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Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), better known by his stage name Calvin Harris, is a Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top-ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls". His second studio album, Ready for the Weekend (2009), reached number one on the UK Album Chart and includes the chart-topper "I'm Not Alone", the UK top-five hit "Ready for the Weekend", and the singles "Flashback" and "You Used to Hold Me".
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strong claim to being the most successful club crossover star of recent years. After a string of chart hits from his 2007 debut album, I Created Disco, Harris hit No 1 last year with his Dizzee Rascal collaboration Dance Wiv Me. He recently did the same with his own I'm Not Alone, while never diluting the pulverising techno beats that are his defiant musical template.
Biography & Career Harris was born Adam Richard Wiles on 17 January 1984 in Dumfries, Scotland. He states that he was a fan of football and aspired to be like Steve McManaman. "But I never had curly hair, so I got into music. If I'd had curly hair, things would've been different." He was first attracted to electronic music in his teens and was recording bedroom demos by 1999. According to an interview with News of the World, all the while he created music, he started becoming an antisocial person, which affected his personality. His earliest success was when he was twenty-one: the songs "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days" were released as a 12" club single and CD-EP by the Prima Facie label in early 2002 under the name Stouffer. He released one song in 2004, "Let Me Know", with artist Ayah Marar. The song appears on The Unabombers' Electric Soul 2. Harris signed contracts with EMI (publishing) and Sony BMG (recording) in 2006 after he had been discovered by Tommie Sunshine on the social networking website Myspace and his music was released on Sunshine's label Xylophone Jones Recordings previous to his album on Sony BMG. Harris had recently moved back from London to his hometown of Dumfries because he was unable to find a job. Later in 2006, Harris produced a remix of All Saints' hit single "Rock Steady". Harris's first album, I Created Disco, was released in June 2007. The album contains uptempo electroclash songs that were influenced by music from the 1980s. To promote I Created Disco, Harris embarked on a tour of the UK, supporting Faithless and Groove Armada. I Created Disco was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales of 100,000 copies in the UK, where it reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart. The first single, "Vegas", was issued on limited edition vinyl; the first wide-release single from the album was "Acceptable in the 80s", a tribute to the style and culture of the decade. The song reached number ten on the UK Singles Chart, remaining on the chart for fifteen weeks. "The Girls", the album's third single, peaked at number three in the UK, although the fourth release, "Merrymaking at My Place", reached only number fortythree. The fifth and final single, "Colours", was featured in television advertisements for DFS sofas and Kia Motors. On 18 October 2008, Harris was featured on BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix with a two-hour set. In April 2008, Harris stated that the only existing copy of his then-upcoming album, which he had been working on for seven months, was lost when the bag containing his laptop was misplaced during the baggage handling problems at the opening of London Heathrow Terminal 5. In an interview with Popjustice in April 2009, Harris admitted that while he did lose his bags at Heathrow, he lied about the laptop being in his luggage in order to buy himself some more time to finish recording the album, adding that the idea was concocted by him and his sound engineer. The album, Ready for the Weekend, was released in August 2009 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, eventually being certified gold by the BPI for shipments of 100,000 copies. "I'm Not Alone", released as the album's lead single in April 2009, debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart and was shortlisted for the Popjustice ÂŁ20 Music Prize. The follow-up single, "Ready for the Weekend", reached number three. Other tracks included on the album are "Worst Day" featuring Izza Kizza and "Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La", which was used in a Coca-Cola advertisement in the summer of 2009. Harris toured around the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and the United States promoting the album. In June 2009, Harris appeared at the Summertime Ball at the Emirates Stadium, and in August, he made an appearance on the first Soccer AM show of the season. Harris performed at Wembley Stadium in October 2009 as part of the pre-game entertainment for the NFL International Series game between the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The third single from Ready for the Weekend, "Flashback", reached number eighteen in the UK, and the fourth, "You Used to Hold Me", charted at number twenty-seven.During promotion of the album, Harris hosted a series of videos on YouTube titled JAM TV, in which musicians such as Florence Welch, Goldie and Katy Perry tried to open pots of jam. In 2010, Harris received a BRIT Award nomination for British Male.
