Cassette Connection Belgium tour 11-12 may; Antwerp, Brussels & 13 may extra set in A´dam
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poster design by Ness Verbeiren
On Friday the 11th o´may, the super special Cassette Connection tour kicks off in Belgium (Antwerp & Brussels) and followed by Amsterdam on Sunday with a limited set by Rebel Up! through the magical Indian tape collection of Sebcat.
Cassette Connection is a pure cassette tour with 3 specialised cassette dj`s playing their collections of colourful lo-fi tapes of (un)popular, vintage and folkloric music from different regions of the world; lo-fi folkpop, ethnic jewels & disco sounds from AFRICA – MIDDLE EAST and the INDIAN SUBCONTINENT.
Awesome Tapes from Africa (US)
After a stint in Ghana researching the local hip-hop movement, Brian Shimkovitz, a trained ethnomusicologist, has accumulated hundreds of cassette tapes of rare african music from Zimbabwe to Ethiopia to Senegal. He has been sharing his bounty through his popular blog Awesome Tapes From Africa, which he takes on the road as a DJ. His dj sets bring old and new music styles of the African continent together in one pure sound that will make you swing till you drop. Awesome Tapes From Africa is now also a label; the first release is a classic 1982 recording by Mali’s legendary diva, Nâ Hawa Doumbia
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DJ Cinnamoon (ES)
Since 2005, the DJ Cinnamoon project has been compiling the best popular music from the Middle East. For this special lo-fi meeting we will enjoy a dense audio-retrospective with original cassettes of Googoosh, Erkin Koray, Omar Souleyman, Haifa Wahbe and many other Turkish, Kurdish, Persian & Arabic extraordinary artists still unreleased for western audiences.
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Sebcat’s Maj Tahal
Brussels dj Sebcat will open up his mysterious Maj Tahal cassette grotto to unveil many musical gems from allover the Indian subcontinent. Expect a fine selection of folkloric and disco pop from different Indian states, cinema songs from beyond Bollywood, sufi synthpop from Pakistan and digital folklore from the Nepali mountains.
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DATES
Fri 11 may @ Scheldapen, Antwerp > Layla Raqsa III night with Basketball (CA) and more
fingerfood, cinema and outerworldly music!
fb event; https://www.facebook.com/events/383986991622295/
Sat 12 may @ Recyclart, Brussels > Cassette Connection night with Velotronix band & dj Bongoman
the Recyclart will be transformed into a lo-fi lounge with sofa’s, outerworldly projections and tv’s with youtube video’s!
fb event; https://www.facebook.com/events/286204771468919/
Sun 13 may @ SOTU fest, OCCII, Amsterdam > supporting US Girls (US) and Hayvanlar Alemi (TR) (without Awesome Tapes From Africa, joint set by Cinnamoon & Sebcat’s Maj Tahal)
fb event; https://www.facebook.com/events/386488968047382/
the Cassette Connection tour has been made possible with the support of Gonzo (circus), Recyclart and Scheldapen.
thu 10 may Rebel Up! dj´s @ KK World with Maguaré (CO/BE), KultuurKaffee Bxl
this thursday Rebel Up! dj Sebcat & Leblanc will play support to Colombian/Belgian cumbia band Maguaré at KultuurKaffee. Expect a lot of cumbia tunes from allover latin america, western cumbia remixes and much more. and oh, it´s free in!
show starts at 21:00 till after midnight for those who like to dance themselves into the early weekend.
> KultuurKaffee, VUB campus, Brussel
sat. 5 may Bevrijdingsdag : Rebel Up! @ Straatlokaal, Neudeplein Utrecht
hello folks,
Hope you all had a good time at our party in OCCII, A’dam last saturday and/or the next day at the Casa Babilon queensnight party in Vechtclub, Utrecht. We sure had fun and time for another blast next weekend. On liberation day Saturday 5 may we’ll be playing our liberating global sounds @ Straatlokaal festival on the central Neude square in Utrecht from 19h till 23h. and oh, entry is free!
