Kung Fu Meets the Dragon is an album by The Upsetters

The Upsetters

The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song "I Am The Upsetter", a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd....

, released in 1975.

A martial arts-themed project, this very rhythmic LP

LP album

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 is largely made up of instrumental versions of some of Perry's productions (Roy Shirley's "Hold Them", Linval Thompson

Linval Thompson

Linval Thompson is a Jamaican reggae and dub musician and record producer.-Biography:Thompson was raised in Kingston, Jamaica, but spent time with his mother in Queens, New York, and his recording career began around the age of 20 with the self-released "No Other Woman," recorded in Brooklyn, New...

's "Kung Fu") and other musical pieces, enriched with Perry's trademark use of percussions and production tricks (phasing

Phasing

In the compositional technique phasing, the same part is played on two musical instruments, in steady but not identical tempo...

, dubbing

Overdubbing

Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously recorded performance....

 and so on) and talkover inspired by the wave of martial arts movies that were popular at the time of recording.
Recorded at Perry's own Black Ark

Black Ark

The Black Ark was the recording studio of reggae and dub producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, built in 1973 and located behind his family's home in the Washington Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica...

 Recording Studios, it notably features ace Jamaican polyinstrumentalist Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo

Horace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...

 on melodica (and presumably keyboards, too), his gentle playing adding some otherworldly melodic content to the sparse sound.
Production values similar to the following, recently recognised as groundbreaking Revolution Dub

Revolution Dub

Revolution Dub is an album by Lee Perry & The Upsetters, released in Jamaica in 1975 in very small quantities. It features radical, groundbreaking drum & bass mixes, sound effects , heavy bass, vocals by Perry himself, and an early use of a drum machine in reggae....

(Perry's subsequent record, reissued in the '80s on Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 worldwide).

The album was reissued in 1995.

Side one

1. "Theme From Hong Kong"
2. "Heart of the Dragon"
3. "Hold Them Kung Fu"
4. "Flames of the Dragon"
5. "Scorching Iron"