On 14 November, Harris invaded the stage of The X Factor during a performance by Irish duo Jedward, holding a pineapple on his head and bending over to point at his buttocks. He was subsequently escorted from the studio by the security team and ejected from the ITV2 programme The Xtra Factor, where he was due to appear as a guest the same night. He later apologised on Twitter: "At the end of the day, I had a pineapple on my head. Sorry if I caused anyone embarrassment. Ps. I love Jedward." The same week, Harris spoke to The Chris Moyles Show and revealed that he had been "inspired to make a mockery of the show", as well as stating, "If you look at music it's a frightening stranglehold that Simon Cowell has got over the entire music chart in the UK at the moment." On the same day, Jedward's mentor Louis Walsh, appearing on The Paul O'Grady Show, accused Harris of trying to "cash in" on the duo's fame, and claimed to not know who he was. Harris played at the 2010 Big Day Out, a music festival which takes place in several major cities in Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. In May 2010, he performed at Evolution Festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, and in July he played at Splendour in Nottingham and headlined at the Stockton International Riverside Festival in Stockton-on-Tees. In July 2010, Harris released a mix, titled L.E.D. Festival (short for L.E.D. Festival Presents... Calvin Harris), which was available for one month as a free covermount CD in Mixmag. Harris appeared at the tenth birthday of Our:House in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2010, alongside Afrojack,[21] and performed an hour-long DJ set at Australia's Steresonic Festival alongside TiĂŤsto, Carl Cox, Afrojack and Major Lazer in November and December 2010, in several major Australian cities including Sydney and Melbourne. In 2011, he toured with Rihanna as a support act on the European leg of her Loud Tour; Rihanna was quoted to say that "Calvin is the perfect fit for the Loud tour. He is going to bring something unique and fun for the fans." Harris played the 2011 Mardi Gras Party in Sydney on 5 March.
During March and April 2011, Harris was scheduled to be an opening act/DJ for Katy Perry on the UK leg of her California Dreams Tour, but he withdrew from the tour shortly before his first date, citing production issues and difficulties with Perry's management in his apology to her fans.Perry publicly criticised Harris via her Twitter feed, stating that the tour's other support acts had expressed no problems with their production arrangements, but Harris later said "it's all fine" between them and that he would still like to work with her in the future. Harris headlined Limelite at Metropolis Fremantle in Western Australia in March 2011 in celebration of the event's fourth birthday, where he played small samples of his new track, "Awooga", which was subsequently uploaded onto YouTube via his channel. Following "Awooga", Harris released the single "Bounce", a collaboration with Kelis that debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart in June 2011. Another single, "Feel So Close", was released in August 2011 and also reached number two in the United Kingdom. "Feel So Close" became Harris's first solo entry on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, peaking at number twelve. Harris performed at the 2011 Jingle Bell Ball concert, and was announced as one of the headline acts at a number of Southern Hemisphere 2011/2012 new year music festivals, including Shore Thing and Field Day in Sydney, as well as Rhythm and Vines in New Zealand. "Let's Go" featuring Ne-Yo, released in April 2012, also reached number two in the UK, while reaching number six in Ireland. It was his second Hot 100 appearance as a main artist, charting at number seventeen.The song was commissioned for a Pepsi Max advertising campaign. "We'll Be Coming Back", featuring rapper Example, was released as the fourth single in July 2012. It peaked at number two in the UK, and reached number one in Ireland.
The fifth single, "Sweet Nothing", features Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, and was released on 14 October 2012. It peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, marking Harris' first number-one single as main artist in the United Kingdom since his 2009 single, "I'm Not Alone" as a main artist. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. These singles became part of his newest album, which was released on 29 October 2012 in the UK. He has said of the album, "I'm going for pretty epic-sounding dance records. I guess the whole sound has just moved on in terms of production as I've got a new studio and some new gear to make the sounds I wasn't able to make before."On 22 August 2012, Harris announced via Twitter that his third studio album will be titled 18 Months and will feature Kelis, Rihanna, Example, Nicky Romero, Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah, Florence Welch, Dizzee Rascal, Ne-Yo, Ayah Marar and Dillon Francis. Harris was the house DJ at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, where he won Best Electronic Video for "Feel So Close" and Video of the Year alongside Rihanna for "We Found Love". In February 2013, Harris signed as the first exclusive resident DJ at the MGM Grand's forthcoming Hakkasan Las Vegas nightclub. Harris is set to perform as part of the post-race concert of the 2013 Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix in April 2013 Source:Wikipedia
