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Saturday 10 October, Rebel Up @ Ritmo Infernal party @ Brasserie Illegaal

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RITMO INFERNAL #3 / SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER

From Colombia to Cabo Verde, from cumbia to punk, and from New York to Brussels, Caribbean folklore and electronic music come together for a vibrant night featuring a live concert and a Global Groove DJ set!

TIMETABLE >>>>

19h : Atelier de danse “La Manigua” (Colombia)
Taller “Bailes Cantaos” par Danilua Salgado!
https://www.instagram.com/la_manigua_dance/
Inscription : 25€ (workshop + party entry combined)
Reserve via +33 6 07 70 03 75

20h: Warm-Up terrace: Colombian meal “Sancocho de pescado” by Arnaud Bingoni.
Opening DJ set Rebel Up SebCat B2B El Chente (BE/FR).
Tropical & Caribbean vinyl sounds. @rebelup_ @_elchente_

22h: Los Gaiteros de Bruselas (BE/CO) @los_gaiteros_de_bruselas
Live Gaita y Cumbia and Colombian traditional sounds

00h: Teacher Jekyll (Fr/Cabo Verde)
Live Tropical Electro concert with Cape Verdian singer.

01h30: Nickodemus (New York) Wonderwheel label boss, producer and DJ @nickodemusnyc @wonderwheelrecordings
Tropical Electro Global Groove DJ Set

03h30: Rebel-Up SebCat B2B El Chente (BE/FR)
Closing DJ set of Tropical sounds, Bass and more!

Food available on site between 19h and 05h: “Sancocho” Traditional Caribbean Platter Arnaud Bingoni of Veggiecafeee

Presale tickets: €13.80
Buy here

At the door: €15 (Please bring cash!)
Card possible to pay for food and drinks inside

Artwork & poster design by the wonderful Landry A

More info

Doors 19h – 05:00
300 Rue Bollinckx, 1190 Forest

ILLEGAAL is a place for celebration, sharing, and meeting others, open to everyone. No oppressive, violent, or discriminatory behavior is tolerated. The Love Team, formed by Plan Sacha & Quality Nights, is there for you if you need anything. Venue certified by Quality Nights.

Saturday 11 July > Rebel Up Globaal Illegaal present La KZ party @ Brasserie Illegaal! Colombian picó soundsystem culture + concert + DJ’s + food!

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hey everyone!

Saturday 11 july we organise our next Globaal Illegaal party at Brasserie Illegaal.
Rebel Up and Baobab Music will launch the very first edition of La KZ Brussels. La KZ aims to spotlight Colombian picó soundsytem culture across Europe and bring multiple picós together in one place at Illegaal.

with 3 soundystems!
picó El Mágico Baobab
picó La Saramuya
High’n’Irie Soundsystem

El Mágico Baobab and La Saramuya picós will battle it out inside the brewery,
while High’n’Irie Soundsystem will run the outdoor courtyard.

LIVE CONCERT by Diese Mbangue (afro/soukous/highlife)
DJ’S Calamidades Lola (CO), LEINY (CO), Rebel Up SebCat, High’n’Irie DJ’s, Mango, Ananas, Stivako (ET/GR) and more TBC.
+ MC Adri Vinchira (CO)

Timetable TBC

+ Latin Food stands

+ match on big screen (possibly Colombia – Argentina!!)

1st tier EARLY BIRD tickets at 8.50€ SOLD OUT
2nd tier EARLY BIRD tickets at 10.50€ SOLD OUT

Final tier of tickets at 12.50€ available now!
https://tinyurl.com/globaalillegaal1107

more info: instagram / facebook event

Saturday 11.07
Doors: 20H – 5H
@ Brasserie Illegaal
300 Rue Bollinckx
1190 Forest

/!\ ILLEGAAL is a place for celebration, sharing, and meeting, open to everyone. No oppressive, violent, or discriminatory behavior is tolerated. The Love Team, formed by Plan Sacha & Quality Nights, is there for you if you need anything.
Venue certified by Quality Nights.

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

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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 Kalú for a live concert of global electro jazz. Bom Beijo is an electronic producer and guitarist, while Selva Kalú 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

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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 Yé and special guest Bob Le Voyageur.

expect lots of afro vibes and beats for the dancefloor 🙂
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

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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)
FB event

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 Yé.

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

Brasserie de la Mule
95 Rue Rubens
Schaerbeek
FB event

See you around!

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

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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 & Ballaké 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

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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 Franco’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 l’Aïr from Agadez, Niger. Following with tribal electro rock by Brussels quartet Why The Eye, Polish space jazz electronics for the mycelium age by Błoto, 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.