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Sat 20 Sept > Rebel Up! Soundclash & A/V Club @ OCCII, A’dam w/ The Space Lady (US), Watenga hiphop crew (TZ), Pyramyth label & more..

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20 sept 14 OCCII


Hello Amsterdam!

Rebel Up & A/V Club once again join forces for an eclectic collab night this saturday with concerts, tunes and afterparty.
c-c-check > > > > > > >

SPACE LADY (US)
T H E S P A C E L A D Y is a street-performing singer based in Colorado, USA. Originally beginning on the streets of Boston in the late 70s and has recently begun playing again She has travelled through the stars to bring us the most wonderfully alien take on electronic street-song, channelled through a soul that has taken in UFO sightings, hiding from the US government, homelessness, communing, hitchhiking, and over two decades of playing the street corners, storefronts, and subways of America. A Casio battery-powered keyboard, vocal mic and echo & phaser controls are all the ingredients required for a live experience to align the spheres.

BIRD PEOPLE (AT)
Bird People is the solo and collaborative project of Uli Rois, who also runs Feathered Coyote Records. Aural celebrations…
More : http://bird-people.bandcamp.com/
+ Colectivo Døg VJ team & DJ Boris Becker

AFTERPARTY : Rebel Up! Soundclash Presents :

WATENGWA (TZ)
Watengwa is an East African hiphop collective from the slums of Kijenge ya juu Arusha, Tanzania. Watengwa are pursuing positive ways to confront and survive street life. While their music is deeply embedded in African perspectives and realities, they have been influenced by Western hip-hop legends.
http://www.watengwamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/watengwarecs

GAMEFACE
GameFace (who co-owns the Pyramyth label with Blvck) is a Dutch performer that produces mind-altering and breathtakingly dark (Trap) tunes
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialGameFace
https://soundcloud.com/officialgameface

+ Rebel Up! dj’s > with a set of arabic & turkish hiphop, ethnic beats and more.

see FB event here or see the OCCII site for full info

doors: 21:00
damage: 6€
Amstelveenseweg 134, Oud Zuid
A’dammie

Sat 28 Dec > FREE african & global party @ Chez Gina/l Astral, BXL

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Party chez gina
FREE PARTY!

eclectic African music all night with Rebel Up! and lots of friends.
*last saturday of the year*, going out with a boom!

see FB event here.

Sat. 24 Aug: Rebel Up! Soundclash *Congolese Rumba Special* @ OCCII, A’dam w/ Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (RDC/BE) & Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)

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Yes folks!

finally it’s there after several attempts: our Congolese Rumba Special night on Saturday 24 august.
A whole night filled with marvelous vintage rumba & soukous sounds from Congo!

We’ll have 2 bands playing live on stage to fully lose yourself in this addictive rumba rock sound. Here the roll down > > >

Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (CO/BE) (on poster)
This Congolese band from Brussels will play vintage Congolese rumba soukous songs from the 60’s to 80’s, led by vocalist Yan Koy along with master members such as Petit Poisson, Pappy Muntu, Alonzo Baba and several others who played in famous Congolese bands such as Franco’s OK Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa and Ndombe. In a 2 hour live set they will play classic rumba songs and take you into the Congolese underbelly of tropical rock with psychedelic guitar solo’s, hypnotising percussion and polyphonic vocals. Not to be missed!

Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)
Belgian trio from Brussels that specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle along to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure as perfect warm-up to Color Rumba!

Vendredi Tresse, avec l’Orchestre TP Jean Mikili de Bruxelles from Frederic Bourgeois on Vimeo.

dj’s Rebel Up! & friends
swinging African & latino sounds before & after the bands.

Profits on the night will go to Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice, a NGO fighting for the change of mentality for governments that consciously leave open sexual crimes unpunished. For more info about this organization, go to www.iccwomen.org or their twitter account @4GenderJustice.

Doors will already open at 22:00.
As we have 2 bands playing live, it´s 5€ in before 23:00h, but 7€ afterwards, so come early!

Save the date!
Facebook event here

sat 24 august
22:00 – 4:00
@ OCCII, Amsterdam
www.occii.org

Wed 10 July Les Concerts Du Néant Absolu Et De La Mort evening @ cafe De Student, Schaarbeek Bxl

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Summer heat is on, c-c-c-c-c-check!

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Underground sounds above ground by Les Concerts Du Néant Absolu Et De La Mort
in café de Student, right next to Sint Lukas art academy

live concerts n dj sets by:
Philemon (CA)
http://vimeo.com/26644984

Accou@laposte.net (FR)

Dream Beverly Hills (Liege waffle)

Rebel Up! Sebcat (zone 1000 Anneessens)
will play a dj set of Iranian 80´s n 90´s synthpop, Thai & pan-Indian cassettes, African witchcraftisms and South American psyche, vaghea’an, negaran nabashid man refigh!

5€
Paleizenstraat 76 Rue des Palais
FB event yo

Sat; 15 June; Rebel Up! Soundclash goes Rebetika @ OCCII, A´dam w/ The Kazatzikis (GR)

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smoke a rebetika
This special night will begin in full rebetika style… plus let ´s also support the social protests in Istanbul at Taksim in sound!

