Friday 25th of september; Rebel Up! Soundclash *Argentina Special!* @ OCCII, with DJ Pinchado (AR) & Los Siquicos Litoraleños (AR)

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We go Argentinian all the way on this night! This night is in collaboration with WORM.

DJ Pinchado (Julio Lozano) hails from Buenos Aires and is born and raised in the old harbour area of La Boca, home to local footie club Boca Juniors and birthplace of the elegant tango. None of that tango twisting tonight, but some seriously psychedelic cumbia! The sensual cumbia has become popular once again throughout all of  South America and reason for this is a fresh wave of young artists who experiment with this old afro-influenced folk style. In Argentina a lot of artists have started creating experimental cumbia sounds, where dub, hiphop and electronica is added to this hefty stew. Pinchado’s special sound floats inbetween dubby spheres and electronic Boca beats as a very danceable cocktail! Excpect a live/dj set with the freshest dance music from Buenos Aires. !QUE CALOR!

Los Siquicos Litoraleños (AR)
From the outland countryside surrounding the small town Curuzú Cuatiá in the province Corrientes of North East Argentina, comes a exceedingly rare treat for the ears. Los Siquicos Litoraleños is a unique band formed in 2004. Originally an all improvisational freeform band, their music soon developed into an unclassifiable, highly original style incorporating elements of  cumbia, subtle noise, lo-fi tape manipulation, chamamé (the popular folk music of Corrientes), the angular guitars of Beefheart’s Magic band and a rich variety of non-rock rhythms. At Rebel Up! they will play a special rocking set with trashy dancing in mind, ho ho! See some awesome viddy’s here:
http://www.vimeo.com/6489845
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUN3GSotnE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AgwMNtkRoA

The Rebel Up! DJ’s & VJ’s will guide the sound and the visuals of the night and will be aided by Rotterdam & Worm honcho Saxixa with his edgy Argentinian cumbia collection.

Tonight we will raise awareness and a donation box for Stichting Ombú, a Dutch organisation forcussed on Argentina which helps local Argentinian organisations to improve conditions in the poorest shantytowns. More info @ www.stichtingombu.nl

Friday 25th of sept @ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late,
5 Euro fee. ~Profit goes to charity~!

Friday 18th of sept: Rebel Up! Soundclash @ Incubate festival > GENERATION BASS weekender

Hi all,

The Incubate festival (previously named ZXZW festival) will last for a full week with a heavy list of special lineups allover Tilburg town in the south of Holland.  The Friday & Saturday are set as a GENERATION BASS WEEKENDER, which means 2 days of global ghettotech, incubatelogoeclectic  sounds, broken beats, dubstep and other global mayhem.

The mighty good global folks of GENERATION BASS asked us a few months back if we liked to curate a room @ Incubate! Such honour indeed and we selected some previous Rebel Up! acts together. On Friday the 18th we’ll be spinning global sounds all night long in the Batcave room with live set by Filastine feat. MC Nova (US/IN), Process Rebel (US), Malorix (NL), DJ Pinchado (AR) and DJ sets by DJ UMB (UK) and yours truly on DJ & VJ duties. Check it all HERE.  In the other room there’s a hefty lineup of dubstep greats like Raffertie, Joker, Reso and A1 Bassline, such a clash of basstastic sounds this will be!

EXPECT THIS! 🙂

oh, and on Sunday the70’s afro-funk outfit Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou from Benin will be playing in the outdoor Muzetuin!

Hope to see you there!

Incubate

Rebel Up! Soundclash double dose; WEEKEND TOUR -> Fri 27th @ Worm, Rotterdam & Sat 28th of february @ OCCII, Amsterdam; with Filastine (US/SP) & Malorix (NL)

Hello there,

It’s your soundgrocer knocking at the digital window, bringing some sweet saffron smells.  🙂
We are preparing for another Rebel Up! Soundclash, this time a full weekend of Rebel Up! clashing in Holland’s 2 biggest cities!  Let’s just call it a ‘Tour of the Dams’ thing, so that people in both Rotterdam & Amsterdam can get a cultured listening by the hands of Filastine, Malorix and our Rebel Up! crew.

