Sfinks aftermath
Big thanks to all of you who were there at our Sfinks set last saturday and set the place on fire. We very much enjoyed it, an amazing experience to play for thousands of you!
Here some pics > > > > >
Emergency donation call for famine in the Horn of Africa
With the heavy famine that is waging in the horn of Africa right now, we would like to raise emergency funds at the end of our Rebel Up! set at Sfinks. We hope that everyone can donate whatever they can spare and all the proceeding will go to the NGO Seed Sambura in Kenya.
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
Sat. 30 july > Rebel Up! crew at Sfinks festival, Boechout (Antwerp)
hello hello,
this weekend (29th-31st) it’s time for Sfinks festival again in the green village of Boechout (Antwerp) and we’re invited to perform on the saturday! We’ll be playing our global mashed dance set in the main Concert Tent from 1:00 til 2:30 at night, right after our Colombian friends of Systema Solar and warming up for our buddy Munchi, yeah! Expect a heavy DJ & VJ set of cumbia bass, swinging soukous, unheard shangaan, krazy kuduro, kurdish hiphop, and other electro-folk styles together with colourful visuals.
We’ve made a promo mix for Sfinks, you can check & download it here!
With the heavy famine that is waging in the horn of Africa right now, we would like to raise emergency funds at the end of our Rebel Up! set. We will walk around with a donation box and we hope that everyone can donate whatever they can spare. All the proceedings will go to the NGO Seed Sambura in Kenya.
The Sfinks festival programme promises 3 days of good world music. On the Friday it’s a balkan theme with the music of movie director Emir Kusturica & The no smoking Orchestra and Robert Soko. Saturday has a fine lineup with Ayfer Düzdas (Kurdish folk), Lëk Sèn (Senegalese dancehall), Rubén Blades (spicy Panamese salsa), Alpha Blondy (African roots), Systema Solar (Colombian cumbia fusion), Munchi (fresh moombahton) and ofcourse our set to make you swing and dance, no doubt 
On the Sunday we can highly recommend Dikanda (Polish folk), Mamer (central asian folkpunk), Khaira Arby (Malinese desert funk, best show at recent All Tomorrow’s Parties!), Bomba Estéreo (more cumbia!), Hindi Zahra (Moroccan folk fusion) and Faiz ali Faiz (Pakistani qawwali). Also check out the Cabaña on sunday, where dj’s Polyesta and MPS Pilot will be spinning.
Weekendtickets are just 50€, 40€ for sat+sun or 25€ for one day. Buy your tickets in presale though, otherwise they cost 15-20€ more at the gate!
See you there,
Rebel Up! crew
2 Brussels nights coming up; thu 21st. july Rebel Up! Soundclash #4 @ Recyclart & fri 22nd july dj @ Bxl-Les-Bains/Brussel Bad
hah, it’s Belgian national holiday time this thursday, where every Belgian feels very proud of being a Belgian, ahum. and what will we do? play some non-western global music, yeah!
This 4th Rebel Up! night in Brussels will take us to another dimension; that of the internet and streaming music clips from far away parts of the world. Youtube a go go.
The music video/dvd/clip is currently thé most versatile medium in Africa, Asia and South America to spread music and culture. The growing access to internet in these part of the world has made it possible that more and more of these music clips find their way on Youtube so that even people here in the West can look and listen to music and artists from all corners of the world. The Rebel Up! dj`s will play a personal Youtube selection of unknown lo-fi pop, digital folk psyche clips straight out of this neverending treasure cave, all projected on a big screen (inside & outside) and in full sound.
Loyal to the Rebel Up! philosophy, this night is a fundraiser for a local, independent NGO: the Brussels foundation Les Petits Samurais, that offers basic help to children from immigrants who are without papers and without assured accomodation. The organisation will give a short presentation during this evening.
See full programme in detail on the Recyclart site or check our facebook event.
