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CONGO NATTY

Jungle Revolution
1. Jungle Souljah
(M.Tafari, M.Kean
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC & La La & The Boo Ya
Nyabinghi drums: Ras Asheber
Horns: Dunc The Trump
Lead guitar: Steve Finnerty
2. UK Allstars
(Congo Natty meets Benny Page mix)
(M.Tafari, J.Sutter, A.Codrington,
P.Levy, A.Henry, D.Bent, F.Nelson
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC, Tenor Fly, Top Cat, General
Levy, Tippa Irie, Sweetie Irie, Daddy Freddy
3. Revolution
(M.Tafari, O.Chinangwa
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC, Nanci Correia, Phoebe
Iron Dread Hibbert, Ras Buggsy
Live drums: Quake
Lead guitar: Skip McDonald /
Steve Finnerty
Horns: Crispy Horns
Melodica: Skip McDonald
4. Get Ready
(M.Tafari, N.Weir, T.Cowan
Just Isnt Music/BMG Chrysalis)
Featuring a sample of Baba Boom
performed by The Jamaicans and
produced by Duke Reid, licensed courtesy of
Sanctuary Records Group Limited
Vocals: Rebel MC, Tenor Fly,
Daddy Freddy, Nanci Correia
Additional production: Serial Killerz
5. Jah Warriors
(Congo Natty meets Vital Elements mix)
(M.Tafari, M.Hull
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC, Nanci Correia,
YT & Junior Congo Yosief Tafari
Live bass: Raziel Amlak
Rhythm guitar: Yared Colour Code
6. Nu Beginingz
(M.Tafari, M.Lamont
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC & Sista Mary
Guitar: Skip McDonald
7. Jungle is I and I
(Congo Natty meets Vital Elements mix)
(M.Tafari, C.Williams, G.Warnock
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC & Lady Chann
Additional vocals: Nanci Correia & Junior
Congo (Princess Lydia & Princess Trinity)
Rhythm guitar: Skip McDonald
8. London Dungeons (Congo Natty meets
Boyson and Crooks mix)
(M.Tafari, M.Kean, J.Boyson, S.Crooks
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC & Martha Kean
Additional vocals: Nanci Correia
Live bass: Fish
Lead guitar: Steve Finnerty
9. Rebel
(M.Tafari, L.J.Blair
Just Isnt Music/copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC, 2Nice
Guitar: Skip McDonald
10. Micro Chip (Say No)
(M.Tafari, P.Hibbert, K.Tafari
Just Isnt Music/Copyright control)
Vocals: Rebel MC, Kaya Fyah,
Phoebe Iron Dread Hibbert
Additional vocals: Princess Trinity Tafari &
Princess Lydia Tafari aka The Jungle Sisterz
and Nanci Correia
Nyabinghi drums: Congo Natty
Live bass: Fish
Acoustic guitar: Congo Natty
Lead guitar: Redz / Robin
Flute: Biscuit
Additional programing and engineering:
Greg Wizard, Graham Warnock, Jahkey
Murder & Mathew Smyth
All tracks produced by Congo Natty
(Through the divine inspiration of Haile
Selassie I and Queen Menen)
Tracks recorded @ Congo Natty Studios,
Brixton Jamm Studios & Sound House Studios
Mixed by Adrian Sherwood and Congo Natty
@ On U Sound Studios
Engineered by Dave Braveheart McEwen
Management:
Jim Gottlieb @ Tuned Entertainment
Mastering & Cut:
Kevin Metcalfe @ The Soundmasters
Photography: Spencer Murphy
Design: Oscar & Ewan
BDDNL227 LC12885
& Big Dada Recordings 2013
www.bigdada.com
@bigdadarecords
This LP is livicated to I beautiful sister
and friend... Empress YOLANDE aka
DJ IYAMEDE... A real LIONESS...
ANGELS ARE REAL... I love you sister.
We are prisoners of war (pows)...
Born into captivity and programmed
to be what they want us to be.
I am the son of a Welsh mum and Jamaican
dad grown up in Tottenham North London
with four sisters.
We are the sons and daughters of slaves.