The Kazatzikis (GR/ A’dam)
live show by Greek duo The Kazatzikis. Rebetika is the Greek blues from the 20’s and 30’s of last century, sung by Greek immigrants that were kicked out of Asia Minor and Turkey during the wars. Rebetika songs are all about the hard life of an immigrant in the harbours and ghettos of Thessaloniki and Athens, with heavy and dark lyrics that touch drugs, poverty, love drama’s and prostitution. The Kazatzikis will play these old sounds to bring us back to the times of immigrant woes and economic crisis, perhaps a familiar parallel to the present times. Their set will begin around 23:30, so please arrive on time!

followed before and after by these dj’s > >

Rebel Up! dj’s
will play a rebetika warm-up set with old folk sounds and original vinyl records brought from Thessaloniki,
get a rough pre-taste here;
http://tinyurl.com/rebetika-up

El Buho (Subtropikal/Fantastica)
This night owl is the resident dj of A’dam Subtropikal crew who has a love for all sounds global, whether in swinging folk tunes to sturdy tropical bass, joining us for the first and surely not the last time.

Roccii Markyahno (Rush Hour/ AV Club)
This mysterious dj often shares his special global record collection in OCCII and we are happy to have him on board for a first time at Rebel Up! Expect some nice gems and rough jewels for the ear of the beholder.
http://www.mixcloud.com/propersongs/dj-cafe-pigs-proper-songs-in-different-tongues/

Like always our profit goes to a charity as in a small NGO. Coucha Camp Refugees in Morocco. 262 refugees are on hungerstrike due to closure of their UNHCR camp in Medenine. more info; http://chouchaprotest.noblogs.org/

FB event
5€ at the door
doors; 22h30 til 4:00
@ OCCII
Amstelveenseweg 134
Amsterdam Oud West
www.occii.org

Cassette Connection Belgium tour 11-12 may; Antwerp, Brussels & 13 may extra set in A´dam

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Helloooow,

poster design by Ness Verbeiren

On Friday the 11th o´may, the super special Cassette Connection tour kicks off in Belgium (Antwerp & Brussels) and followed by Amsterdam on Sunday with a limited set by Rebel Up! through the magical Indian tape collection of Sebcat.

Cassette Connection is a pure cassette tour with 3 specialised cassette dj`s playing their collections of colourful lo-fi tapes of (un)popular, vintage and folkloric music from different regions of the world; lo-fi folkpop, ethnic jewels & disco sounds from AFRICA – MIDDLE EAST and the INDIAN SUBCONTINENT.

Awesome Tapes from Africa (US)
After a stint in Ghana researching the local hip-hop movement, Brian Shimkovitz, a trained ethnomusicologist, has accumulated hundreds of cassette tapes of rare african music from Zimbabwe to Ethiopia to Senegal. He has been sharing his bounty through his popular blog Awesome Tapes From Africa, which he takes on the road as a DJ. His dj sets bring old and new music styles of the African continent together in one pure sound that will make you swing till you drop. Awesome Tapes From Africa is now also a label; the first release is a classic 1982 recording by Mali’s legendary diva, Nâ Hawa Doumbia
http://www.awesometapes.com/

DJ Cinnamoon (ES)
Since 2005, the DJ Cinnamoon project has been compiling the best popular music from the Middle East. For this special lo-fi meeting we will enjoy a dense audio-retrospective with original cassettes of Googoosh, Erkin Koray, Omar Souleyman, Haifa Wahbe and many other Turkish, Kurdish, Persian & Arabic extraordinary artists still unreleased for western audiences.
http://www.djcinnamoon.com/
downloadable minimix;
http://www.djcinnamoon.com/MATERIA/TEMPORAL/CC_MIDDLE_EAST_SAMPLES.mp3

Sebcat’s Maj Tahal
Brussels dj Sebcat will open up his mysterious Maj Tahal cassette grotto to unveil many musical gems from allover the Indian subcontinent. Expect a fine selection of folkloric and disco pop from different Indian states, cinema songs from beyond Bollywood, sufi synthpop from Pakistan and digital folklore from the Nepali mountains.
www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

DATES

Fri 11 may @ Scheldapen, Antwerp > Layla Raqsa III night with Basketball (CA) and more
fingerfood, cinema and outerworldly music!
fb event; https://www.facebook.com/events/383986991622295/

Sat 12 may @ Recyclart, Brussels > Cassette Connection night with Velotronix band & dj Bongoman
the Recyclart will be transformed into a lo-fi lounge with sofa’s, outerworldly projections and tv’s with youtube video’s!
fb event; https://www.facebook.com/events/286204771468919/

Sun 13 may @ SOTU fest, OCCII, Amsterdam  > supporting US Girls (US) and Hayvanlar Alemi (TR) (without Awesome Tapes From Africa, joint set by Cinnamoon & Sebcat’s Maj Tahal)
fb event; https://www.facebook.com/events/386488968047382/

 

the Cassette Connection tour has been made possible with the support of Gonzo (circus), Recyclart and Scheldapen.

31st dec; Brussels new year; Bal de l’An Douze in La Compilothèque

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hey, dance into the new year with us!
another unforgettable night of happy Bal du Canal mayhem on the canal, the best parties of the Brussels underground for all tastes and styles.

Rebel Up! dj SebCat will once again be part of the Bal du Canal crew, back-to-backing with Brian Hainaut, Jean Mikili and Rockin’ Cat Ivan from before midnight till the early morning light. Expect cumbia, african swing, asian psychedelica, flamenco rumba, rockabilly, 60’s vintage rock, 70’s flowerpop, 80’s pop kitsch, no-wave, post-punk, indie
and much much more…………

free in & fresh onion soup for the hungry!

@ La Compilotheque,
Akenkaai 51 Quai des Peniches – Bxl centre north-east.