coming Thursday we host a special MAXIMA cumbia night at the OT301, oye que super!!!
with very special guest straight outta Argentina: El Hijo de la Cumbia (The Son of Cumbia)
Just 24 years of age, this talented producer comes to Amsterdam for the first time ever!
El Hijo de la Cumbia aka Emilliano Gomez hails from the San Martin area of Buenos Aires and started his musical career in 1996. From that moment on, he took part in several Argentine Cumbia music bands. In 2000, he started listening to other musical genres originating in ghettos from all across the world, such as Reggae, Dancehall, Hip Hop, Jazz, Dub, etc. Very much influenced by Colombian Cumbia music, he then decided to experiment by mixing Colombian rhythms with African ones and new styles. Known as a Sonidero producer for Mexican and American bands, he has worked in the most important Mexican and US music scenes. There, he made his remixes which were quite peculiar back in the day, with a clear inclination towards dub. El Hijo de la Cumbia aims at showing that all African rhythms can be respectfully mixed, that music overcomes all language barriers, and that music is not there for us to simply dance and listen to, but also for us to let our imagination fly and feel free. www.myspace.com/elhijodelacumbia www.elhijodelacumbia.ar
DJ Saxixa (Paises Bajos, Worm)
fresh from the porteno city of Rotterdam and the creative force behind WORM. He will spice up the night with his special record collection from allover South America. Expect old & new cumbia’s from Paraguay, Argentinia, Colombia, Peru and beyond….
Rebel Up! DJ’s (FR/BE)
during the night our faithfull global duo crew will add greasy and spicy sounds for a mishmash of cumbia and dubby latino spheres.
VJ Normal Con Alas (AR)
visuals with a rough Argentinian female touch
ah yes yes, the night starts early at 21:00 and will go on till 1am, perhaps a bit longer if you can keep the heat up! El Hijo is expected to play around 23:30…
Come along to this MAXIMA night of cumbia!
On this night we will put a donation box for the Chakana charity, an independent Dutch organisation for development projects in the Andes region http://chakana.nl/
@ OT301, Overtoom 301 (tram 1, stop at JP Heijestraat)
doors open; 21:00
fee; 6 euro www.ot301.nl
Syrian street level folkpop; traditional dabke folk music mixed with electronic dance beats, unreal music from the middle east! Back home, Souleyman performs at engagements & weddings as party singer for local Syrians and soon also for westeners. @ Rebel Up! we have many times played his songs on our nights, making you all dance and wondering -who is this special artist?- Well now, it’s (y)our first chance to hear him play in the flesh, don’t miss Souleyman’s folkrave extravaganza!
Group Doueh (Western Sahara)
Raw trancedental desert blues with traditional Sahrawi/Hassania folk music. Expect rough guitars and nomadic singing styles into one heavy lofi sound as never heard before from the sandy dunes of the Sahara. Let yourself be amazed by this Saharan sound of sweet lofi folkpunk.
Alan Bishop & Mark Gergis of the Sublime Frequencies label will play an eclectic dj set. Also the new movie PALACE OF THE WINDS by Hisham Mayet about the Saharawi people of the Mauritanian sahara will be shown, wow!
~Just check out video’s of the artists & movie at the tour site of Sublime Frequencies!~
This evening is just too good, too special to miss out on some global cultural vitamins….
Thursday 4th of june @ OCCII Location:OCCII, Amsterdam, Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2) Start Time: 21:00, beware; early start with movie! fee: 10€ (2 live bands, dj’s & movie!)
Ah yeah, Rebel Up time again! Do we actually ever sleep? hardly…
We’ll be joined by the eclectic Tupolev Sound Crash crew. TSC hail from the euro capital of Brussels and are our southern neighbours in sound. Back home in Belgium, they crash many a global party (such as the Couleur Cafe festival) to bring a heavy brew of mashed sounds, from global ghettotech to ethnological sounds, any way the wind takes their aircraft!
Also our faithfull Polish friend Vega Selectah will again select his finest audible crops of eartickling sounds and dubs. We’ll be sizzling and grinding!
Other fresh and dusty selections will come from our hands in the oiled Dutch-Franco-Belgo trinity combination that you are used to. Tonight’s VJ duties will be done by our Argentinian lady crew of Normal Con Alas. Expect the unexpected.
If you feel like bouncing to the shaking marimba of an electric witchdoctor while spicy curry beats and tasty accordeons please your body and ears, come out and play with us!
