I need an iPhone 4...

Obviously that's not my handset...It's Stephen Fry's.

Rather than go on about how I need one of these, you can read his well-detailed review here instead. The fact that the handsets are available SIM-free is great. Now I need to justify spending £599 on a 32GB model just so I can floss....I think I can live with that.

Speaking of flossing, check out Just Blaze's video below. *dead* at all those other handsets...

Scrap Heap Challenge (Review)

Last night, after a few hours of heavy drinking and DJing b2b with DJ Cable and DJ Guise, we went back to Guise's house for some PS3 and to chill out. Somehow we ended up watching Scrap Heap Challenge and I was struck by just how stupid a show it is. I filmed DJ Cable giving a review of the show for what I intended to be our first video blog post but he has since forbidden me to post the footage, so you'll have to settle for my slightly disappointed, jaded and hungover text review.



I honestly don't know how this show ever got commissioned. I'd never seen it before, and I expect lots of you are in that position, so I'll give you a quick run down of the concept of the show:

Two teams of beardy/balding virgins (contestants) compete to manufacture an entirely useless piece of machinery from parts found in a scrap yard. These utterly pointless creations are then tested against each other to see who has managed to make the most retarded contraption. The competition is presided over by a washed up sci-fi actor (Kryten from Red Dwarf...the years have not been kind to you) and the kind of female television presenter who you take one look at and instantly assume they've starred in some low budget adult films before reaching this pinnacle in their career.

You'd think that there'd presumably be some kind of awesome prize to motivate people to go on this poor excuse for a TV show... but no. Winners get to saw off a hunk of their winning contraption at the end of the day as a memento of the time they wasted a whole weekend of their lives. Where do I sign up?

Maybe I'm being overly harsh. Maybe there is some merit in this show. Certainly, if I woke up one morning to find myself in a strange post-apocalyptic wasteland and felt the uncontrollable urge to build a fan powered potato peeler, I'd be straight on the phone to these chaps. Other than that though, I can't see any real value in this show and I don't know why its on TV.

5th Flow - 'Quarter To A Half' Mixtape (Review & Download)

Props to J Clay from 5th Flow for hitting me up with their new mixtape, 'Quarter To A Half'.

I've had a quick listen, and gotta say that it's straight heat. Standout tracks include their version of 'Dey Know' (titled 'In This'), 'Simple As That', 'California Dreamin', 'They Callin My Name' & 'Slow Down'. Rappers should take a leaf out of their book for delivery and flow....

A bit of background info: Representing H-Town and Pink Slip Records they've sold over 100k mixtapes worldwide, supported artists such as Lil Jon, Trina, Ying Yang Twins, and the late great Pimp C (R.I.P.), have featured on over 20 different mixtapes in the past 2 months, and have received airplay in Chi-Town, Fort Worth, North Carolina, Toronto & L.A.

I for one will be spinning their ish on my mixshow real soon.

Cop the mixtape here.