DJ Career
In 2002 the team began their DJ career in Tokyo in front of 8,000 clubbers, on a bill featuring Ferry Corsten and DJ Tiësto. After a slow start to their DJ career, they are now considered headline acts and make regular appearances at some of the worlds biggest trance festivals and clubs including Creamfields and Godskitchen Global Gathering in the UK and Amnesia in Ibiza. Furthermore, on 31 December 2007, Above & Beyond unofficially hosted the largest DJ gig ever on Barra Beach, Rio de Janeiro, where they reportedly played to an estimated 1 million people.
Above & Beyond have won the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix of the Year twice in 2004 and 2011. They are the only people to have won Essential mix of the Year twice.
Above & Beyond were ranked #4 in the DJ Mag top 100 poll from 2008 and 2009, having entered at #39 in 2004. In 2010 and also in 2011, they placed #5 in the DJ Mag Top 100 Poll.
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