Calvin Harris: I Created Disco (2LP) [COLUMBIA]

Why you'll love it

Calvin Harris' debut album on 2LP, the bedroom-made electro-pop record that started one of dance music's biggest careers. "Acceptable In The 80s" and "The Girls" both went top ten in the UK, and the album went gold.

This edition

• 2LP set, four sides
• Twelve tracks, from "Merrymaking At My Place" to "Electro Man"

About the album

Before the Las Vegas residencies and the Rihanna duets, Calvin Harris was a kid from Dumfries making tracks on an old computer in his bedroom and posting them online. I Created Disco, his 2007 debut on Columbia, is the sound of those bedroom sessions polished just enough for the charts: cheap-sounding synths used brilliantly, cheeky lyrics in a Scottish accent and grooves borrowed from 80s electro and disco.

"Acceptable In The 80s" and "The Girls" both reached the UK top ten, the album entered at number eight and went gold, and "Merrymaking At My Place" and "Colours" still sound like the start of a very good night. It's a record that doesn't take itself remotely seriously, which is a big part of its charm. The title was a joke, he insists; the sales figures say otherwise.

Tracklist

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On Columbia, a reissue of the 2007 album.