It features from Pac Div, Talib Kweli, Blu, Truck North and more; there’s bound to be something for everyone to enjoy. To be honest though, I’ve given the tape quite a few spins already and Ash could’ve held it down on his own (well… the Boyder and Brain collabs were much needed haha)
Very big tune featuring my boy Jo'leon..hopefully the song does well, nice summertime vibe to it. His line 'Jaffa Cakes in the right and the left hand'..killed me.
And here is one of Jo'leon's tunes featuring Rebekka...
Where do I begin? Oh yeah the phones FUCKING AMAZING...soooo happy with my new toy. Using it makes my old N97 feel like an ancient relic. I will admit, at the time my N97 was amazing, it had a lovely keyboard, plenty of mass memory, and it was the first phone I got with a data plan to use the internet and it was pretty good...BUT using the HTC Desire is just next level.
Lets start with the screen...WOWZER its beautiful, 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen with pinch-to-zoom capability...so you can do all the cool stuff the iphone does, use multi-touch to zoom in to pics, flick from screen to screen with ease. Unlike my N97 that has a resistive touchscreen that required pressure, this one relies on the electrical properties of the human body to detect when and where on a display the user touching. Because of this you only need to lighty touch to use it, no stylus required.
The camera on the device is pretty good, 5 mega-pixel camera with single LED flash. No dedicated camera button, but the trackpad works as a button for this which is no problem to use.
Unlike the iphone which has a pretty boring homescreen which consists of a list of program short cuts, the HTC Desire with its customised Android OS Sense UI 2.1 it has 7...yes 7 homescreens. And you can use these for whatever you want. On my home screens I have:
1. Weather Widget
2. Twitter Widget
3. Music Widget
4. Main Home screen, Clock + Weather, program links for messages, emails, camera and internet
5. Facebook Widget, Youtube Widget, program links for Twitter, photos, calender and maps
6. Web Bookmarks Widget
7. left free for now
So I have pretty much what I want at the flick of my finger. Fancy checking FB its there, Twitter its there, wanna quickly flick to a internet page I can click straight on a bookmark. Quality stuff, very intuitive.
A nice lil feature the phone has is when you unlock the device, once you flick the screen down to unlock, depending on what the weather is the screen will either have rain drops fall which are then washed away by window wipers..or for example if its cloudy..a set of clouds will fly by in the back ground. Its a nice lil touch that always looks cool. The phone also has 'live' wallpapers which are basically animated backdrops, some of which you can interact with. For example pressing on the water background will make ripples, nice lil touch.
I gave the Android Market space a quick look and its pretty darn cool. MUCH better then the Ovi store on my N97. That was a really poor store, hard to navigate, would constantly log you out also. The store on the HTC Desire is great, has a easy to use search feature, apps download and install quickly also. It seems to have alot of apps and alot of variety also.
The phone came with a 4GB Micro SD card, upgradeable to a 32GB card, I will probably eventually get one, but 4 GB is plenty for now. Loads of space for pics, music and apps.
To summarise, so far, VERY impressed. Haven't used it as my real phone properly yet as I haven't got a case and have been to scared to carry it about with me lol, but I will sort that soon. If your thinking of getting a new phone and think Blackberry's are corny and iPhones are too expensive, its defo worth checking out.
So today on my day off I was just browsing the web (as you do), was on FB and I saw someone posted some video of a guy singing a Maxwell cover. After watching it I went on a cover song marathon it seems and was checking out loads, in particular Robin Thicke's Sex Therapy song..I was manly checking that out because I was wondering whether anyone could hit that crazy falsetto. Turns out not many could. So from Robin Thicke I went to Justin Timberlake and checked out covers of N'sync's song Gone..and doing so I came across some dude called Matt Clark, and that dude is awesome imo.
What made me click his video in particular was because on the related vids there was him singing Blaque songs 'Bring it All to Me'..it's one of my fav songs from back in secondary school and it's just not something I would have expected, but him and some chick sang it and it was rather good. He sings a few songs I wouldnt have expected and does a great job with them. Anywho check out some of his ish...
Got put on to this guy by my boy Joleon last year. His first mixtape was fire (downloaded here , this is his new vid, pretty tight. He's from G.O.O.D Music (Kanye's label) so if he does get a push he will have some nice beats and features for sure.
