The year of ThisIsMyJam
My love affair with music died sometime after I gave up trying to be a musician, left Manchester and stopped living with DJs. Without a constant supply of personal recommendations I just got bored.
ThisIsMyJam totally changed that this year. Overnight I had a constant stream of amazing back music in my life.
In a world where too much is thrown at you to pay attention to, the focus on a single song at a time is not only refreshing, it’s the reason it works. Sometimes quality is simply the opposite of quantity.
And in an age where ‘social’ is a dirty word, ThisIsMyJam somehow resurrects the spirit of the mixtapes that I grew up with. Listening to other people’s choices is deep, while putting my own jams out theremakes me feel like I’m 17 again…
2012: a jam odyssey
They saved the best until last though. It’s a hackday present from ThisIsMyJam and myself - the design is theirs, the content mine.
Why can’t all web products be this wonderful?
These are your jams
Of the 1016 jams people gave me in 2012, 199 made it into my Spotify favourites (Spotify link). Did I mention quality? 19.5% is some hit rate…
Shouts to Michelle Adams, Pete Williams, Lucy Hughes, Lisa Drake, Kate Saner, Sophie Scott, Karl Sabino, James Weiner and - of course - Hannah Donovan.