James Hyman
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| Background information | ||
| Born | April 18, 1970 (age 36) | |
| Origin | United Kingdom  |
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| Genre(s) | Dance music Bastard pop |
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| Occupation(s) | DJ, music supervisor, video director, radio and TV presenter | |
| Years active | 1988–present | |
| Website | Official site | |
James Hyman (born April 18, 1970) is a DJ, radio and TV presenter & MD of Green Bandana, a media/marketing company with popular culture its key ingredients.
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[edit] TV work
He worked at MTV from 1988 to 2000, with an MTV focus on Acid House and the subsequent Dance/Club/Rave Culture. His MTV shows featured over 500 interviews with the likes of The Prodigy, Goldie, Moby, David Holmes, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Paul Oakenfold, Aphex Twin, many unknown at time of interview. Also at MTV he co-presented "Up For It" with Eddy Temple-Morris and also fronted a spin-off of "Bytesize" called "The Net Minute" which provided daily reports on relevant Internet news and web sites. [1]
In the late 90s and first few years of the new century Hyman presented Frontal for Channel 4 and www.personalservices for Channel 5. He also produced two series for Play UK, Hey DJ and Joy of Decks as well as producing and presenting Headf**k for the Sci-Fi Channel.
As a commentator on pop culture (described as a "pop culturalist") he has appeared on BBC News 24's review of the day's newspapers. [2]
[edit] DJing
Hyman is currently producing/presenting The Rinse now a 4 hour slot on Saturday evening (changed from two hours twice a week), and co-presented/produced The Remix (with Eddy Temple-Morris), both for Xfm, as well as DJing at clubs and events nationally and internationally. The music played still largely focus on Dance music but he monitors emerging music trends and most recently has been a proponent of Bastard pop. This has led to the release of a number of albums:
- The Remix and The Remix 2 for Virgin/EMI
- Covered for Sony BMG
- 7 mix CDs. Some of them with themes like a recent release which reworked music from the films of Quentin Tarantino and a James Bond one, Licensed to Thrill, that was in The Daily Telegraph's top 5 CDs of 2004 [3]
[edit] Music supervision
He has also done music supervision on adverts (recently for Johnnie Walker's "Dogfight" ad with Fernando Alonso [4]) and, most notably, a number of feature films including:
- Mean Machine (2001)
- Suzie Gold (2004) in which he also played Phillip, a TV presenter
- Kidulthood (2005)
- Revolver (2005)
- Alpha Male (2006)
- The History Boys (2006)
- Living Neon Dreams (2007)
[edit] Music videos
He has also directed a number of music videos, including:
- Pink Cashmere by Prince (1993)
- Blue Monday '95 by New Order (1995)
- C'mon Baby by Moby (1996)
- Higher State Of Consciousness by Josh Wink (1996)
- Santa Cruz by Fatboy Slim (1996)
- Plastic Dreams by Jaydee (1997)
- It's A London Thing by Scott Garcia (1997)
- Starfighter Pilot by Snow Patrol (1999)
[edit] Trivia
- In 1999 he was voted #22 in Muzik's 50 Most Powerful People in Dance Music poll.
- Mike Skinner, of The Streets, namechecks James Hyman on the song "Give me Back My Lighter" (the 'Non-Album Bonus Track' on the "Don't mug yourself" single, released in July 2003) where he says:
"James Hyman, thanks for the Xbox,
I've been fucking killing that Halo game"
- His father's first cousin was Beatles' manager Brian Epstein
