
A bit of prime trance for you. Described by Mixmag Magazine as "dancefloor semtex", Above & Beyond are Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, Paavo Siljamäki They started in 2000 and quickly made a name for themselves. In 2004, Above & Beyond scooped Radio 1's Essential Mix of the Year - prompting Pete Tong to describe them as the 'UK's new dance superstars'. Since then, Above & Beyond have enjoyed a meteoric rise, culminating in six nominations at last year's International Dance Music Awards in Miami. In 2006 Above & Beyond released their debut [...]

Is it truly the first Sunday of November already? Somehow I can't quite comprehend that, but the calender doesn't lie, it just speeds up sometimes. The weather's definitely been leaning towards winter, global warming-induced fluctuations aside, and unfortunately that's only bound to get worse. Daylight Savings ends today, meaning things get darker quicker, but hopefully the hour tweak will make my insomnia slightly less pronounced. Enjoy the tunes...and the extra sleep. MP3: Azure Ray - November MP3: Morrissey - November Spawned A Monster MP3: The National [...]

So, somewhere around here, Roland promised that we'd both be doing these posts in the future, and here's my jump onto the wagon. For those of you not aware, Last.fm is a music-based networking site that keeps statistics of what you listen to, including a top-artists-listened-to chart I spend half of Sunday eagerly awaiting. In each of these posts, we dissect our top ten artists of the week, and provide a sample mp3. Tangerine Dream are ancient. (For example, the band's [...]