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Canada’s electronic rap duo Thunderheist — MC Isis and manufacturer Grahm Zilla — combine their like of old-school hip-hop with beats that pull on synth-disco, electro, and booty bass to create trendy party music that efforts in order to avoid ironic hipster detachment without taking itself too seriously. In 2006, around the recommendation of mutual close friends, Zilla (aka Graham Bertie) of Montreal, the child of the Olympic wrestler and a battling producer primarily centered on crafted J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats beneath the name Metrix, got in contact (via MySpace) using the Nigerian-born, Toronto-raised Isis (Omalola Isis Salami), whose fledgling underground rap profession was beginning to carry fruits. Though they delivered a few songs backwards and forwards, the cooperation didn’t click until Bertie unwittingly e-mailed her a duplicate of the Spank Rock and roll remix he previously carried out under his dance-oriented Thunderheist moniker; although file have been intended for someone else, Isis adored it as well as the germ from the duo’s audio was created. They produced waves on music sites in 2007 using the prominently Eurythmics-sampling “Suenos Dulces,” but, despite gossips of major-label curiosity, the duo thought we would focus mainly on touring and building an target audience for another few years, shedding many buzzed-about singles (“Bubblegum” in 2007 and “Jerk It” in 2008) and a self-titled, self-released EP instead of cranking out an recording. For the time being, “Jerk It” was presented in the soundtrack to Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, and Isis added vocals to a monitor from MSTRKRFT’s Fist of God recording. By enough time Thunderheist’s eponymous debut premiered by Big Dada in the springtime of 2009, the majority of its paths were already many years outdated, although several cuts directed toward a more recent, less rap-based path.

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