Hola chicos & chicas!

This friday in Brussels, Rebel Up! has been invited to play at GELATINA, the most suave underground electrolatino party of the city and beyond!

♥•*¨☠*•♫♪ GELATINA presents ISA GT! ♪♫•* ☠¨*•♥ from Jellyfish on Vimeo.

Rebel Up! dj *El Gato Seb* (SebCat in latino mood) will do a special set of the latest sounds from the latino underground with Bolivian tecnopop, Andino electro and the freshest Amazonian tecnobrega.

But ofcourse all ears & eyes go to special guest Isa GT, the most caliente DJ/MC/music producer from Medellin, Colombia! She will present her brand new EP “Leyenda”. After her debut “Pa Chikirri” EP (Man Recordings), Isa continues her desire to showcase her Latin heritage through the prism of her London life. Discover a mash-up of Cumbia, Baile funk, Champeta and Dubstep. Her tasty performance will make you shake your culito at Magic Mirrors!

Etor001 Isa GT – Leyenda EP preview by etoro

Support by resident dj & Gelatina jefe Ricky Corazon and neon-tropical visuals by Jellyfish.
Don’t miss it!

For more info, check the Gelatina blog or see the facebook event.

>>>Infos
23:00 – late… € 5 < midnight < € 8
Magic Mirrors (next to Tour & Taxis) – Avenue du Port, 86
1000 Brussels – Bus 12/88 – Armateurs

>>> PARTNERS
Brussels is Burning & WAFWAFWAFWAF webzine

this wednesday in Brussels, as part of Europalia Brasil, there is a special KK World *Brasil* night at Kultuurkaffee on the VUB university campus with our Brazilian friends DJ Tudo & Chico Correa.

Both have already played at our Amsterdam night last year and they’re really worth seeing, hearing and dancing to. As Rebel Up! dj’s we’re happy to be supporting them during the night with all sounds Brazilian and beyond.

Chico Correa & his Pocket Band (Paraiba)
Chico Correa’s one man band project brings the Afrobrazilian styles of samba and carimbó together in a swinging electronic live setting, aided by guitar and effects. Experimental tropicalia body music, let’s dance!

dj Tudo (Sao Paulo)
Alfredo Bello aka Tudo plays is a man of many bands and projects. He runs his own Mundo Melhor label on which he releases traditional and ritual Brazilian folk music, recorded by himself in local Afro communities. Expect a colourful flavoured mix of his acoustic recordings and more!

see more info on KultuurKaffee site.
check facebook event here

wed 26 oct
Kultuurkaffee, VUB
20:30 – late
5€

ohlala, thank you all for coming out last saturday, we raised 140€ for Seed Samburu, big up!

last monday our Rebeluppalite dj SebCat did a radio session in the Radio Taxi programme at Urgent FM student radio as part of Rebel Up!/Brussels Up special with buddy dj Leblanc. We arrived 10 minutes late because of a minor car accident. Listen to it here >>>

Radio Taxi 29 August 2011 by Urgent.fm Official

time to kick off a new Rebel Up! Soundclash season at OCCII. From now on our parties will be once every 2 months instead of every month, just to keep it fresh and focused.

Coming saturday 27th, the Rebel Up! crew will meet the Bassculture crew from A’dam for a night of tropical bass, roots & funk, exotic folkpop and other vintage sounds to dance to. check the facebook event here.

Ofcourse our profits will go to a good charity as usual. With the heavy famine that is waging in the horn of Africa right now, we would like to raise emergency funds for the NGO SEED Samburu / Edukans. We also hope that everyone can donate whatever they can spare…it all helps!

A few weeks ago, the UN World Food programma 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 unfair that the UN turns their back on the Samburu and choose to let them starve. All the educational progress that has been made the past few years by NGO’s like Seed Samburu is on the point of being swooped away because without food, there is no education. Just 10 euro’s will already feed a Samburu child for a full month at school. This is the only daily meal they get as their own families are not able to feed them. Please give the Samburu kids a meal a day so that their life & education can continue!

If you are in Holland, you can also donate through this Edukans link or if you are elsewhere in the world, check the SEED Samburu site.

@ OCCII,
Amstelveenseweg 134, A’dam Oud Zuid
doors from 22:30 til 4:00
damage > 5€ for charity

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!

