COMPILATIONS SINCE 2003:

Beginner's Guide To Salsa (Nascente Records 2003)
Beginner's Guide To Cuba (Nascente Records 2004)
Salsa Moderna 2 (Nascente Records 2004)
Urban Latino (Nascente Records 2004)
Very Best Of Salsa (Nascente Records 2005)
Rough Guide To Salsa Dance 2 (World Music Network 2005)
Beginner's Guide To Latin Music (Nascente Records 2005)
Very Best Of Cuba (Nascente Records 2005)
Beginner's Guide To Salsa 2 (Nascente Records April 2006)
Salsa Dance Hits Vol 1/2/3/4 (Protel Records USA May 2006)
El Barrio (V2/Fania July 2006)
We Love Salsa (V2 TV August 2006)
New York City Salsa (V2/Fania 2006) 
Willie Colon: Original Gangster (V2/Fania 2006)
Bar Salsa : Various Artists (Nascente Records 2007)
Los Soneros: The Voices of Fania (V2/Fania 2007)
Bar Cuba : Various Artists (Nascente Records 2007)
NYC Salsa 2: Various Artists (V2/Fania 2007)
Think Global Salsa : Various Artists (World Music Network 2007)
Planet Latino: Various Artists (Freestyle Records 2007)
Beginners Guide To Salsa 2008 Edition (Nascente Records Feb 2008)
Bar Latina (Nascente Records May 2008)
Beginners Guide To Latin Jazz (Nascente Records July 2008)
NYC Salsa 3 (Fania Records July 2008)
Beginners Guide To Latin Dance (Nascente August 2008)
Rough Guide To Latin Lounge (World Music Network August 2008)
Bar Havana (Nascente Records September 2008)
Salsa :  A Musical History (Fania Records boxed set - 4 CDs)
Beginners Guide To Cuban Music (Nascente Records March 2009)
DJ Lubi Presents Salsa Dura (Freestyle Records April 2009)
Rough Guide To Cuba (World Music Network July 2009)

Nascente releases can be viewed/listened to at www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk
All Fania releases can be viewed/listened to at www.faniarecords.com
Most titles still in stock available on www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk or www.prodlands.de or www.prodlands.us or www.descarga.com

MAJOR FESTIVALS PLAYED:  
1st German Mambo Weekend (Wuppertal) - 1st Turkish International Salsa Festival - 5th Bulgarian Fanta Salsa Festival - 7th Croatian Salsa Festival - Mambo City London festival 2009 - 2nd Amsterdam Salsa Festival 2009 - Scottish Salsa Congress 2009 - Todo Latino Greek Salsa Festival 2008 (Athens) - Singapore International Salsa Festval 2008 - Latin Village Indoors Festival 2008 (Amsterdam) - Riga Salsa Festival 2008 (Latvia) - Dutch Salsa Festival (Haarlem) 2007 - Serbian Salsa Congress 2007/2008 - EXIT Festival Serbia 2007 -  Irish Salsa Congress 2007 - Prague Salsa Congress 2007/2008 - Turkish Salsa Congress 2007 - West Coast Salsa Congress 2006 Los Angeles (International DJ Award) - La Linea Festival  Faro, Portugal 2006 - UK Salsa Congress 2004/2005/2006/2007 (Lifetime Salsa Achievement Award Winner 2005) - BritFest Salsa Congress UK 2006/2007 - Mambo City 5 Star London Salsa Congress  2004/2005/2006/2007/2008 - WOMAD UK (2002) - WOMAD Gran Canaria (2002) - V Festival Stafford
(2000/2001/2002/2003/2004 Bacardi B-Bar) - Dublin Bacardi Latin Quarter Festival 2004 - Valencia Heaven & Earth Festival 2004 - Leeds/Reading Festival 1998/1999 (Bacardi B-Bar) - London La Linea Festival 2002/2003/2004/2006 - London Latin Splash Festival 2003 - Budva Summer Daze Festival 2005/2006 (Serbia/Montenegro) - Belfast Festival 1999 - Dublin MOR Volume Festival 1998 - Window On The World Festival (Gateshead) 2000/2001/2002 - CUBA SI Festival 2000 (Glasgow) - Edinburgh Festival 1996/1998/2000/2003/2006/2007 - Amsterdam Latin Village Festival 2006