The charity of the night is Telluris India, a Belgian organisation that provides aid to the Munda tribes in the forest state of Jharkhand in Northern India. These tribes are part of the Adivasi caste and are the native inhabitants of this region. Their culture and way of life dates back to before the creation of Hinduism, 5000 years ago. Nature means all to these tribes; they have a natural religion and worship the nature around them.
By the hands of corrupted authorities that favour industrialisation, mining and lumberjacking, the Munda are on the verge to lose their land and culture forever. The forests have already been robbed of 70% of their original size. As a result, their land is plagued by erosion, droughts and the decline of flora, wildlife and trees!
The forest offers ecological diversity, life, medicinal quailities and protection from erosion and because the Munda are small time farmers and therefore need the forest in order to survive. Telluris helps the tribes with planting of new crops and medicinal plants, the digging of water wells, spreading knowledge about organic farming and other projects linked to their direct environment. The tribes can decide for themselves in which facilities they would like to receive aid in by Telluris, instead of such choices being made for them like most NGO’s do. Villagers come together to discuss, unite and motivatie each other for achieving their prime goals and Telluris helps them fullfilling these wishes. Nearly all the local employees at Telluris who work with the Munda, are Munda themselves en educated by Telluris. At Telluris, the most important thing is to actively let people take part in the process where at every interaction, knowledge is exchanged!
More info:
http://www.telluris.org
Rebel Up! Soundclash (#24) Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals
Saturday 30th of may@ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/) Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:00 till late,
5 Euro fee. ~Profit goes to charity~!
this Saturday 16th o’ may; Rebel Up! DJ’s & VJ’s @ Exploder Sound -African Dance party-, OT301, Amsterdam We’re happy to be be joining DJ”s Colin301, Andy Moor (the Ex) & VJ Felipe this Saturday. It”s everything African in the mishmash! gasbah, regadda, afrobeat, kuduro, funana, coupe decale, kwaito and more!
small damage: 5€ doors open: 22:00
www.ot301.nl
Rebel Up! big up! tip of the week – A Hawk and a Hacksaw @ Ekko, Utrecht (17th) and Paradiso, Amsterdam (19th)
De Vechtclub & Rebel Up! Soundclash present an electropical night filled with the newest South American sounds. The sensual cumbia is back from the past and is scorching hot in Argentina at the moment, especially in the capital Buenos Aires. Since a few years a lot of young musicians have been combining old & villera cumbia’s with a heavy dubby bass, lots of bass! Now for the first time, a night full of these new sounds in Utrecht, better believe it! De Vechtclub is a new theatre/warehouse in Overvecht-Zuid, of which the interior is made from recycled materials and a mud wall! Cheap drinks, good vibes and an easy to reach location tucked away from residential area’s.
Expect digital dub and heavy bass with electronic cumbia, plus more rough global sounds!
Douster (FR/ARG)
Born & raised in the French near-alpine city of Lyon. Since 2 years he has been living in Buenos Aires and is part of the eclectic ZZK crew. His sound is a thick stew of roots, hiphop and electronica, extra spiced with the rhythms of cumbia and baile funk. A hefty cocktail with lots of swagger alcohol for the dancefloor. Check his most recent ZZK mixtape, woahhhh! http://myspace.com/doustertropical http://myspace.com/douster
Sonido Del Principe (NL)
Vincent Koreman from Tilburg is a known name in the world of alternative music (Ex-Travoltas punkrock band en noise act RA-X). As Sonido Del Principe he produces rough styled cumbia and plays the harder styles of the new electronic world music. With a deep love for heavy bass, he mashes dub -step- en rave in one big shaker, filled with cumbia ritmes, baile funk, kuduro, speed mambo, kwaito and more. www.myspace.com/sonidodelprincipe
DJ Saxixa (Paises Bajos, Worm)
From Rotterdam, secret Worm resident Saxixa will flavour the night with his special record collection from South America. Expect old and new rhythms from unknown latino corners.
Rebel Up! DJ en VJ (BE/NL)
Rebel Up! is a collective of DJ’s en VJ’s from Utrecht, A’dam en Den Haag. This time not in the OCCII, but in their half homestead of Utrecht. Diasporic sounds from the global underground; a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals.
Friday 15th of may
doors; 22:30 – 04:00
damage: 5 euro!
@ De Vechtclub, Brailledreef 9, Utrecht (Overvecht-zuid massiv!)
For directions, see www.vechtclub.nl
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!
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!
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!
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
