It’s Friday. Get the tunes pumping and your dancing shoes on.

Bet you $50 this tune will be blasting out of every club you walk past this weekend… It’s Danish vocalist Medina’s massive international hit You and I (or the #1 for 6weeks, double platinum uber-anthem Kun for Mig in Denmark). Fortunately, this version is in English and the Deadmau5 remix kicks butt.

The half Chilean, half Danish Medina played shows with Lady GaGa and The Pussycat Dolls this year, and she’s not half bad to look at.

Check out the video for Deadmau5 remix of You and I…

Feel like some cooking tips from Beasties’ MC Mike D? His lady Tamra has put together this nice little Youtube Channel.

Just watch him prepare that school lunch for his kids – Go gettem Dad!

In the tradition of sexy dreamy French electro, AIR are releasing Love 2 – their fifth studio album on Oct 2.

And what a studio… Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin recorded in their own private studio named Atlas, nestled in the leafy backstreets of northern Paris. So it’s no wonder that the single Sing Sang Sung sounds like a glass of rose wine wine and puppy dogs skipping down the Seine on a summer Sunday afternoon. Even our resident office cranky-pants (no names) loves it. Check out the clip on the widget below.

So… before Love 2 reaches Australia, you can download a free mashup of the album. Head to www.aircheology.com/mashup/air-mashup.html

By the way, if you pre-order Love 2 on iTunes, you’ll get an exclusive track named Danger Zone. Go fetch.

image courtesy of @KaraTM

What’s to do when you look out the window in the morning, only to see your town blanketed in blood red dust and the zombies have been let out to play? (maybe… we can’t see them, but that’s not saying much today)

Put your feet up, turn on our Dust Apocalypse playlist, and watch the storm roll in. It’s end of the world as we know it…

• REM – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (Karen, Bec, Lisa, Bryan M, Liesl, Pri)
• Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities In Dust (Liz)
• Chemical Brothers – In Dust We Trust (Scotty)
• Muse – Apocalypse Please (Pri)
• Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere (Tara)
• Split Enz – I See Red (Nikki)
• Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen (Saunders)
• Rob Pattinson – Choking On The Dust (Asha)
• Gerling – Dust Me Selecta (Hawker, Mark H)
• Cloud Control – Death Cloud (Mark H)
• Alessi’s Ark – The Asteroids Collide (Liesl)
• Prince – 1999 (Poston)
• Craig Armstrong – Weather Storm (Mark F)
• Misfits – Dust To Dust (Emma)
• The Doors – The End (Dickie) / Riders On The Storm (Bryan M)
• Doves – Kingdom of Rust (Nikki)
• Slim Dusty – How Good It Is (Craig M)
• Dusty Springfield – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself (Bryan M, Nikki)
• Peter Gabriel – Red Rain (Paul)
• Darude – Sandstorm (Mark H)
• Queen – Another One Bites The Dust (Barnesy, Bec, Pri)
• Mazzy Star – Into Dust (Liesl, Nikki)
• David Bowie – Life On Mars (Kristy)
• Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills (Bec)
• Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow (Kara)

What have really discovered today, is that Oz EMI staff can really step up to the plate when song puns are involved…

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If you’ve seen Daft Punk live, you’re surely a member of the I’ve seen the Daft Punk Pyramid, life will never be the same facebook group – because the Alive 2007 world tour was unquestionably the single most electrifying live experience  to hit this fair planet.

In fact, after watching the trailer for Daft Punk’s DJ Hero, half of theinsound HQ here is reliving the experience by blasting Alive through the office right now.

Cannot wait to get my Robot Rocking hands on this set of decks.

Triple J are holding a nifty little gig for Paul Dempsey & Kid Sam at The Troubadour in Brisbane this Wednesday night.

It was great to hear one of the comp winners had just inked a FRESH Dempsey tat!

A very worthy tattoo. I love seeing pics like this.

JET will be hitting the stage at this years sold out Homebake AND for those that missed out on tickets they are sneaking in 2 shows in Sydney and Melbourne. They’ll be performing old favs and new favs from Shaka Rock including She’s A Genius, K.I.A and their soon to be released Black Hearts (On Fire).

The Shaka Rock Tour
Presented by IMC, Channel V and Video Hits
Tickets for The Shaka Rock Tour are on sale Monday 28th September

Friday 4th December – Metro Sydney 18+
www.oztix.com.au

Wednesday 9th December – The Palace Theatre Melbourne 18+
www.oztix.com.au

Black Hearts (On Fire) will be released October 30… listen to it here

Black Hearts (On Fire) by theinsound

Maybe this Italian TV show didn’t know what they were in for when asking Muse to lip-sync.

I never realised that Matt was such an excellent drummer.

Jamie T and The Pacemakers are in OZ on their national sold out tour… from all reports the gigs have been as fun as that first Sydney show I saw. A friend of mine got so into the 2nd show she lost her thongs (flip flops if you’re English)!

The album Kings & Queens had a debut this week of #17 on the ARIA Chart and the guys have been doing some really cool performances for radio and TV to promote it like this one for Nova.

We’ve also got our hands on a remix of Chaka Demus for theinsound peeps – enjoy

Chaka Demus (Ben Bones and Jamie T Remix) by theinsound

Lily Allen was channeling Britney in more ways that one when she stepped out on stage at the 2009 Bestival on the Isle of Wight last weekend. Apart from her stellar performance of Womanizer (note actual live vocals / no vocoder), isn’t the scanty outfit a bit more electro-pop than we’re used to seeing Ms Allen don?

Lily has been mixing up the fashion more of late: a heavily made-up and evening-gown-draped Lily traipses through the warzone of a ladies room on a Saturday night for the clip for 22, and a platinum blond alter-ego (not Bat For Lash’s blond alter-ego Pearl) gracing the cover of UK Elle mag.

Other headliners at Bestival included Massive Attack (check out their new EP in full!), Kraftwerk, and the aforementioned Bat for Lashes. Not bad for a wintery weekend in the country!