Wed. 17 Oct; Rebel Up! @ KultuurKaffee Globe Aroma evening – FREE IN! –

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Hello all,

this wednesday there’s a nice free Globe Aroma *Syria meets Africa* evening at KultuurKaffee.

Globe Aroma is a Brussels intercultural project where refugee musicians who live at Klein Kasteeltje/Petit Chateau get the chance to play their music for an audience. The band Syria Sound is composed of musicians of Syrian-Kurdish origin and will play Kurdish styles with soft rhythms and flamenco guitar. The band Afro Sound has musicians from Guinee, Congo and Togo and will play a variety of African styles like coupé décalé, slam and slam, Congolese rumba.

Before & after, Rebel Up! dj’s will play eastern & african tunes to colour the evening.

It’s free in, so just come for a globalicious fun time!
Hope to see you there.

KultuurKaffee @ VUB Campus, Etterbeek
doors open > 20:30
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Fri 28 sept; Rebel Up! Sebcat @ café Le Libre’Air, Sint Gillis (Bxl) w/ Les Caricoles

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This Friday @ café Le Libre’Air in Sint Gillis area of Brussels (at the Parvis, opposite l’Union),
free concert of Wallonian duo Les Caricoles and their accordeon driven global folk music. Afterwards dj set by Rebel Up! Sebcat, a potpourri of heavy global dance sounds, from vintage swing to modern styles and back.

FREE IN! so come and have a dance 🙂

@ café Le Libre’Air
Parvis De Saint Gilles 26
starts 20:30h til after midnight…
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Fri 14 Sept; Rebel Up! Soundclash @ café De Vinger, Den Haag

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hey folks,

After 5 years of existence, Rebel Up! has decided to invade downtown Den Haag. this friday we will have our first Rebel Up! Soundclash night in Agga @ café De Vinger. your Rebel Up! dj´s Palm M & Sebcat will be joined by Dubcovsky (Kako Da Ne/Casa Babilon). The city will rise this time to the global sound and fury of 3 stubborn DJs :

Sebcat (Be/NL) – The man has travelled and brought back loads of music from the outside world. He’ll introduce tribal and transcendental, Hi and Lo-fi tunes to your body n ears. anything goes from slow Greek Rebetika to swinging Nu Cumbia, vintage Ghanaian records, electro folk from the Sahel, Hausa autotune pop and unreleased Shangaan electro and much much more hotness….

Dubcovski (NL) – The guy has already worked its magic around the Netherlands but its main outpost is Utrecht where he and his kinds conflagrate various venues with their Neo Folk, Abstract Balkan waves. If you haven’t sweat all your fluids on the dancefloor yet. Be prepared to shake it madly with him. The trumpet flow never stops just like in Kusturica’s.

Palm M (Fr/NL) A French dude with a flair for good refreshing songs like Haïtian biguine, Surinamese hits, a slice of Brazilian new scene and some hidden tracks to clash as hell with his friends on stage.

Friday 14 Sept
Doors: 20:00 – 2:00h, free in before 23:00, 3€ after
@ De Vinger, Den haag
Bagijnestraat 25 (small street right next to the Stadhuis/Bibliotheek building in Spui)

Fri 7 Sept. Rebel Up! dj set @ UNESCO vernissage Grand-Hornu (Hainaut/Henegouwen)

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We’re proud to announce that this Friday evening we’ll be playing a special dj set at the historical Grand-Hornu mining & exposition site as part of a UNESCO night to celebrate the fact that Grand-Hornu has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The site has a long history in coal mining, attracting many migrants from Wallonia and Flanders, as well as many immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, all in search of a better livelyhood in the 50’s & 60’s. Check the French or Dutch wikipedia pages to get full info on the mining site (which by the way lies very close to the Dour festival area).

So, time for a party and they asked us to play some global sounds.  We’ve settled on doing a special concept set filled with miner’s folk songs to pay respect in sound to the flemish and wallonian laborers and many other migrant workers that have passed through Grand-Hornu such as Polish, Greek, Italian, Spanish (Asturian), Portugese, Turkish and Moroccan communities. Expect a set filled with vintage folk, socialist songs, folkloric dance diddies and some modern sounds, all focussed on Belgian, eastern and southern European spheres. Our 2 hour set will be from 18:30 till 20:30, should you want to be there.