On Friday 27th of february the friendly people @ Worm are taking our rebel Up! crew and Filastine (US/SP) in their playhouse. The night is hosted by Redrum Recordz and is set up as the album release party for local Rotterdam resident artist Malorix, who has just released his crisp new album ‘Sound System Culture Clash’ on the same label. Expect a display of broken world beats with different flavours and dippings. Since we are kinda co-hosting too, we will happily provide the playaround sounds and visuals throughout the night!  We also heard rumours that Arnold of Zea (and also The Ex) will be taking bar playing duties, wahey! 🙂   so, Rebel Up! does Rotterdam a go-go!  Damage is 7 euro’s, first 25 visitors get a free Malorix album!

@ Worm 27th 


But beware, unlike our Amsterdam episodes, this night will start @ 21ish and will be finished at 2am. (not 1am as wrongly stated before)

That’s good news for all you Utrecht-ites; now is a direct night train going from Rotterdam to Utrecht in 40mins, not the 2 hours of boredom and snoozing as before!

See here for more info at the Worm tube;
http://agenda.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=2440
and if you can not make it on Friday…..

the next day, Saturday 28th of february, will ofocurse bring us to our faithfull nest that is the OCCII in Amsterdam oud-zuid.
Here all the shine will be on Grey Filastine, coming from his Barcelona holdout. He has also just released his new album ‘Dirty Bomb’ on French experimental label Jarring Effects & Soot Records. What can we say, this album is even better and rougher than his previous one. The album was recorded in many corners of the world and different deep bass styles seep through the soundpalate. Filastine has been quite active in the last 10 years as part of anitcapitalist improv group Tchkung! and marching band Infernal Noise Brigade that performed at WTO meetings. Anyone who has seen Filastine live at work before will remember that his solo sets are all about bringing his sounds live to the dancefloor, with live drumming in shopping cart setups! Filastine will serve up a spicy melange of balkanized ragga, gunshot dubplates and endless critical political mashes between the eastern and western hemispheres. This IS the brave new world in full sound.  To get a serious travel in taste, listen to his 2007 Blentwell mix.
http://www.blentcast.com/Blentcast_no7_Filastine.mp3
http://www.blentwell.com/blentcast/blentcast7.html  (tracklisting)

Check out his website and hidden blog about his travels in Asia and on recording his album.  And scroll down for some live video’s!  red hot.

Malorix surely is no unfamiliar face at Rebel Up! anymore and will also present his freshly new album in a good live setting. We’ll also shape the night with our warm-up and cool-down sounds & inspiringly tantalizing visuals! Our promise -> a thrift store experience of ethnical influences and unknown styles, mashed with the obvious sounds of cumbia, kuduro, rumba, gypsy, maghreb, dabke, molam, gamelan and any other sizzling folk/pop/rock/hiphop/noise/ambient combination, who knows!

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About charity matters. Last time unfortunately we didn’t  collect much funds for Islamic Relief so we are raising the roof for them again. Hope we can provide some deserved aid to families in Gaza and Palestina this time. As many of you will know, things are not going well in Gaza at the moment. Around 900 people have been killed and over 4000 have been injured during the last sieges. The majority of Gaza citizens are currently without water, electricity or gas. Food is running out, and around 80,000 people are estimated to have been left homeless.

Islamic Relief is an international relief and development organization which has been working in the Palestinian territories since 1994. In spite of ongoing blockades and enduring limited humanitarian access, Islamic Relief Palestine has managed to supply and will continue to supply food parcels, medical supplies and blankets to the people of Gaza, co-operating with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, and other aid agencies in order to alleviate the pains of the people of Gaza. Your donation may seem but a tiny step, but lots of tiny steps combined will surely enable something of a positive leap to occur in the lives of our fellow humans in the Gaza strip!

A word of advice; we recently heard that the Dutch Islamic Relief site is prone to ‘phishing‘, so do not pay them straight by credit card but by Giro 2002!
Also refer to their international website unless you’re sure of the safety of your paying method. This phishing incident does raise the prime question; who are behind it; just simple web criminals or Western intelligences blocking the money flow to the East? Perhaps it’s a combination of both, it wouldn’t be so odd really.
http://www.islamic-relief.com/

Oh, I still have a little backlog of Nepali topi hats, caps and other locally crafted goods from the Tansen valley that I took back with me last year. Up for sale on both nights for those interested in uniquely streetwise Nepali youth & grandpa fashion 🙂

Hope to see you somewhere!

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#21)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,

Saturday 28th of february @ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late,
5 Euro fee. -> Profit goes to charity!

www.rebelup.org


Percussion bits for Filastine Live at Transmediale 2009, Berlin from Grey Filastine on Vimeo.