19:00 > 22:00
BRUSSELS UP! SOUND SYSTEM (BE)
(Darcyr & Leblanc, Sebcat, Quilombo, Lowdjo)
22:00 > 23:00
film selection PERISCOPE #3 by La Vidéothèque Nomade
23:00 > 01:00
REBEL UP SOUNDCLASH #4
global lo fi & folkpop psyche youtube night
Bar Recyclart – gratis
and on friday, more music follows.
Rebel Up! dj SebCat will join Funky Bompa at the temporary beach of Bxl-Les-Bains/Brussel Bad on the Akenkaai/Quai des Peniches. From 17:00 till 23:00h we’ll spin tropical vintage tunes from afro & latino spheres in the La Croisetteke tent (handy for if it should rain!). and yup, it’s free in as well.
See the BLB-BB site or check the facebook event.
sat. 16 july; Rebel Up! at Le Grand Cirque du Balkan, Maastricht
Coming Saturday we’ll be dj-ing some of our obscure, crooning, kitsch and swinging balkan tunes at the Le Grand Cirque du Balkan festival at Landbouwbelang in Maastricht (Zuid-Limburg!)
Expect to hear our paprika peppered sounds in the afternoon between bands and we’ll also play a more full global set at the end of the night. The festival has no fixed entry price but just runs on voluntary donations from every visitor, so don’t forget to chip in!
There is also a facebook event, surf here;
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171665859563910
sat. 9 july Rebel Up! dj SebCat @ Brussels Up sound system party, Brussels
Hello all,
coming Saturday it’s time for a great global party in a Brussels warehouse. our Rebel Up dj SebCat is now also part of the Brussels Up crew who focus on global parties in the Brussels area (logical huh?).
We’re throwing a great summer party in the industrial part of town where no one will bother us and people can dance till sunset. Top soundsystem, cheap entry, cheap drinks and food (yeah even an all night BBQ!), it’s all there for a wild night out!
See full info below or check the facebook event;
we are the world!
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coupé décalé * cumbia * chaabi * afrobeat * desert blues * indian folk pop * tecnobrega * calyspo * kwaito * soca * asian underground * hyper dub * bollywood funk * maloya * flamenco * dubstep * baile funk * kuduro * funana * reggaeton * dancehall * turkish psy * dub * dabke * champeta * speed merengue * thai funk * tribal guarachero * shangaan electro * soukous * tropical bass …
hear our mix here;
www.mixcloud.com/BrusselsUp/brussels-up-promomix
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Based on a shared interest in playing local dance music from around the globe, Brussels based dj’s Sebcat (Rebel Up!), Lowdjo, Darcyr & Leblanc (Tupolev Sound Crash) & Quilombo have joined forces as Brussels Up! Supported by guest dj’s Markan vs. Lofi Stories (La8), this global warehouse party will make the world shrink to the size of a dancefloor, with a spicy blend of different tastes, for your legs, heart & soul.
Just a small travel north of town, but a big trip in music, time and space. Black Buddah is a 1900′s warehouse alongside the canal outside of town (Haren, just before the Vilvoorde Viaduct). A top sound system, no neighbours, fair prices, food (yeah!), space, the water side and some industrial gloom…
doors 23:00 til dawn…
price: 3 euro
address: THE BLACK BUDDAH WAREHOUSE – Vaartdijk / Digue Du Canal 98A
1130 Brussels (Haren)
how to reach the warehouse? >
* Bus 58 Vilvoorde (stop Buda Station / Diegemstraat)
* Buda Train Station (til midnight / or from 6h)
* Collecto Taxi ( only 6 euro!!! from 23h > 6h , stop at 7 A. Van Osslaan
Neder-Over-Heembeek next to Buda Bridge)
Q? brusselsup(at)gmail dot com
wed. 29 june; Rebel Up dj at Shangaan electro night @ Worm, Rotterdam (at Heidegger)
hello boys and girls!
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! 