Youth, as the old adage goes, is wasted on the young, although surely Reality highlights the ambiguously chameleonic and now comfortably middle-aged David Bowie as an honourable exception to the rule, a man whose soul and creative metre endures to pursue eternal youth within the accelerating self-awareness of his own mortality. Times were when he'd never get away with it. In recent ...

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Brace 4 Impak may be the first album by DJ Evil Dee and Mr Walt as the Beatminerz, but they have been prime suppliers of meaty beats and on-point head nods for a while now, conjuring up often distinctive sounds for crews as diverse and respected as Black Moon, Smif N Wessun, The Roots, Rah Digga and D' Angelo. For this debut long player the production duo draft in a who's-who of (mainly) ...

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