Before and after the concert, Rebel Up! dj SebCat will be dj-ing together with dj friends Lowdjo, LeBlanc, Darcyr & Sonidero Quilombo (all of the newly formed Brussels Up! quintet crew) till late to close off the 7 Billion world festival in good musical fashion and with good weather the music will be outside. Oh, and it`s FREE in, so come and taste some Touareg guitar spheres, global dance tunes and worldly food dishes!

and more news; after the summer for the 2011-2012 season, Rebel Up! will become a partner of KultuurKaffee for their monthly KK World nights in collaboration with student organisation UCOS. Really looking forward to that!
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Rebel Up! is neither bass nor acoustic, but always searches the tight in-between space where fusion is unheard. Here is what’s happening next :

In due respect to the Holi celebration night, the Indian festival of light and colours or what Westerners would call Spring Fest. We’ll entwine forces of Shanti and Meera who will both perform Indian dance rituals and even surprise you in the intent to give you some knowledge of their art. There will be 2 dance workshop on the way for the brave and the mighty to learn traditional Indian dance and the Garba folk dance from Gujarat. here some Garba moves!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYa8MlRiVM

This night we’ll be opening early at 21:30 for those who want to participate in the Indian dance workshops!

Musical support for the dancefloor rolls like this:

Latrama & Tapiador (ES/Madrid) DJ / Live set: global beats freestyle dj set including world music influenced sounds from all over the globe from India (mainly) to Cuba through Balkan, Middle-East and African regions together with the funniest and avant-garde indian and global broken beats, electro, breakbeat, deep-bass grooves + live including:
- Live indian tabla (Latrama)
- Darbouka and/or dhol (Tapiador)
- Laptop/electronics – Latrama – Wiimote + first augmented reality CD application available through Latrama’s new album “Love & Projects”, also available at the party!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMLm7eMZ2k
www.latrama.com
soundcloud.com/chandrasound
www.myspace.com/tapiador

The Rebel Up! dj’s will play their most obscure Indian tunes, taken from the jungles of Orissa, the deserts of Rajasthan, the Telegu region and other local folkpop styles. DJ Satish will join us for a more special vintage taste of Bollywood. www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

guest dj Selekta Trecid (from Tilburg) > Jurgen connects people in the global music field and good friends with the people from Asian Dub Foundation, Watcha Clan and Shazalakazoo, a real sound enthousiast of fusion, Eastern European and Indian sounds, he’ll play along with the public mood for he knows the rules of the arena.
http://soundcloud.com/trcd

India shall also meet Africa for the best of both.
All Included/Caravane Bamako will be here for a second night to raise funds and attention over the situations of deportees and refugees from the Native Continent. Around midnight, they’ll present a video over the actual context to clarify before you their actions. With them djembe players will guaranty the link between party movements and commitment in motion.
www.allincluded.nl/index.php/actie/caravane-bamako-dakar-11

So you see this night, you won’t find time to sit. You may want too but hips and legs will do otherwise. It’s the way it is and for that matter, we’ll start earlier to leave you time to warm up.

So be it,

Saturday 19th of March @ OCCII

LATRAMA & TAPIADOr live/dj (ES/Madrid)
SELEKTA TRECID (NL)
REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)
DJ SATISH (IN?)
SHANTI / MEERA (Dance support)
5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!
doors: 21.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)
www.occii.org

Fri 18 february @ Bar Recyclart
from 22:00 till 3:00
Ursulinenstraat 25 Rue des Ursulines, Bxl

It’s about time for a steamy third Rebel Up! Soundclash night to give this Brussels winter some deserved sunshine! Expect a fully packed world trip in music where all borders are strictly taboo and in which the spirit of the global diaspora lives. A bit of acoustic ethnographics, a dose of innovative lo-fi & hi-fi electronics and a heavy dash of worldly kitsch. Or for the purists; Soukous, Afro funk, Soca, Roots, Balkan, Mestizo, Chaabi, Funana, Asiatic funk, Indian folkpop, Arabian techofolk, Global Bass & much more.

DJ Sebcat & Palm M of the nomadic Rebel Up! collective will serve up a tasty mishmash of sunny sound, while guest dj’s Brian Hainaut & Jean Mikili (Bal du Canal/BXL) will bring tropical tunes from the Brussels brousse that will make you shake, chouffé chouffé!

Rebel Up! is a not-for-profit collective that organises fundraiser nights for small charity organisations. Tonight’s funds will go to the Belgian/Rwandese humanitarian organisation Igitego Inyange ASBL who support education and healthcare projects in Rwandese villages.

During the night they will be selling specially prepared Rwandese snacks, yum yum! Come dance, taste & donate!

Download here the special promotional Rebel Up! Brussels warm-up set.
25 songs in a roundtripping mix of 80 minutes. Enjoy!

www.inyange.org
www.recyclart.be
www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

Still feelin’ stuffy, hey ?

