[1] TV SHOWS: PRESENTED BY JAMES HYMAN
“Mostly entertaining and informative slab of films
[Channel 5's Internet Night - co- presented by James Hyman].”
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THE TIMES [2 DECEMBER 1999]
“[Channel 5's Internet Night is] the best television treatment of the
subject so far, combining enthusiasm with information in such a way as
to make the prospect of our virtual future genuinely exciting.”
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH [2 DECEMBER 1999]
“C5 shows it‟s switched on with „Internet Night‟. www.personalservices is an excellent
introduction to the net.”
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TIME OUT [1 -8 DECEMBER 1999]
[2] HEADF*CK: PRESENTED & PRODUCED BY JAMES HYMAN
“The TV equivalent of getting a compilation tape from the weird kid in the back of class.”
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THE GUARDIAN [11 AUGUST 2001]
“James Hyman‟s new show on the Sci-Fi Channel is a brain-twisting
soup of the weird, wonderful and downright amazing.”
PROMO MAGAZINE [SEPTEMBER 2001]
“There‟s also the chance to indulge in some „video megamixing‟ with popular culture guru
James Hyman, whose manipulation of video and music imagery will leave you feeling
stunned.”
SFX [AUGUST 2001]
“I did lay my hands on a preview tape….we‟re in for a truly outlandish time.”
BIZARRE [AUGUST 2001]
“Late-night weirdery is the staple of ITV1 & Channel 4‟s early-hours broadcasting
but Sci-Fi trumps them with this 4-hour feast.”
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HEAT [8 SEPTEMBER 2001]
“The eight-week season has been produced and presented by self-styled „popular culture
curator‟ James Hyman.”
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BROADCAST [13 JULY 2001]
[3] MTV SHOWS: PRODUCED/DIRECTED BY JAMES HYMAN
“The MTV producer/director James Hyman has showcased much of this cutting-edge
work (audio & video „megamixing‟) on his show, Party Zone. The genre‟s true significance
is largely lost on his bosses.”
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THE INDEPENDENT [15 JANUARY 1999]
“MTV's dance music guru.”
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CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL [12 OCTOBER 2000]
“James Hyman...The controller of MTV's hippest shows.”
SATELLITE TV EUROPE [SEPTEMBER 1995]
“He knows his subject….James Hyman is undoubtedly a taste maker.”
SATELLITE TV EUROPE [SEPTEMBER 1995]
“Barometer of Trends - chart position no. 3 - MTV MEGAMIX
(produced by James Hyman).”
SKY MAGAZINE [MARCH 1999]
“James has established a dynamic successful career at MTV.”
NEW MOON [FEBRUARY 1997]
“James Hyman's The Megamix is actually a fantastic idea.”
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DJ MAGAZINE [11 SEPTEMBER 2000]
“MTV's Party Zone offers a regular parade of trendy guests and a glimpse
into the mysterious world of the dance scene. [Watch it] and make sure
you¹ve got the video remote to hand, too.”
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TIME OUT [5 -12 JUNE 1996]
“James Hyman is MTV's resident producer of the radical programmes PARTY ZONE
and DANCE. He single handedly carries the banner of MTV's most ground-breaking
coverage of the underground dance scene...He's highly respected by the artists he works
with, many of whom received their first real breaks thanks to his philosophy of working with
both chart orientated and underground artists. Always at the cutting edge.”
ETERNITY [1995]
“If one channel deserves credit for sticking its neck out while Captain Rock
waved his axe around, it is MTV. In the early 90s, when Glastonbury was as
radical as the BBC were prepared to get, James Hyman organised features
about people like the Aphex Twin in the two-hour show PARTY ZONE. A lot of
dance music didn¹t have (and doesn¹t have) videos, and Hyman broke up the
chicken and egg problem of video making by offering producers airtime in
advance.”
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7 MAGAZINE [12 JULY 2000]
“Beamed across the whole of Europe, MTV‟s audience potential was staggering
in comparison to the figures Jungle was used to dealing with. The station‟s
underground dance music show Party Zone had attempted to included Jungle
among the featured styles from very early on.
Despite being the first TV show to offer the space to the Jungle movement, the
Junglists were extremely reluctant to be seen to be getting into bed with this corporate
Station. Hyman‟s love of the Jungle sound wasn‟t a recent one. He‟d followed the
scene closely since the Hardcore days so when he did cover things he went straight
to its creative core.”
STATE OF BASS [BOOK: DRUM & BASS/JUNGLE]
“Although PartyZone - MTV‟s underground dance show of the time - had long supported
the band, this was the first time one of their singles had made that crossover.
„We were doing stuff on the Prodigy long before anyone else was interested in them, recalls
PartyZone producer James Hyman. Nobody else on television was prepared to stick their
necks out for the band, but I knew they were special from the first time I heard „What Evil
Lurks‟.”
PRODIGY [OFFICIAL BOOK ON PRODIGY]
“MTV Europe producer, James Hyman has been honourably on the case since time.