INTERNATIONAL VENUES PLAYED:
Downtown East Singapore - Vega Copenhagen - Sala Bebop San Sebastian - Sala Tempo Madrid - Club Mambo Copenhagen - Cvijeta Belgrade - Dom Omladina Belgrade - Sala Apollo Barcelona - Salsa Lounge Amsterdam - Ri Ra Dublin - Jazzhus Copenhagen - Theatro National Algarve - Caspar Budvar - Misha Club Ankara Turkey - Caspar, Montenegro -SKC Belgrade - Temple Bar Music Centre Dublin  

UK VENUES & CLUBNIGHTS PLAYED:
Ministry of Sound London - Mambo City London - Bar Rumba London - Scala London - Bar Salsa London - Jazz Cafe London - Que Rico London - Shepherd's Bush Empire London - Latin Motion Birmingham - Absolute Salsa Derby - Salsa King Birmingham - Encuentro Latino York - The Forum Sheffield - The International 2 Manchester - Fiesta Havana Manchester - Bongo Club Edinburgh - Queens University Belfast - Loughborough University - ARC Stockton - Fiesta Havana Glasgow - Newcastle Arts Centre - O-Club Channel Islands - Cambridge University - Club Cubana Weekenders - Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh -Havana Liverpool - Toucan Club Cardiff - Jazz Place Edinburgh - The Sage Gateshead

Warm-Up DJ Slots For:
El Gran Combo/Eddie Palmieri (3 times)/Spanish Harlem Orquesta (4 times)/Jimmy Bosch (4 times)/Wayne Gorbea (3 times)/La Excelencia/Orishas (3 times)/Charanga Habanera (2 times - UK & Copenhagen)/Johnny Polanco/Los Van Van (3 times)/Ozomatli (5
times)/Outlandish/DLG/Manolito y su Trabuco (3 times)/Los Jovenes Del Barrio/Maraca y Otra Vision (3 times)/Grupo Klimax/Son 14/Tito Allen (2 times)/Ricardo Lemvo (3 times)/Bobby Matos/Irakere/NG La Banda/Orlando Poleo/Cubanismo/New Swing Sextet (3 times)/Luisito Quintero/Oscar D'Leon.

CURRENT RESIDENCIES:

RUMBEROS : third Friday monthly @ The Wardrobe, St Peter's Square,  Leeds LS9 8AH, UK 
09.30pm-2.30am - £5/£4 students with ID card 
DJ Lubi and the La Combinacion Perfecta DJs (Fabio, Silvao) play 100% salsa plus a touch of Cuban timba, merengue, bachata for a salsa dancing crowd. NO reggaeton. Guest DJs, salsa danceteachers and live bands.

SPANISH HARLEM : last Saturday monthly @ The Wardrobe, St peter's Square, Leeds LS 8AH, UK
10pm-3am - price varies on live bands (local, national, international)
DJ Lubi and friends play soul, funk, latin jazz, samba, hiphop, reggae, salsa, bossa nova, afro beat, rhythm & blues - great black music past and present! LIVE band EVERY month! from Joe Bataan and teh Furious 5 to Haggis Horns and the Superfunk Allstars. 

CUBA LIBRE:  Every Saturday @ Azucar, Brewery Wharf, Leeds, England. 11pm-3am. Free before midnight, £3 after.
Residents DJs on rotation Lubi/Fabio Bahia/Silvao. Salsa/timba/reggaeton/merengue/Cuban hiphop/bachata/samba/baile funk/latin house. Pure latin party flavour where the accent is more on partying and Cuban rum then mambo dance steps and turn patterns. But we still play the heaviest salsa and timba on the planet amongst our reggaeton and latin hiphop. Two years on and still packed to the hilt.

