June 25th - Birmingham: Dance Trance

In a move which didn't antagonise any of his previous partners and an attempt keep ravers enthusiasm for the anniversary party going, ticket holders this time got nothing!.

June - National: M-Beat & General Levy

One record that is causing a lot of attention and cashing in on the ragga-jungle element of the scene is M-Beat's "Incredible". with M-Beat [ a.k.a. Marlon Hart ] on the programming duties, Incredible features the voice of London born vocalist General Levy. As jungle with a slight hint of reggae [ ragga-jungle ] is the flavour of the month, Incredible becomes a overnight success in clubs up and down the country.

Such was it's popularity and the commercial appeal of the hit record, [ compared to the other M-Beat tracks "Peeni Porni", "Rough Like Me", "Sess" and "Rumble", Incredible seems slower than most tracks at the time, maybe in a bid to capture the crossover-pop market?. ] a bidding war ensues between the major labels for the records license. With Pete Tong eventually winning this "battle" Incredible is then re-released in September this year by London Records.

With a little push via the media, bigger promotional budget, an appearance on "the premier pop music show" Top Of The Pops and a better distribution deal, now all been handled by a major label, Incredible makes even more money as it breaks into the top ten, eventually reaching number eight in the UK pop charts, the highest ever charting by a jungle artist.

With all the adulation, respect and hype going to his head, a few months before the commercial release, General Levy preceeded to shoot himself in the foot and infuriate the jungle hierarchy at the same time by saying that "I run jungle at the moment" and "I came along and bigged up jungle, I took it national" to a reporter from a national magazine.

Angered by his ill-timed comments, some of jungle's top brass [ alleged protagonists - DJ Grooverider, Goldie, Jumping Jack Frost and DJ Ron ] formed a coalition [ the "Jungle Committee" ] to protect the integrity of the jungle scene and responded publicly by rebuking the vocalist for his actions. Going a step futher still, the coalition tried to get the record removed from independent record shops and leading mc's acknowledged the record by NOT chatting over the record when it was played, if any DJ was brave enough to play it.

DJ Rap is once again caught in the cross-fire and the politics of the jungle when the DJ is finally invited to a jungle coalition meeting. When the meeting dicussed the would-be sanctions that the committee was going to impose on the unfortunate party, she becomes annoyed with the committee's views and states in a later interview; "Well it was a hit record, and a fantastic tune and I was gonna play it!".