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Their performance didn’t make it into NBC’s edited coverage of the opening ceremonies, but yesterday the Russian Ministry Of Internal Affairs Choir (yes, there’s such a thing) covered Daft Punk’s global smash Get Lucky. Truly bizarre. Entertainment Weekly has a amusing set of screencaps. Watch the performance at NBC’s Olympics site.

Get Lucky, the first single from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, went to #1 in two dozen countries. Today the group issued the video for the follow-up single. Chic’s Nile Rodgers appears on guitar. I like this a lot more than Get Lucky, which was hyped into the stratosphere.

Remixed by the woofy Jack Conte of Pomplamoose.

Three-time Oscar winner and three-time Grammy winner Giorgio Moroder, 73, the man whom many would credit as inventing* electronic dance music, played his first-ever DJ set last night at Brooklyn’s Deep Space club.  Moroder has been back in the news recently for his contributions to Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories.  Just a few minutes into the mix, Moroder …