Here some rebeluppian sounds….1 day and counting…

Acquaragia Drom – Ohi Mama Mia
Jovens Do Prendo – Semba da Ilha
Maga Bo – Tanto Faz (Quantic Mix)
P18 – Zapate Vive

doot doot doot.
see you at the party, in good mood 🙂

The Amsterdam roots festival is about to start and this sunday there’s a free world music festival in the Oosterpark. See programme of the Roots Open Air day here.
Tips: go and see all-female Russian polka-punk band Iva Nova, the rumba mestiza of Zulu 9.30, the London-infused Algerian band Fantazia and the diasporic mashup sounds from Berlin’s Nomad Soundsystem.

On sunday the 24th of June, there will also be a free world music festival in the Julianapark in Utrecht. more info here.

Sundays are no lazy days in June 😀

Hi there,

Big thanks to the handfull of wonderful people who came out on the 25th of May, despite it being a hot day and night, and still created a good atmosphere!

We will have another Rebel Up! Soundclash on Friday the 29th of June, which promises to be an even better one. Especially since we will have a special live guest: Maga Bo, all the way from Rio de Janeiro and currently touring Europe bringing his *Transnational Bass sound*!

We will again have the Igitego Inyange organization as our charity for this night, as we didn’t raise much last time around due to the low turnout. So, let’s give it another chance! Keep your coins, small change or bigger notes ready…any donation is a sweet gesture! See further project information in previous posts.

If you wish to send info around, you can use this bit:

Friday, 29th of June @ OCCII, Amsterdam (http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 5 Euro fee.

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#4)

!!with live guest Maga Bo!!

Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals, in ways of Southern European Mestiza and Gypsy beats, old skool Roots and further roughness from Africa, Arabia & Asia. plus gritty electronics.

Please support us and forward this to your friends, family, and network buddies, through word of mouth, digitally and so on. we hope to see you there! 🙂

some uploads…

Musafir – Hanji Mara Lalou Sa (Rajasthan)
Patriarcas De La Rumba & Macaco – Me Voy Pa’ Cachimbama (Spain)
Femi Kuti – Traitors of Africa (Nigeria)
X’lents – Psychedelia (India)

Rebel Up Soundclash! #3. -We keep it going!!-

The chosen charity for friday the 25th is the Igitego Inyange project in Rwanda. This project has been initiated a few years ago by the Rwandese Anathalie Mukundwa and the Belgian VSO worker Vincent Thiry, to help a village in the poor Gahanda village region developing themselves in as many ways possible.

Their aim:
– To provide secundary education and arrange funds for university.
– Access to medical care for all , by paying insurance and visits at the doctor. A doctor has already been appointed to the village through donations.
– To build a centre in the town in the near future. This centre will serve as a medical and social centre and at the same time it provides the locals space to store, display and produce their handcrafts. Also tourist accomodation will be built to attract western visitors, so that locals can earn their livelihood through social tourism, without the intervention of package holiday agencies.

Please take a look at the Igitego Inyange website.
Below some impressions of Gahanda and the project.

map of Rwanda

the amount of children that are now able to go to school

the village

the future centre plan

hey there!

Hi all,

-a week of radio silence, broken-

first, thanks to all you out there for coming out to the OCCII on the 17th!! You made this debut party a real success and by this feat we managed to raise about 300 sweet euro’s! This will surely give the people at Grassroots Projects a sincere push in their Chiapas cause.

We truly had not expected this many people with happy feet, creating such a superb atmosphere. We counted more than 100 people after midnight, who turned the dancefloor into a sea of bodies, rocking straight till the end!
We are especially glad you folks enjoyed our diverse diasporic tunes and hereby once and for all acknowledging that world music styles should not be pigeonholed into ethnical corners or themes, but played with blood, sweat and tears!

Stay tuned here on the blog for more fun, as we are planning more nights in May and June!!
Plus, renowned international guest dj’s who are fronting this diasporic style will join too!

April on the other hand, seems to be a inactive month, sorry for the wait.
But the blog will keep itself updated through audio and words. Perhaps a mix somewhere too.

Please pass the word onto your friends and so on. Keep in touch, drop us a line, whatever
Many thanks again.

ps: has anyone made photo’s at the night? We would surely like to post them up here.