Tony McGuinness (English musician)

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Tony McGuinness
Background information
Birth name Anthony Patrick James McGuinness
Also known as Tony McGuinness, T. McGuinness
Born (1969-04-23) April 23, 1969
Origin England
Genres Trance, post-punk
Occupation(s) Trance DJ, Trance producer
Years active 1988-present
Labels Anjunabeats
Website http://www.anjunabeats.com/

Anthony Patrick James "Tony" McGuinness,[1] (born 23 April 1969) is a British musician and one third of the UK trance group Above & Beyond. He was guitarist/songwriter with cult indie band Sad Lovers & Giants for nearly 10 years.

Biography

Tony McGuinness played guitar (Fender Jazzmaster) with English indie band Sad Lovers & Giants, with whom he released three albums, between 1988 and 2002.

Towards the end of his time with SL&G, McGuinness was also a highly successful marketing director for Warner Music Group, winning awards for his campaigns for Madonna, Seal, Simply Red and Mike Oldfield. While working at Warners, McGuinness shifted away from alternative rock towards electronic dance music. He worked as A&R for a number of dance artists, including William Orbit and Hysteric Ego.

Tony McGuinness and his brother Liam teamed up to create electronic dance music under the alias Nitromethane since the early 2000s. While still working at Warner, Tony was asked to remix Chakra's "Home" by an A&R colleague.

Tony approached Anjunabeats (Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamäki) to work on the remix together. The result, their remix of "Home", was an instant hit, ruling the dance floors and topping the dance charts for many weeks. The collaboration led to the creation of Above & Beyond, consisting of McGuinness, Grant, and Siljamäki.

The inspiration for the name Above & Beyond came from a web page belonging to an American motivational trainer coincidentally named Jono Grant. Jono had the poster stuck to his wall. The slogan used by the motivational trainer was "Above & Beyond," and when the group was searching for a name to use for their Chakra remix, the slogan stuck out from the poster, giving a name to the new group.

Teaming up and working as Above & Beyond, their next most significant output was a remix of Madonna's "What It Feels Like for a Girl" during the year 2000. This track was approved by Madonna, and it was released on Warner Records.

Since then, Above & Beyond have gone on to become one of the most successful UK production and DJ groups in the world, with a number of high-profile remixes for Dido, Delerium, Ferry Corsten and others, productions under their own name (their debut artist album, Tri-State was called "Brilliant" by DJ Magazine and earned 5 stars) and as OceanLab. As DJs they currently rank Number 25 in the official DJ Mag Top 100.

Above & Beyond's second studio album, Group Therapy, features Tony's first ever vocal single with Richard Bedford on the track "Black Room Boy".

Discography

Singles

Productions as a part of Above & Beyond:

Productions as a part of Tranquility Base:

Productions as a part of OceanLab:

Productions as a part of Rollerball:

Albums with Above & Beyond: 2006 Tri-State 2008 Sirens of the Sea (as Above & Beyond presents OceanLab) 2011 Group Therapy

Remixes

Anjunabeats: 2003 Anjunabeats Volume One 2004 Anjunabeats Volume Two 2005 Anjunabeats Volume Three 2006 Anjunabeats Volume Four 2007 Anjunabeats Volume Five 2008 Anjunabeats100 + From Goa to Rio 2008 Anjunabeats Volume Six 2009 Anjunadeep:01 2009 Anjunabeats Volume 7 2010 Anjunabeats Volume 8 2011 10 Years of Anjunabeats

Other productions

Upon becoming a member of the band Sad Lovers And Giants in 1988, Tony McGuinness had a successful career in the music industry. Their discography includes the following tracks:

As a part of Oceanlab, Above & Beyond, Anjunabeats, Rollerball and Tranquility Base, Tony McGuinness produced numerous tracks as a team under the label Anjunabeats.

References

  1. ↑ "Tony McGuinness Discogs Profile". Discogs. Retrieved 29 August 2009.

External links

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