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'I Created Disco' By Calvin Harris Is A Conceptual Masterpiece |
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Status: Available Now!
Type: News
Date: Thursday 28 December 2017, 12:00 AM
Media: Mixmag
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About the person Calvin Harris:
Art: Music
Genres: Electro, Indie, Punk, Electropop, Electro House, Nu-disco, Synthpop, Electronic, Dance, Disco, Electronica, Turntablism, Alternative, Alternative Dance, Club, Pop, Indie Electronic, Indie Electro, Indietronica, House |
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Notable Organizations: Mixmag
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| Revisiting his debut album reveals a haunting satire of the noughties dance music industry.
What have 10 years of Calvin Harris given us? An era of chart-topping EDM; newfound heights of DJ fame, complete with celebrity relationships; a seemingly never-ending slew of bangerz to please the masses in Ayia-flipping- Napa. It stands to reason then, that his widely slated debut album ‘I Created Disco’, released a decade ago this year, is seldom revisited with any great fervour.
Wind back the clock to 2007 and you’ll find a sorry time for dance music. During the halcyon days of the 1990s, many had predicted a commercial dominance for electronica after the turn of the millennium. This proved fanciful however, as veritable gods of popular dance music appeared to try their best to drive the genre into irrelevance.
Daft Punk, who had brought electronic music to bigger crowds than ever before, released the self-plagiarising ‘Human After All’ in 2005, filled with vaguely enjoyable songs that were really just knock-offs of their earlier work. Fatboy Slim was stuck in a generic loop, releasing two post-millennium albums that failed to recapture the magic of ‘Everybody Needs A 303’ and ‘Praise You’. Slim’s big-beat contemporaries The Chemical Brothers seemed similarly out of sorts with the woeful ‘We Are the Night’. |
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