CLUB HAVANA : 50 Victoria St, St.Albans, Herts AL1 3HZ
01727 862456 - www.havanastalbans.co.uk - 8pm to 1.30am 
Monthly Friday night DJ slot at an amazing salsa club in a small city 30 mins North of London. Great venue, good sound, live bands monthly - just purely solid salsa with a few merengues and bachatas. Nice crowd, not too posey like in the big cities. Check the website for upcoming guest DJs, bands and dance teachers.

REVIEWS:
http://www.salsa-central.com - weekly website reviews on salsa & Latin music.

RADIO:
Emergency FM (Bradford): Various shows 1989-91 (DJ)
Dream FM (Leeds): DIG! Family show 1993-94 (DJ)
Jazz FM North : Northern Jazz Groove 1996-1997 (DJ)
Leeds Student Radio : Various shows 1995-2005 (DJ)
BBC Radio Scotland : Planet Latino 2006/2007 (co-producer)
BBC Radio Two : Latin Quarter Pilot Show 2006 (co-producer)
BBC Radio One : latin DJ mix and interview on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide show September 2006 
Radio B92 - Belgrade, Serbia - various DJ mixes and interviews on Balanco and Cocobanana shows since 2003.

 
 
 
 


 

SALSA : A MUSICAL HISTORY
The biggest Fania compilation ever and also my biggest salsa collection ever! Four CDs, 58 tracks, 40 page booklet, a lovely boxed set with rare photographs. Perfect present for any die-hard salsero. CDs cover the hitsory of salsa, from 1960 and teh guaguanco/mambo era, through to the golden age of the 1970s and 1980s, and into the salsa moderna 1990s, ending in 2000! Fania, Tico, Alegre, Vaya, Cotique, International, Inca and Sonido from the 1960s to the 1980s, and MP and RMM representing the 1990s. If there was a compilation Latin Grammy, this oen would be nominated! No, not a boast, its just a killer!    

NYC SALSA 3
The best one yet! Some real deep 1970s stuff like Marty Galagarza, La Muralla and Pipo Colon plus some of my favourite salsa artists like Latin Tempo, Tommy Olivencia (an early one) and Justo Betancourt. Heavy salsa and guanguancos from New York's finest! Just getting better, lets hope the NYC Salsa series keeps running and running.

NYC SALSA 2
The original NYC Salsa has been a great success with many DJs in the UK saying it is one of the best salsa compilations ever made there. On release in the USA in summer 2007, it quickly shifted 5,000 copies. I'm very proud of it and honoured to be asked to do Volume 2. Some big tunes on here from Richie Ray/Bobby Cruz, Fania Allstars and Larry Harlow but check the lesser known but equally as good tracks from Alfredo Vargas, Gilberto Cruz, Cabrerita, Javier Vasquez and Kako. Still explosive and incendiary latin dance music from New York.    

EL BARRIO: SOUNDS FROM THE SPANISH HARLEM STREETS
Another killer CD from mi amigo Dean Rudland, chief of staff at Fania UK. More Spanish Harlem Soul and Barrio Funk for the lovers of breaks, beats and basslines. Includes "Elefante" by Ray Barretto - a new version never previously released version (another take ended up on "The Message" LP from 1972)! Also a never previously released alternate take of Pete Bonet & Louie Ramirez's cover of "Evil Ways". Check the pure barrio soul of TNT Band's "Musica De Alma" and the fluid basslines of Fania Allstars' "Smoke" with jazz drummer Billy Cobham laying down the funk. Another top shelf Fania compilation for B-Boys, funk brothers and soul sisters! Out October 2007.     

