VILLAINS, DJ JOEEIRWIN, NATHAN DETROIT, 31AVAS
(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Villains are the hotshit Los Angeles remix wizards who have made waves with “Thrilla,” which might be to ’08 what “D.A.N.C.E.” was to last year. If you haven’t danced to it yet, you will. They don’t need an illuminating cross or a fancy video with lots of T-shirts; “Thrilla” is a stand-alone classic. By resurrecting the cold lifeless zombie corpse of Michael Jackson and turning him back into the dance floor scorcher he once was, the duo of Mad V and Koncept have wedged their way deep into the party scene as the two DJs you want behind the decks. Of course, all of this is under the radar of Jackson’s people, but I doubt he’s hip to these sort of things from his hermetically sealed underground bunker in Dubai. EAC

MP3:
Villains - Thrilla