Above&Beyond

Above & Beyond have enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top of the global dance music scene, culminating in six nominations at this year’s International Dance Music Awards in Miami. Their current artist album ‘Tri-State’ was rated ‘Brilliant (5/5)’ by DJ Magazine and has been critically acclaimed as one of the stand-out electronic albums of 2006. The Sun, the UK’s biggest selling tabloid paper, described ‘Tri-State’ as “one of the most original trance albums for years”, and it has featured in iTunes’ Top Ten US dance albums for over three months.

The album features 13 original songs written by the guys, including the singles Air For Life (winner of Best Underground Dance Track at the 2006 IDMA’s) with Andy Moor, Alone Tonight (‘Incredible’ Mixmag), and Can’t Sleep (5/5 Sureplayer’ DJ Magazine). The 4th single from the album, ‘Good For Me’ features the sublime vocals of Zoe Johnston, known for her work with Faithless and Bent, and will be released later this year.

Above & Beyond - aka Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness and Paavo Siljamäki - first broke on the scene with their remix of Madonna’s ‘What it Feels Like For A Girl’. Madonna liked the remix so much she decided to use it on the video instead of the original ballad. Since then Above & Beyond have added the likes of Dido, Britney and Sarah McLachlan to their remix credits, but it is their solo productions which have really captured the imagination of dance music fans everywhere. “Far From In Love”, “No One On Earth”, the Tri-State singles, and OceanLab “Sky Falls Down” and “Satellite” (UK Top 20) have become sing-a-long anthems the world over, prompting Radio 1's Pete Tong to describe Above & Beyond as ‘the UK’s new trance superstars’.

As DJ’s Above & Beyond have scooped Radio 1’s Essential Mix Of The Year Award in 2004 and were ranked in the top 10 in DJ Magazine’s latest Top 100 DJ’s poll. A&B perform regularly at the world’s biggest dance festivals and clubs and are midway through a residency at Cream Amnesia in Ibiza.

Above & Beyond's weekly Trance Around The World radio show has built a fanatical global following on the internet and via its worldwide syndication on FM stations and XM Satellite Radio in the US. The show stands at the forefront of trance and has been responsible for breaking many of the scene's biggest records.

The best records from the show and from the trio’s respected Anjunabeats label (‘If there’s a more on point label we’re yet to find it’ Mixmag) feature in Above & Beyond’s popular ‘Anjunabeats Volume’ compilation series. The latest episode, Anjunabeats Volume Four, was released in July 2006.

Above & Beyond have also recorded under a number of different aliases including Aalto, Free State, Jono Grant, Nitromethane, Oceanlab, P.O.S and Tranquility Base. For more information about Above & Beyond and to listen to the radio show, please visit www.aboveandbeyond.nu / www.anjunabeats.com