…he started working at MTV as an undergraduate, passionately flying the flag for
Dance music against the then prevailing Rock bias. He‟s a self-confessed trainspotter
With an awesome collection of magazines and fanzines. Then there‟s his video
Library; it‟s rather extensive. James has captured them [artists] all on Beta, Hi-8, Digital and
8mm celluloid.”
ALL CREW MUSS BIG UP [BOOK ON DRUM & BASS & JUNGLE]
“The thing that makes the DJ Mixes and the Joy of Decks (UK Play) stand out
is the co-ordination between video and sound, tunes being slipped into each
other as the visuals are mixed, often by ex-MTV man James Hyman.”
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7 MAGAZINE [12 JULY 2000]
WHAT SATELLITE Readers Poll 97-98. Best Music Programme: PARTY ZONE.
WHAT SATELLITE [MARCH 1998]
YATS AWARDS 1997.
Worst Music Television Show: Top of the Pops.
Best Music Television Show: PARTY ZONE.
YATS MAGAZINE [1998]
“Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of MTV Megamix...take heed
pluggers, providing your track has a video, you can get it to millions of
people, several times a week on a show which has the advantage of being
slickly pioneering.... MTV Megamix is a fantastic idea... As dance music
television begins to shake itself free of throw-away Club@Vision-style
templates, [James Hyman¹s] MTV Megamix marks some kind of logical conclusion
for a pop industry which thrives on the twin promotional tools of the music
video and the dance remix. In a market where every pop act accompanies each
single with a string of mixes, and in which a great many dance singles are
released with videos, Hyman has happened upon a huge potential to freshen up
the pop video - an eighties phenomenon, remember, which MTV was partly
responsible for making people tired of - by clashing the format with remix
culture.”
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DJ MAGAZINE [11 SEPTEMBER 2000]
[4] THE RINSE: RADIO SHOW: PRODUCED/PRESENTED BY
JAMES HYMAN
“Hasn‟t James Hyman done enough for you yet? The man dedicates himself to culling all
but the week‟s tighest tunes for your Saturday night delectation.”
X-RAY [AUTUMN 2001]
“Class A guests secured from the influential James Hyman.”
JOCKEY SLUT [APRIL 2001]
“The Rinse is undoubtably the place to find out exactly what's going on in
club culture right now... it is meshing dance music that is on the cutting
edge and breaking in a big way.”
X-RAY [OCTOBER 2000]
“James Hyman¹s Rinse show is already pulling in A-list guests every week.”
JOCKEY SLUT [JANUARY 2001]
“After 13 years as a producer and director of dance music on MTV, James has
experienced the entire genesis and explosion of dance music culture and brings
to The Rinse an understanding of the bridges that dance music has built and burnt
with Rock and other strains of music over the past 15 years.”
X-RAY [OCTOBER 2000]
“Music that matters from the James Hyman show that's endorsed by Jockey
Slut (because what we say matters).”
JOCKEY SLUT [DECEMBER 2000]
“DJ Hyman has forged a formidable reputation with the A-list guest DJ‟s.”
X-RAY [SPRING 2001]
“James Hyman sets the controls for Saturdays for the best of prime time
cutting-edge dance.”
JOCKEY SLUT [FEBRUARY 2001]
[5] THE RINSE: CLUB NIGHT
“James Hyman‟s diverse dance session incarnate, complete with a plethora of top guests.”
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THE GUARDIAN [12 JANUARY 2002]
[6] THE REMIX: RADIO SHOW: PRODUCED/PRESENTED BY
JAMES HYMAN
“The 10 Best Radio Shows:- No.7 Easily one of the best music shows around at the
moment…..the proof of The Remix‟s success comes with the launch of an album next
spring….essential listening.”
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CAMPAIGN [17 DECEMBER 2001]
“Every so often a radio show hits the jackpot – presenters hit on a winning formula, draft
in a string of top DJs to wow the listeners, and then watch their popularity soar.
Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman from Xfm specialist show The Remix know how
this feels.”
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THE UPDATE [1 FEBRUARY 2001]
“It‟s basically two hours of essential music. The key ingredient that makes the show
such an undeniable winner hasn‟t been lost. That feeling of relaxation.
That the studio is little more than an extension of Hyman‟s and Temple-Morris‟ front room.
It‟s a winning formula that the guests seem to lap up as well.”
X-RAY [SPRING 2001]
“Consistently ahead of the game musically, „The Remix‟ is a big winner if you‟re
after fresh upfront tracks, rare remixes and the odd old school classic.”
JOCKEY-SLUT [AUGUST 2002]
“They‟ve turned record collecting into a religion, put rock‟n‟ roll into clubs, made Djing a
science and called the ensuing ideological clash, er, The Remix!”
X-RAY [AUTUMN 2001]
“Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman combine their wit, cheek and outright
talent to produce a show [The Remix] that bristles with originality...[The
show] has made Xfm that little bit more alternative... it is close to perfection.
FOOTLOOSE MAGAZINE [FEBRUARY 2001]
[7] BOOTLEG CULTURE [INSPIRED BY XFM’S THE REMIX]
“James Hyman produced Fat Boy Shady,a hybrid of Eminem‟s My Name Is…
& Fat Boy Slim‟s Rockafeller Skank & the tunes worked so well together that
Norman Cook‟s record label, Skint were talking seriously about putting the bootleg
Out themselves.”
