Scottish pop/dance producer Calvin Harris is a man who’s experiencing a real purple patch of late. Not only is he responsible for two of the year’s most popular electro pop moments, namely his number one single ‘Not Alone’ and his work with Dizzee Rascal on the already huge ‘Holiday’, he’s also managed to put together the world’s first human synthesizer. Calvin’s unimaginatively named ‘Humanthesizer’ would appear to work by the use of special electronic paint and a series of pressure points hooked up to a laptop running state of the art sequencing software. Curiously, a prerequisite of the ‘Humanthesizer’ would seem to be that you need a gaggle of scantily clad bikini babes in order to operate the thing successfully. It’s all a little pointless – but pointlessness can often be good fun!
In other Calvin related news; you can also take an upfront peak at Harris’ new album, ‘Ready For The Weekend’, by streaming it from iTunes. Simply click on the image below to check it out the album before it goes on sale in the UK.
This week US House maestro Ian Carey storms to the top of the UK Shazam Pre-release Tag Chart with his undeniable summer dance smash, ‘Get Shakey’. Meanwhile, new releases come from Kristinia DeBarge, Simian Mobile Disco and lanky production wizard, Calvin Harris.
After the success of the electro tinged ‘Dance Wiv Me’ and the ravetastic ‘Bonkers’, it should come as no surprise that Dizzee Rascal’s latest single is yet another mish-mash of 3am trance flavours and cockney tinged R&B rhymes. Debuted on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury two weeks ago in front of 80,000 festival goers, ‘Holiday’ is already being touted as a future number 1 – a fact supported by its presence as ‘Hottest Record In The World’ on Zane Lowe’s tastemaking Radio 1 show. Featuring grinding peppy electro beats, cheeky lady loving lyrics and an almighty big room house crescendo that provides an almost guaranteed hands in the air moment; ‘Holiday’ is an unquestionably fun record and miles away from the inner city paranoia of his first album, ‘Boy In Da Corner’. Production duties are taken care of once again by lanky Scottish beatsmith Calvin Harris, a man whose knob twiddling skills have earned him two UK number ones in the last nine months. With Black Eyed Peas dominating the world’s charts with their own brand of energy charged dance music and Kelly Rowland experiencing some of her biggest success after collaborating with commercial house star David Guetta, it looks as though Dizzee’s flirtations with glow stick infused sounds are set to consolidate him as the UK’s premier urban music talent.