By the power of jungle music I am now a
FREEMAN.1Love
Need to send a very special thank you to I
father Haile Selassie I for your guidance
protection and inspiration
Special special thank you to I family I Queen
Maria Queen of Queens and all I beloved
children, Prince Warren aka Gadman aka
Congo Dubz, Princess Kaya Fyah, Prince
Yosief (Champion Youth), Princess Lydia and
Princess Trinity (Tafari Sisterz) without you I
would be a lost soul.
Thank you mum always sending I love to you
and Steve, to I sisters Empress Melanie
and Empress Yolette more love peace and
harmony, to Prince Craig and Prince Kelly,
Prince Imahni and Princess Asher, Princess
Ama and Prince Kemuel, Princess Diamond
and Prince Carlito Mikail, Princess Kizzi and
Prince Craig I send all I love and to all the
youths and elders in I family I send 1love.
Very special thank you to Ian Gough, Tony
Engineer, Greg (Wizard), Ras Asheber, JC
Lionbeat, Jim Gottlieb, Jonathan Garcia,
Adrian Sherwood, Graham Vital Elements/
Serial Killerz, Tobie, Phil @ Nu-Urban, Jahkey
Murda and Chopsticks Crew, Dave McEwan,
Mathew Smyth, Benny Page, Boyson and
Simon (Crooks), Global Faction and Shane,
Steve Finnerty, Fish Brown, Quake, Irish Jonny
(Jamm), La La & The Boo Ya and all Bradford
and Leeds Crew, Hassan Salaam, Ital Horns,
True Tiger Fam, Phillip Oldeld, Soothsayers,
DJ Steppa, Audio Warfare Crew, Unity Crew,
Kosine and Dialect and all Brighton massive,
John the Baptiste and Miss I-Formation and
Cherry, Serum, Top Cat, Sweetie Irie, Daddy
Freddy, Tippa Irie, Lady Chann, General Levy,
Daddy Colonel, Rob and Sam (All Alabama
3 Crew), Biscuit, Colour Code, Raziel Amlak,
Ras Buggsy and all Bristol Army, Klashnekoff
aka Son of Niya, Duncan Horns Man, Reds
Guits, Otis Keys, Up 2 The Beat Productions,
Robin Guits File, Brian Higgins and all
Manchester family, Levi, Wulu and Potent,
We Are Dubist, Ryan (Congo Natty Films),
Joel Drums, RSD, Rob Smith, Mala and DMZ
Souljahs, Skip McDonald, Craig Blundel,
Tobie and all @ Soundhouse Studios in
Ramsgate.. All mentioned are a part of this
works directly or indirectly... Anyone who I
have forgotten Haile I Selassie I and Queen
Menen will remember and bless you.1Love
I give all the glory to Jah and I do not take
any credit for this music. I and I are just
instruments makin a joyful noise. Bless up
Special thank you to all musicians and artistes
on this workz... Big up... More love and life
Music is a journey... Its destination is freedom.
One love to all I brothers and sisters in
Shashemene Ethiopia... Priest Isaiah, Jahison
and Sister Judah. Ras Quinteseb, Ras Spence
@ Chaka Studios, all @ Ziontrain, Sahara,
Brother Dyers family: Jonathan, Menelik,
Shaka, Zanabwa, Meme, Joseph and the
Youths, Teddy Dan, Ras Ibie, Sister Terahas
and the family, Sister Timena and the family,
Sister Joanne and the family, Ras Judah, Bro
Wisdom, Sister Leah, Ras Clint, the Flippins
family, Ras Marcus and family... And all the
houses of Rastafari... Bless
Congo Natty family: One love and thank you
for your time and energy. Congo Dubz (keep
up the good workz), Kaya Fyah (on a mission
bigup), Tenor Fly (Jungle Brother), Nanci and
Phoebe (on the road 2 Zion - Keep da fyah
burnin Jungle sisters), Martha (real lioness),
Sista Mary (Empress from Zion), Lady Chann
(lightning & thunder), 2Nice (rebel wid ah
cause), Junior Baptiste (real Rasta youth), DJ
Snuff (peoples army) and big up Ollie
rising star
Big up Will and Peter for seeing the vizion,
and all @ Big Dada and @ Ninjah Tune
massive. Thank you for your support.