LOS SONEROS: THE VOICES OF FANIA
My very own tribute to the lead vocalists of the golden age of salsa, 1971 to 1980. The giants of the genre are here - Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe, Ruben Blades, Cheo Feliciano - but I also got to showcase some of the less well known soneros like Chivirico Davila, Ismael Quintana, Santitos Colon, Tito Allen and Justo Betancourt. The singers were the true stars of salsa back in the day and the most respected were the "soneros", those who could improvise all day long and weave in and out of the clave with their eyes closed, never missing a beat! Anyone can be a singer but only a few deserve the accolade of true sonero.   

EL BARRIO: THE BAD BOOGALOO
Not my compilation but my friend Dean Rudland's. He worked at Acid Jazz Records in the 1980s, for EMI/Blue Note in the 1990s, and since the late 90s, he is at ACE Records. He is an original UK mod and massive soul/funk/latin soul collector and musical co-ordinator for the Fania Records project for the Rest Of The World outside the USA. Proper boogaloos from Joey Pastrana, King Nando, Lebron Brothers, La Lupe, Ralph Robles and many more. Includes the massive original break used by DJ Premier on Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man" - "Happy Soul With A Hook" by Dave Cortez & The Moon People! Baaaad Barrio soul!

NEW YORK CITY SALSA 
A double CD of incendiary New York Latin Music aka salsa, from 1970 to 1980 - the Golden Years! A double CD of 30 tracks from labels such as Fania, Tico, Alegre, Vaya, Inca, Cotique and International, and featuring artists like Larry Harlow, Tito Allen, Tipica '73, Cabrerita y sus Ideas, Latin Tempo, Ray Barretto, Tito Gomez, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe and many more legends of Puerto Rican Nueva York. Compiled by Lubi Jovanovic ("my heaviest compilation ever!").

EL BARRIO: a musical taste of Spanish Harlem 1967-75
A collection of latin soul, bugalu, latin funk, descarga and salsa that gives a musical snapshot of Spanish Harlem in New York from the late 1960s to mid 70s. Includes music from Joe Cuba Sextet, Charlie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, Ralphy Pagan, Joe Bataan, the Alexander Review, Pete Bonet and many more fantastic artists. Contains the firing Charlie Palmieri mambo/descarga "Either You Have It Or You Don't". Compiled by Lubi Jovanovic, Adrian Gibson and Dean Rudland.

WILLIE COLON: OG ORIGINAL GANGSTER
A collection of the best and most progressive tracks from the talented New York trombone legend Willie Colon. Starting with his first 1967 album "El Malo" on Fania and finishing with his 1985 latin disco hit "Set Fire To Me", it covers every era of his career. The heavy street salsa with Hector Lavoe, the political salsa and experiments with singer Ruben Blades, the latin jazz/mambo instrumentals, the soundtrack from "The Last Fight" movie which Fania produced. A fully rounded compilation of the man's work. Compiled by Lubi Jovanovic with assistance from Dean Rudland plus sleevenotes by John Child (www.descarga.com)

WE LOVE SALSA : VARIOUS ARTISTS (V2 TV)
A three CD budget collection all taken from the Fania family of albums and all remastered tracks, wholly compiled by Lubi Jovanovic. Since this was a budget TV advertised album, there are some "crossover" tracks on here, including boogaloos, latin funk and standards (La Lupe's "Fever" cover for example). However, 2/3 of the music is classic and some rare 70s/80s/90s salsa. For around £12, you get over 50 tracks. Quality budget salsa collection. 

Available in the UK from HMV, Virgin, Amazon, Borders Bookshops and other quality music outlets.

DANCE HITS SALSA VOL 1, 2, 3 & 4 (PROTEL RECORDS)
Four budget sampler CDs released soley in the USA and available through outlets such as Walmart, these DJ Lubi compilations are stuffed full of quality salsa from the Fania & family back catalogue (2/3 on each CD) PLUS 1/3 heavy tracks taken from the great RMM label of the 1990s. For $10 each CD, another selection of top-class latin music.