Sat. 24 Aug: Rebel Up! Soundclash *Congolese Rumba Special* @ OCCII, A’dam w/ Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (RDC/BE) & Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)

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Yes folks!

finally it’s there after several attempts: our Congolese Rumba Special night on Saturday 24 august.
A whole night filled with marvelous vintage rumba & soukous sounds from Congo!

We’ll have 2 bands playing live on stage to fully lose yourself in this addictive rumba rock sound. Here the roll down > > >

Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (CO/BE) (on poster)
This Congolese band from Brussels will play vintage Congolese rumba soukous songs from the 60’s to 80’s, led by vocalist Yan Koy along with master members such as Petit Poisson, Pappy Muntu, Alonzo Baba and several others who played in famous Congolese bands such as Franco’s OK Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa and Ndombe. In a 2 hour live set they will play classic rumba songs and take you into the Congolese underbelly of tropical rock with psychedelic guitar solo’s, hypnotising percussion and polyphonic vocals. Not to be missed!

Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)
Belgian trio from Brussels that specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle along to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure as perfect warm-up to Color Rumba!

Vendredi Tresse, avec l’Orchestre TP Jean Mikili de Bruxelles from Frederic Bourgeois on Vimeo.

dj’s Rebel Up! & friends
swinging African & latino sounds before & after the bands.

Profits on the night will go to Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice, a NGO fighting for the change of mentality for governments that consciously leave open sexual crimes unpunished. For more info about this organization, go to www.iccwomen.org or their twitter account @4GenderJustice.

Doors will already open at 22:00.
As we have 2 bands playing live, it´s 5€ in before 23:00h, but 7€ afterwards, so come early!

Save the date!
Facebook event here

sat 24 august
22:00 – 4:00
@ OCCII, Amsterdam
www.occii.org

Sat 24 Aug > Rebel Up! @ Polé Polé Beach festival, Oostende (BE)

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Hey folks,

This saturday we’ll be playing @ Polé Polé Beach festival on the coast of Oostende.
Find us at the Kingston Beach area from 15:00-18:00h, for some tropical summer sounds!

Full info; check their site; Polé Polé

See the musical programme below >>>
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Rebel Up! @ Café Congé, GC Elzenhof, Elsene/Ixelles 1050

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Hello Brussels!

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During the whole month of august, there are free musical evenings in the garden of the Elzenhof.
On Thu 22 august, Rebel Up! & Radio Campus host an evening with all kinda eclectic and global sounds by the Campus & Rebel Up! dj´s.

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but also a live concert by local Brussels band Orch TP Jean Mikili!
This trio from Brussels specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure!

Here more info on the happening on the GC Elzenhof site.
and FB event here.

from 18h – midnight
@ GC Elzenhof,
Rue Couronne/Kroonlaan 12

Rebel Up! @ *Global Bass Thursdays*, Zomerfabriek, Antwerpen

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Hey folks,

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 🙂

See the full FB event here

Full info on the Zomerfabriek happenings this summer;
http://www.zomerfabriek.be/2013/zomerfabriek/

See ya around!

and another mixtape, getting tropical cumbia, Mexican barrio style!

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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.

Cumbia Sonidera mixtape – Con Sabor vol 2 by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

PURA MUSICA DEL BARRIO! perfect for listening while BBQ in the sun with a crate of chilled beers.

If you feel like more, check out the first volume here: cumbia sonidera mix – con sabor!
dj LeBlanc 4 Rebel Up! devilish sounds

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

new Rebel Up! mixtape online; Arab Street Sounds

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hey folks,

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!

Arab Street Sounds Mixtape by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

Fri 19 July > Rebel Up! Arab Street Sounds party @ Recyclart, Brussels w/ Moroccan live bands & more

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Salaam Brussels!
enjoying the summer so far? only will get better, like this friday…

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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….

Check the facebook event here, or see the Recyclart site.

Don’t miss this one, yallah!