Above & Beyond Gives Fans a Peek Behind the Scenes of Its Latest Album With a New Documentary

Dance fans rejoiced this past July when beloved trio Above & Beyond released Bigger Than All of Us, their first entirely electronic studio album in seven years. Released by the group’s longstanding Anjunadeep label, the project came months after the group played a massive set on Coachella’s Outdoor Stage then launched a North American amphitheater tour.

Now, a new documentary is going behind the scenes of the album’s creation, showing the conversations, sessions, inspiration, memories and philosophy that ultimately formed the 16-track project. This doc, Stepping In: The Making of ‘Bigger Than All Of Us’, is out Friday, Nov. 7 on the Above & Beyond and Billboard YouTube pages.

The doc shares incredible archival footage of Above & Beyond in its early years along with footage capturing the group’s meticulousness in the studio. Watch an exclusive clip from the doc below.

This clip finds the trio — Paavo Siljamäki, Tony McGuinness and Jono Grant — in the studio with frequent collaborator Zoê Johnston, whose unmistakable voice is woven through the doc in its rawest form. Grant reflects that with the new album, he wanted to figure out “what the DNA of Above & Beyond is all about.” He continues that the group’s 2006 classic Tri-State “has that, because it was just the three of us. It was our first album, we didn’t really know what we were doing, and I wanted to get a bit of that naiveté back.”

“I sensed this sense of musical freedom and this unattachment to what people thought we were,”McGuinness says in reference to how Tri-State inspired Bigger Than All of Us. “That feels like authentic Above & Beyond to me. We’re not actually a particular genre; we have lived and breathed inside the trance world for a long time, but we have also lived and breathed outside of it too.”