Soul Jazz is giving you another chance to get your Taki-stained sweaty hands on their biggest-selling reggae release, the now classic 100% Dynamite: Ska, Soul, Rocksteady and Funk in Jamaica. Originally released just shy of 20 years ago, this thing reps Jackie Mittoo, The Upsetters, Toots & The Maytals, Tommy McCook, Cedric Brooks, and Lennie Hibbert. You’ll also get reggae takes on soul joints like Marlena Shaw’s “Womanof the Ghetto,” Aretha Franklin’s “Rocksteady,” Syl Johnson’s “Is It Because I’m Black,” and William DeVaughan’s “Be Thankful.”
What makes the 2015 remastered and expanded editions is not just that is has been remastered and expanded and is shiny and new — no! You’ll also get cuts from Jamaican producers Clement Dodd, Lee Perry, and Winston Riley (Techniques). Coming atcha as a CD, double vinyl (+download), or digital release.
New Expanded tracklisting:
01. Willie Williams - Armageddon Time
02. Toots & The Maytals - Night And Day
03. The Marvels - Rocksteady
04. The Upsetters - Popcorn
05. Bunny Clarke - Be Thankful
06. Tommy McCook - Green Mango
07. Brentford All-Stars - Greedy G
08. Lennie Hibbert - Real Hot
09. Horace Andy - My Soul
10. Johnny Osbourne - We Need Love
11. Bunny Brown - I Love the Way you Love
12. Jackie Mittoo - Stereo Freeze
13. Phyllis Dillon - Woman Of The Ghetto
14. Cedric Brooks - Give Rasta Glory
15. Alton Ellis - Son of Man
16. Sound Dimension - Granny Scratch Scratch
17. Lloyd Robinson - Cuss Cuss
18. Sound Dimension - Drum Song
19. Ken Boothe - Is It Because I’m Black
• Soul Jazz: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk
