Tony McGuinness

Infobox musical artist
Name = Tony McGuinness

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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Tony McGuinness
Alias = Tony McGuinness, T. McGuinness
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Genre = Electronica Trance
Occupation = Trance DJ, Trance Producer
Years_active = 1999-present
Label = [http://www.anjunabeats.com Anjunabeats]
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URL = http://www.anjunabeats.com/

Tony McGuinness is one third of the UK trance group Above & Beyond and 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 five albums.

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, also spending a summer as their Podium Dancer.

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 (Jonathan "Jono" Grant and Paavo "P.O.S." 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 6 in the official DJ Mag Top 100.

Discography

Singles

* 2002 Time to Die (as Nitromethane)
* 2004 Time to Die (as Nitromethane)

Remixes

* 2000 What It Feels Like for a Girl (as Above & Beyond)
* 2002 Ayu Trance 2 (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)

Collaborations

Productions as a part of Above & Beyond:

* 2002 Far from in Love
* 2003 Far from in Love (Remixes)
* 2004 Far from in Love
* 2004 No One on Earth
* 2004 No One on Earth (Remixes)
* 2005 Air for Life
* 2005 Tri-State (Demo)
* 2006 Alone Tonight
* 2006 Alone Tonight (Remixes)
* 2006 Can't Sleep
* 2006 Can't Sleep (Remixes)
* 2006 Far from in Love
* 2006 No One on Earth
* 2006 Tri-State
* 2006 Tri-State (The Remixes)
* 2007 Good for Me
* 2007 Good for Me... The Remix Pack
* 2007 Stealing Time / Tri-State
* 2007 Tri-State (Remixes)
* 2007 World on Fire / For All I Care

Productions as a part of Tranquility Base:

* 2001 Razorfish
* 2004 Surrender
* 2004 Surrender
* 2005 Getting Away
* 2005 Razorfish
* 2005 Razorfish (Remixes)
* 2006 Razorfish
* 2006 Surrender
* 2007 Oceanic
* 2007 Buzz

Productions as a part of Oceanlab:

* 2001 Clear Blue Water
* 2001 Clear Blue Water - The Remixes
* 2002 Clear Blue Water
* 2002 Clear Blue Water (Hennes & Cold Remixes)
* 2002 Sky Falls Down
* 2002 Sky Falls Down (Remixes)
* 2003 Beautiful Together
* 2003 Beautiful Together (Remixes)
* 2003 Sky Falls Down
* 2004 Beautiful Together
* 2004 Satellite
* 2004 Satellite (Bonus Mixes)
* 2004 Satellite (Remixes)
* 2004 Sky Falls Down
* 2005 Beautiful Together (Remixes)

Productions as a part of Rollerball:

* 2003 Albinoni
* 2004 Albinoni
* 2004 Albinoni (Remix)

Other productions

As a group of the band Sad Lovers And Giants, Tony McGuinness co-produced the following tracks:

* 1981 Colourless Dream
* 1982 Epic Garden Music
* 1982 Lost in a Moment
* 1983 Feeding the Flame
* 1983 Man of Straw
* 1984 In the Breeze
* 1986 Total Sound
* 1987 Seven Kinds of Sin
* 1987 The Mirror Test
* 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 and Tranquility Base, Tony McGuinness produced numerous tracks as a team under the label Anjunabeats. To view the entire discography of Tony McGuinness and his collaborations, please click [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tony+McGuinness here] .

External links

* [http://www.anjunabeats.com/ Anjunabeats Official website]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tony+McGuinness Tony McGuinness's Discogs Page]