Unfortunately we won’t have a Rebel Up! night in A’dam this month of December. Our next one @ OCCII will be on saturday 25 february. We promise you a very special night of Congolese rumba & soukous with live bands from Congo & Brussels! Mark it down in your agenda’s

However, this saturday in the relocated Worm venue, in a new location just off the Witte de Withstraat and very close to Rotterdam CS >

a special evening with futuristic folk with artists from Indonesia, Sudan and closer…. > like One Man Nation, Jimbot and Bambu Wukir, check it >

[The UnifiedField 01] Bambu Wukir from The Unifiedfield on Vimeo.

afterwards there will be an afterparty of global folk dance music with Saca La Mois dj (Cumbia Cosmonauts) and one of the Rebel Up! dj’s (SebCat); expect everything from Indian tribal pop to African autotune folk, slowed down Mexican cumbia, lo-fi exotic Afro guitar swing and much more…….anything goes!

see more info on the new Worm site

Sat. 3 december
22:00 – late…..
7€ door
@ WORM, Rotterdam
Boomgaardsstraat 71 (next to Witte de With straat)

see you there!

In these times of occupied financial centers, where humans turn into amplifiers for subversive thought, you’re probably out on the tramway dancing to the bongos of liberation. We too are dancing there until the last goatskin drum is serenely strung up with the guts of the last banker.  Meanwhile, we’re overjoyed to announce it’s also time for the next edition of Rebel Up! Soundclash with a special guest from San Francisco.

Having torn up dancefloors across continents since 1995, DJ Ripley unleashes bass frequencies at revolutionary volume in town squares, warehouses, ships, clubs, squats, universities, community centers and activist spaces. Her wide-ranging sets unseat musical and social preconceptions with a mind-blowing conversation between kuduro, juke, dubstep, cumbia, booty bass, dancehall, soca, 3bal, jungle, baile funk, garage, breakcore, bhangra and dub.

www.soundcloud.com/ripley // http://djripley.blogspot.com/

As usual the Rebel Up! DJs will trigger their latest surprises and will accompany you through the night to unleash their musical encyclopedia of finest global tunes, from Angolan semba to Zanzibari taarab.

We never do it for the single reason of partying at the OCCII. The entrance fee is as usual reserved for a good cause which this time is the “Boats 4 People” project of the activist network Migreurop. As thousands of people died trying to reach Europe from North Africa in the Mediterranean Sea this summer, they are organizing a solidarity flotilla in early 2012 to raise awareness of this tragedy and denounce the criminalization of migration. “We have come to the conclusion that it is essential now to move to direct action in the light of the excessive number of shipwrecks taking place in the Mediterranean and the reluctance of Europe to concede entry to refugees. We call for a Mediterranean which is in solidarity with migrants and in opposition to repressive policies which seek to criminalise migration towards Europe more and more each day.”

http://www.migreurop.org/article2029.html?lang=fr

 So come along and embrace the idea of dancing and sweating for a good reason.

– RebUp crew

ohlala, thank you all for coming out last saturday, we raised 140€ for Seed Samburu, big up!

last monday our Rebeluppalite dj SebCat did a radio session in the Radio Taxi programme at Urgent FM student radio as part of Rebel Up!/Brussels Up special with buddy dj Leblanc. We arrived 10 minutes late because of a minor car accident. Listen to it here >>>

Radio Taxi 29 August 2011 by Urgent.fm Official

time to kick off a new Rebel Up! Soundclash season at OCCII. From now on our parties will be once every 2 months instead of every month, just to keep it fresh and focused.

Coming saturday 27th, the Rebel Up! crew will meet the Bassculture crew from A’dam for a night of tropical bass, roots & funk, exotic folkpop and other vintage sounds to dance to. check the facebook event here.

Ofcourse our profits will go to a good charity as usual. With the heavy famine that is waging in the horn of Africa right now, we would like to raise emergency funds for the NGO SEED Samburu / Edukans. We also hope that everyone can donate whatever they can spare…it all helps!

A few weeks ago, the UN World Food programma decided to stop sending food reliefs to the tribal region of Central Sambura where the Samburu people live (a pastoral-nomadic tribe related to the Masai) and instead all food now goes to the refugee camps. It’s unfair that the UN turns their back on the Samburu and choose to let them starve. All the educational progress that has been made the past few years by NGO’s like Seed Samburu is on the point of being swooped away because without food, there is no education. Just 10 euro’s will already feed a Samburu child for a full month at school. This is the only daily meal they get as their own families are not able to feed them. Please give the Samburu kids a meal a day so that their life & education can continue!

If you are in Holland, you can also donate through this Edukans link or if you are elsewhere in the world, check the SEED Samburu site.

