Tony McGuinness (English musician)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Anthony Patrick James McGuinness |
| Also known as | Tony McGuinness, T. McGuinness |
| Born | 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.
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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
- 2002 Time to Die (as Nitromethane)
Productions as a part of Above & Beyond:
- 2002 Far from in Love
- 2004 No One on Earth
- 2005 Air for Life
- 2006 Alone Tonight
- 2006 Can't Sleep
- 2007 Good for Me
- 2007 Home
- 2009 Anjunabeach
- 2010 Anphonic
- 2011 Sun & Moon
- 2011 Thing Called Love
- 2011 You Got To Go
- 2011 Formula Rossa
- 2011 Every Little Beat
- 2012 Love Is Not Enough
- 2012 On My Way To Heaven
- 2012 Alchemy
- 2013 Walter White
Productions as a part of Tranquility Base:
- 2001 Razorfish
- 2004 Surrender
- 2005 Getting Away
- 2007 Oceanic
- 2007 Buzz
Productions as a part of OceanLab:
- 2001 Clear Blue Water
- 2002 Sky Falls Down
- 2003 Beautiful Together
- 2004 Satellite
- 2004 Sky Falls Down
Productions as a part of Rollerball:
- 2003 Albinoni
- 2004 Albinoni (Remix)
Albums with Above & Beyond: 2006 Tri-State 2008 Sirens of the Sea (as Above & Beyond presents OceanLab) 2011 Group Therapy
Remixes
- 2000 What It Feels Like for a Girl (as Above & Beyond)
- 2002 M (as Above & Beyond)
- 2004 Sand in My Shoes / Don't Leave Home (as Above & Beyond)
- 2006 Black Is the Colour (as Above & Beyond)
- 2007 Home (as Tony)
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:
- 1988 Epic Garden Music
- 1988 Feeding the Flame
- 1988 Les Années Vertes
- 1988 Sleep / A Reflected Dream
- 1988 The Mirror Test
- 1990 Headland
- 1991 Les Années Vertes
- 1991 Treehouse Poetry
- 1996 The Best of E-Mail from Eternity
- 1999 La Dolce Vita (Live in Lausanne)
- 2000 Headland & Treehouse Poetry
- 2002 Melting in the Fullness of Time
As a part of Oceanlab, Above & Beyond, Anjunabeats, Rollerball[disambiguation needed] and Tranquility Base, Tony McGuinness produced numerous tracks as a team under the label Anjunabeats.
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