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Introduction: Leading the charge of the Scandinavian trance revolution, meet Finland's Miika Eloranta & Janne Mansnerus … Better know respectively as Super8 & Tab! New Beginnings: Up until 2005 Miika & Janne were busy pursuing their own individually successful recording careers. The pair met through friends and ended up recording at the same studio complex. Talk soon turned to collaborations and in the blink of an eye the single ‘First Aid' was born. The follow up, ‘Helsinki Scorchin' came together even quicker and cemented what has now become a prolific partnership. In Tab's own words: “ creating music became double the fun as a partnership. We worked really well outside of the studio too, which was vital as we began traveling and DJing a lot together. ” Alongside the ever-present melodic bias of their music, Super8 & Tab fuse their productions with unique, edgy and against-trance-type sounds and vocals. This style has marked them out as forward-thinking originators and pushed them to the front of the about-to-break trance pack. The list of DJs who support their tracks reads like the veritable ‘who's who' of the turntable-spinning elite. Release in, release out, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, PVD, Above & Beyond & Ferry Corsten regularly smash their tracks club-side and on their respective radio shows. The Singles: Released through leading trance imprint Anjunabeats, their first singles ‘First Aid' , ‘Helsinki Scorchin' (A Top 20 Tune of 2006 in DJ Magazine) & ‘Won't Sleep Tonight' set radio play-lists alight. Spurred on by the successes, they released vocal anthem ‘Needs to Feel' in early 2007, which was heavily rotated on Radio 1's Eddie Halliwell, Judge Jules and Dave Pearce shows. It subsequently went on to appear on the year's highly-regarded ‘Trance Energy' , ‘Cream Ibiza', ‘Godskitchen Electric ', ‘Judgement Sundays' & ‘ ITWT' compilations. ‘Suru', which followed it in the middle of 07, was remixed by Martin Roth and picked out by DJ Magazine as “the tent-pole release of Anjuna's summer”. Their first extended collaboration, the ‘Worldwide' single (with fellow Anjuna-ite Mark Pledger) finished up the year . The second quarter of 2008 will see them unleash their sixth single, the much anticipated ‘Elektra' . Super8 & Tab - the DJs: Already accomplished Deck practitioners in their own right, Super8 & Tab wasted no time in personally taking their music to the people. UK super-clubs like Ministry of Sound, Godskitchen, The Gallery, and PaSSion have all felt the force to their idiosyncratic Scando-trance sound. Internationally they have been the resident headliners on the acclaimed Anjunabeats Worldwide Tours and have spun in Romania, Holland, Russia & Germany. They also maintain a monthly residency at Hallmark , in their native Finland. In 2007 they entered DJ Magazine's top 100 DJs poll at #127. Compilations: 2007 presented the perfect moment to launch Miika and Janne into the compilation market. Alongside, Mark Pledger they mixed Anjunabeats Worldwide Vol.1 . The comp received a rapturous reception from fans, notably DJ Mag to ask: "When did trance get this darn good again?" and landed 'Compilation Of The Month' in Mixmag. It was also nominated for 'Best Album Of 2007' at IDMA Awards. Remixes & Radio: In tandem with their productions, Super 8 & Tab have also begun to carve out a burgeoning remix career. In 2007 they provided Above & Beyond 's Tranquility Base project with a remix of ‘Oceanic' and the pair have recently completed revamps of Martin Roth & Alex Bartlett's ‘Off the World' and Luminary's modern day classic ‘Amsterdam'. Taking the sound to a global audience is also high on the pair's priority list. Spreading the message through the airwaves, they present the monthly Anjunabeats Worldwide Radio Show , which is aired on DI:FM and is syndicated on stations as far apart as the USA, Poland, Romania and Turkey.
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Super8 & Tab - Elektra Super8 & Tab nominated for 'Best Trance Artist' - Beatport Awards 2008 May Tour Dates Super8 & Tab #127 DJMag 2007 poll On November 24th, Super8 & Tab made their long waited debut to Poland. Fans have been demanding them to visit Poland and now they got they have been waiting for. Guys play sold out event with over 7000 people at Hala Arena Poznan with ATB. |
Simon Eve
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