Lester Hein
Small city boy, big city dreams
Wolfgang Gartner – Wolfgang’s Fifth
Tomorrow night I’ll be dropping my first set outside the borders of sunny SA here in San Jose. It’s at a new club called Karma and they manager said that they’re looking for Electro beats. Now while Electro isn’t really mind thing, I do need to get back in the booth, so it’s a start. While I was sifting through my tracks, I re-discovered this banger from Wolfgang Gartner. It’s a frenetic, high energy banger, and it’s insanely difficult to follow up after this, simply because the tune is so mental to start with. So, I think that this will be my closing track, making the next song the other guy’s problem 
(if you’re reading this on Facebook and want to hear this mental tune – just click here)
?uestlove interview on HipHopDX
After getting the new Roots album 
‘How I Got Over” I’ve been playing through my entire Roots collection (‘Duck Down!‘ is still one of my favourites) and reading up a bit more about the band’s latest activities. Here’s an interview with ?uestlove on Hip Hop DX about the new album(How I Got Over), the band’s move to the Jimmy Fallon show and the past couple of years making music.
Catching up with Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson is basically picking a genius’ brain. He ducks the term “genius” though and prefers “student”, explaining that being in a constant state of learning leaves you less prone to emotional meltdowns. He and his comrades are adjusting to their new lives right now, while welcoming longtime friend and fellow Soulquarian James Poyser into the fold. The band is employed by NBC, and despite being artists, they are still responsible for attending sensitivity workshops and other seminars hosted by most companies’ HR departments. They’re also not allowed to travel over 1,000 miles away on a Sunday, as they have to report to work Monday morning. The perks balance the corporate jargon though; while ?uestlove was holed up in the employee break room conducting interviews, Ben & Jerry’s delivered cases of ice cream to The Roots for mentioning them in a segment on Late Night.
Painting done on the iPad with one finger
Kyle Lambert has more talent in one finger than I do in my entire drawing reportoire. The digital artist from the UK recently painted a digital portrait of Beyonce using the Brushes app on the iPad and only one finger. The result is almost photo-realistic, and very impressive (understatement).
The artist also did a digital painting of the gob smackingly gorgeous Megan Fox.
You can see more of Kyle Lambert’s work at www.kylelambert.co.uk,
Kanye West interview on Hot 97
A cool interview with Kanye West by Angie Martinez on Hot 97 from a while back. Shows Kanye as a bit more human less of an ass.
