British ragga and the jungle turn

General Levy (Paul Scott Levy, born 28 April 1971) is a British ragga deejay of Trinidadian descent, raised in Harlesden and Wembley, who collected dancehall tapes from age 10 and formed his own sound system, Third Dimension, as a teenager before his 1994 collaboration with M-Beat, 'Incredible', became the first jungle track to reach the UK Top 10.

UK genre of the early 1990s built from chopped breakbeats run at high speed under reggae and dancehall basslines, with MCs working crowds sound-system style. It grew where Britain's Jamaican sound-system culture met hardcore rave, and fed directly into drum and bass.

Michael West, born in Islington in 1964, scored a UK #3 hit as Rebel MC with "Street Tuff" (1989) before his 1991 album Black Meaning Good pulled reggae voices including Dennis Brown, Tenor Fly and Barrington Levy into the emerging rave scene; he converted to Rastafari in 1994 and continued as Congo Natty, a central architect of British jungle.

British dancehall-style chanter whose lyrics for "Original Nuttah", written in the late 1980s and recorded with producer Shy FX in 1994, gave British jungle one of its most recognisable vocal hooks and cemented Jamaican toasting's place inside the genre.

Dennis Emmanuel Brown (1 February 1957 - 1 July 1999) was the singer Bob Marley named as his own favourite, and whom Marley called the Crown Prince of Reggae — a title that stuck because nobody seriously disputed it. He began recording for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One in 1969, aged twelve, and his first single "No Man Is an Island" built airplay steadily for almost a year before it became a hit across Jamaica, which is an unusual way for a career to start: not an explosion but a slow, undeniable accumulation. That became the pattern. He recorded with Winston "Niney" Holness, who produced his breakthrough, then through his most prolific years with Joe Gibbs, and later with Gussie Clarke in the dancehall era, including the celebrated pairings with Gregory Isaacs. In the mid-1970s he founded his own label, DEB Music, and used it to release other singers — Junior Delgado and Gregory Isaacs among them — which puts him in the small group of Jamaican artists who became producers of other people's records rather than only of their own. "Money in My Pocket" reached number 14 in Britain in 1979 and Love Has Found Its Way charted there in 1982; Visions of Dennis Brown (1977) and "Wolf and Leopard" (1976) remain the records people reach for first. He died in Kingston at 42, of a collapsed lung following pneumonia contracted on tour in Brazil, and was posthumously made a Commander of the Order of Distinction in 2011.

British jungle producer whose 1994 single "Original Nuttah", made with UK Apache, hit the national Top 40 that October and became one of the genre-defining records of the jungle explosion, built from breakbeats and a dancehall-style vocal chat over sampled film dialogue.

British jungle producer behind "Incredible" (1994), the General Levy collaboration on Renk Records that became the first jungle single to reach the UK Top 10 and a landmark crossover between Jamaican-style chatting and British breakbeat production.

London ragga duo whose 1991 Shut Up and Dance-produced single "Illegal Gunshot", from the album Reggae Owes Me Money, fused dancehall chat, breakbeats and hip-hop into a record later recognised as a direct blueprint for British jungle.

Daddy Freddy (S. Frederick Small, born 1965) is a Jamaican-born deejay raised in Trench Town who performed on Sugar Minott's sound system before recording 'Zoo Party' for Studio One in 1985 and topping Jamaican charts the following year; the Guinness Book of Records twice certified him the world's fastest chatter, ultimately at 598 syllables per minute, and his 1987 album Raggamuffin Hip-Hop with producer Asher D was an early dancehall-hip-hop fusion.

British reggae deejay, born Jonathan Sutter (1967-2016) in Brixton, who began on Lloyd Coxsone's International sound system alongside Jah Screechy and Blacker Dread; his 1989 debut "Roughneck Fashion" topped the UK reggae chart, and he scored three UK Top 40 hits alongside Rebel MC.