Hint

Jonathan James, popularly known as Hint, is an electronic musician hailing from Sussex in the UK. His music has been released on independent record labels and his catalogue includes work which has found favour amongst DJs and fans from various underground music scenes.
Hint's first releases were on the Deep Water label - an imprint based in Leicester in the UK. Shortly after the first promos of his debut EP Beau Selector were circulated amongst DJs, Hint was invited to record a Peel Session at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, which was broadcast in May 2002.
Hint subsequently signed to Bristol-based label Hombre Recordings and began work on his debut album Portakabin Fever. The album was so called because it was written and recorded in a mobile home by James using an Akai MPC, guitar, bass and keyboards. The songs were then mixed with engineer 7-Stu-7 at State of Art - the Bristol-based studio owned by Geoff Barrow of Portishead. Once the album was complete, including cover art and a comic booklet by graphic artist Will Barras, it was released worldwide on 22 April 2003 by Hombre Recordings in association with another, larger independent record label - Ninja Tune.
Several of the songs from Portakabin Fever have appeared on television, including uses as incidental music in shows such as Top Gear, C.S.I. Miami and Location, Location, Location and uses in advertising for brands such as Britvic's J2O and Whittaker's Chocolate.
==Links to Peel==
Peel first played Hint on his show in February 2002 via the 'The Beau Selectah EP'. The EP was one of Peel's records of the month for February 2002 (Peel's Record Box). Impressed by the EP, he had Hint do a session for his show in March 2002. Peel also choose Hint's album, 'Portakabin Fever' as one of his records of the month for February 2003 (Peel's Record Box).
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 2002-03-31. First Broadcast: 14 May 2002
*A Shout Of Blue / Words To That Effect / Quite Spectacular
==Other Shows Played==
;2002
*07 February 2002: Quite Spectacular (12” EP – The Beau Selectah) Deep-Water
;2003
*11 February 2003: The Look Up (LP - Portakabin Fever) Hombré
*19 February 2003 (Radio Mafia): The Look Up (LP - Portakabin Fever) Hombré
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Bandcamp
Category:Artists