Trance nearly went extinct in the mid-2000s, at least as a commercially viable genre, and Above & Beyond's Anjunabeats label is one of the main reasons it didn't. Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamäki started the label in 1999 while they were still at University of Westminster; Tony McGuinness brought them in the following year to help remix Chakra's “Home,” and that session is basically where the trio as a trio began.
Their early reputation was built on remix work — a club mix of Madonna's “What It Feels Like for a Girl,” reworks of Delerium and Ayumi Hamasaki — but Anjunabeats is the bigger legacy. By the time the label hit its hundredth release in 2008, it had helped launch Super8 & Tab, Andrew Bayer, and Oliver Smith, among others, and reoriented trance around a more melodic, progressive sound than the genre's harder 90s roots.
As a group, Above & Beyond have now been doing this for 25 years, and Common Ground, their 2018 album, hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — the highest chart position any British electronic act has managed. They've picked up two Grammy nominations along the way, for “Northern Soul” and “We're All We Need.”