I Created Disco is the debut studio album by Scottish recording artist Calvin Harris, released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", which reached numbers ten and three on the UK Singles Chart, respectively.

The album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 16,121 copies. 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.

Writing and recording

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 audio tracker OctaMED in Harris's home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All fourteen tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris.

Promotion

Preceding the release of the album, Columbia released two singles, "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", and 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.

Titanium is a New Zealand pop boy band formed in Auckland in 2012 from the winners of The Edge radio station's competition to create New Zealand's second boy band. The Edge radio station hosted auditions across New Zealand and eventually six young men were selected for the group consisting of members, Zac Taylor, Andrew Papas, Jordi Webber, Shaquille Paranihi-Ngauma, Haydn Linsley and T.K Paradza. They signed to Illegal Musik and released their debut single, "Come On Home". The single debuted at number one on the official New Zealand Singles Chart on 17 September 2012. Titanium released their debut studio album, All For You in December 2012. They became the first New Zealand band to have three songs in the Top 40 Singles Chart at one time.

History

2012: Formation

The Edge radio station began a nationwide search to find six young men to form a boy band. Auditions were held across New Zealand. Ten finalists were chosen and sent to "Boyband Camp". At the end of the week public voting for the guys opened and in conjunction with a panel of experts from The Edge, Illegal Musik and Warner Music the final six members were announced and became Titanium. Shortly after releasing their first single "Come On Home" which debuted at number one, the band announced a 15-date Come On Home Tour.

Colours is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom (PRT Records PYL 7004 [LP]/PYC 7004 [CD]) in October 1987 and did not chart. This 1987 release bears little resemblance to the 1972 version of Colours.

History

In 1987, PRT Records assembled and released a thirty track compilation of Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings. The album was released on both vinyl and compact disc and marks the first compact disc release of many of the songs.

Track listing

All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.

Disc one

Burial is an album by Death in June, released in 1984. It contains two sides, the first is a studio recording and the second is a live recording at the Clarendon Hotel, London on October 6, 1983. The album was reissued in 1994 with slightly different artwork, remastered and reissued in 2006 in Digipak format with altered artwork. The album was also re-released in 2010 by Soleilmoon Recordings as a limited edition picture disk LP with bonus 7" picture disk single.

Track listing

Original 1984 LP, 1994 CD reissue, and 2006 Digipak

2010 LP picture disk + 7" re-release

William Emmanuel Bevan, known by his recording alias Burial, is an electronic recording artist from South London. Bevan was the first artist signed to Kode9's electronic label Hyperdub, and initially remained anonymous behind his pseudonym. Drawing inspiration from 90's UK rave music and pirate radio culture, he released his eponymous debut album in 2006, for which he won widespread acclaim, including the album of the year award by The Wire. Burial's second album, Untrue, was released to critical acclaim in 2007. In 2008, Bevan's identity was revealed by The Independent. In recent years, he has gone on to collaborate with artists such as Four Tet, Massive Attack, and Thom Yorke in addition to having released a series of acclaimed long-form EPs.

Biography

Early career: self-titled debut and Untrue

Bevan grew up a fan of old school jungle and garage, having been introduced to UK rave music by his older brothers. Despite never having attended a rave himself, he remained preoccupied by the music: