She Called It the Summer of Jungle

Nia Archives put Forbidden Feelingz out on her own label, HIJINXX: Bradford, West Indian, a grandma sample and a break that doesn’t ask London for permission. “Ode 2 Maya Angelou” is not a citation. It’s a poet in a rave where the old heads said the girls don’t play jungle like that anymore.

They were wrong. “Forbidden Feelingz” has the ragged 90s tape hiss the originators kept in a crate and the vocal the new rooms actually need, and Congo Natty already knows. She didn’t polish the breaks into drum-and-bass furniture. She bit.