Saturday 13 december: Last Rebel Up event in Bxl of 2025 @ Brasserie de la Mule

Hey all,

This Saturday 13 Dec, is our last Rebel Up event of this year,.
Our Rebel Up residency night at Brasserie de la Mule in Schaarbeek.

With the Swedish-Spanish duo Bom Beijo & Selva Kalรบ for a live concert of global electro jazz. Bom Beijo is an electronic producer and guitarist, while Selva Kalรบ is a vocalist and saxophone player. Expect an exciting and vibrating mix of global sounds, electronic vibes mixed up with contemporary jazz.

After that, DJ sets by Baobab Music, Rebel Up SebCat and Bom Beijo into global, tropical and bass sounds.

Doors 19h, Concert at 21:00 followed by dj sets until 3am.

INFO: FB event / instagram

@ Brasserie de la Mule
Rue Rubens 95
1030 Schaarbeek


25 / 27 + 28 June, Rebel Up events in Brussels

Hey all, this last week of June plenty of Rebel Up events in Brussels…
These are our last ones before a little break of almost 3 weeks.
(we will be back on 19 july with a big Globaal Illegaal party!)

Starting with wednesday 25 June at Vaux Hall in Parc Royal,
our So Scherp event organised by the city of Brussels , by Rebel Up together with Drache MuMu.

A lineup with 2 live bands and DJ’s from 18h until 23h >>>>

Gaaci Fusion (Mauritania/Bxl)
afro funk & blues
Zinne Kabar (La Reunion / Bxl)
maloya & percussion
Rebel Up & Drache MuMu DJ’s
DJ Kym Mbembe


Free in!

All info here.

Friday 27 June, we have our Rebel Up & Friends evening at Leo Bar, LionCity Molenbeek.
with Rebel Up SebCat, Moon Yรฉ and special guest Bob Le Voyageur.

expect lots of afro vibes and beats for the dancefloor ๐Ÿ™‚
from 19h30 until 1am. Terrace open!

@ Leo bar, LionCity
Rue d Osseghem 53 (end of the hallway)
Molenbeek
More info here and here.

and our final event on Saturday 28 June at Sounds Jazz Club.

A special Colombian night with El Leon Pardo sexteto concert. Electro colombian band with ancestral sounds of the gaita (kiusi) flute, trumpets, percussion and electronics!
First ever show in Brussels.

Afterparty by Rebel Up with SebCat & DJ Soleil.
Buy your ticket here (more expensive at door)

Doors at 21h until 3am
concert at 21h30

@ Sounds Jazz Club
Rue de la Tulipe 28
Ixelles / Elsene


We hope to see you around!!!

Rebel Up weekender in Bxl > Fri 24.01 + Sat 25.01

hey all,

big up thanks to you for coming out in loving force last saturday @ Illegaal, what an amazing night it was, full of great sets and vibes!!!!
Our next night in Illegaal is already on Friday 7 February, where we curate the afterparty for the yearly Chouette Festival. See event here.

This weekend 2 Rebel Up gigs in Brussels >>>>

On Friday 24.01, we do our first party in the new LEO bar in the LionCity project in northern Molenbeek.

Get ready for a vibrant Global Afro Electro Party with the iconic Rebel Up crew! Expect an eclectic mix of beats, rhythms, and vibes that will keep you moving all night, with SebCat, Drache MuMu and Laryssa Kim.

19h – 1am
@ Leo Bar
Rue Osseghem 53
(metro Osseghem or Beekkant)
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and on Saturday 25.01, we do a Rebel Up takeover at Brasserie de la Mule in Schaarbeek, with a live concert by Bxl-Colombian group Tropicant, who bring their cumbia and merengue rockero sound! Global afterparty with Rebel Up dj’s SebCat & Moon Yรฉ.

from 19h until 3am, prix libre / free donation

Brasserie de la Mule
95 Rue Rubens
Schaerbeek
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See you around!

new Rebel Up radio shows online: Nightshop December + Kiosk Radio + Bruzz

hey all!

We have some new radio shows online for you to enjoy,

Our latest Rebel Up Nightshop for December, 3,5 hours of new music by Akram Abdulfattah, Soledad Kalza & Siena Kienou, MOMO, Nicole Mitchell & Ballakรฉ Sissoko, Aboubakar Traore & Balima, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Al-Qasar, Susobrino, Blanc Manioc and Faraway Ghost & Sunken Cages. check it out here >>>

We also have new Rebel Up & Friends sessions at Kiosk Radio online, December SebCat B2B Lavalamp and November!

and here our latest shows on Bruzz, interviews with Nathan Daems about the new Trance Plantations album, and with Aziza about her new EP.

New Rebel Up Nightshop shows online for November & October

Hey all,

Here are our latest Nighshop radio shows online, for October & November!

