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Paavo Olavi Siljamäki
Aliases:
P.O.S. and Silky-Mac
In groups: Above & Beyond, OceanLab, Tranquility Base, Aalto, Zed-X, Rollerball, Tongue Of God, Anjunabeats, Free State, and Dirt Devils
In groups: Above & Beyond, OceanLab, Tranquility Base, Aalto, Zed-X, Rollerball, Tongue Of God, Anjunabeats, Free State, and Dirt Devils
Biography
Finnish trance artist, is one-third of the UK based trance group Above & Beyond. "Paavo Olavi Siljamäki" (or "P.O.S" for short) is also a solo project for Paavo. Apart from that, Paavo has also been member of Aalto, Dirt Devils, Free State, Rollerball, Tranquility Base, Zed-X and OceanLab.
Paavo's interest in producing music began relatively early in his life, when his parents bought a piano when he was 5 years old. He started playing Cello and Piano and was playing with computers too from a very early age. He composed his first musical when he was 15 years old, and then moved to Helsinki to attend Sibelius Lukio: Finland's leading music high school. After some years of producing dance music in Finland, he moved to the UK to study music business at the University of Westminster. Having a Garage-music single already released (under the guise 'Silky-mac') before meeting a fellow named Jono Grant at University which lead to the formation of the name Anjunabeats (as an artist, then adapted as a label name) and, ultimately, Above & Beyond (with Tony McGuiness). Paavo's solo trance capability was brought out when he was under heavy inspiration by summer parties at his college and one day he decided to produce a track of his own at his place on a G4 Powerbook. Paavo rolled out his debut single, "Remember (Summer Sun)".
"Remember (Summer Sun)" was released on an EP with "Amnesiac". Remember and Amnesiac were welcomed with huge response in clubland, but "Remember (Summer Sun)" was the track which had achieved anthem status, containing "one of the most gorgeous chord changes ever" according to Tony McGuinness. It was later featured on Tiesto's "NYANA" mix CD.
The second single by Paavo was "Gravity". It was also used by Tiësto for his compilation album, "In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin America".
Paavo's interest in producing music began relatively early in his life, when his parents bought a piano when he was 5 years old. He started playing Cello and Piano and was playing with computers too from a very early age. He composed his first musical when he was 15 years old, and then moved to Helsinki to attend Sibelius Lukio: Finland's leading music high school. After some years of producing dance music in Finland, he moved to the UK to study music business at the University of Westminster. Having a Garage-music single already released (under the guise 'Silky-mac') before meeting a fellow named Jono Grant at University which lead to the formation of the name Anjunabeats (as an artist, then adapted as a label name) and, ultimately, Above & Beyond (with Tony McGuiness). Paavo's solo trance capability was brought out when he was under heavy inspiration by summer parties at his college and one day he decided to produce a track of his own at his place on a G4 Powerbook. Paavo rolled out his debut single, "Remember (Summer Sun)".
"Remember (Summer Sun)" was released on an EP with "Amnesiac". Remember and Amnesiac were welcomed with huge response in clubland, but "Remember (Summer Sun)" was the track which had achieved anthem status, containing "one of the most gorgeous chord changes ever" according to Tony McGuinness. It was later featured on Tiesto's "NYANA" mix CD.
The second single by Paavo was "Gravity". It was also used by Tiësto for his compilation album, "In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin America".
