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I Created Disco
I Created Disco is the debut studio album by the Scottish musician Calvin Harris, released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", which both reached the top ten on both the Scottish Singles Charts and the UK Singles Chart. The album debuted at number six on the Scottish Albums Charts and eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 16,121 copies in the United Kingdom.
On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). I Created Disco had sold 223,845 copies in the United Kingdom by November 2014.
The album was recorded and released during a period in which dance music was considered to be in decline, and this is said to have inspired the album's title. Critics highlighted the claim by Harris of having "created disco" as being far from the truth, however, Sam Davies from Mixmag Magazine claimed that the album did show "ramblings of a fictional producer-cum- mad-professor who did create disco", and said that I Created Disco showcases a "dazzling, psychedelic dystopia". In an interview in 2008, Harris expressed his criticism of dance music around the time he released the album, saying that dance music of that time "had no sort of tune and no melody" and this irritated him. The track "Colours" is an indication towards the frustration Harris felt for dance music at the time, particularly with the lyrics "it’s all very well stepping out in black and white".
Writing and recording for I Created Disco started in 2006 when Harris moved back to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, after living in London for two years. All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with OctaMED, a music tracker, in Harris' home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris.
Preceding the release of the album, Columbia released two singles, "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", both of which achieved commercial success predominately in the United Kingdom and his native Scotland where they both reached the top ten in their respective singles charts. "The Girls" peaked at number one on the UK Dance Singles Charts, and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the United Kingdom, indicating sales in excess of 200,000 copies, whilst in Australia, it was certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for sales in excess of 35,000 copies. "Acceptable in the 80s" was certified 2x Platinum by ARIA in Australia, indicating sales in excess of 140,000, and Platinum by the BPI in the United Kingdom for sales in excess of 600,000 copies.
A third and final single was released from I Created Disco following the albums official release – "Merrymaking at My Place". It failed to match the commercial success of its predecessors, peaking at number twenty-three on the singles charts in his native Scotland, and number forty-three in the United Kingdom. Harris and his band supported both Faithless and Groove Armada on their live arena tours in the second quarter of 2007. The album cover was also used to promote the fourth generation iPod Nano in yellow.
The album was certified Gold in the United Kingdom by the BPI, selling 230,000 copies, and finished 2007 as the 199th best selling album in the United Kingdom.
I Created Disco received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 59, based on 17 reviews. Other notable reviews including The Guardian were more critical, awarding the album one out of five stars, saying "I Created Disco is witless and forever tripping over its own feet", and also criticised Harris's use of "two plodding instrumentals", saying that they "are bad enough, but on most tracks he chants repetitive lyrics so stupid they feel like an insult to the listener".
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I Created Disco
I Created Disco is the debut studio album by the Scottish musician Calvin Harris, released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", which both reached the top ten on both the Scottish Singles Charts and the UK Singles Chart. The album debuted at number six on the Scottish Albums Charts and eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 16,121 copies in the United Kingdom.
On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). I Created Disco had sold 223,845 copies in the United Kingdom by November 2014.
The album was recorded and released during a period in which dance music was considered to be in decline, and this is said to have inspired the album's title. Critics highlighted the claim by Harris of having "created disco" as being far from the truth, however, Sam Davies from Mixmag Magazine claimed that the album did show "ramblings of a fictional producer-cum- mad-professor who did create disco", and said that I Created Disco showcases a "dazzling, psychedelic dystopia". In an interview in 2008, Harris expressed his criticism of dance music around the time he released the album, saying that dance music of that time "had no sort of tune and no melody" and this irritated him. The track "Colours" is an indication towards the frustration Harris felt for dance music at the time, particularly with the lyrics "it’s all very well stepping out in black and white".
Writing and recording for I Created Disco started in 2006 when Harris moved back to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, after living in London for two years. All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with OctaMED, a music tracker, in Harris' home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris.
Preceding the release of the album, Columbia released two singles, "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", both of which achieved commercial success predominately in the United Kingdom and his native Scotland where they both reached the top ten in their respective singles charts. "The Girls" peaked at number one on the UK Dance Singles Charts, and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the United Kingdom, indicating sales in excess of 200,000 copies, whilst in Australia, it was certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for sales in excess of 35,000 copies. "Acceptable in the 80s" was certified 2x Platinum by ARIA in Australia, indicating sales in excess of 140,000, and Platinum by the BPI in the United Kingdom for sales in excess of 600,000 copies.
A third and final single was released from I Created Disco following the albums official release – "Merrymaking at My Place". It failed to match the commercial success of its predecessors, peaking at number twenty-three on the singles charts in his native Scotland, and number forty-three in the United Kingdom. Harris and his band supported both Faithless and Groove Armada on their live arena tours in the second quarter of 2007. The album cover was also used to promote the fourth generation iPod Nano in yellow.
The album was certified Gold in the United Kingdom by the BPI, selling 230,000 copies, and finished 2007 as the 199th best selling album in the United Kingdom.
I Created Disco received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 59, based on 17 reviews. Other notable reviews including The Guardian were more critical, awarding the album one out of five stars, saying "I Created Disco is witless and forever tripping over its own feet", and also criticised Harris's use of "two plodding instrumentals", saying that they "are bad enough, but on most tracks he chants repetitive lyrics so stupid they feel like an insult to the listener".