200% Dynamite!

Back in print (black vinyl) and first time in over 20 years!

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.

Released as (sold out) coloured vinyl edition for last year - this is new black vinyl edition and first time on CD in 20 years. 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’.

Tracklist

A1.   Augustus Pablo - Rockers Rock
A2.   K.C. White - No, no, no
A3.   Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm 
A4.   Johnny Organ - Bewitched

B1.   Pinchers - Agony
B2.   The Abyssinians - Mandela 
B3.   Sister Nancy - One, two

C1.   King Tubby, Tommy McCook, The Aggrovators - King Tubby Dub
C2.   Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote
C3.   Johnny Osbourne - Ready Or Not 
C4.   Jackie Mittoo - Earthquake

D1.   Sandra Reid - Don't Tell Me Tell Her
D2.   The Skatalites, King Tubby - Herb Man Dub
D3.   Kim Harriott - Woman Of The Ghetto