Lui Lepki: Late Night Movie, 2CD

• Seminal dancehall album from 1982.

• Features some of the biggest Jamaican hits of the early 80s.

• 19 tracks new to CD.

The close of the 1970s witnessed a dramatic change of both style and substance of reggae music, with the spiritual and political themes that had dominated the roots era throughout the preceding years supplanted by a dynamic new sound that primarily focused upon more down to earth issues.

The new ‘dancehall’ sound was chiefly championed by raw, youthful music-makers whose recordings dominated the Jamaican musical landscape over the years that immediately followed. Among the most successful of these ambitious newcomers was DJ Lui Lepki, whose moniker revived that originally used by a notorious 1930s New York gangster, reflected the brash new attitude of these aspirational young guns.

Lepki’s musical breakthrough came in late 1979, when his debut single, ‘Can't Take Me Landlord’, shot to the top of the Jamaican music charts, with this success swiftly followed by further big sellers, notably ‘Love Ina Jamdown’, ‘Mek You Lie To Me’, ‘Custom Officer’ and his 1981 smash, ‘Late Night Movie’, which provided the title of his debut long-player, issued early the following year.

An instant best-seller, the LP has remained unavailable on CD for 17 years with this expanded version also including the DJ’s 12” single tracks, which also feature fellow reggae royalty in Barrington Levy, Eek-A-Mouse and Cornel Campbell. In addition, the second disc on the set collects some of the biggest Joe Gibbs productions from the dancehall era, many of which feature on CD for the first time.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

LUI LEPKI LATE NIGHT MOVIE

1  Go To School - Lui Lepki

2  Rent Man Skank - Lui Lepki

3  Late Night Movie - Lui Lepki

4  Rose Marie - Lui Lepki

5  Penitentiary - Lui Lepki

6  Tribute To Bob Marley - Lui Lepki

7   Love Ina Jam Down - Lui Lepki

8  She Is Part Of My Life - Lui Lepki

9  Praise His Majesty - Lui Lepki

10  Custom Officer - Lui Lepki

BONUS TRACKS: 12” MIXES

11  My Love / Can't Take Mi Landlord– Wade Brammer & Lui Lepki

12  Quick Divorce / Mek You Lie – Barrington Levy & Lui Lepki

13  Virgin Girl / Lovers Take Over – Eek A Mouse & Lui Lepki

14  Dance Hall Stylee / Step Mother – Danny Magaroo & Lui Lepki

15  Mine Yu Mouth / Late Night Movie - Barrington Levy & Lui Lepki

16  Rope In / Love In A Jamdown - Cornel Campbell & Lui Lepki

DISC TWO

NICE UP THE PARTY – JOE GIBBS DJ BONANZA 1979 - 1984

1  Shopkeeper – Jah Thomas *

2  Nice Up The Party - Welton Irie & Prince Weedy *

3  Babylon Happening – Jah Mike *

4  Gates Of Zion Open - Puddy Roots *

5  Get Up And Skank - Lee Van Cleef *

6  Informer- Lad Ann

7  Jah A The Magician Man - Puddy Roots *

8  Stay Alive - Lee Van Cleef *

9  Big Iron – Kojak *

10  Captain Selassie I - Icho Candy *

11  Fi Me Time Now – Papa Tullo *

12  Man In Me - Junior Vibes *

13  Scorcher – Delroy Jones *

14  More Loving – Ranking Trevor