Thu 22 May > Rebel Up! SebCat @ Festival Monophonic, Les Ateliers Claus (Bxl)

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Rebel Up

This Thurday 22 May >

MONOPHONIC is a festival of radiophonic creations taking place at Halles de Schaerbeek. Ateliers Claus is organizing the opening event for them. It was and is a true battle to find links and crosses with the festival in order to program acts in their esprit.

“THIS WORLD IS UNREAL LIKE A SNAKE IN A ROPE” Film presented by Robert Millis (Sublime Frequencies)
Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India’s complex and mesmerizing sounds.

RADIO FEMMES FATALES – “No Woman No Crime – Emission 1″ & “Clitoris is not a button”
RFF crée des pièces radiophoniques performées en direct, devant un public et transmises en simultané sur une radio locale ou nationale, hertzienne ou web, associative, publique ou pirate.
RFF aborde les questions du genre, des femmes, des luttes, mais pas seulement.
No Woman No Crime est une série d’émissions qui se joue de la distinction des genres radiophoniques existants. Musiques, bruits, silences, voix, récits, dialogues, chansons, archives, s’entremêlent sans hiérarchie de valeur. Le montage, le mixage et les bruitages sont fait en direct sur scène. Ces pièces s’écoutent, se dansent ou s’observent comme un road-movie radiophonique.
À voir comme à entendre en direct sur Radio Moniek !
www.monophonic2014.be/radio

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN & QUENTIN NICOLAï
Quentin Nicolaï met en musique les sons de la nature qu’il a recueillis, soutenus par les bruitages et mélodies de Benjamin Franklin.

+ radio sounds & party with
DJ SebCat (Rebel Up!) will play radio recordings from his travels in India – Pakistan – Nepal – Morocco & Peru inbetween the movie & groups

DJ SoFa – eclectic as can be!

@ Les Ateliers Claus – Rue Crickx
doors: 20:30
5€
See more at: http://www.lesateliersclaus.com

Fri 16 May Rebel Up! Sebcat @ Pantropical party, WORM R’dam with Yan Koy & Color Rumba (RDC/BE)

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Rebel Up

This coming friday 16 May, Pantropical organises a super special Congolese night in Worm are totally psyched to finally be able to host a rare LIVE show by Color Rumba! They are masters at playing classic Congolese rumba soukous from the sixties to the eighties; super infectious and dancable music! Some of their bandmembers performed with famous Congolese bands such as Franco’s Orchestre T.P.O.K. Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa and Demba. Don’t miss out on this one!

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• Yan Koy & COLOR RUMBA (RDC/BE)
This band’s mastery of the Congolese soukous from the 1960s to 1980s will bring you to dance! Rumba is a genre of dance music that originated from Cuban Rumba in the Belgian and French Congo during the 1940s and later garnered popularity throughout Africa, followed by the Soukous style with a more modern upbeat sound from the late 70’s onwards. Led by singer Yan Koy, Color Rumba is a band with a revolving cast of members such as luminaries Petit Poisson (guitar), Pappy Muntu (bass), Alonzo Baba (drums) and others who played in famous Congolese bands like Franco’s TPOK Jazz and Zaiko Langa Langa. In their two hour live set, Color Rumba will take you to the Congolese nirvana of tropical rock with beautifully cascading, sparkling guitar melodies, a super tight and hypnotic rhythm section and polyphonic vocals. Absolutely essential!

• ALEX FIGUEIRA (VE – Vintage Voudou, Music with Soul)
Venezolan/Portugese Alex Figueira is a pleasantly obsessed vinyl junkie, label man, musician and dj. He is a true music specialist on afro-venezuelan culture and runs the Vintage Voudou vinyl shop in the midst of Amsterdam’s red light district; a treasure trove of obscure 2nd hand tropical gems. Alex also puts out 45’s on his label Music With Soul and plays in the bands Papa Upa and Fumaça Preta. At Pantropical, Alex will spin the dopest African and Caribbean music. Raw but dancable stuff, vinyl only!
http://www.vintagevoudou.com/
http://musicwithsoulrecords.com/

• SEBCAT (BE – Rebel Up!)
This boss man selector operates from Bruxelles; unearthing, filtering and mixing the best diasporic & rougher sounds from the global underground. He’s the motor behind many great party and concert nights in wellknown clubs like the Recyclart and Bonnefooi. Sebcat also writes for Gonzo magazine and recently honoured the seminal Sublime Frequencies label with the ‘Rajasthan Street Music’ 2lp compilation.
http://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/
http://www.rebelup.org/

• LA PANTHЀRE NOIRE (CIV/NL)
Upbeat local kid Dani who once twiddled knobs and rearranged cable salads at Worm as part of the technical team. Using the same moniker for his paintings, he will do the buildup of this night, with a mix of soukous and afrohouse. More of the latter.