@ OCCII,
Amstelveenseweg 134, A’dam Oud Zuid
doors from 22:30 til 4:00
damage > 5€ for charity

Tomorrow our sand digging nomad selector Riquetik will play a special early bird wake-up set at the Landjuweel festival in Ruigoord, from 12:00 to 14:00 outside -or in case of bad weather inside- the church. This year’s Landjuweel has plenty sonic space dedicated to world music, with live performances from Antwerp Gypsy Ska Orchestra and Jungle By Night and many fine DJs including Zerkalo and Polyesta. It also serves as a ‘futurological congress’ in which the prospects for cultural free spaces in and around Amsterdam will be discussed.  More info can be found in www.landjuweelfestival.nl

Hope to see you there!

Regardz,

Rebel Up! Crew

samburu district map

A few weeks ago, the UN World Food programma suddenly decided to stop sending food reliefs to the tribal region of Central Sambura where the Samburu people live (a pastoral-nomadic tribe related to the Masai) and instead all food now goes to the refugee camps. It’s an unthinkable decision that the UN turns their back the Samburu starve and for that we boo the UN! Now all the educational progress that has been made in the last few years by NGO’s like Seed Samburu has been swooped away because without food, there is no education. Just 10 euro’s will already feed a Samburu child at school for a full month. Please give the Samburu kids a meal a day so that their education can continue!

queue for food at primary school

If you are in Holland, you can donate through this Edukans link or if you are elsewhere in the world, check the Seed Samburu site.
For those in Belgium, please donate to the account of Belgian Edukans worker Miet Chielens, BE45-0013-3761-9589 attn SCHOOLMAALTIJD-REPAS SCOLAIRE-SCHOOL MEAL

Oh yes me friends, we’re lucky this year and we have the great joy to announce you two forthcoming shows during Amsterdam Roots festival in the last weekend of June. The first event will take place this Sat. 25th in the Tropentheater and next day at the gratis Roots Open Air in the Oosterpark.

Saturday 25th > Amsterdam Roots Festival 2011: Dansen in Marmer (dancing in marble) with Rebel Up! Soundclash

This Rebel Up! Soundclash night was supposed to be in OCCII, but for one time we move to the Marmeren hal of the Tropetheater as a collaboration between OCCII and Tropentheater. We will spill out our rarest and most peculiar selections from 22.30 up till 3.00, right after the naturally great performance of Maître Tambours du Burundi. This antique band is better defined through this quote, “Maître Tambours du Burundi is returning to Tropentheater because of the resounding success of her previous appearance. Twelve Burundi percussionists conjure intoxicating, pulsating rhythms from their barrel-high drums. Somersaults and other acrobatics form part of the spectacular performances by this mother of all percussion groups.” We will for sure be mingling with the crowd to take part of the dance craze that shall be going on for this full visual and soundwise ritual.

Info for the full event: Maître Tambours du Burundi (starts at 20.00).
Tropentheater is doing a special deal of *buy 2 tickets, get 1 free!* which adds up to 13€ per person if you pay it smart. If you only want to come to the afterparty, it`s 7.50 €.
We might have some spots left on our guestlist, so just ask us at info at rebelup dot org.
check here: http://www.tropentheater.nl/smartsite.shtml?ch=THE&id=65583

next day, Sunday 26th > Rebel Up! crew at the Club Stage @ Amsterdam Roots Open Air in Oosterpark (A`dam east)

The free Roots Open Air festival is a multiculti musical delight every year and we`re very proud to be playing here for the first time and especially as we are closing at the Club stage. It`s the perfect setting to deliver our full dancefloor flavour with tropically insane, voodoo-like enchantment and bodily trancendentalism. After a night of genuine African drums, we’ll be surrounded with contemporary world bands mixing traditions and urban fusion. Line up with no less than afrobeat funkers Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou (not to be missed!), tropical cumbieros La Makina del Karibe (right before us on the same Club Stage), mestizo funk by Sergent Garcia, the raw gnawa of Oudaden, desert blues of Terakaft, gypsy Parno Graszt and more. We will be fuelled and as usual we’ll try to surprise you with striking mixes of global styles for some sunday dancefloor action. Expect a trip that will take you from African electronics to digital folk styles, trancendentals spheres and beyond.

Info  on the festival: Sunday June 26, – Roots Open Air in Oosterpark, Amsterdam
our set is from 20.30 to 21.30 at the Club Stage > >  and remember, its free in and funded by well spent tax money!
check:  http://www.amsterdamroots.nl/index.php?id=16.
see timetable here:

our event on facebook here.
with:

HOQUETS (BE/Brussels)
www.hoquets.net
Indiepop, rock and world songs about the weird/historical/culinaire facts of Belgium, all played on self-made instruments put together from discarded and recycled materials. Hoquets is a trio with members Maxime Lê Hùng (BE/ ex-Some Tweetlove), McCloud Zicmuse (US/Le Ton Mité & Maher Shalal Hash Baz ) and François Schultz (FR/Vive le Rouge).
They have just released their debut album ‘Belgotronics‘ on Crammed Discs and recently reworked a song of their friends Konono No.1. The eccentric live power of Hoquets is one of the best surprises of the year!

JEAN MIKILI (BE/Brussels/Liege)
www.myspace.com/jumbojumbojet
Sweet French pop & folk songs with African Soukous guitar rhythms and songs inspired by folk sounds from Laos and much more.

