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200% Dynamite
Soul Jazz - Cat No: SJRLP41
- updated:2024-10-21
Curated by Soul Jazz Records, the renowned record shop/label in London's Soho, the second volume in their celebrated reggae collection series viewed through a soul, funk and rare groove lens — "200% Dynamite" — gets a welcome vinyl repress. 2LP with download code included.
Track List
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1. Augustus Pablo – Rockers Rock
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2. K.C. White – No No No
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3. Tenor Saw – Ring The Alarm
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4. Johnny Organ – Bewitched
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5. Pinchers – Agony
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6. The Abyssinians – Mandela
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7. Sister Nancy – One, Two
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8. King Tubby Meets Tommy McCook and The Aggrovators – King Tubby Dub
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9. Chaka Demus & Pliers – Murder She Wrote
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10. Johnny Osbourne – Ready Or Not
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11. Jackie Mittoo – Earthquake
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12. Sandra Reid – Don't Tell Me Tell Her
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13. The Skatalites Meet King Tubby – Herb Man Dub
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14. Kim Harriott – Woman Of The Ghetto
25th Anniversary edition.
Back in print (black vinyl) and first time on CD 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’.
Back in print (black vinyl) and first time on CD 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’.
From ska and rocksteady, which drew on the cutting-edge, hip sounds of the day like '60s US soul, through to dub and dancehall, which forged Jamaica's own distinct culture and went on to exert a powerful influence on the US and Europe. Covers of soul classics are at the heart of it, but this is on a whole different level from easy-listening, ear-friendly compilations — it's packed with masterpieces, a string of gems from musicians whose music becomes part of your blood and bones and forms the very foundation of your listening. A classic series first released in 1999 and beloved ever since. (Original Japanese text by Saito)