp in azari & III's music.

they are megacamp live

Which is certainly not something I could say about Chromeo.

I would btw! They just have shallow hearts and souls.

I like chromeo btw. The diss was that it was like their first album rather than their 2nd

I'm softening on the first half of this lp

Yeah, this is avery very good album
Maybe not top 20 for this year but close and growingon me

I wish this album was more Reckless With Your Love and less Hungry For The Power. I can sort of appreciate it and all that but for some reason it mostly just leaves me cold.

Maybe it's a drug/club of yore Pavlovian reaction thing. When I hear Indigo and Tunnel Vision, I feel like there's a jet engine going off in my head.

That's the weird thing, I would expect to have exactly that reaction but for some reason I don't.

Their live show is fucking awesome by the way - and I think semi-improvised?

yeah, it seemed like mostly songs in the first half, mostly jamming in the second half?

this is a very modern sounding house/pop album. it is extremely referential, as so much of dance music has been for quite a while now, but it combines so many different influences and yet still has a clear individual style. when they first dropped "hungry for the power" and "reckless" i was worried they would be kind of sampling different house sounds from the late 80s/early 90s as they continued (even tho those are still my classic faves), but with the release of "indigo" they started to identify their sound. they have some really interesting moments on this album. "change of heart" is one for me. pretty stoked on the album as a whole, even though a couple of the more aggressive songs i could take or leave.

basically agreed.

wasted my first listen of this cleaning my apt mad at my roommate :/ didnt really catch much

chromeo comparison seems on-point but I'm surprised this bothers anybody that was into herculues & love machine or whatever they were called

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.

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 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?)

i wanna see the live jam sesh incarnation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KpB-tmVn2w&feature=related

...but not on youtube

oh xpost

ok deej that statement + complaining about camp & homosploitation = mind fuck

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?)

haha this is OTM

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

Don't sleep on the Isolee remix of that either, it really draws out the melancholy drama in the vocals.

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

those lyrics are making my eyes water.

Haha, yeah. I heard the first line and was like....ok, I'm just gonna tune out the lyrics now.

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.

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

it is sick and trounces the og anyway

<3 maceo plex

does this go here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvHE069X44

NSFW VIDEO

Does it feature Maceo Plex's trademark growling bass noise? If so count me in.

finally caught them live at White Heat tonight. worth the wait x 1000000000.

Damn. Was too ill to get to that show. Glad it was great.

yeah it was packed and their live show is sooooo much fun. can't wait to catch them again.

oh hey they finally made a video for "reckless"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEhf9iw55M

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