General Levy Brings Jungle's Breakout Hit to Singapore's MDLR on October 3

Dates: Saturday, October 3, 2026, 10PM to 3AM Venue: MDLR, 62 Cecil Street #02-00, Singapore 049710 Tickets: From SGD32.54 via Eventbrite, 18+

In 1994, General Levy told The Face magazine "I run jungle at the moment," and the UK jungle scene ostracized him for it. The scene that had built him took the line as a declaration of ownership over a sound that didn't belong to one MC, and for a while his name was mud with the people who made the genre in the first place. The record at the center of the controversy, M-Beat's "Incredible," became the first jungle single to crack the UK top ten anyway. On October 3, the man behind that chorus plays Singapore's MDLR, booked by local promoters Kings of Bass as, in their words, "a rare chance to catch UK MC royalty live in Singapore."

The Record That Started The Fight

"Incredible" didn't start as a hit. Released in June 1994, it stalled at number 39. A re-release that August went to number eight and stayed on the chart for twelve weeks, going gold on 400,000 copies sold and turning up, years later, in Ali G Indahouse. It's a four-minute argument for a genre most of the UK press was still calling a novelty: a ragga MC's voice riding a breakbeat nobody outside a handful of London pirate stations had heard mixed that fast. That it also kicked off jungle's first real internal civil war, between the scene that wanted to stay underground and the one artist who'd just proven it could chart, is the part the Wikipedia blurb leaves out and the part that actually explains why this booking is interesting thirty-two years later.

Levy was born Paul Scott Levy in Park Royal in 1971, raised in Harlesden and Wembley, writing lyrics by twelve and running his own sound system, Third Dimension, by fourteen. He's kept working since, through Fashion Records, FFRR and a string of independents, with collaborations including Chase & Status and Fedde Le Grand in 2018, and Idris Elba on a 2023 single. He published an autobiography, also titled Incredible, in November 2022.

Who's On The Bill

Kings of Bass, the Singapore promoter behind this one, was established in 2020; its founders have been in electronic music since 1999, going back to Australia's early drum and bass scene. General Levy headlines; support comes from ARESHA, RAAJ and Ramesh (Tropika Global), with more names to be confirmed. MDLR, Thugshop's Cecil Street room, runs a rig built for exactly this kind of low end: a bare-concrete, industrial space with a Martin Audio system and a dancefloor that doesn't pretend to be anything other than a dancefloor.

If You Go

Doors open at 10PM on October 3 at MDLR, 62 Cecil Street #02-00, in the Raffles Place end of the CBD. Tickets start from around SGD33 through Eventbrite. The show is 18+, there's no re-entry policy posted, and parking at that end of Cecil Street is paid and limited, so budget for a Grab home once the last set finishes at 3AM.