Cream

He may have barely turned 23 when he first hit the charts, but Calvin Harris had been making music, legend has it, since the age of 15 on an old Amiga computer in the Scottish town of Dumfries, when he wasn’t stacking shelves at the local Marks & Spencer.

It was when Harris hit upon what would become his trademark sound – irresistibly infectious dance-pop tunes built from juicy staccato synths and squelchy electro basslines – that he caught the public imagination, first with breakthrough anthem “Acceptable In The 80s” (given a release in March 2007, then the even bigger follow-up “The Girls”, and then his non-stop house-party of a debut album, “I Created Disco” which went on to sell over 100,000 in the UK alone, in fact (earning it a gold disc).

One Calvin track, however, that cannot go unmentioned is Calvin’s first No.1 record ‘Dance Wiv Me’ with Dizzee Rascal that topped the charts for four consecutive weeks and become one of the biggest selling singles of 2008, taking Calvin Harris’ record sales to over one million copies

His second studio album “Ready for the Weekend” was released last year and soared to the number 1 spot in the UK Album Charts. It contains the number 1 single “I’m Not Alone” which was pioneered by International DJ’s including Tiesto, the UK Top 5 Single “Ready for the Weekend”, and the tracks “Flashback” and “You Used To Hold Me”.

Calvin will be playing a one-off DJ set for Cream Ibiza on the Mixmag Terrace on Thursday 1st June.

Watch the official video for Flashback, filmed in Ibiza!