Apparently, Belgian prime minister di Rupo will be there as many other politicians, bobo’s and vip’s. Not really our nomal crowd, to say the least. We have no clue what the deal exactly is about this evening being open to the public or if it is by invite only, see the Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC) de Grand-Hornu site for more information about the expositions and more, though no info can be found about this Friday 7th. At least we can tell you that the site is free and open to the public on Saturday and Sunday as a celebrative gesture…..

Fri 31 aug > Inside The Box night @ cafe Central, Brussels (free in)

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This Friday, Rebel Up! Sebcat will play at the Inside The Box night @ cafe Central.-FREE IN!-
Expect a special global vintage set of Indonesian psychedelic pop n rock, Khmer cinema songs, Iranian electro from *Teherangeles*, Saharan guitars and autotune, Paraguayan polca folk and much much more; do come early though as Sebcat starts at 22h30.

Started by Umbrelladelika Records & dj Lowdjo, Inside The Box is an online platform that hosts monthly mixtapes from international deejays, musicians and producers as our Rebel Up! Sebcat did the special Indonesiadelica mixtape for ITB . The emphasis lies on non-signature based mixes, in which each artist can compile a number of tracks following a certain theme. For this second event at le café central, Inside the box invited some of Belgium’s more unknown DJs. Expect a night full of thematical tunes from all around the globe.

On this occasion ITB will present a 130min tape compiling bits and pieces from the first 10 ITB mixes! All made DIY stylee and available for a mere 5€ on the night itself!

timeschedule > >

22h30 – midnight > Rebel Up! Sebcat

midnight – 1h > Vannac (Vlek records)

1h – 2h30 > Polle Van De Gash

2h30 – 04h30 > Il Pastore & El Queso

Drop in for a beer, and have a listen!
@ cafe Central
Borgval 14
free in
22h30 til late

Sat. 25 Aug; Rebel Up! Soundclash > afro caribbean night with Lobi Firi (NL/SR) & Unsoundbwoy (AU)

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Hello all!

Hope you had a good summer holiday where it might have taken you. Oh boy, it’s been roasty warm and sunny here the last few weeks. Time for another Rebel Up! Soundclash and we’ll keep it hot with some tropical Afro-Caribbean action with live Surinami band Lobi Firi and Ozzie global guest dj Unsoundbwoy from Melbourne.

Surinami band Lobi Firi will play their very special kaseko funk and kawina sound, impossible not to dance til you sweat! The band will start around midnight, so get in on time.
http://www.lobifiri.com

Unsoundbwoy will play a grinding selection between heavy dancehall and african electronic dance music, kuduro and more. Check some of his excellent mixes and mashups!
http://soundcloud.com/unsoundbwoy

And the some, ofcourse the Rebel Up! dj’s will never miss out on a good Soundclash party. Expect a steady selection of unknown global tunes filled with sweet melodies for the ear or bouncing bass for the body. Watch out that you don’t get wrongfooted playing hopscotch with these onorthodox boy scouts.

Any profit on the night will go to NGO Bhakti Luhur in Eastern Java, which takes care of handicapped children. One of the aid workers is a dutchman who runs the excellent Madrotter Treasure Hunt blog, all about Indonesian pop, rock and folk music.

See ya there!
doors: 22:30 til late….
5 euries in
mo’ info; OCCII site
Amstelveenseweg 134
1075XL, Oud-Zuid, A’dam

Rebel Up! fusion Amsterdam < > Brussels

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Hello all,

bit of news; our Rebel Up! dj compadre Riquetik is on his way to Budapest for the next 4 years and it is a real pity that we have to wave him goodbye for now.

A bit of new changes coming up on the Rebel Up! front as we try to keep it fresh both in Amsterdam and Brussels by letting in some new musical blood. After the summer, Rebel Up! will embrace the dj crew from Brussels Up! Soundsystem, which is Sebcat‘s global Brussels project that was started over a year ago with dj’s LeBlanc, Darcyr and Sonidero Quilombo. It will be much easier to continue under one name and from now on Rebel Up! will be more represented in Brussels besides Amsterdam so that we can keep on throwing good parties for you!

don’t forget, next Rebel Up! Soundclash will be saturday 25th of August @ OCCII Amsterdam, followed by saturday 27th october. More news soon!