As half the world moves and shakes to the beat of Miracle de calvin harris there Ellie Goulding, the third collaboration with which the two Britons complete their first musical trilogy together, the dj is already thinking about what will happen in 2023. Because the Scot wants to work on “a lot of music” but would have ruled out giving it a disco format. Or at least that is what we understand from his remarks during the interview with Zane Lowe on New Music Daily on Apple Music 1.
“I think it’s probably going to be a lot of dance music. I don’t want to do a lot of it, I want everything to be there for a reason, like it has been for me for about ten years. So I don’t I’m in no rush. I just want to do something good, with the right people, and be there and feel good. I’m not gonna do 12 songs this year or anything. I just want them to be good and be things that I want to play again and again and that I’m proud of, so that’s what it’s all about, but I think all dance music will predominate, because I love it, and that’s which I do well,” he explained during the interview.
Calvin Harris was a guest star on Zane Lowe’s music show on Apple Music just after the release of Miracle, his last duet with Ellie Goulding before falling asleep: “With her I have the impression that I always want the same thing… I think that only she can do this kind of thing… she comes and does it in one or two hours she comes, hits her hard and then he goes home and i still think it’s obviously very easy for you it’s like absolute gold best voice I’ve heard for years of a dance song… I definitely have a very clear idea of what I like and dislike about music and artists. One of my favorites is the angelic voice of Ellie Goulding. One of a kind. You won’t get that from anyone else. Ellie can do a lot of different things, but to me what she did is one of my favorite things and only she can do that, in my opinion.”
An opinion that is surely shared by thousands of his fans around the world who can’t stop enjoying the song as they did before. I need your love o from outside. However, this time he opted for trance sounds, an unusual territory in his music: “I’ve never done it before. I’ve done things that sound like trance, but it didn’t matter. never been so fast. So it sounds good. When I started making music, I was 14. In 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, for me it was the era of trance and house. But this time I thought maybe I’d try and recreate something that could be from that era…the only thing that I think makes it not sound like it was from 1996, it’s the bass drum, because the bass drum is quite punchy… It’s more than a 909. You know what? I mean? It’s really heavy…”
Confirmed for Coachella 2023, Calvin Harris is already looking forward to being in front of the mixing decks as Zane Lowe admitted: “Today, more than ever, I want to edit my songs, play a lot of my songs, try to make just my songs, and that’s my value. I feel a lot better doing that than playing a bunch of other people’s songs, no matter how good they are, because I feel like I’m justifying my presence from this way.
It should be remembered that this summer of 2022 he released Funk Wav Bounces Vol.2 with 14 songs that show a variety in terms of sounds and in which the DJ has put all his effort to produce them. This sixth album is loaded with very different collaborations, although in most cases R&B artists predominate. Calvin Harris has managed a good fusion so that each song adapts to the style of each of the performers who give voice to the album, but maintaining this electronic touch.
After this project, songs like Miracle were born and he promises that it will not be the last of 2023…