"Prefiero mirar arriba y bien lejos ;
prefiero correr rapido y morir de golpe ;
Para no resignarme a mirar al suelo ,
y por caminar lento y seguro ,
morir de a poco y sin gloria "@trompo
Above and Beyond, the trio of
Jonathan "Joono" Grant,
Tony McGuinness, and
Paavo Siljamäki
from University of Westminster.
Where did the name Above and Beyond come from?
Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond): The three of us got together to do a remix for Chakra's "Home," and when we finished the remix and were just about to send it off to Warner's, where I was working at the time, we thought 'damn, we've got to come up with a name for the mix.' I looked around Jono's studio and there was this piece of paper printed out from the internet stuck to the wall above his bed. He had put 'Jonathan Grant' into AltaVista which was the equivalent of Google in those days and he found this website of this motivational guru trainer, and 'above and beyond' was his slogan. So I was sitting there, looking over the room, and I see 'above and beyond' and I just thought, 'that's perfect,' so it was called the Above and Beyond mix. I don't know that we thought of ourselves being above and beyond at that point, it was that the mix was called Above and Beyond, but then we started getting more work, and consequently it became our name
