Scottish dj and producer
Adam "Calvin Harris" Wiles rose to prominence with
Acceptable in the 80s, a faithful imitation of
synth-pop of the 1980s,
and The Girls, inspired by
David Guetta's dance music, both collected on his debut album
I Created Disco (2007), which mostly sounds like a tribute to
LCD Soundsystem.
Dance wiv Me (2008) was a collaboration with Dizzee Rascal.
Ready for the Weekend was another diligent imitation of
synth-pop
but the bombastic house music of I'm Not Alone, on the same album
Ready for the Weekend (2009), signaled a more focused
transition to the dancefloor.
From then on his albums continued to offer
facile dance-pop that recycled the most abused stereotypes of house music of the 1990s.
18 Months (2012), his commercial peak,
spawned a record number of hits:
Bounce,
Feel So Close (Guns'n'Roses in a disco of the 1970s),
Sweet Nothing,
Let's Go, We'll Be Coming Back, Under Control,
Motion (2014) contains Blame.
Bounce, Let's Go and We'll Be Coming Back displayed the
influence of the r&b ballad, of hip hop and of the singer-songwriters.
Two collaborations with Rihanna, We Found Love (2011) and This Is What You Came For (2015), helped export his music to the rest of the world.
Another hit was How Deep Is Your Love (2015).
He was ranked the most highly paid dj in the world from 2013 until 2018.
Other hits were:
Feels, off Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 (2017),
Promises (2018), later included on Sam Smith's Love Goes (2020),
One Kiss (2018) with Dua Lipa,
and Giant (2019) with Rory "Rag'n'Bone Man" Graham.
Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2 (2022) contains
Potion, a collaboration with Dua Lipa and Young Thug.