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The Video This is the official moment where we can say that music videos have surpassed movies in their ability to tell a story concisely and poignantly. This music video is a perfect example. Visually, it is truly one of the most engrossing things we have ever seen. It also features the best CG work we have ever seen outside of Avatar. And while this may boil down to a 3 minute Vodka ad, when something is this visually arresting, who cares what it is selling. Appreciate it on an esthetic level and nothing more if you must, but at least stop to appreciate it. Following in the footsteps of Spike Jonze, Cee-Lo Green and Jay-Z, as well as previous works by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, Absolut Vokda continues more than 30 years of creative partnerships with leading artists in music, art and fashion by partnering with Swedish House Mafia. The European DJ collective has produced a special track that will be used in Absolut's new advertising campaign. It's a perfect band and brand integration that is a win-win for all, and mostly for the fans who are getting a brand-new piece of music Already a crowd favorite, this new Swedish House Mafia anthem is titled "Greyhound" and is a pulsing, adrenaline-fueled instrumental dance tune. The track comes along with fantastical and fast-paced video that was shot in the California desert and combines highgrade theatrical sci-fi effects with wildly forward fashion that Lady Gaga would salivate over. In the video, Swedish House Mafia's Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello go head to head in a futuristic dog race that is simply out of this world In related Swedish House Mafia news, next July the group will complete a historic first when they headline a gargantuan 9 hour ‘One Night Stand’ show in front of 65,000 people at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in the UK. The band have also confirmed that alongside DJ producer of the moment Calvin Harris and 17 year old pop/house producer Madeon, they have added Pete Tong and fellow Swede Alesso as special guests to the show
So what this video implies is that the future is going to be f***ing badass. To kill time, people are going to drive their luxury cars out to the dessert to bet on dog racing. But this is not the typical, lame dog racing you are used to. No, no, no. This is the future, dammit. Everything is cooler and pointlessly more expensive looking.
So instead of dogs, you have these people who sort of Voltron out and scan themselves INTO the dogs, so in essence, it is like a video game. Oh, and the dogs are badass, robot greyhounds.Not the usual skinny, stupid ones you see. These dogs look like something out of a sick anime from the 90s. They are sleek and aero-dynamic and cool as sh*t, everything that real greyhounds are not. Oh, also, we need to tell you that fashion in the future sucks. These people who gather to watch this event all look like fools. Weird makeup and plastic chandeliers hanging in front of their faces like hats. It is the one thing that doesn’t work in the entire video. The desert setting works well, the robo dogs are as cool as anything we have ever seen, and the electronic beats of the song seem to be the perfect soundtrack to the futuristic event. But, the outfits are too much. slight complaint though, overall About 30 seconds from the end is when you realize it is an absolute vodka ad, which makes the whole thing a wee bit suckier and more sellout style, but the video is still undeniably cool.WAIT A SECOND HERE, AFTER ALL THAT, WE DON’T EVEN GET TO FIND OUT WHICH DOG WON? Yo, crew this Vodka ad.
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102 Buying your first DJ setup can be a daunting task. Using our knowledge and experience, ALOUD! breaks it down as simply as possible. Please note, you'll always be able to find exceptions and additions to this guide, but we focused on the most popular DJ setups.
1.5 Turntable DJ Setup using DJ Software (eg. Serato / Traktor) WHAT YOU'LL NEED 2 x DJ Turntables 2 x DJ Cartridges (needles) DJ Mixer Slipmats (felt mats that go between record + turntable platter) DJ Headphones Vinyl Records RCA Cable (to connect mixer to audio output) ALOUD POINTS ? This is the base / foundational DJ setup ? Recommended setup for learning how to DJ ? Most tactile form of DJing ? Can be used as a digital setup with addition of Serato Scratch Live,
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1.5 Turntable DJ Setup using DJ Software (eg. Serato / Traktor) WHAT YOU'LL NEED 2 x DJ Turntables 2 x DJ Cartridges (needles) DJ Mixer Slipmats (felt mats that go between record + turntable platter) DJ Headphones Computer DJ Interface Package such as Serato Scratch Live, Traktor Scratch DJ Interface Package usually includes ? Interface (connects your equipment to your computer) ? DJ software ? ontrol vinyl (special records for use with DJ software) ? All necessary cables ? Please note, some high-end DJ mixers have this package built-in
