" The Girls", the album's second single, peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. " Acceptable in the 80s", a tribute to the style and culture of the decade, peaked at number ten on the UK Singles Chart, remaining on the chart for 15 weeks. The first wide-release single from the album was released in March 2007. The song, " Vegas", was issued on limited edition vinyl. The album contained uptempo electroclash songs that were influenced by music from the 1980s. Harris performing at the Eurockéennes (2008) After that, I was stuck with it." Career I thought people might not know if I was black or not. Regarding his choice of his stage name, Harris stated that, "My first single was more of a soul track, and I thought Calvin Harris sounded a bit more racially ambiguous. His popularity on the social media website prompted Mark Gillespie, a talent booker for the dance-festival firm Global Gathering who had recently founded his own management firm, to make Harris the company's first signee. With the lack of job opportunities and money, he returned home to Dumfries and began posting homemade solo recordings to his Myspace page. 2, was released during his time in London. Only one of his songs, "Let Me Know" with vocalist Ayah Marar on the Unabombers' 2004 live-mix CD Electric Soul, Vol. With these singles to his credit, Harris moved from Scotland to London, hoping to learn from the local music scene. Both were released as 12-inch club singles and CD-EPs by the label Prima Facie in early 2002 under the name "Stouffer". When Harris was 18, he released two songs, "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days". He was first attracted to electronic music in his teens and began recording bedroom demos in 1999. Wiles attended Calside Primary School then Dumfries High School, and, after leaving school, he stocked shelves in supermarkets and worked in a local fish processing factory in order to buy DJ gear. 2Īdam Richard Wiles was born on 17 January 1984 in Dumfries, to English parents, a biochemist father, and housewife mother, who married in their native Oxford before moving to Dumfries.
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