This weekend > Bxl 12 may & Gent 13 may!

Hey all,
Upcoming weekend some Rebel Up action!

Starting on Friday night at L’Impasse bar in Ixelles, Drache Musicale & Friends w/ SebCat as his guest. from 22h onwards. Vinyl only!
Free in @ 17 Place du Châtelain, Ixelles.

On Saturday 13 May, a whole afternoon, evening & night of music in Ghent at the Chinastraat / Bar Bricolage on the dockside area. Organised by La Nature Festival as a warm up to their main festival in June.

The event starts with a vinyl record fair in the afternoon from 14h onwards until 18h30 @ Bar Bricolage outdoor area. Rebel Up, Souma Records and countless other good labels and sellers will be there! FB event of record fair.

There will be outdoor music too, with DJ sets by Souma Records, Rebel Up SebCat, Rafael Aragon and Tropical DJipies crew (Didi & Raql) until 22h.

After this the music & party will go inside at Chinastraat venue next door, with these artists on the programme >>>

Club Night (electronic & uk bass filled night):
Azu Tiwaline & Beatum HYBRID
Ben Kaczor
Daniel[i]
Yentl.

Hypnose Room (ambient chill out):
Lukas Freisem
VLE

Info here / FB event.
Hypnose Room (ambient chill out):
Lukas Freisem
VLE

Info here / FB event.

See ya around!!! 🙂

Sunday 27.06 > double Rebel Up action at Bxl canal (Recup Ton Quartier, Cureghem) and record fair @ DOK Gent

This sunday double Rebel Up action >

Starting in the morning (for real) at the Cureghem/Anderlecht canal side.
The Microtunes X Breakfeest event is organised by Micromarché as part of their Recup Ton Quartier / Recup Je Wijk project. Listen to some tunes, do a workshop, have a pancake breakfast!

From 9 to 12h in breakfast/brunch vibes >>>>
REBEL UP! SEBCAT & RAFAEL ARAGON MORNING DJ-SET
PANCAKES/CREPES
ATELIER VELO x VZW ELASTIEK
BUBBLATON x BOTS CONSPIRACY

Prix libre / Vrije bijdrage / Free donation
Find us at the Pont de Cureghem / Kuregembrug on the corner of Rue Wayez / Quai Fernand Demets. All info here.

and in the afternoon we move over to Gent at DOK open air venue from 12H until 20H.
Gent collectives Huna Sounds, Democrazy & Tweeden Asem organise a record fair with lots of great sellers > labels, distro’s and collectors.

The Rebel Up label & distro will be there with our releases + other titles. More sellers who will be present are SOUMA, XOGN, Calacas, Labi & Funk, GroovyRecords, Ubuntu & more.

All info here on FB event or website.

And also open air DJ sets for Radio Ruit, see the linup below. Hope to see you there!

Tonight Sat 20.06, Rebel Up @ World Refugee Day livesteam + Rebel Up Global Sessions livestream *Souh American Female DJ* special

Today is World Refugee Day!
This afternoon & evening, World Refugee Day livestream via Radio Rood / de Koer / Bij’ De Vieze Gasten from Gent with Osama Abdulrasol, Soundroutes, WHO DAT and a DJ set Rebel Up SebCat around 19h30, tune in live!

All info & livestream > FB event

and also tonight, another evening of Rebel Up Global Sessions livestream, South American Female special with DJ’s House of Pris (BR/Miami) and Pezon (CO/Madrid).

Tune in from 22H CET for 2 hours of female power.
FB event
livestream > https://www.twitch.tv/rebeluppa

30.01 – 10.02: Rebel Up on Euro tour w/ Nahawa Doumbia in BE/NL/DE/FR/CH

hello friends,

for the next 2 weeks from 30.01 until 11.02, Rebel Up SebCat will be touring with Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia and her acoustic band. Not as DJ, but managing the band on the road, taking them from venue to venue through Belgium (Antwerp, Gent, Leffinge), Netherlands (Leiden), Germany (Dusseldorf), France (Paris) and Switzerland (Baden, Geneve & Dudingen).

Since the 1970’s, she is one of the main female voices of the Malian Wassoulou style. Check our her recent reissue on the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, it’s pure bliss.
On the tour they will have merch for sale (CD’s and vinyls) at very fair prices.

See the tour dates & venues above, come and say hello!

