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!

What an amazing sunny Amsterdam roots weekender we had, hope you were there!

This wednesday we’ll continue even deeper into bizarre global territories on this very special Shangaan electro night at the good WORM in Rotterdam (not in Delfshaven anymore, but right in the centre at Heidegger venue, real close to the station!).

The South African Shangaan electro music is not your average african sound; it’s a happy electronic marimba folk style from the north-eastern Limpopo region with beats that can go up to 180 bpm. Not for faintfeeted. Producer Richard Nozinja will provide these infectuous marimba speed beats accompanied by the surreal dance moves of the Tshe Tsha Boys and the polyphonic voices of Tiyiselani and Nkata Mawewe. Sure is gonna be a good one, not be missed; only show in NL!

Before & after, our Rebel Up! dj SebCat will play South African sounds with Brussels friends Darcyr & LeBlanc (Tupolev/Brussels Up) and Max Le Daron. Hear this fresh Shangaan mix by Darcyr & LeBlanc, just uploaded!

and see here some Tshe Tsha Boys moves, get practising yo!

Thursday 22nd we are playing at the awesome Poortgebouw building at the shores of the grand river Maas. Global sounds will flow this evening in rough edged corners and eclectic travels. The evenings runs from 21:00 till 01:00.

FILASTINE & MC NOVA (US/ Soot Records, Jarring Effects)
Solo artist on DJ/Rupture’s Soot label. Mashes up Middle Eastern
melodies and other exotic flavours with razorsharp, fragmented beats,
without damaging the soul. A colourful and striking attack against “world
music” homogenisation. He will be performing together with MC Nova (bombing
Bahasa Indonesian raps).
http://www.myspace.com/filastine

REBEL UP! DJ & VJ Team (NL/ Rebel Up! Soundclash)
Organisers of the Rebel Up! Soundclash events in Amsterdam and Utrecht.
Passionate collectors of diasporic sounds from the global underground.
Their collection ranges from Europian mestizo beats, gypsy funk and Arabic
roughness to Latino cuts, amplified African rhythms and Asian psychedelica.

DJ SAXIXA (NL/ Worm)
DJ Alter ego of Sascha Roth. Programmer of WORM, connoisseur of Cumbia. Key
figure in the Holland-Argentina connection, shipping the purveyors of
Cumbia and other rural styles from overseas. For Textuur he will bring you
a carefully picked selection of imported goods.

Place, Poortgebouw, Rotterdam
Location info: www.poortgebouw.nl
Start: 21:00
Fee: 5€

This wednesday evening a real nice concert @ Exit in Rotterdam.  

From St. Petersburg and Odessa comes the male sextet La Minor, a band that plays a combination of sax, guitar, guitar bass, mandolin en bayan (Russian button accordion). They bring pure and warm acoustic music filled with Russian chanson, polka, klezmer, tango & gangsterjazz. One after the other, vocalist Slava Shalygin tells tough guy stories that deeply smell like alcohol and tragic love . In a huge country where one fifth of the male population has already been in prison once, these typical Blatnyak songs of life are daily bread and part of the national psyche. La Minor takes up the Blatnyak role theatrically with a wink in the eye and lighthearted irony which sure will make people smile and dance. Their record has just been released on the fine Berlin Eastblok label.
www.myspace.com/laminor
www.morezvukov.nl/LaMinor
www.lastfm.ru/music/La+Minor
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkMIQUyhhOk

Before & after the band, We’ll spin a bizarre mix of Ex-Sovjiet & Russian spheres, Eastern European folk and Balkan Beats. Expect a deeply in vodka drenched sound filled with pleasure and melancholy, future and past times gone.

Wedn. 7th October @ Exit
Mauritsstraat 173 – Rotterdam (very close to Central Station; 10mins walk)
entrance fee: just 5€