Nightshop show #122 for November. Starting with 2 songs of the day via Turkey & Brazil. We have 10 Albums of the month, kicking off with Brussels duo Trance Plantations and their cosmic experimental ambient jazz, a compilation of Congolese musician Francoโ€™s label in the late 1970’s via Planet Ilunga, French duo Bonbon Vodou and their Caribbean folk pop and Discobole Orchestra & Christine Salem from La Reunion and their maloya fusions and a South Asia disco funk compilation via Soundway Records. El Khat brings their noisy Yemenite folk experimental sound to shake up things, Bristol Punjabi producer Indian Man with an album dedicated to his grandmother and with electronic collaborations between India & Africa, UK duo Dar Disku and their Arabian sea electro disco sound, Mexican Brussels duo Memo Pimiento and their electro cumbia synthwave and Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue with strong bass club sounds, and finishing with our monthly gig agenda.


and here our show for October, Nightshop show #121. Starting with 2 songs of the day via Colombia & Brussels. 11 Albums of the month, kicking off with the Ugandan artist Ekuka Morris Sirikiti and his thumb piano folk songs, Italian singer Lavinia Mancusi and her experimental folk sound, Brussels experimental jazz quartet Punk Kong, the Thai band The Paradise Bangkok International Molam band into more dubby & psyche molam sounds, the compilation Ghana Special vol 2 with disco highlife from the diaspora and tamashek desert rock band Etran de lโ€™Aรฏr from Agadez, Niger. Following with tribal electro rock by Brussels quartet Why The Eye, Polish space jazz electronics for the mycelium age by Bล‚oto, and more electronic vibes by producer Aleksand Saya from La Reunion in maloya meets amapiano, Ugandan drumming group Arsenal Mikebe in heavy electro punches, and Italian producer A-Tweed and his disco punk club sounds. Finishing with our monthly agenda.

Satuday 19 oct > Globaal Illegaal party @ Brasserie Illegaal, Bxl

hey all,

Another season of ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐š๐ฅ kicks off! With a warm night of outernational bass sounds from 3 different continents hosted by Rebel Up, with international guests from Peru, La Reunion and Brussels. Between electro Maloya, Mโ€™bass, Cumbia bass and Latinx club music and beyond….. + live liquid visuals!

๐‘ณ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ๐‘ผ๐‘ท:

๐ƒ๐‘๐€๐‚๐‡๐„ ๐Œ๐”๐Œ๐” ๐๐Ÿ๐ ๐Œ๐Ž๐Ž๐ ๐˜๐„ฬ
๐€๐‹๐„๐Š๐’๐€๐๐ƒ ๐’๐€๐˜๐€
๐•๐ˆ๐“๐” ๐•๐€๐‹๐„๐‘๐€
๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐“๐€ ๐‚๐‡๐‘๐„๐Œ
๐‘๐„๐๐„๐‹ ๐”๐ ๐’๐„๐๐‚๐€๐“

Doors 22H
10โ‚ฌ CASH! > Please bring cash.
Inside @ Illegaal bar you can pay by card for your drinks.


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๐‘ซ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ด๐’–๐‘ด๐’– (๐‘ฉ๐’™๐’)
For the intimate and the anonymous, Drache MuMu has been widely splashing planetary grooves since 2012 in Bxl. With in the sprinkler extinguisher: beats africo tropico coco, glorified chรขรขbi, crewole groove, sรฉga, gnawa, digitalized cumbia, serious tropicool, kamba, tumbelรฉ, zouk bass, tsรฉtรฉra tsรฉtรฉra. DJ set at night, radio show during the day on Radio Panik, thereโ€™s no time to dry out.
https://www.mixcloud.com/DracheMusicale

๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’ ๐’€๐’†ฬ (๐‘ณ๐’‚ ๐‘น๐’†๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ / ๐‘ฉ๐’™๐’)
DJ, film maker, ex athlete and pure music lover, Moon Yรฉ landed in Bxl a few months ago to make here his new home. His roots are from La Reunion island in the Indian ocean, and this can be heard in his dj sets, where blends of maloya, kabar, sega, malagasy, indian styles, afrohouse and electronic music are played together in a forward organic sound that is deeply linked to his home region. Net to this he runs the Boulevard Sud agency, where he promotes emerging electronic global artists from La Reunion and the Indian ocean.
https://www.mixcloud.com/moonye/

๐‘จ๐’๐’†๐’Œ๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’š๐’‚ (๐‘ณ๐’‚ ๐‘น๐’†๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’๐’)
Producer Aleksand Saya draws his inspiration from the cultural wealth of his native island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. He experiments and transforms the traditional elements of Maloya by merging them with hip-hop and electro sounds, creating his trademark, which he calls M’Bass. He invites listeners to dive into a singular sound universe, where the vibrations of Maloya blend with deep bass and catchy syncopated beats and a captivating ability to bring souls together, while breaking down boundaries.
https://soundcloud.com/aleksandsaya

๐‘ฝ๐’Š๐’•๐’– ๐‘ฝ๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’“๐’‚ (๐‘ท๐’†๐’“๐’– / ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’“๐’„๐’†๐’๐’๐’๐’‚)
Vitu Valera has carved a distinctive niche in the global music scene as a multi-instrumentalist, producer and adept DJ. His music seamlessly blends traditional south-global rhythms with Latinxclub sounds, showcased through his distinctive performances an sets. Notably, his recent debut album “MIGRX,” (November 2023) on international bass label MATRACA, where he merges the digital with the organic. He has further released EPโ€™s and tracks on labels such as New Latam Beats and Eck Echo. His dj sets of Peruvian bass sounds will take you into ancestral moods where tradition meets the electronic.
https://vituvalera.bandcamp.com/