+ live images VJ Alerta (CL/NL)

@ Worm
Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam, Netherlands
22:00 – 05:00
presale: 7 euro / door: 8 euro

Full info about the party on the WORM website or the FB event page.

10 Mei > Rebel Up! @ Meer Marokkanen feest, Tolhuistuin, A’dam

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Rebel Up

hey folks,

this saturday a special Moroccan music night in Amsterdam, to give Geert Wilders and his voters the finger for all his racist slogans. and ofcourse Rebel Up! will be present. ok let’s roll further in dutch >

Wilders en zijn stomme rechtuit racistische uitspraken, wat moet je ermee? Het gewoon positief omdraaien met een muzikaal gevulde avond en een middelvinger naar hem en zijn achterban.

check vooral de Meer Marokkanen Facebook pagina en gewoon liken!
en hier het FB event van het feest. > zeg het voort, nodig al je vrienden uit!

Rebel Up! zal ook spelen ergens in de nacht met een set van psychedelische, folklorische en urban Marokkaanse klanken, verwacht een portie stevige trancedentale gnawa, chaoui, chaabi, gasba, hiphop en meer.

@ Tolhuistuin, A’dam-Noord
deur: 21:00
tot een stukkie in de nacht….

Fri 9 May > Rebel Up! SebCat @ Salon Des Amateurs, Dusseldorf (DE)

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Rebel Up

yo folks,

This friday SebCat will be spinning together with the Durian Brothers dj’s in Dusseldorf at the Salon des Amateurs for an experimental dance evening of wild electronica, global bass, exotic minimalism and other specials. very much looking forward to this, see what these guys did before >

More info, see the Salon site.

new mixtape for the festival season > Beats from the global south

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Rebel Up

hey folks,

we got a new mixtape out for the upcoming festival season;

Beats from the global south by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

This new mixtape focusses on lesser known global electronic dance music and folk pop styles from around the world. A celebration of the creativity and originality in global music production; the result of the clash between local and global forces, between tradition and modernity. A feast of surprises, of dynamic musical undercurrents and the ever shifting, hybrid nature of cultural identities. More than a regular dj-mix, this mix is meant as a sample of the music that we want to promote and its extreme eclecticism. It’s our mission to give a loud voice to the sounds of the global underground, of the disadvantaged and despised, the proud and furious. In short, the voice and music of the people. Hopping from region to region, from style to style, you’ll hear cumbia, dembow, tecno melody, persian bass, choubi, guesba chaoui, mahragan, dancehall, pandza, shangaan disco, kologo, coupé décalé, angolan house, balani, bouyon gwada and digital funana. Also up for download, see in comment field on mixcloud.

Fri 25 April > Rebel Up! Soundclash what king? night @ OCCII, A’dam w/ Ian Nagoski (US), Cian Nugent & The Cosmos (IE) + dj Eddy De Clercq

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Rebel Up

Ahoy folks!
a new Rebel Up! Soundclash night coming up again! *what king*?

IAN NAGOSKI returns to Europe for another series of his hypnotic interactive lectures on disappearing music of the 20th Century, this time with an exploration entitled “100 Moons: Stories of Great Forgotten Musicians and the Boundaries of Humanness from 78rpm Records”. His label Canary Records (pressed and distributed by Mississippi Records) reissues early 20th century recordings in languages other than English like a modern day Harry Smith. In the past year, he has published acclaimed collections of Hindustani classical vocal music (100 Moons and Kesarbai Kerkar 1944-54), Greek urban folk music (Rita Abatzi – 1933-37), the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Widow’s Joy: Eastern European Immigrant Dances, 1925-30), and published writing in Yeti, Sound American, Ephemerotera Quarterly and The Wire. In recent years, he also published compilations on the Dust-to-Digital (Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics) and Tompkins Square (To What Strange Place: Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora) labels. Nagoski’s work is now highly regarded, with high profile admirers ranging from DJ/rupture to Henry Rollins, and you can also still read several interview with and articles by him from 2013 at the Sound American site.

