JMix Awards (Not)Podcast 2025/6
Ladies & Gentle Mixers,
Twenty-four mixes, nine months, a voting round and one very secretive recording session later, the wait is over. The 2025/6 JMix Awards (Not)Podcast has landed, and we’re excited to say it is hosted by our very own Tyson Jopson! Press play on the widget below and let it all unfold, we won’t spoil a thing here. That’s what the podcast is for.
⚠️ Spoiler zone below. If you haven’t listened yet, maybe hold off clicking through.
Once you’ve heard it, or if you’d prefer just to see, the full results are waiting for you in visual form:
* Top tip: it’s best to view this in “Presentation Mode”
Fun Extra Data: The Fingerprint of 2025/6
A playful statistical portrait of this year’s collective musical personality.
We took the final 24 album collection and enriched the track data with release years, working genre and style classifications, artist origins and collaboration information. The result is less a scientific study and more a snapshot of what our collective musical brain looked like in 2025/6.
The Collective Fingerprint:
| Mixers | Tracks | Countries Represented | Release-Year Span |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 239 | 20 | 1958 to 2025 |
Indie is the unmistakable dominant flavour. 106 of the 239 tracks, 44%, carried an indie tag, with a constellation of soul, pop, folk, rock, funk and electronic sitting around it.
Alternative sounds are everywhere, but the collection also makes room for R&B, jazz, post-punk, heavy metal, country, Americana, hip-hop and other less frequent flavours.
* These are intentionally loose “working genre and style” classifications made for Jimmy Mix fun, not a claim that every track belongs to one objectively correct genre. A track may carry more than one style.
A Very International Little Mix
Twenty countries appear across this year’s artist origins. The United States and the United Kingdom form the two biggest pillars, but the collection stretches far beyond them, taking in South Africa, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Jamaica, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland and more.
Kati’s mix is the most geographically adventurous of the lot, drawing on artists from 7 different countries in a single ten-track run.
The Time-Travellers And The Collaboration Department
The oldest track in the whole collection is Link Wray’s “Fire And Brimstone” from 1958, tucked inside Alasdair’s Apex Predator. That same mix is the widest-ranging of the year, spanning 1958 to 2024, a 66-year journey in ten tracks.
At the opposite extreme sits Paul Whalley’s The Ultimate Airband Experience, ten tracks deep and every one of them from 2023 to 2025.
Collaborations and feature-heavy combinations account for 33 tracks, about 14% of the collection. Matt Willis leads the pack with 6 collaborative tracks, with Matthew James close behind on 4.
The 2020s Have Arrived
141 of the 239 tracks, 59% of the collection, come from the 2020s. 2024 alone accounts for 86 tracks, more than a third of everything submitted. Despite the 1958 starting gun, Jimmy Mix 2025/6 was fundamentally a contemporary collection with a healthy appetite for older gems.
| Nugget | Detail |
|---|---|
| Oldest musical relic | Link Wray, 1958 |
| Newest release year represented | 2025 |
| Most represented release year | 2024, 86 tracks |
| Most collaboration-heavy mixer | Matt Willis, 6 tracks |
| Most geographically diverse mix | Kati, 7 countries |
| Most chronologically adventurous mix | Alasdair, 66 years |
| Most relentlessly contemporary | Paul Whalley, all 10 tracks from 2023 to 2025 |
| Total listening universe | Approximately 15 hours |
Thank you for listening and being part of this little extravaganza we’re all doing together
Feel free to leave comments below with how you’re feeling following the results; congratulations for the winners, outrage at the fact your mix didn’t win, feedback on the process, what you loved, what you hated … whatever. Mostly, though, just thanks for participating in something both fun and meaningful in this busy world we live in together.