๐‘ถ๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’•๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’“๐’†๐’Ž (๐‘ท๐’†๐’“๐’– / ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚)
Orieta Chrem is a DJ, sound engineer, and music producer from Lima, Peru with over 20 years of experience. She is a key figure in the Peruvian electronic music scene and has created various platforms throughout her career showcasing Peruvian and Latin American talent in various cultural spaces in her hometown. As a promoter and founder of โ€œLA RARAโ€ radio, she has invited acts from all over Latin America and beyond, focusing on creating spaces for underrepresented artists and fomenting the growth of the electronic music scene in Lima. In 2014 Orieta founded QMULUS SOUND, the first female-run sound studio in Lima. For 10 years, she works on various projects related to sound design, recording, mixing and mastering. She has recorded music for Los Ballumbrosio, one of the most emblematic groups of Afro-Peruvian music and had international visitors such as Dj Spinn, Robert Henke, Mad Professor, Branko, Matias Aguayo, Thomas Von Party, Channel One, Macky Banton among others. Orieta also constructed and is a co-founder of BQESTIA Soundsystem, a professional soundsystem created with other sound system enthusiasts from Lima. Her diverse taste in electronic genres, such as global bass, funk brasileiro, reggaeton, dembow, footwork, kuduro, ambient, latinxclub and techno, is evident in her work as a DJ, music curator and her own productions, which often feature unique uses of vibrations and the human voice. In the last 10 years, she released several tracks and remixes on various Latin American compilations and labels, including TratraTrax, HiedraH, AGVA, Traaampaaa, Tambiรฉn, Eck Echo, In-Correcto, Matraca, Behua Icara, Makinmovs, Devagar, and Terror Negro.
https://soundcloud.com/orieta-chrem

๐‘น๐’†๐’ƒ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ผ๐’‘ ๐‘บ๐’†๐’ƒ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’• (๐‘ฉ๐’™๐’)
Host and all-round DJ/selector SebCat is the founder of the Rebel Up collective and label and deeply active in the Brussels scene, where he promotes new emerging (inter)national artists of global music. He hosts several radio shows and residencies on Radio Campus Brussels (Nightshop), Kiosk Radio and BRUZZ. Since 2018, Rebel Up became a label and platform that releases eclectic global sounds from upclose & far away, with over 30 releases. His DJ sets take you on a journey into contemporary underground global electronic bass sounds, from everywhere to never before.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/

๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ฝ๐’Š๐’”๐’–๐’‚๐’๐’”
Liquid light visuals by Bom Baleno (IT / Bxl)
Psychedelic lights, bubbles and shapes will shine on your eyes and guide your moves
https://www.instagram.com/officina_bombaleno/

Doors 22H – 5AM
10โ‚ฌ CASH
Please bring cash for the door.
Inside at Illegaal bar you can pay by card for your drinks.


Brasserie ILLEGAAL
Rue Bollinckx, 300
1190 Forest,
Bxl

Arret Taxi Collecto sur place: Illegaal
Taxi Collecto stop available: IlIegaal

Thu 11 July: Globaal Illegaal: Noche Colombiana evening @ Brasserie Illegaal > concerts, dj set on Colombian pico soundsystem!

hey all,
next week thursday 11th july, we organise our last party of the summer so far.

our Globaal Illegaal night, this time a Colombian evening.
Rebel Up & Sounds Resist present >>>

+ ๐‘ฌ๐’ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’„๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ƒ picรณ soundsystem Colombia style
+ concerts: ๐‘ป๐’“๐’๐’‘๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’• / ๐‘ป๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’Œ๐’–๐’Ž๐’˜๐’† / ๐‘ณ๐’๐’” ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’๐’” ๐’…๐’† ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’–๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‚๐’”
+ DJ sets: ๐‘น๐’†๐’ƒ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ผ๐’‘ / ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’ / ๐‘จ๐’๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’” / ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’–๐’‡ / ๐‘บ๐‘ซ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฏ๐’…๐’‹ / ๐‘จ๐’๐’†๐’™ ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’Š๐’“๐’‚ & ๐‘บ๐’–๐’”๐’๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’
+ Food (latin dishes)

18H – 2AM
entry > 10โ‚ฌ (cash!) > for drinks at bar, you can pay with card
children -18 free entrance

A โ€˜picoโ€™ is a typical Colombian soundsystem as can be found on the Caribbean coast, with itโ€™s huge width and fluorescent colors. El Magico Baobab hails from Netherlands, where they build a pico soundsystem according to the Colombian measurements and with a hand-painted screen design by the famous Colombian pico painter William Guitterez Peรฑaloza.

DJโ€™s and live groups will be playing on this pico soundsystem for a true Colombian tropical vibe โ€“ cumbia, baila cantaos, currulao, tambora, gaita, champeta, salsa and moreโ€ฆ.
+ food from latin cuisine!

All info >>>>
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