ALOUD POINTS ? Still allows for tactile feel of the turntable setup ? Setup preferred by many professional DJs ? Allows you to play both vinyl records + digital files ? DJ software opens up many additional features
102 2.5 CDJ DJ Setup using DJ Software (eg. Serato / Traktor) WHAT YOU'LL NEED 2 x CD DJ Turntables DJ Mixer DJ Headphones Computer DJ Interface Package such as Serato Scratch Live, Traktor Scratch, etc. DJ Interface Package usually includes ? Interface (connects your equipment to your computer) ? DJ software ? Control CDs (special CDs for use with DJ software) ? All necessary cables ? Please note, some high-end DJ mixers have this package built-in ALOUD POINTS ? Setup preferred by many professional DJs ? Allows you to play both CDs + digital files
3.0 DJ Controller Setup WHAT YOU’LL NEED DJ Controller Computer DJ Software Audio Interface (please note: some DJ controllers have interfaces builtin) ALOUD POINTS ? Allows for tactile control of music ? Allows most control over DJ software / most manipulation of music ? You can customize controller setup to your preference ? Very portable
102 4.0 Ableton DJ Setup WHAT YOU'LL NEED Computer Ableton Software Controller designed for Ableton (not necessary, but recommended) Audio Interface. ALOUD POINTS ? Great for DJing with tracks that you built with Ableton ? Requires a lot of track setup for DJ sets ? Lots of effects can be added to your mix ? Very portable
5.0 All Computer DJ Setup WHAT YOU’LL NEED Computer DJ Software Audio Interface (not necessary, but recommended) ALOUD POINTS If you have already have a computer, this is an inexpensive option ? Most compact setup ? Harder to be creative without controller ? Most portable ? We recommend Native Instruments Traktor Audio 2 for this setup
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136 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 USA (305) 538-2424 When locals refer to it as a Vegas nightclub experience, they mean it as a complement. This massive house-palace on Collins Avenue offers one of the city's hottest venues for blue chip DJs like Erick Morillo (pictured), Steve Aoki and SHM's Sebastian Ingrosso. A massive warehouse-style space offer convenient Miami Beach address in the center of the action, marked by a massive line that circles down the road most Fridays and Saturdays. Inside, a central dance floor sits in front of an elaborate DJ stage and incredible sound compliments of one of the best sound systems in the city. Neon and LCD light shows complement a mostly house music platform that includes a high-end party crowd and one of the best DJ line-ups in Miami. Last Word High-end house scene invades Miami Beach with city’s top DJ line-up and large-format dance club.
project club 78 Wells Street London W1T 3QL United Kingdom (44) 020 7060 1111 Its near-Oxford Street location in Fitzrovia has become an A-List staple for London's VIP nightlife scene with a consistent crowd and line-up of hip-hop and house events from FloRida to Avicii and Usher. Its interiors look not unlike so many other London dance venues, a series of terraced VIP banquettes surrounding a central dance floor with bar ignited in a top-tier sound system and plenty of ambient blue light. With a mix of well-selected guests from a dapper doorman and handful of permanent members, Project Club attracts a consistently reliable mix of upper crust revelers from hedge funders and city boys to socialites and pop stars to a weekend dance party that's currently all the rage. Last Word West End dance club lures house and hip-hop elite for weekend dance scene with tough door.
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2-16 Maruyama-cho Tokyo - Shibuya-ku 150-0044 Japan (81) 03 5459 0039 One of Tokyo’s most cutting edge dance clubs for electronic dance music, Womb is conveniently located in Shibuya within a cavernous loft-style space of industrial elements like exposed ducts, cement walls and minimalist seating amongst a ceiling glitterized in mirrored disco balls. Throughout the year the club hosts a revolving line-up of weekly dance events by now famous one-name deejays that lures a mix of 40-something Ibiza-style revelers and curious dance characters that look like they were drawn out of Japanese anime. During summer months, Womb hosts its well-known harbor dance cruises within a former naval vessel that’s been turned into one of the chicest dance clubs afloat. ·Last Word Large-scale electronic dance club offers multi-venue format for weekly dance events and summer parties often ranked best in Tokyo
club paris 22 Rue Quentin-Bauchart Paris 75008 France (33) 01 47 23 69 17 Cast in the glittery scene of Paris's 8th where nightlife comes complete with red carpets and 2000-Euro bottle service, Club Paris recently underwent a grand makeover and has emerged as a hip late-night scene that include weekly live orchestras and some of the city's top talent like DJ Magnum spinning for jam-crowded events. The space is arranged around a central dance floor alit in amber neon lighting with surrounded VIP seating and main lounge where a crowd privy to fashion events and art parties soirees till 5am. Last Word The club experiments with an array of musical styles including live big band orchestras, international pop vocalists and the top DJs in Paris.