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Canada's electronic rap duo Thunderheist -- MC Isis and producer Grahm Zilla -- combine their love of old-school hip-hop with beats that draw on synth-disco, electro, and booty bass to make trendy party music that attempts to avoid ironic hipster detachment without taking itself too seriously. In 2006, on the suggestion of mutual friends, Zilla (aka Graham Bertie) of Montreal, the son of an Olympic wrestler and a struggling producer primarily focused on crafted J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats under the name Metrix, got in touch (via MySpace) with the Nigerian-born, Toronto-raised Isis (Omalola Isis Salami), whose fledgling underground rap career was starting to bear fruit. Though they sent a few tracks back and forth, the collaboration didn't click until Bertie unwittingly e-mailed her a copy of a Spank Rock remix he had done under his dance-oriented Thunderheist moniker; though the file had been intended for somebody else, Isis loved it and the germ of the duo's sound was born. They m...