James Hyman
James Hyman | |
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Born | 18 April 1970 |
Origin | United Kingdom |
Occupation(s) | Founder of DJ, music supervisor |
Years active | 1988–present |
Website | www |
James Hyman (born 1970) is a British radio and television presenter, music supervisor, DJ and the owner and founder of HYMAG.
Hyman put aside his university to work at
HYMAG
For over 30 years, Hyman has been collecting
HYMAG contains over 5,000 individual title publications and over 150,000 individual issues as of January 2020.[2]
On 1 August 2012, Guinness World Records verified that, "The largest collection of magazines consists of 50,953 magazines and belongs to James Hyman (UK), in London, UK".[3] At that time, the collection featured 2,312 unique publications amongst the 50,953 magazines. The process of counting the magazines took approximately 128 days as James and Tory Turk worked their way through 450 crates filled with magazines.
As of October 2020, HyMag's focus was to ensure preservation of the physical archive and digitisation of the entire collection via a crowdfunding page.
TV
Hyman worked at
Hyman also co-presented
In 1992, with
Radio
Presented on
The Rinse focused on
The
- The Remix and The Remix 2 (Virgin/EMI)
- Covered (Sony BMG)
- 8 themed mix CDs including: Pulp Mixin which remixed the work of Quentin Tarantino and Licence to Thrill, an audio homage to James Bond, which featured in The Daily Telegraph's top 5 CDs of 2004.[10]
September 2007, Hyman left Xfm to concentrate on his
A one-hour documentary about
Films
Hyman expanded his Quentin Tarantino mix tape, Pulp Mixin', to create a feature-length mash-up film, with the provisional title James Hyman/Quentin Tarantino Movie Mash-Up. It blends Tarantino's film footage with music videos, including those of the music used in the films.[13][14]
References
- ^ "Photographjic image of UPfront profile" (JPG). 1996. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ Hyman, James. "Hyman Archive". Hymanarchive.com. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ Guinness World Record 'Largest Collection of Magazines', 1 August 2012
- ^ "Surveillance Camera Players". Notbored.org. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Coldcut&partyzone massive_techno - video dailymotion". Dailymotion.com. 15 February 2006. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ Promo magazine 1999 page 1 and page 2
- ^ "Interview In-Dublin magazine #3 2003". Jameshyman.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Radio Academy". Jameshyman.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ Phillips, Dom (27 February 2002). "Smells like teen booty". The Guardian.
- ^ "James Hyman:: Green Bandana Productions:: Music/Film/TV/Pop Culture: 007 Mix - Best CD of 2004". Jameshyman.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "James Hyman:: Green Bandana Productions:: Music/Film/TV/Pop Culture: Xfm - James Hyman". Jameshyman.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Network Radio BBC Week 8: Wednesday 23 February 2011". BBC Press Office.
- ^ Gilchrist, Todd (6 May 2009). "Tarantino Gets a Taste of His Own Post-Modern Medicine". Cinematical.com.
- ^ Hart, Hugh (6 May 2009). "Brit Mashes Tarantino's Sex, Violence With Music". Underwire. Wired.
External links
- James Hyman – official site
- James Hyman discography at Discogs
- James Hyman at IMDb