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Ben Rogerson

Calvin Harris says that making music using just an Amiga 500+ and a simple tracker taught him a valuable lesson: “I made my first album on that - I used it long after I should have stopped using it”

Amiga 500

As well as discussing the music he grew up listening to, Calvin Harris has also been telling BBC Radio 2’s Vernon Kay about his early forays into music production.

It turns out that Harris’s tune-crafting career began when his elder brother left behind an Amiga 500+ computer when he went off to university. As well as using it to play games on, young Calvin also discovered a piece of tracker software.

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