ICE [FEBRUARY 2002]
& THE BIG ISSUE [NOVEMBER 2001]
“XFM‟s Re-Mix Show is the first to play the big bootlegs.”
MIXMAG [JUNE 2002]
“No one in their right mind would put Christine Aguilera in a studio with the Strokes, says
James Hyman, something of a champion of the new bootleggers.,,,,I‟ve got a musical
Darwinist view: everyone can do it, so you‟ve got to do that little bit better to survive.”
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DAILY TELEGRAPH [25 APRIL 2002]
“The most infamous bootlegger thus far is the Freelance Hellraiser, who wed Christine
Aguilera‟s „Genie in a Bottle‟ vocal to the Strokes‟ „Hard to explain‟ and submitted it to Hyman‟s influential
bootleg show The Remix. Five days later Hellraiser received a cease-and-desist order from Warner
Chapell music.”
SPIN [JUNE 2002]
“For Xfm Remix Show presenter and long-time bootleg champion James Hyman, the best exponents of the
mash-up have taken things a lot further. „Some of the bootlegs that are around now are more intricate than
anything you could do live. People are taking it further, using bootlegs to parody popular culture in the way that
people like Chris Morris and Rory Bremner do. The court jester was the original bootlegger.”
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DJ MAGAZINE [15 -28 JUNE 2002]
"While Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman's 'The Remix' is key in kick-starting the
bootlegging trend."
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SUNDAY TIMES [25 AUGUST 2002]
[8] THE REMIX: CLUB NIGHT:
“If The Remix, XFM‟s weekly radio show, effortlessly expresses the station‟s newly acquired
confidence in an underground dance/indie fusion, then their monthly clubnight of the same
name hammers home such assurance.”
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THE GUARDIAN [15 –21 DECEMBER 2001]
“MTV legends Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman come up with this great idea for a
radio show – you only play remixes and change people‟s perceptions of XFM as the indie-
only option. Then they come up with an even better idea – export the format to a live setting.”
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EVENING STANDARD [9 -15 NOVEMBER 2001]
“Once again XFM has poached the finest names for its Shoreditch-based Remix monthly.”
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EVENING STANDARD [18 OCTOBER 2001]
“Xfm‟s dancefloor version of radio show The Remix goes from strength to strength with
acclaimed disc jockeys Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman playing host to an
increasingly impressive range of dance music luminaries.”
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EVENING STANDARD [14 -20 JUNE 2002]
“An essential night for anyone who likes their boundaries blurred and genres subverted.”
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EVENING STANDARD [21 MARCH 2002]
“A topsy-turvy night for this consistently essential monthly party as the dance acts plays
live and an indie band takes to the decks.”
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EVENING STANDARD [20 DECEMBER 2001]
[9] JAMES HYMAN: GENERAL
“The 50 Most Powerful People in Dance Music: No 22: James Hyman.
The Pete Tong of the screen...He is renowned for an encyclopaedic
knowledge of music across the board - the ultimate trainspotter.”
MUZIK [FEBRUARY 1999]
“Well informed as he is, it‟s no wonder Hyman brings so much passion and vivre,
not to mention knowledge, to his radio presenting. After twelve years, bringing the birth
of UK rave nation to the screen as a researcher, script writer and presenter of dance music
at MTV, Hyman started his own production company, Green Bandana, in 2000.”
X-RAY [SUMMER 2001]
“Having made his name as an MTV director, Hyman works everything from Channel 4
presenter to promo director to DJ, and is a notoriously obsessive pop culture collector.
For years, he has bought two copies of every music magazine on the market – one to
read, one to store in pristine condition in a warehouse. He is similarly obsessive
about records. It‟s the kind of behaviour the movie High Fidelity glamorised.”
MIXER [JULY 2002]
“It¹s been five years since the Lil Louis single... So what was it that enticed him back into
the limelight? "It was James Hyman. He said to me, Louis, make some fucking music."
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MIXMAG UPDATE [7 JULY 1997]
“[Ken Hollings' pro's of 2000]: dissecting Logan's Run with James Hyman
for the Sci-Fi Channel.”
THE WIRE [JANUARY 2001]
“The History of Music Television...Best of PARTY ZONE is the cue for DJ
James from Club Metropole London. The legendary producer of the show of the
same name will present a selection from his 60,000-strong collection of records.”
COLOGNE MUSIC CONFERENCE MAGAZINE [JUNE 1998]
“Presenter and producer James Hyman is used to the world of the weird. He has a
collection of more than 250,000 vintage magazines, including hundreds of Playboy
magazines dating back to the 1950s. He presented the first daily Internet slot on TV
(as part of MTV‟s Up For It) and was the host of Sci-Fi‟s fifth birthday celebrations.
He also directed Fat Boy Slim‟s first video.”
WHAT SATELLITE [AUGUST 2001]
“And if Pete Tong hasn't been blasted out of a job by Mr Hyman in the next
year then there is no justice in the world (Note: there IS no justice in the world).”
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