You’re not quite finished with your chocolate box and your waistline resembled a creamy croissant with an invisible belly button. It’s normal, it’s global. Happy faces for a happy new year plenty of crisis and resistance against it. Most of us ate plenty for this end of 2010, the snow didn’t prevent us from reaching the turkey’s butt. Wilders gets his own licked more than ever by the local parliament and there’s anarchy in Belgium. The salmon flies above the homeless and the shit of a banker does not want to produce gold yet. On this “divide and rule” game, indignation taken into action remains the best arm.  In order to connect and talk about real good common resolutions for the future, the OCCII and its Rebel Up! Soundclash is a perfect venue for that. We will bring you the atmosphere necessary to redeem your stomach and cruise the world’s perspective. Through what means of transportation ?

HOBO DREAMS OF CINEMATIC SALVATION (Los Angeles/US)
Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr have been touring the world for the past 20 years as musicians, filmmakers and ambassadors of cinematic goodwill. When they are not running the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, they tour the world singing folks songs to accompany silent Super 8 films they have shot on their travels. From the Mongolian Steppe to the Streets of Mexico City, sit back and relax as these images and sounds are presented as a lullaby of memory and dreams. We’re lucky to have them as they’re just a few days in Europe by the invitation of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Be on time, they’ll play around midnight!
old clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0dBwOE0Hk

DJ POLYESTA (NL) has gained the rank and right to travel in a magic carpet, swifter, smoother, that fits her attitude to music. On the outskirt of all-lands, she seems to have create her own place where her guests are invited to float in an elegant compound of styles. Like a druid, she’ll combined each force into a musical entanglement and vaporized it as a BalkanAfricarribeoceAsiatic trail. Bring your carpet and maybe one or two cushions if you want to follow her.
http://www.polyesta.net/

DJ BUSHDOOF (Melbourne/AU/A’dam) will use his rickshaw to stroll within the small streets of Laos, filled with charismatic songs and fumes of grilled pork. He’ll bargain his ride for a green 125cc Suzuki and jump into the Favelas of Rio and deal some gems for Baile funk sake. Suddenly reappearing in an electrified tram on Brooklyn Ave. Seeking the right cap, electro hip-hop, electro / pure / hip hop. Within these choices, our local DJ will use the Jamdown decision “Take ‘em all, leave none behind”.
http://www.bushdoof.eu/

The REBEL UP! CREW will take a viral pleasure to ensure sound attraction and visual prospection. We are coming back with more intriguing sounds than ever. With us a Chaabi singer meets easily with a Dubsteppa MC, fresh 2010 tecnocumbia from the Andes collides with South Indian folkpop down to the dance circles of Soweto. We keep it on a no-ground level!

With the knowledge of these eclectic sounds and the temperature it’s going to bring you should also be aware that you coming represents a good step in the means of helping others and enjoying it. By leaving a 5 euro fee at the entrance and maybe a little more, you’ll support an organisation that develops goodwill projects especially in Africa. The name of the organization is Warriors Without Weapons. So here’s one mutual resolution that works !
Seek for more info :
warriorswithoutweapons.wordpress.com

Saturday 29th of January @ OCCII
DJ POLYESTA (NL)
DJ BUSHDOOF (NL)
REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)
5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!
doors: 22.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)
www.occii.org

Happy new 2010!
and yes, after A’dam & Utrecht, we’re also gonna start focussing on Brussels in 2010, and what more may come from it in Belgium or beyond!

This night will moreless be the start of our bimonthly nights in Brussels (Sat. 16th of april will be our first Rebel Up! party @ Recyclart)

Perhaps slightly different than our not-so-average Rebel Up! nights, this Climate Jockey night will be very heavy on global bass spheres. As we are starting the night with first sounds, we’ll do our best to heat up the floor with some tropical, sensual, tickling tunes from allover the globe.

We’re really proud to again play with our friend Hugo Douster from Lyon, who played with us in Utrecht last year. He sure will butter & fire up the dancefloor with his special style of tropical-rootsical bass selections, electronic body music with a tropical virus! His good friend Baxter Beez will play a similar crash course in bassheavy styles from the tropics. Further into the night, locally famed Brussels partycrasher DJ Lowdjo will spin his eclectic selections from everywhere.

And what’s best; the Climate Jockey’s are real jockey’s like dj/vj’s, except that they play with the climate on the dancefloor! The French Piedlabiche art collective from Lyon has made a special climate machine where they can produce & control climate elements such as wind, tropical heat, rain, mist, storm, humidity and whatnot! They will *mix* the climate along to the tunes played by all the artists, how cool/hot is that!

see more info @ www.recyclart.be (only in dutch/french though)