Anjunabeats

Anjunabeats
Private
Industry Music & Entertainment
Genre Trance, Progressive Trance
Founded 2000
Headquarters London, England, United Kingdom
Key people
 Jonathan "Jono" Grant, Paavo Siljamäki, Tony McGuinness
Website www.anjunabeats.com

Anjunabeats /ænˈdʒuːnəbiːts/ is a British record label, started by producers Jonathan "Jono" Grant and Paavo Siljamäki in 2000. The label exclusively released trance music until around 2011 when it moved in more trance and house sounds, commonly referred to as "trouse" music. Anjuna is the name of a beach in Goa, on India's western coast, which was a popular hippie destination in the 1960s and 1970s, and is still popular with backpackers and other tourists.

History

In 2000, Anjunabeats released its first 12" record, titled Volume One, which was released under Grant and Siljamäki's alias Anjunabeats. As the label got the name Anjunabeats, they decided to produce under different aliases, such as Free State and Dirt Devils. They were soon joined by Tony McGuinness to form Above & Beyond.

In 2005, Above & Beyond launched the sub-label Anjunadeep aimed at releases that don't fit under the main label's trance focus, allowing more diversity within Anjunabeats. The trio also launched 2 other sub-labels, Anjunadigital that deals with special remixes and releases of Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep tracks, and Hard On Recordings that was active from 2000 to 2004 and focused on Hard trance and Hard House.[1]

Awards

Anjunabeats was nominated at the International Dance Music Awards in Miami as Best Global Dance Record Label in the years 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2016.[2][3][4][5][6] Two releases on the label were nominated for the Grammy Awards: Mat Zo's album Damage Control in 2015[7] and Above & Beyond's single ″We're All We Need″ in 2016.[8]

Artists[9]
  • Diamond
  • Dinka
  • DJ Tab
  • Duderstadt
  • Edu
  • Endre
  • Evbointh
  • Eximinds
  • Fatum
  • Fehrplay
  • Firewall & Lange
  • Free State
  • Genix
  • Greg Murray
  • Grum
  • Hanson
  • ilan Bluestone
  • Interplay
  • Jan Burton
  • Jason Ross
  • Jay Lumen
  • Jaytech
  • Jer Martin
  • Jerome Isma-Ae
  • Johan Vermeulen
  • Jono Grant
  • Joonas Hahmo
  • Julie Thompson
  • Justine Suissa
  • Kandi Neumann
  • Kaste

Releases

See also

References

  1. ↑ discogs.com: Hard On Recordings on Discogs. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. ↑ 24th IDMA (2009)
  3. ↑ 25th IDMA (2010)
  4. ↑ 27th IDMA (2012)
  5. ↑ 30th IDMA (2015)
  6. ↑ 31st IDMA (2016)
  7. ↑ lessthan3.com: Grammy Nominations for Deadmau5, Mat Zo, and more. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  8. ↑ grammy.com: 58th Annual Grammy Awards Winners & Nominees: Best Dance Recoding. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  9. ↑ http://thedjlist.com/labels/Anjunabeats/artists/
  10. ↑ discogs.com: Anjunabeats discography at Discogs

External links

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