on Thursday 15 august we´re invited by our friends from Tsigani to play a fun global dance set @ *Global Bass Thursdays* in Zomerfabriek Antwerp between 22:00 and 0:30h. Expect a session of global colours, sounds n flavours that you maybe don´t always hear in our sets with a fine wide selection of Caribbean, South American, African, Arabic and Asian sounds, worldtrip style!
It´s free in too, so no loss there 🙂
This is the 2nd installment of Rebel Up! LeBlanc’s obsession with Mexican cumbia sonidera. Special attention goes to the position and role of the sonidero in Mexican popular cumbia sonidera. He’s the DJ/MC/entertainer with cult status, permanently on the voice over, close to the laser sounds, jingles and effects… pitched voices, heavy rhythm n bass, endless shifting loops, cheap synth sounds, accordeons galore: welcome to any good old block party in Monterrey, Puebla, DF or LA, *Nueva* York or New Jersey.
image: Mirjam Wirz, from the amazing photo serie “CUMBIA SONIDERA: Soundsystem Culture in Mexico City and Monterrrey, Mexico, 2010-2011”
check: http://www.flashinstitut.com/index.ph
We’ve just put a new mixtape online at Mixcloud, Arab Street Sounds as recorded live outside at the Arabic party we did last Friday at Recyclart (see previous post). It’s up for listening or even to download in 320 kbps! Check it out, yallah!
Salaam Brussels!
enjoying the summer so far? only will get better, like this friday…
This Friday a very special Rebel Up! concept party night @ Recyclart with popular dance music (chaabi) from Morocco, Egypt, Syria and beyond, with 2 Moroccan live bands and dj’s that play the latest ‘shabby’ beats from the casbah. As it is also Ramadan, we’ll serve sweet mint tea too! And yeah, we can tell you that this will be the wildest party of the summer 🙂
We’ll start dj-ing outside on the square at 22:00 for 1 hour, then at 23:00 the music and concerts will be inside the venue, just 5€ euro’s in.
here’s the roll down of the times & artists >
*OUTSIDE* 22:00 > 23:00 REBEL UP! dj’s (BE)
A musical tour from the Riff mountains to the hanging gardens of Babylon. A mix of Arab dance music styles like chaabi, chaoui, charki, reggada, kabyle, dabke, choubi…
*INSIDE* 23:00 > 00:00 REBEL UP! dj’s (BE)
2nd part of their set.
00:00 > 01:00 HAKIM BOUANANI TRIO (MA/BE – live)
Hakim is a Moroccan violin player, composer and arranger who worked with the Antwerp band Think Of One for their album Camping Chaabi, an exploration of Moroccan popular dance music, chaabi. Hakim will play different Moroccan styles in trio (violin, synth, voice).
01:00 > 02:30 ORCHESTRE ROUANY (MA/FR – live)
This French-Moroccan five piece band around singer/violin player Younes Rouany is a hard hitting chaabi dance machine. Their sound is based on oriental synths, darbouka, bendir, violin and electronic drums.
02:30 > 04:00 CAIRO LIBERATION FRONT (NL)
This Dutch dj duo has brought ‘electro chaabi’, the new electronic dance music from the Cairo hoods, to Europe and the rest of the world. It’s tough bass music from the rougher neighbourhoods, made by young producers on computers and based on auto-tuned vocals and frenetic oriental rhythms drenched in dancehall and rave sounds. You will sweat, as if you were on an alcohol free wedding party, high on sugar, hash and loud music!
https://soundcloud.com/cairoliberationfront
04:00 > 05:00 REBEL UP! dj’s (BE)
Arabic roughness to end the night with….
This sunday afternoon we will play at the Cactus Festival in Brugge!
We will play all kinda African sounds non-stop in the world food village near to the entrance from 12:00 to 18:00. Sunny n hot sounds ensured!
Also the Malian band Terakaft (ex-Tinariwen) is playing , as well as American dream pop band Beach House. More info on the Cactus site.
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!
Our selection has grown wilder and once again with all types of mashups between Soca, Soukous, Cumbia, global rough bass, the groove of old skool and new skool Afro-Funk, Desert blues, festive Chaabi, mad Indian drum n bass and a bit of spicy Balkan beat here and there.
As usual the enjoyment is also based on the fact that your feet won’t be moving for no reason, the benefits of the night will go this time to Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice, a NGO struggling for the changes of mentality and mainly for the governments leaving consciously open sexual crimes unpunished. If you won’t to know more about this organization, you can go to www.iccwomen.org or on their twitter account @4GenderJustice.
We hope to see you there to share some real fun times together.
Sound delicatessen await…
Rebel Up! Soundclash in Den Haag
Sat. 6th of July @ Cafe De Vinger Starts at 21.00
Entrance fee : 3 euro (free entrance before 22.30)
De Vinger
Bagijnestraat 25 (small street right next to the Stadhuis/Bibliotheek building in Spui) FB event
