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James Hyman

In 2000, James Hyman took to the airwaves as a DJ on
London’s XFM, presenting, producing and programming two shows,
The Rinse (nominated by MUZIK magazine as ‘Best Radio Show’ in
2002) and The Remix (among Campaign Magazine’s Top 10 radio
shows in 2001, nominated for a Sony award in 2003), which he
co-hosts with Eddy Temple-Morris. The Remix has become a
platform for the cultural zeitgeist of bootlegging and
remixing, with Hyman championing and becoming the spokesman
for a DIY mix-and-paste musical genre which has propelled the
likes of Sugababes "Freak Like Me" and Liberty X "Being
Nobody" to UK #1 hits.

How old are you and where
are you from?
33 from
London

What were you doing
before The Remix?
Main bulk of work was
producing/directing/presenting shows for
MTV, Channel 4,
Channel 5 & Sci-Fi Channel.

How and when did The Remix start playing
bootlegs?
Right from the first 'official'
show, Sunday 16th April 2000.
Jacknife Lee was the guest
and his Superchunk included Evolution Control
Committee's
'Whipped Cream', that classic boot of Public
Enemy & Herb Alpert.

How much do you think The Remix has helped the
likes of
Freelance Hellraiser / IDC get legit remix work?

A hell of a lot as plenty of industry
listen. We got Roy an official remix of Gomez 'Shot
Shot'
for our 2nd 'Remix' compilation.

Has The Remix or XFM ever come across legal
problems playing ‘illegal’ mixes?
A couple
of scrapes, the most famous being Freelance Hellraiser's
'Stroke Of Gene-ius'.
After Eddy played it on daytime Xfm,
we were slapped with an instant 'cease & desist'
from a
record company who didn't see the humour or creativity in it.
Recently Eddy
got slap wristies again for a Faint remix
which hadn't been approved. I seem to have
got away with
more but I won't mention them in case lawyers are sniffing
around!!

Whats in the
pipeline for The Remix and yourself?
Remix
still going strong in its new Sunday evening 7PM slot. Cargo
night (3rd Thursday
of the month) also going strong after 2
years with Coldcut killing it brilliantly last month.
Hope
to have a 3rd 'Remix' compilation out soon too.
As for me,
fingers in loads of pies including a new Saturday afternoon
show on Xfm.

Can you
remember the first bootleg you heard and what you thought of
it?
Showing my age but early ones were
things like Steinski's 'Lessons' on Tommy Boy or
the
DJ-only DMC subscription mixes; I remember playing Dakeyne's
DMC mixes for Soft Cell's
'Tainted Love' and Sigue Sigue
Sputnik's 'Love Missile F1-11' over and over.
DMC got thru
the bootleg legality thing by being DJ
only.

Have you ever
made/tried to make your own bootlegs?
I've
made several including that Fatboy Slim/Eminem one which Kiss
FM still
play today plus a Puff Daddy/Rakim 'I Know You Got
Soul' for DMC's 100th issue.
Also did loads for the MTV
Megamixes which began in 1998.

What is/are your favourite bootleg(s) ever and
at the moment?
Many memorable ones. Pretty
much all of Soulwax's & Go Home Production's
are class.
You can tell they've thought about what they're
doing.
Recently, I loved the Digital Punkz 'Angel Stand By
Me', plenty of message-boarders
knocked it but whenever
I've played it out response has been great.
Soundhog's
stuff like 'Tainted Beyonce' does the trick.
After we put the 'Gay Bar' acapella on the
Xfm web site had
loads of people send in boots, one that just did it was Lee
Van Queef
who stuck it over the Batman theme, simple but
effective.
Bootshaker has been getting me quite moist too
with his stuff like Benny Benassi/Beastie
Boys.

What makes a good
remix or bootleg for you?
Humour or as Eddy
called it 'The Smile Factor'. Creative use of parts i.e.
not
just slapping an acapella over an instrumental and
hoping it won't slip out of time.
Ben Liebrand's
'Shakira/Britney/Bee Gees' bootleg was great as it added
another level
to the standard 2 bits/components. As for
remixes, it's taking the original and giveing it a
twist,
my all time commercial favourites include Colcut's 7
minutes of madness for Eric B & Rakim's 'Paid In Full',
and Oakenfold's work on U2's 'Even Better than the real thing'
plus some of Fatboy Slim's like his
'Brimful Of Asha' he
worked wonders on for Cornershop.

If you could work with anyone in the industry,
who would it be?
Plenty including Pharell
Williams, Felix Dennis, David Bowie, Dr. Dre.

Any chance of a link to Boot106 from The
Remix’s homepage? :-p
Don't see why
not.

Thanks!

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