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RS: What's it like with people who remix your work, like when Tom Neville or Groove Amada does a remix?
Calvin Harris: Oh, that's always interesting. I'm not going say that I always get it, but you need those remixes in order to be played in certain clubs where a really commercial mix wouldn't be played. So it's important and I listen and I'll say, 'Well OK, noted.'
RS: How involved are you with the videos?
Calvin Harris: Not very involved. Although it would have been nice to get fully involved and have fantabulous sorts of ideas, I seem to go through some kind of bizarre, not bothered, done the music phase, and let someone else take control of that. So that's why I don't really like most of them, maybe all of them. They're there for a reason, but I'm not sure they fully serve their purpose.
RS: The Merrymaking at My Place it seems like a very 'you' kind of video – I don't know why.
Calvin Harris: Oh, you think it is?
RS: Yes, I just get that vibe from you. It's like, go over to your house and party – that's the persona or personality I get from you.
Calvin Harris: Oh no, no, I would disagree. This is sort of like an invention of a character, you know. I'm not really a party animal.
RS: You just play one on TV.
Calvin Harris: Well, I do my best, but all the time it backfires, and people realize you're not, and you're found out. When you meet someone and they say, 'Oh, do you want to go out for eighteen pints,' and you have to say, 'No, sorry, I'm going to my bed,' that's when you're found out.
I've learned my lesson, and from now on I'm going to try and portray who I actually am.
RS: Very cool. It's been written up in the press you were discovered "through MySpace." How true do you think that is?
Calvin Harris: Well, I got my publishing deal as a direct result, which was (through the guy from EMIwho went on to sign me. Then EMI got me signed to Sony and all that kind of stuff. I like to think that there was some way that I could have been heard by someone if it hadn't been through MySpace but, you know, maybe not – something like that on TV, planning the series before-hand and not getting anywhere at all.
RS: I also want to ask you about the name Stofa. What does it mean to you?
Calvin Harris: That was a record that I had out when I was eighteen, seventeen and, you know, it was sort of like filtered disco, sort of house. It was funny, not great but nice.
RS: When you're in the studio what equipment do you work on?
Calvin Harris: I've recently upgraded everything so I'm working on, predominantly, a Mac playing Logic, along with tons of other stuff.
RS: Do you have a resolution for yourself for 2008?
Calvin Harris: Yes, I've got a couple, and the first one is to wean myself off the internet and start reading more. The second one is to be the nicest man in the world.
RS: And what would you like to say to all your fans out there?
Calvin Harris: Just anyone? Probably 'Hello, I hope you're all well, take care, see you later.'
Original posted - January 14, 2007
RS: What's it like with people who remix your work, like when Tom Neville or Groove Amada does a remix?
Calvin Harris: Oh, that's always interesting. I'm not going say that I always get it, but you need those remixes in order to be played in certain clubs where a really commercial mix wouldn't be played. So it's important and I listen and I'll say, 'Well OK, noted.'
RS: How involved are you with the videos?
Calvin Harris: Not very involved. Although it would have been nice to get fully involved and have fantabulous sorts of ideas, I seem to go through some kind of bizarre, not bothered, done the music phase, and let someone else take control of that. So that's why I don't really like most of them, maybe all of them. They're there for a reason, but I'm not sure they fully serve their purpose.
RS: The Merrymaking at My Place it seems like a very 'you' kind of video – I don't know why.
Calvin Harris: Oh, you think it is?
RS: Yes, I just get that vibe from you. It's like, go over to your house and party – that's the persona or personality I get from you.
Calvin Harris: Oh no, no, I would disagree. This is sort of like an invention of a character, you know. I'm not really a party animal.
RS: You just play one on TV.
Calvin Harris: Well, I do my best, but all the time it backfires, and people realize you're not, and you're found out. When you meet someone and they say, 'Oh, do you want to go out for eighteen pints,' and you have to say, 'No, sorry, I'm going to my bed,' that's when you're found out.
I've learned my lesson, and from now on I'm going to try and portray who I actually am.
RS: Very cool. It's been written up in the press you were discovered "through MySpace." How true do you think that is?
Calvin Harris: Well, I got my publishing deal as a direct result, which was (through the guy from EMIwho went on to sign me. Then EMI got me signed to Sony and all that kind of stuff. I like to think that there was some way that I could have been heard by someone if it hadn't been through MySpace but, you know, maybe not – something like that on TV, planning the series before-hand and not getting anywhere at all.
RS: I also want to ask you about the name Stofa. What does it mean to you?
Calvin Harris: That was a record that I had out when I was eighteen, seventeen and, you know, it was sort of like filtered disco, sort of house. It was funny, not great but nice.
RS: When you're in the studio what equipment do you work on?
Calvin Harris: I've recently upgraded everything so I'm working on, predominantly, a Mac playing Logic, along with tons of other stuff.
RS: Do you have a resolution for yourself for 2008?
Calvin Harris: Yes, I've got a couple, and the first one is to wean myself off the internet and start reading more. The second one is to be the nicest man in the world.
RS: And what would you like to say to all your fans out there?
Calvin Harris: Just anyone? Probably 'Hello, I hope you're all well, take care, see you later.'
Original posted - January 14, 2007
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