200% Dynamite! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk and Dub in Jamaica

Soul Jazz Records’ 200% Dynamite! set the benchmark for reggae meets funk compilations that has never been bettered. Out of print for over 15 years this new 2023 edition is expanded with new tracks.

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.

Carrying on perfectly from 100% Dynamite, this second compilation continues to trace the history of Jamaican reggae and the influence of American styles such as funk and jazz had on this music. 

New bonus tracks on this new 2023 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’.

Released: January 2024
Cat: SJRLP517
Label: Soul Jazz

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Tracklist

1. Augustus Pablo – Rockers Rock
2. K.C. White – No No No
3. Tenor Saw – Ring The Alarm
4. Johnny Organ – Bewitched
5. Pinchers – Agony
6. The Abyssinians – Mandela
7. Sister Nancy – One, Two
8. King Tubby Meets Tommy McCook and The Aggrovators – King Tubby Dub
9. Chaka Demus & Pliers – Murder She Wrote
10. Johnny Osbourne – Ready Or Not
11. Jackie Mittoo – Earthquake
12. Sandra Reid – Don't Tell Me Tell Her
13. The Skatalites Meet King Tubby – Herb Man Dub
14. Kim Harriott – Woman Of The Ghetto