Afterwards DJ’s Brian Hainaut (Hoquets) and Jean Mikili will join us with the dancefloor sound from Congo & around.

The Rebel Up! dj’s will play a mix of sounds from Suriname, Antilles, Indonesia and South Africa to celebrate the rich musical heritage of these freed ex-colonial countries and music of the diverse immigrant groups in Holland. No orange sounds, but only MULTI-COLOURED sounds!

Tonight’s funds will go to the Belgian/Rwandese humanitarian organisation Igitego Inyange ASBL, who support education and healthcare projects in Rwandese villages in the Gahanda region. We once did a fundraiser night for them around 2 years ago, so time to again bring them into the spotlight. More info here; www.inyange.org

When dictators fall, it’s time for sound systems call

The scent of rebellion is spreading throughout the world and even if Europe is still far from following the movement, Rebel Up feels like shaking the ground a bit. With our own tools, we’ll be bringing cutting edge platinum skills to keep your mind awake till late. Our combat will stand on stage and it will defy gravity from the lowest rebajada from Buenos Aires to the mash up bass of San Francisco, the fight shall be fair and you’ll have the chance to stand in the middle and take sides. So who’s gonna take a step for resistance ?

Sonido del Principe (NL) The great master of Cumbia and founder of Generation Bass will be here to remind us on good manners with sizzling cuts and mashups from every sounds, bleeps and natural noises that flow below the United States.

http://generationbass.com/

http://www.myspace.com/bersadiscos/music/songs/sonido-del-principe-cartagena-35280064

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sonido-Del-Principe/131707186554

Process Rebel (US) Obviously this heavy bass champion will take care of the rest of the new continent and will allow himself some intrusions in Africa and even on the ground of his opponent. He’ll leave him no rest with his own tracks attacks. Dubstep in all its states. No mercy.

http://www.myspace.com/processrebel

http://www.myspace.com/otherweapons

http://www.subinfinity.com/

Rebel Up DJs/VJs shall make it even with its globetrotting permanent resolution, the sun is never down.

www.rebelup.org

Tonight the profits of the entrance fee and your gifts in our donation box will go to the association All Included for their Caravane Bamako-Dakar project. This organization mainly helps deported people in Africa and struggles for more rights and freedom of circulation within the continent. In the beginning of this month they have done a march for African migration rights. They will show videos and photo’s during the night and info sheets will be available. In the meantime you can check for more infos here :

http://www.allincluded.nl/index.php/actie/caravane-bamako-dakar-11

Saturday 26th of February @ OCCII

SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE (NL)

PROCESS REBEL (US/NL)

REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)

5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!

doors: 22.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)

www.rebelup.org – www.occii.org

May your inspirations for 2011 be filled with true love and the will to do good. Well, if you did that already in 2010, you can search for new occupations then. I don’t know, save a boat that kills dolphins, attend Surinamese class, find a pet to your pets. Do something for your life. At least I know something you could do this Saturday. It’s meant to stimulate the heart and achieve a perfect body shape and pure feeling. It prepares you for the harshness of liver attacks for the next few weeks. By coming you’ll be forgetting all the horrors and fear to come. At least between 22.30 and 4.00.

We decided to have a fused menu this end of year 2010, that’s been fruitful in emotions and wild guests. Ours this time is an insider somehow, from the Netherlands, here is

DJ ZERKALO. He uses a rocket to transport you from Thailand to Haïti, some echoes of Columbia y Cuba, no transit and straight to Africa. You can tell he loves this continent with all its grooviness and rough rhythms. He’s searching deep in our planet jukebox, just the way we do.

www.djzerkalo.com

REBEL UP! DJs. The Good Belgian, The Ugly French and the Baddass Dutch reunited as in the days of old. The Triumvirate will be severe and strict in one point, making you argue all night long, what you just heard, where could it come from and how the hell someone could produce such craze.

www.rebelup.org

PROCESS REBEL. If Seattle, San Francisco and Amsterdam had something in common, that would be him. Our mad banana lover. Not only has he been living in those three cities but he’s got that uncompromising style from Seattle, the cool attitude of SF and the cosmoEuropolparty understanding of A’dam. He will process you into his tough bass blood and new funk selection. Keep some strength for that one.

www.subinfinity.com

VJ M is back to give our optical organs a well-deserved massage. He’ll bring along a big box of sublime cultureclashing visuals that will awaken your third eye while gently tickling your skin with photon bombs.

After that, we go to bed satisfied and ready for more in 2011.

Our charity funds will go this time for Warriors Without Weapons, an organisation that develops goodwill projects to conceive and realize especially in Africa. Alejandra from WWW will come with her shaker to sell you the best cocktails and raise more money for the cause. Seek for more info :

warriorswithoutweapons.wordpress.com

Have good ones

Saturday 18th of December @ OCCII

PROCESS REBEL (US)

DJ ZERKALO (NL)

REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)

5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!

doors: 22.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)

www.rebelup.org - www.occii.org