Junglists are you REAAAAADY?
Let’s all collectively shit our pants and exalt, YES, JAH!
The new “UK Allstars” track features Tenor Fly, Top Cat, General Levy, Tippa Irie, Sweetie Irie and Daddy Freddy, and it’s the first time all of these legends have been featured on the same tune. The full album is coming to your home soundsystems and telephonic devices on June 25th via Big Dada!
In case ya dun know (!) Congo Natty aka Rebel MC and his fam are responsible for pretty much single handedly keeping the grizzled old junglist soulja spirit alive through hundreds of old school jungle nights that persist across the globe every night of the week. The Congo Natty crew have not released a snippet since 2003 so I’m ecstatic that he’s finally coming back to bring something new to the conversation. Could jungle once again be the next big exciting thing on our musical radars? It’s rather unlikely to be yes, but it would be a phenomenal curveball if it were. I could go on for pages about what drum & bass and jungle mean to me, but this might not be the right place. Fuck, I’m seriously excited for this though, like no other album in years.
And from the label:
Jungle Revolution features the whole of the extended Congo Natty family and was mixed with Adrian Sherwood. Clearly showing this Rasta’s belief that Jungle is a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century, the record is full of blood and fire, the sternum-buzz of sub-bass, rapid fire drum breaks, sweet hooks, righteous anger and professions of religious fervour. It’s the kind of passionate, committed, raw and spiritual, beautiful record that doesn’t come along that often.
