Azari & III – BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, 14/1-2012 (Hulkshare)

Deja vu! Azari & III re-re-re-release “Reckless For Your Love”, now with 200% more kinky elevators, stutter stepping and picturesque frowning.

Guessing that Tiga’s newly released remix of “Reckless” (which is streaming below) means that there’s yet another release involving the ubiquitous single dropping Feb 12th, 2012.

Azari & III – Reckless (With Your Love) [Tiga Remix] by PurplePR

Azari & III’s “Manic” served as further proof that they had many more tricks up their sleeves than just “Reckless With Your Love” remixes (thankfully); a frantic piece of acid pop deftly held together by the piercing diva vocals of Starving Yet Full.

Broklyn’s Creep (comprised of two Laurens, Dillard & Flax) seem like a fitting choice to rework “Manic” if only because their own 2011 breakout single “Days” seems to share a few things in common – the rough edges poking out underneath the pop structure, a little bit of a sinister element bubbling beneath the disco.

On this remix, you might be tricked into thinking you might have the high turned all the way down on your mixer, but nope, it’s just the pacing. Moody, stripped down and vaguely unsettling, it leaves much more room for the vocals to reverberate off the walls and bounce around in your head.

Azari & III – Manic (Creep Remix) (Mediafire)

Modcast #85: Azari & III present Alphonse Alixander Lanza III Shimmers Mixtape (direct link)

Tracklist after the jump.

Forgotten Rebels – Surfin’ On Heroin
Swell Maps – The Helicopter Spies
Dum Dum Girls – Lines Her Eyes
Spacemen 3 – Walking With Jesus
The Telescopes – Celeste
Can – Oh Yeah
Broken Social Scene – All To All
Cocteau Twins – Musette And Drums
Slowdrive – Slowdrive
My Bloody Valentine – Glider
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Deep One Perfect Morning
Nico – These Days
Antony And The Johnsons – Swan Lights
Chris & Cosey – Walking In Heaven

Fantastic track and video from Toronto group Azari & III, the “Manic” single is out now with their self titled debut album coming August 8th.

Azari & III are unstoppable right now, and in anticipation of their forthcoming debut full length album on Modular, we’re super excited to show off their new remix of faceless, nameless dancefloor renegades Monarchy, who don’t reveal their identity because they “feel that artists have become bland and sanitized by the constant broadcast of personal lives”.

Fair enough. All that matters to us is the bubbling acid tinged house workout that this collaborative remix endeavor has spawned, thanks in no short part to some quite good source material. The new Monarchy album is streaming on soundcloud in full here, don’t miss out on giving it the first of many listens.

Monarchy – Maybe I’m Crazy (Azari & III Remix)

Tense, “start-hoarding-canned-goods-in-your-basement-because-the-apocalypse” new tune from Canada’s Azari & III, one of the cuts on their new Modular album dropping this summer.

Azari & III – Manic by PurplePR

This isn’t the first time that Azari & III have made a video for “Hungry For The Power” – their previous effort had a bit of a censorship snafu with youtube, who felt that the pornographic, sexual, and possibly murderous themes expressed within it had no place on the interweb. You can watch a re-edited version of that video HERE, but it’s equally advisable to check out the new 2011 video version.

The first 30 seconds feel like they’re taken straight out of the Red Hot Chili Peppers video for “Scar Tissue”, right down to the pouring the sand out of your water canteen portion. But then, suddenly, BAM – it’s a beach party, lead vocalist Starving Yet Full is wearing lots of really dope looking clothes, and everyone is messing around outside their hotel room while a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap gets heavily represented (their way of showing off their heritage, maybe).

Regardless of whether you’ve heard it before or bought it before, “Hungry For The Power” is out on Turbo Recordings with some spicy remixes from The Art Department and Jamie Jones.

Alixander III of Azari & III lets his hair down for the esteemed Test Pressing series of mixes, offering up everything from their spaced out disco influences, to some more unconventional choices such as the Dum Dum Girls. Impressive.

Azari & III Presents Alixander III Shimmers Mix for Test Pressing (zShare)

CREEP (ft. Romy Madley Croft) – Days (Deadboy remix)

CREEP (ft. Romy Madley Croft) – Days (Azari & III remix)

CREEP – Days (Soul Clap Remix) by Soul Clap

BONUS: Their stunning mix for Fact Magazine from last week.

FACT mix 213 – CREEP (Jan ’11) by factmag

Tracklist for the mix after the jump.

1. How To Dress Well – Take It On (Holy Other Remix)
2. Pantha Du Prince – Tau
3. Guido – Beautiful Complication
4. Delooze – Too Heavy To Stand Up (Dark Sky Remix)
5. Ciara – Gimme Dat
6. Canblaster – Triple Ring
7. CREEP – Days (Drop The Lime Remix)
8. Katy B & Ms Dynamite – Lights On
9. Hot Natured – Equilibrium
10. Crime Mob – Rock Yo Hips
11. Kanye Wet feat. Rihanna – All Of The Lights
12. Ciara – Deuces (Nguzunguzu Remix)
13. Darko – Hyli