On saturday 8 Feb, SebCat will spin global tunes in Geneva together with the Bongo Joe team at Chez Jean-Luc cabaret bar into the night. Drop by & swing 🙂

New release on Rebel Up Records: Nikanor – Bajo El Sol. Album release weekend with shows in Gent & Brussels

Nikanor – Bajo El Sol (RUP015)
releases 15 january
on vinyl, CD & digital
Chicha cumbia, cumbia Amazonica and psychedelic rock from Peru via Brussels.

Nikanor is a Peruvian band based in Brussels, fronted by vocalist Marx Sánchez Sosa and guitarist Angel Loaiza. Together they play Chicha cumbia, a unique genre based on Andean melodies blended with tropical percussion and psychedelic rock.

The first Chicha cumbia bands appeared in Peru during the mid-1960’s and was very popular until the mid-1980’s. In recent years, ‘la Chicha’ is experiencing a renaissance, with bands and audiences from around the world (re)discovering its power and sound. Taking the big names and bands from the Chicha cumbia era as a reference, Nikanor started in 2016 as a cover band, to play the most remarkable and strongest songs to gain recognition in the Belgian scene. Since then the band has evolved into a group that writes their own music and songs.

Nikanor’s songs are a mix of rock, Chicha cumbia, tropical cumbia and Andean folk. Songs like ‘La Bajada del Kuraka’, with its Afro-Peruvian rhythms, or ‘Cóndor Blanco’, with its Quenas (Andean panpipes), make this album a trip in sound into Peru. Listening to the songs you feel like flying through landscapes and rhythms from all around the country. All of this in a rock structured format that invites to dancing and partying in a live setting.

LISTEN / ORDER vinyl/ CD via Bandcamp!

Check their new videoclip here! > > >

Nikanor & Rebel Up Records will present the album with a little tour in Belgium on friday 17 & sunday 19 january, with dj support & afterparty by Rebel Up & friends.

17.01 @ Trefpunt, Gent, 20h30
19.01 @ Labokube, Brussels 19h

Fri 20 Dec: Rebel Up SebCat @ Blikken & Blozen, De Koer, Gent

a sparkling party & screening with and for the benefit of Cine Rio, your favorite Gent cinema. Screening of the live concert film “Stop Making Sense” by the Talking Heads. After that, some of the best DJs in the country to heat up the dance floor.

20:00 DJ, Neo Rej
Happy tunes from dark cities

21:00 Talking heads – Stop making sense
The title says it all, Talking Heads do it for you on the big screen, live from 1984!

22:30 DJ, Jeff Nice
In addition to being a painter and a painter, the collector of the black gold. Spends several hours on Discogs resulting in a collection of musical treasures peppered with synthesizers, vocoders and other premature technological effects.

00:30 DJ, Rebel Up SebCat
For more than 10 years, Rebel Up has been bringing global underground vibes and colors to the Brussels nightlife with events with “global sounds” or contemporary world music and fringe styles. He will make you surf the sound waves from everywhere to nowhere through the worldwide underground.

03:00 DJ, Da’s seg(h)ers da

more info >
FB event / website

Tickets: https://bit.ly/2O8CVeX
Presale €8 / at door €10 / UiTPAS kansentarief €1,60
Website: https://bit.ly/2XEX1R1

28-29-30 June > Rebel Up, Babylon Trio and Memo Pimiento Belgian festival weekend! > Brussels, Genk, Gent, Mechelen & Brugge

yes, this weekend, festival season fever has kicked off.

On friday, a triple city programme of Rebel Up & Babylon Trio spread over Brussels, Genk and Gent.

starting at Couleur Cafe, where Rebel Up, Drache Musicale and Le Grand Mechant Loop will play together 3 evenings in a row from 18h until 1am at the secret Drasch bar. Think you can find us? 😉 On friday and saturday night Rebel Up LeBlanc spins and Rebel Up SebCat on sunday.

Meanwhile in Genk (Limburg), Babylon Trio will play a live show before BaBa Zula and Omar Souleyman.
FREE IN, see event here.

and that same friday evening, Rebel Up SebCat will spin from midnight til 2am at Copacobana festival in Gent (St Amandsberg) at Het Kasteel stage. Also a free festival and a great lineup.
FB event / website.

saturday early evening, Babylon Trio will play at Ottertrotter festival in Mechelen, another free festival! see event here.

also saturday night, Memo Pimiento plays a live set in Brugge at the Signaal Radiofestival. Find them at 22h at the outdoor stage at Villa Bota.
FB event here.

and in the night in Brussels, Rebel Up SebCat will spin at the afterparty of the European Bike Messengers Championship at Black Buddah warehouse, organised by 54K soundsystem. See FB event & Black Buddah page.

See you around this loooooong weekend 🙂