Big up and maximum thank you and raspect
to you the people who have supported I
music from time and all the new comers to
this revolution. Peace and love
This works took 21 years to be born... And
the last 3 years recording and ghting the
devil so this LP could be mixed, nished and
released... Blood sweat and tears... One love
Say no to the Microchip.
Jungle Exodus 2014..... Jah bless all crew
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CONGO NATTY
Mikail Tafari aka Congo Natty aka Conquering Lion aka X Project aka
Rebel MC has lived a fascinating life but, he says, his story isnt really
his story, isnt about him. Its the journey of my ancestors the
journey of the children of slaves.
Mikail, then just plain Michael West, grew up in Tottenham. His father
came from Kingston, Jamaica, his mother from Wales. He didnt even
know that this was unusual until he started at school and someone
commented that his mother was white. Looking back, before that he
didnt really know what race was or was meant to represent.
Music was an ever-present, not just from his parents, but all around
him. He rst DJed at a party aged ten, when the DJ got lean up and
he had to take over. He got a pound for his troubles and felt puffed
up with the praise. The local youth club, Trojan, invited soundsystems
in every Friday for a dance and every Friday he was there. Before he
was twenty he and some friends started their own soundsystem, Beat
Freak, playing hip hop, reggae and the house records that were just
starting to penetrate the streets of London from Chicago and New
York. Love of music ran alongside a need to take care of business and
a healthy disrespect for the law. We didnt have anywhere to play
so we had to break into places, then set up a dance and charge at
the door.
Playing out with the sound led Rebel to record. He had a crazy mix he
did with a beat and the Eastenders theme tune, so he found a studio
where he could make a version and put a rap over the top. Having
done one, his appetite for the process grew. He wanted to get back
in and do more, develop his ideas a bit more, work it out. It was this
urge to spend more time in a studio that led him to Double Trouble. He
was icking through a music magazine looking for somewhere cheap
to record and he came across a place in New Cross that was only 5
an hour. It was Double Troubles studio. He started working out of there
and, at some point, they all decided to collaborate. The results were
Just Keep Rockin and Street Tuff.
Its easy to hear them now as pop music (although the blueprint for
grimes chart ascent 15 years later was in there, too). That wasnt how
they were envisaged. They were still kinda hard tunes. They were
breakbeats with reggae samples and everything. They werent started
off as being pop tunes. We done the tunes in New Cross and then they
were oating around for about a year. Wed started recording other
stuff, still growing and moving. Then all of a sudden there was a label
that was interested.
Tafari sums up the experience of being fed into and then spat out of
the mainstream music business. At rst its all good. At rst. Its a bit
like Hansel and Gretel when they get to the house and theyre hungry
and theres all sweets and so on. But then you start to feel a little bit
sick and then we all know what happens next. The machine that loved
you decides it hates you.
Rebel MC had already moved on, too fast for the backlash to harm
him. With the albums Black Meaning Good and Word Sound
And Power, and the single (and label) Tribal Base he was already
marking out the roots of what would become Jungle. He started and
ran a series of labels, Tribal Bass, then X Project, then eventually Con-
go Natty, from which came some of the dening releases of the day.
There was a revolution of self. Artists realised they could do it better
than the labels. Because the labels were blind right then. Every ten
or fteen years you get to that point with the labels where theyre out
of touch. I started my label X Project without no name cos I didnt
want people knowing it was me. Because once they know its you, Oh,
its Rebel MC, its Street Tuff innit? Without that its free. Youre free.
From 92 to 94 he and others developed Jungle into the dening
sound of the era, one which musicians are still coming to terms with to
this day. Jungle took the bass of roots and dub reggae and reinvented
it. Jungle carries a sonic that is so mystical that if you entered a dance
in 1994 you went through a portal. And you were there, in the zone.
B-line, unadulterated b-line. Jungle came with this frequency that
shocked everything in British music.
For Tafari, Jungle was a revolution. Jungle was the rst time wed
got our own music, our own way of talking, our own way of dressing.
Everything. And its from this fusion of British, African, Indian, Jamai-
can, Chinese this melting pot. And thats Jungle music. But, like all
revolutions, the powers that be wanted it shut down. Its high water
mark was, in Rebels own judgement, the Notting Hill Carnival of
1994. I saw what Jungle did at Carnival. The vibration got so hyped
until it just went crazy. The frequency got so powerful. And thats why
Jungle got the ght it did. How did we go from that to drum and bass?
