Rebel Up events 14.06 + 18.06 > Bongo Joe x Rebel Up Maghreb global bass afterparty + Sahel evening with African concerts!

Hey everyone,
Hope you are doing well in this interlude between spring to summer 🙂

Here 2 special events that we organise coming week >>>>>

On Saturday 14 June, we organise together with the amazing crew of Bongo Joe a global afterparty, to celebrate the 10 years of their label. On Friday + Saturday evening they host a Bongo Joe concert programme at the Ancienne Belgique club room (with The Space Lady, Lalalar, Cyril Cyril and more!)
Our afterparty follows after the AB on Satutday night at the mysterious Chez Jacques Music Club, a little know cave club on the canal side of Molenbeek.

A great global clubbing & bass lineup with Tunisian-Swiss producer Pekodjinn, Brussels Moroccon producer Cheb Runner, the Bongo Joe dj crew (1000balles & Injuste) and the Rebel Up crew (SebCat, Drache MuMu & Moon Yé).

Starting at 23h until 6am, or a bit more 😉

10€ in (please bring cash for door!)
Inside you can pay by card for your drinks
limited capacity, try to come early

See all info at FB event or on Instagram.

@ Chez Jacques Music Club
Haubrechtsstraat 8 Rue Haubrechts
1080 Molem

and our 2nd event is Wednesday 18 June, at Brasserie Illegaal. a Sahel musical evening organised by Rebel Up, 11 11 11 comité, Curieus and Bolingo Art.

With 2 concerts of special and deep moving music from the Sahel region by Kaito Winse (Burkina Faso / Brussels) and the desert blues/rock band TisDass from Niger.

Both artists are part of our Rebel Up label and they will have vinyls, cd’s and merchandise for sale during the evening. TisDass new album Houmaïssa will be released that same week as a limited edition vinyl on our Rebel Up label in collaboration with Bolingo Art.

DJ support by Rebel Up dj’s SebCat & Drache MuMu

Doors: 18h
Food available from 18h onwards (african dishes, veggie or chicken)

First concert at 20h30

10€ in (please bring cash)
inside you can pay by card for drinks

Info >> FB event / Illegaal website / Instagram

@ Brasserie Illegaal
300 Rue Bollinckx
1190 Forest


We hope yo see you there!!
Check our agenda for our other upcoming dates in June and July

Summer radio shows & mixtapes online

hey all,
Hope summer has been good to you and your senses. During summer we uploaded some new radio content.

Starting with our latest Nightshop (July & August summer show) on Radio Campus Bxl, with new albums by Arthur Russell, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy, Jantra Music, Nana Benz du Togo, Coco Maria via Bongo Joe, Chupame El Dedo, Vudufa and more!
Listen below!


In ealy July, we did our Rebel Up @ Friends session at Kiosk Radio with our Cuban friend Raul aka Chaonda of Cubalanz festival / Camarote Culture asbl. A session with latin sounds between cumbia & salsa.


and during summer break for Bruzz radio on our Rebel Up show, we hosted a string of global mixtapes by DJ Doraemon (Lisbon, PT), Skandal (Bxl), SebCat and Kokonuts (Kortrijk). Check them all below 🙂

This week Rebel Up action Brussels: 30 May, 1 June, 2 June + 3 June

This week, 4 Rebel Up gigs in Bxl

Starting on Tuesday 30 May at Botanique (Rotonde room), playing warmup dj set as Rebel Up Nightshop DJ’s or the AV live show of Ammar808. Expect some heavy electronic stambeli bass vibes!

FB event / website

On Thursday 1st of June, Rebel Up SebCat does his monthly residency at Kiosk Radio at 15h. Tune into livestream via www.kioskradio.com or come to the park.

On Thursday evening from 18h until 23h, Rebel Up outdoor dj set at ABY buvette at Abbaye de Forest. Free in and possibly with suprise guest Rust duo from Beirut, Libanon, and their electronic arabic sound at 20h30! Expect global grooves and electro global vibes.
FB event

on Friday 2 June, La Tumbia release party of Moli Del Tro label at La Vallée, with live set by Memo Pimiento and dj set by Rebel Up SebCat & Moli Del Tro. Electro cumbia experimental vibes!
5€ in, doors 18H30 – 1am
FB event

On Saturday 3 June, our last Giraffes & Penguins party @ the iconic Collectif Au Quai, as they will close down end of July 🙁
We will have a local Bxl lineup of G&P all stars and all their global sounds.

5€ in, limited space. First come first served.

FB event

See you around this sunny week!

Rebel Up & Friends session @ Kiosk Radio w/ live set by Rokeya (IT)

This afternoon is our monthly Rebel Up & Friends session on Kiosk Radio, with SebCat (at 16h) and special guest Rokeya (at 18h) with a live set streamed from Italy’s Adriatic coast.
Tune in and follow the streams via the Kiosk Radio website, live on their Mixcloud or via their new app. (The sessions will not stream anymore on Facebook due to the copyright cuts)

new Rebel Up Nightshop online (April) > #71 Quarantine show with 10 albums of the month!

This month’s Rebel Up Nightshop show (April 2020, via Radio Campus Bruxelles) is done in quarantine, home recorded as a big 2 hour mixtape with 10(!) albums of the month. Look out for some current candid COVID19 spoken word soundbites throughout the show as awareness or social political counteraction.

Starting with a psychedelic oriental tune by Baharat on Batov Records and followed by the new Ethiofunk-meets-dub album ‘Yene Mircha’ by Hailu Mergia on Awesome Tapes From Africa. After this, Argentinian outsider band Los Siquicos Literalenos and their experimental chamame folk sound out on Hive Mind Records and followed by the reissue of Peruvian Amazonian cumbia band Ranil Y Su Conjunto on Analog Africa, rare recordings from the 1970’s. We travel to Turkey via German Turkish migrant communities on the Uzelli Electro Saz compilation with psychedelic folk from 70’s & 80’s and followed by contemporary northern Greek folk music album by Evritiki Zygia on Teranga Beat label. Then we travel to Morocco, to the Master Musicians of Jajouka & Bachir Attar reissue on vinyl by Zehra label from a 1991 recording and we travel up into the Iberian peninsula for the compilation Codex Futura Vol.1 on Samain Music digital label with contemporary electronic folk music from Spain & Portugal. El Buho brings his new electronic latino album ‘Ramas’ on Wonderwheel label and we end the show in oriental electronic rave sounds via French duo Ko Shin Moon (‘Leila Nova’) on Akuphone and Palestinian duo Zenobia (‘Halak Halak’) on Crammed Discs.
See full tracklisting in comments >

new Rebel Up Nightshop show online: #67 December

new Rebel Up Nightshop show (December, last show of 2019) via Radio Campus Bruxelles with albums by Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou (ajabu), François N’GWA (Into The Deep Treasury), Soul Sega Sa! vol 2 (Bongo Joe Records), Apichat Pakwan (Animist), ACID ARAB (Crammed Discs) and Dj Nigga Fox (Príncipe Discos), also songs by Fortuna Records, Penya & Guedra Guedra, On the Corner, Ghoula (Shouka) and Lalalar, tune in!

Thu 1 Aug > Rebel Up & Friends session @ Kiosk Radio

This thursday afternoon, Rebel Up & Friends session at Kiosk Radio with special guest Beat Brother (Global Hybrid Records) or a nice Esperanzah festival special. Come hang with us or tune in from 16 to 18h via the Kiosk Radio livestream or our FB page. Also Kiosk Radio tshirts are up for sale at the bar!