Straatlokaal is a fresh festival initiave created by the fine folks of FOUNDation (including our Rebel Up! designer Jet) who will present their creative building project of found/recycled materials on the Neude square in combination with music and concerts by local musicians and dj’s. The festival kicks off on Saturday and runs till Thursday 10 may, see the full programme on the FOUNDation site or join the facebook event. The festival is completely free on each day, so no reason to miss this new alternative city festival. See you there!
Rebel Up! Sebcat in Brasil & Argentina
a long deserved holiday for Sebcat, a full month in Brasil & Agentina. roll on.
no travel is complete without music & hobbyism, and in both countries you can catch Sebcat dj-ing global sounds with an euro/afro/dancehall/oriental/indie twist, and ofcourse some latino spice.
should you be near to any of these places, come dance and say hello!
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Fri 30 march @ Sao Paulo – Explode party night, Neu club
Sat 14 april @ Joao Pessoa – Feste 3o Mondo, Casa de Musiculutura w/ ChicoCorrea – Cassicobra & RUSSOPASSAPUSSO
Fri 20 april @ Recife, Iraq bar
Fri 27 april @ Buenos Aires – Le Bar w/ ZZk crew Villa Diamante, Zurita, Mati Zundel & Mirkin Frois
Sat 28 april @ Buenos Aires – Houseparty NECOCHEA 790, La Boca w/ dj Pinchado
oh oh, another mixtape bomb has been dropped on our Rebel Up! Mixcloud. by titled Cumbia Andinotronic, a warm up set Sebcat did last december before the 8bit cumbia live set of the Super Guachin pibes. listen or grab it as 192kbps download.
até logo, disfruta!
thu 29 march; Rebel Up! dj´s at KK World Suriname night @ KultuurKaffee Bxl + thu 5 april Fauna @ Bonnefooi Bxl
Hello,
a quick Brussels shoutout for 2 upcoming evenings/nights.
This Thursday 29 march @ KultuurKaffee, there’s another free KK World night; a special Suriname night! The Suriname/Dutch bands Kara Dara and Lobi Firi from Amsterdam will play their special kaseko funk and kawina styles which have heavy roots in west-African musical soil, but with a seriously latin/caribbean twist to it. doors open at 19:30, bands on around 20:30.
More info, see the KultuurKaffee site or the FB event.
On Thursday 5th of april @ cafe Bonnefooi is another special free night; our good friends of the Brussels Up! soundsystem are supporting cumbia dancehall duo Fauna from Buenos Aires (ZZK records, AR) who will play a live set. It´s free in!
Fauna expected to be on somewhere after midnight, check out their neo-tropical flashy video, oh!
-without Rebel Up dj Sebcat though, as he´s travelling and spinning here and there in Brazil & Argentina the next 4 weeks-
hasta la pasta!
Friday 16 march; Rebel Up! dj Sebcat @ Nightshop Tel Aviv/Israel party > Recyclart, Brussels
Ahoy folks,
This friday another heavy Nightshop party coming up at Recyclart; a special Tel Aviv massiv’ party with multi-producer Sabbo, the Ethiopian/Yemen duo Axum and DJ Prince of Persia, supported by local Brussels wizard DJ Mellow (Low Up) and our Dutch friends of the Bomb Diggy crew. Also our very own Sebcat will be filling in for Brussels Up! buddy Leblanc (who had to cancel due to a southern trip), he´ll be doing the warm up slot from 23h till midnight, so be early if you want to catch some unheard Middle Eastern electronics and other new stuff. For more info on the night, go here.
Check the radio promo we did on the Tortoli & Arbatax show @ Bxl pirate station Radio Panik
and oh! Sebcat’s Indonesiadelica mixtape is now also online at our mixcloud. check it here!
Indonesiadelica by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud
thu 1 march; BALOJI @ KultuurKaffee, Brussels with Rebel Up! dj support
on thursday 1 march, Rebel Up! will be supporting the Congolese-Belgian hiphop-rumba rapper Baloji @ KultuurKaffee, VUB campus, Brussels.
His new project ‘Kinshasa Succursale´ with various Congolese musicians promises to swing from old rumba soukous glory to modern urban hiphop times.
doors open at 20:00h with Baloji on stage a bit after 21:00h, plus afterwards more wordly sounds till late…..
damage; 5 €