Jungle is like a mirror that was broken into many, many pieces.
This reaction coincided with a profound change in Tafaris spiritual
life, as this was the year he embraced Ras Tafari. I saw Ras Tafari,
Haile Selassie I and that changed my life. I took on the realms of Ras
Tafari as a Rastaman. But the journey of Ras Tafari is not just about
saying Im a Ras Tafari and wearing the colours and the natty and
everything. Its more about the life. The journey. Were all imperfect.
Everyone has sinned and will sin. As a Rastaman were trying to
eradicate negative traits hate, anger, aggression. All these things
are based on fear. Ras Tafari in one word is love. And its living love.
True love is the hardest thing to live by. You have to love your enemy.
You have to bless someone whos cursing you. Im not on that level.
Id love to be on that level. To be like Gandhi. He dont get angry.
I get angry!
From his father, Rebel bought the house in Tottenham hed grown up
in and ran his operations from there, surrounded by his family, his
old bedroom now his studio, his living room full of the 12s he was
pressing and selling. My yard was full of tune like a warehouse!
Wed broken away from the whole machine. We were running our
own mechanism, our own threads. He combined his Tottenham
operations with making trips to Jamaica to reconnect Jungle with the
culture from which it had taken its most important inuences. Here he
made contact with Rasta communities as well as playing Jungle in the
heart of the Kingston slums, the experience of which led to the release
of the album, Tribute To Emperor Haile Selassie I.
But the business of selling music became less important as Rebels
spirituality grew. As a Rastman you have to ask what youre aiming
for. My aim was always to get to Ethiopia and get out of Babylon.
Getting out of Babylon meant gathering the family, getting rid of all the
things that tie us down. And that was the point of my journey. So when
I was making the music now, this music was going to set me free. But
also was a message, an important message for this time. So it got to
the point where it wasnt about the music business for me.
In 2007, he and his family nally left and moved to Shashamane, the
land Emperor Haile Selassie I left to the Rasta and other Caribbean
citizens who wanted to return to Africa. It was a whole other world
daily power outages, no running water, whatever you wanted being
built by your own hands, as well as the single largest Rasta community
in the world. But something was tugging Rebel back. The importance
of the visionary of literally seeing and hearing guidance from Jah
is a central but misunderstood part of Rastafari. Mikail Tafari is a
visionary twice over. Jah told him to return to the UK and make music.
He tried to ignore it, but when things began to go wrong with the
business hed left in London which was supposed to pay him the
income his extended family were relying on he knew it was time to
go back to Babylon. He arrived in the UK in late 2008 with thirteen
quid. I got three little ones and two bigger ones and my wife.
And thirteen pound. Thats not a good look. So at that point I
started again.
That new start reaches its culmination, its zenith, with Jungle
Revolution. Ten tracks long, featuring all of the extended Congo Natty
family (plus, in the form of Skip McDonald and Adrian Sherwood,
a healthy link to On-U Sound as well), it clearly lays out the way
in which Rebel sees Jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new
century. Full of blood and re, the sternum-buzz of sub-bass, rapid re
drum breaks, sweet hooks, righteous anger and professions of love, its
the kind of passionate, committed, raw and spiritual, beautiful record
that doesnt come along that often. The message of reggae is Ras
Tafari and Ras Tafari is love. They sang about love your brother but
they was also prophesying and talking about the system, talking about
things that were going on in the world. I saw Jungle as being that
same music, where we were going to spread a message.
Jungle is a part of all musics. Its not just this new music. Blues man
are junglist. Jazz man are junglist. Hear their story its jungles story.
You see this journey over and over again. The journey is the journey of
the African slave. If you look at music, what these people have given
to the world Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, whoever it
all comes from suffering. From poverty, from racism. And this music
keeps coming out of their soul. And I see Jungle as our soul in the 21st
century. But this time its got no colour. Its not the black mans story no
more. Its our story. Were all in a kind of slavery now. Modern day
slavery, mental slavery. He stops and takes another pull of ganja. I
got my army greens on for a reason Im running a revolution.

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