Brass Wires & Bass

Brass Wires & Bass is a title (release: March 31st 2010) that deserves our attention.

DJ Delay’s ( a.k.a. Beam Up a.k.a. Sonical, all aliases of Brian May… and no, NOT that one) forthcoming compilation presents an elegant cross section of the best of the Balkan scene, tweaked, dubbed and worked over to the limit. This is music that needs to be taken seriously.

Here is Balkan brass not in a new coat, but as old bones with new meat on them.

The meat is futuristic, minimal at places, deep, dark and dubbed down at others, succulent throughout. It relocates the Black Ark Studio to Belgrade, Budapest or Berlin with considerable ease and grace.

We can only hope that Delay will not do as Perry and incinerate his studio just yet, but will let us profit from its fruits for at least a while longer.

(I for one would love to hear his reworking of Čerkezi Orchestra, Acquaragia Drom, or, why not, Duško Gojković’s jazz masterpiece “Balkan Blue”).

Judge for yourself:

Brass Wires & Bass by Beam Up & DJ Delay

RebelUp crew is doing their best to have the maestro pay us a visit some time soon. We’ll keep you posted.

We had a fantastic spring openingin the OCCII march 13 with Vega Selecta, Process Rebel, Chico Correa and Volante Filipeia session (with Chico Correa and Naza). You can listen to it for your self here, enjoy!

We’ve been making some waves, or riding on the ones others have created, depending on your perspective. Well either way you look at: it Rebel Up! has been expanding: monthly evening in Amsterdam and Utrecht.  Shows planned in Brussels. Rebel Up is going international. And now even more as we have made a cameo apperance in a New York Times article.At the end of page one of the travel section Rebel Up! Soundclash is mentioned in relation to the Vechtclub:

“The club frequently features “soundclash” events that merge contrasting genres of music into one show: One recent event paired an Afro-funk band — which featured a group of acrobats — and a roster of Brazilian D.J.’s.”

Well that does sound like us! Here is the whole article if you care to read about the off beat tracks of Utrecht:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/travel/21next.html?pagewanted=1

If you missed the show, you can see a part here:

Rebel Up! Soundclash :: Pata Potea :: Live @ Vechtclub, Utrecht from Maarten van der Glas on Vimeo.

Pretty cool, uh 🙂

Our good cumbia man Julio Pinchado has recently been our man from Peru. He went on a fine cumbia holiday, especially for the amazonico sound where he met the kitschy queen of the jungle; La Tigresa del Oriente!

Julio made a special instrumental remix of LaTigresa’s sound. grab it here:

dj pinchado featuring 2

what Julio says;
This is the new mix, is a honor mixear to La Tigresa del Oriente, If you can, you tell me when you post to your blog?
greetings jungle!
chauuuuu,
Julio