‘Lecture’ may seem too formal a term for something so immersive and transporting as one of Ian’s 90-minute explorations of the disappearing music he unearths and its social/cultural roots and routes. Ian shares his love of his findings both in words and by listening to and discussing various carefully chosen shellac gems with you.
CIAN NUGENT & THE COSMOS (NO QUARTER RECORDS)
Debut tour for Cian Nugent & The Cosmos from Ireland; a 5 piece band (guitar, bass, viola, drums, organ) lead by guitar player Cian Nugent, performing material from/based on his album ‘Born With The Caul’ on No Quarter Records, just came out this November 12th.

After exploring the acoustic guitar on his 2011 album “Doubles “, VHF Records, which was acclaimed by the likes of Pitchfork ( http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15618-doubles/ ) and The Wire “(…) Nugent has: already mastered dynamics, articulation and tone. He introduces each new melody and change of emotional tenor at precisely the right moment to keep you on the edge with him”, with “Born with Caul”, Cian has now moved to electric, where he is equally stunning; and his music has enrichened with Blues, Country and Psych Rock influences.

DJ EDDY DE CLERCQ – TOWNSHIP JIVE & KWELA JAZZ VINYL SET (1940-60)
The Belgian but Amsterdam based longtime dj Eddy de Clercq will play his collection of rare vintage South African jive & twisting gems from International Library of African Music (ILAM).This is joyous, irrepressible stuff, which sounds much fresher in its original incarnation than it ever did in American appropriations (yes, Paul Simon, we’re talking to you!). check out his excellent Soul Safari blog!
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/va-soul-safari-presents

support as ever by the REBEL UP! DJS with special vintage dance tunes with old skool rhythms from all corners of the world, folk & psychedelic alike!

FB event here

Doors: 21:00
7€ in before midnight, 5€ after@ OCCII,
Amstelveenseweg 134
A’dam Oud Zuid

Thu 24 April > Rebel Up! @ Contrabanda w/ DJ Cucurucho (PT), Bonnefooi, Bxl

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Rebel Up

Yo folks,

Another fun Contrabanda night coming up in Bonnefooi for all sounds latino, afro & global!
After our last fully packed night with Uproot Andy, we like to present > > >

DJ Cucurucho (ES/PT) (Groovalizacion Radio)
DJ Cucurucho, co-founder and selector of international Groovalizacion Radio, designs a DJ SET blending contemporary ethnic music all over the world from the vintage sounds to the tropical bass. Best contemporary and classic dance music together from wildly different times and places, connecting “East” and “West”, acoustic and electronic, traditional and hyper-modern, Dj Cucurucho creates hybrid sets, making “Ancient-Futurist” groove collages!

http://www.mixcloud.com/musicasmigratorias
https://www.facebook.com/djcucurucho?fref=ts
http://www.groovalizacion.com/

Support by the Rebel Up! dj’s.
what Bonnefooi says about us: These guys are some of Brussels’ most underestimated Global Groove Dj’s, with a musical network from Rajasthan to New Yorkistan and a musical selection that goes even farther and deeper into tropicalism and obscure global dance music. Sebcat is also a fulltime musical nexus, the way he blends his global grooves together in a party he also re-arranges, feeds and stimulates musical culture: as a re-distributor of records (importing Sahel Sounds records of Sublime Frequencies), in writings and research (check his writings for Gonzo Circus or his compilation on Sublime Frequencies titled *Rajasthan Street Music*) or as a curator of countless parties and concerts. Leblanc is an experienced dj & collector for the more rougher contemporary street dance music from around & below the equator. Also a distributor of African field recording records, curator of global music documentaries and a darn great cook of global dishes. Whatever you will get from him, in sound or food, it will be filled with specials spices and hotness. Caliente!

check our latest mixtape, Panama stylee! >

Panama city street beats by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

Free in as always….from 22:00 til very late….
See FB event here

@ Bonnefooi
Steenstraat 9 / Rue des Pierres
1000, Bxl

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