It’s the main mans birthday.
Love him or hate him, no one can deny the impact that Calvin Harris has had on electronic music over the last 2 decades. His music has captivated audience all over the globe and has grossed well over a billion collective streams.

From emailing demos to Defected while working at a fish mongers all the way to producing songs with the likes of Rhianna, The Weeknd, Dua Lipa and whole bunch more its safe to say that Calvin is the biggest electronic / commercial crossover the world has ever seen.

To celebrate his birthday, we thought it would be nice to do a deep dive into some absolute classics that still hold weight on any kind of club system today.

1.The Girls
Kinda like those songs where people list off cities as a way of ensuring those cities love the song forever, here Harris appeals to every girl on the planet, and none of us are immune to its charms. These filtered synths are everything that made the late 2000s an awesome time to be alive. Harris wasn't even such a mega-hunk when this song came out, so he must've had no idea how right he'd end up being.

2. Acceptable In The 80’s
Being a child of the 80’s, Calvins funky fresh single boasts catchy hook that is often still played out at the club. The music video features the stereotypical large hairstyles, bright colours, and bizarrely dressed scientists dissecting a stuffed otter. Inside the otter contains ingredients for products of which are used by a hair stylist, TV chef, and to heal wounds – this may be a reference to the fact that testing cosmetic products on animals was still legal in the UK in the 1980s. Hence, “Acceptable In The 80’s

3. Dance Wiv Me (w/ Dizzie Rascal)
The collaboration that pushed Dizzie Rascal into electronic music, this was pre ‘Bonkers’ which as every 00’s kid knows, was an insane single. t was released on 30 June 2008 and features guest vocals from British DJ Calvin Harris and British R&B singer Chrome. The extended mix of the song also appears on Harris' second studio album, Ready for the Weekend. "Dance wiv Me" mixes Rascal's usual grime style with dance music from Harris and R&B from Chrome.

4. Ready For The Weekend.
Anytime someone tries to say this isn't one of the best damn Calvin Harris songs they've ever heard, it's fighting words. As the title-track to Harris' 2009 LP, it's a dose of instant nostalgia, and I can never get enough. The bridge is just as fun to sing along to as the chorus, and that chorus is a real whopper. You don't see that woman coming at you like a freight train, but once she hits, any rainy Tuesday 2 p.m. is the weekend again.

5. FLASHBACK
This song is like being washed over by a warm river -- or, indeed, like a flashback, or like a dream, or all the things you can fit inside a memory. This is the song that separated Harris from the rest of his dance producer peers. He suddenly became some kind of untouchable genius who undeniably had his finger on the pulse of what club crowds wanted to hear. The video is actual footage of Harris performing in Ibiza's Pacha nightclub. It's a perfect time capsule of 2009, which makes it a perfect premonition of sorts.

5 Of Our Favourite Calvin Harris CLASSICS