Soul Jazz Records’ 200% Dynamite! set the benchmark for reggae meets funk compilations that has never been bettered. Jam-packed with reggae tunes that crossed-over to become dancefloor hits such as Tenor Saw’s sound boy anthem ‘Ring the Alarm,’ K.C. White’s classic cut of the seminal ‘No, No, No’ and Augustus Pablo’s ‘Rockers Rock’, 200% Dynamite explores the links between reggae, jazz, funk and soul.
Featured here are serious funk and rocksteady tunes from the likes of The Skatalites and Johnny Osbourne through to Jamaican jazz from masters such as Tommy McCook and Byron Lee, as well as some serious dub from the likes of Augustus Pablo, King Tubby and Jackie Mittoo.
New bonus tracks on this new 2024 edition include seminal dancehall party cuts Sister Nancy’s ‘One Two’ and Chaka Demus and Pliers’ ‘Murder She Wrote’, alongside classic soul to reggae covers including cuts of Marlena Shaw’s ‘Women of the Ghetto’ and Odyssey’s ‘Don’t Tell Me Tell Her’.
Track Listing
Side A
1. Augustus Pablo – Rockers Rock
2. K.C. White – No No No
3. Tenor Saw – Ring The Alarm
4. Johnny Organ – Bewitched
Side B
1. Pinchers – Agony
2. The Abyssinians – Mandela
3. Sister Nancy – One, Two
Side C
1. King Tubby Meets Tommy McCook and The Aggrovators – King Tubby Dub
2. Chaka Demus & Pliers – Murder She Wrote
3. Johnny Osbourne – Ready Or Not
4. Jackie Mittoo – Earthquake
Side D
1. Sandra Reid – Don’t Tell Me Tell Her
2. The Skatalites Meet King Tubby – Herb Man Dub
3. Kim Harriott – Woman Of The Ghetto
