Lookin’ Natty in the Congo

 

Michael Alec Anthony West began his music career in the late 80s working as Rebel MC with Double Trouble. Double Trouble was a British dance music group active in the late 80s/early 90s founded by Leigh Guest & Michael Menson. In 1983 they began DJing at clubs & warehouse parties around London as the Double Trouble Roadshow. DJ / musician Carl Brown aka Karl "Tuff Enuff" Brown & Michael "Rebel MC"  joined the group in 1985. West had previosly been part of Beatfreak Sound System.

Rebel MC gained fame in England as a pop-rapper, but by 1991 had released Rebel MC - Black Meaning Good, an album that presaged Jungle with hardcore techno married to Dub basslines & ragga toasters such as Barrington Levy's 1994s "Code Red", which West released as "Conquering Lion". It became a smash hit. It brought the Jungle movement to the British masses. Jungle is heralded as the first uniquely UK-born bass music.

West converted to Rastafarianism in the mid-90s & changed his name to Mikail Tafari. He founded Congo Natty Records & X Project. In 1996 Congo Natty Records released their debut offering, Tribe of Issachar - Junglist. By 2000, Mikail began releasing his own solo material under the name Congo Natty.

Here's a Congo Natty release that I gathered up but never got the opportunity to share until now. Like the rest of the musick this month, these ended up in Overflow & is Dub or Dub Adjacent.

This version of Ancestorz contains the original 31 tracks which I have split into two separate sets, tracks 1-16 & tracks 17-31. As a bonus I am sharing a third set, the 2h10m Ancestorz Mixtape. 

 

Congo Natty - Ancestorz (Rootz of Jungle), New State Music NEW9384C, 2022.
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Set 1 -    
Navaho Flute    
Exodus 1:7    
Athos    
Jungle Starliner    
Ancestorz (Jungle Fari)    
Ancestral Hi Tek    
Rebel Soul    
Musik 4 da Soul    
Jungle Defender    
Jungle Krar    
Tottenham Story    
Tribute to Chief Red Crow    
Marching 2 Zion    
Postcode Dance    
Samurai Junglist    
Zanziba

Set 2 -
Jungle Serangi    
Lalibela Almaz    
Akae Beka    
Binghi Man    
Holy Mount Zion    
Children of Enoch    
Senegal    
Enoch Maccabees    
Melchezedek Harpz    
Empress Jane    
Empress Yolande    
Wareika Hill (Count Ossie tribute)
Dragon Slayer    
Psalm 23    
Garden of Life (Tenor Fly tribute)

Set 3 -
Ancestorz Mixtape

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