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He is known as the King of Electropop. WatchMojo chats with DJ Calvin Harris about his origins and the evolution of dance music in the last couple of decades.

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Rebecca Brayton: He is called the kind of electro pop. That is all you need to know. Hi, I'm Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com. And today we’re speaking with DJ Calvin Harris. Explain to us how you first got into music and how you first started recording? Calvin Harris: I was 14 years old my big brother left for university and went to study computing, and he had a computer. It was an Omega 500 Plus. He left it behind and he had software on it for making music and I just started auditioning and that was it. Rebecca Brayton: What did you grow up listening to? Calvin Harris: My big brother played me Nirvana. I love Nirvana when I was maybe 8 and then I developed my own taste and gone to the things with baselines. I like the Spin Doctors because they have Mark White on the bass. It’s amazing. Rebecca Brayton: Growing up in Scotland, I mean did that influence the music you kind of make at all? Was there any kind of scene at all? Calvin Harris: I don’t know about growing up in Scotland, probably growing up in the middle of nowhere and kind of invent your own world trying to escape eventually. Rebecca Brayton: If someone put a gun to your head how would you describe your music? Calvin Harris: Dance music is what I’ll say. I think in so many genres of dance music it’s just quite nice to not use them and just say dance music. My music tries to make people dance that’s the main aim. Rebecca Brayton: How do you find your music changes from album to album? Calvin Harris: I don’t know from the first one to the second one it got better in every way. The sound is better. It look is good. Be ashamed if you start off really good and got progressively worse until you fit the album. It’s just like I messed the world. Rebecca Brayton: Let’s go a bit more broad, how do you think dance music has evolved in the last 15-20 years? Calvin Harris: There is a lot of cross-pollination going on between the genres of dance music and in our main stream records of just essentially dance music and commercial dance music. You can really call Lady Gaga and everything else. I think that people just realize they quite like dancing. It started in America so it makes sense that it should big once again in America. It’s just you know commercial ride.