Dear individuals of the freed society,

You who know better than wasting your time and money on the global bank failing system. You who heard the sounds crash from oh so many parties. Can’t you hear the horns of a fanfare passing by your doorsteps? Or maybe the volume of your Mesopotamian LP is already too high. You would definitely like to cheer it a bit with a Nigerian high-life.

Well, if you have a minute or five full hours to spare, you might have a chance to meet that kind of stuff and plenty more this saturday at the OCCII, on the next Rebel Up night! Starting as usual : get your first drink at 22.30 and start to dance at 23.00 or break the rule, you fool. Some of the survivors of the last september clash still feel the rumbles of the African Guinean drums played live by those cool Polish guys and backed by Selecta Vega.

This time we’ll have special guest Malorix from the multicultural port of Rotterdam. He’ll treat you to a live laptop set and meet me in the White Lodge if he can’t play enough rough shake-it-shake-it rarities and beat ratatats! Expect not just live electronics but also his finest selection of Northern African Raï and Arab-Asian sounds
www.myspace.com/malorix

Also the nomadic Nohmada guys from Ghent will join us again with refreshed sprinkles of Southern and Eastern European delights. Sure you’ll hop and bounce to their playfull tunes till your ankles hurt! www.nohmada.com

And here another good reason to come…….

As you may well know, things are not going for the best in Zimbabwe, due to the perpetual thirst of power by nasty characters over an overwhelmed population.

The British association Garden Africa develops agricultural methods for resource and land management. In other words; to teach local people how they can plant, grow and harvest their crops under the best possible conditions to have enough food. The Rusapa project is a fine step in the right direction and with your help by a simple contribution at the entrance and at free will during the night, you can make a difference too! Hope to meet you there for the good of your legs and for the health of those in needs. See more at: gardenafrica

See y’all,
Your RebelUppites

Hi basement partygoers,

The last edition of Rebel Up went on a Cumbia session in order to make the transition from stretching your toes in the sand of a paradise island to your shoes clapping the concrete dancefloor of the OCCII. Now that you’re up for it, we gonna bring you in even hotter spaces. The psychedelic sound of Western Africa mingling with surprises from Ethiopian romance. Once you’ll be warm enough, we’ll cook you with unexpected sounds from the Carribean and maybe surf up with some Turkish bands. In the end, you’ll be roasted in a Punjabi Indian fashion. Hope you’re ready for the mixture, cause we will be trumpets all out on Saturday, the 27th of September, at the usual place, meaning the Untouchable OCCII. We’ll start at 22.30 and finish the dessert at 4.00. 4 is also the price in euro to get in which will be redistributed to a humatarian association that’s not yet determined. We’ll keep you posted.

The Rebel Up crew

Saturday, 27th of September @ OCCII, Amsterdam
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!

Hi all,

The holidays are almost at an end, bah….but we’re back!

 

Feel like hearing tunes from the freshest South American style and get into a summer mood?
Now’s the time, Rebel Up! Soundclash finally presents a Nueva Cumbia special!
and a special guest too; DJ Pinchado from Buenos Aires!
His tropicalist cut ups of crunchy cumbia’s and slow rebajadas will make the dancefloor shake and swoon into a tropical sizzle! Hear snippets below…
http://www.myspace.com/djpinchado

This special night will be in aid of a Colombian foundation, named Juconi (www.juconi.nl). Since Colombia is the cradle of the cumbia, why not give it a proper context? So it gets.

We would like to support the Micro Empresas project, where poor single working mothers receive support in setting up their own little business through practical education. This way they can start working from home instead of leaving their children behind every day for a far away and mostly underpaid job. This will prevent their children from ending up on the street and gives them and their family a chance for a better future.

some classic little warm ups…

70’s style Cumbia, way back…
Los Mirlos – Cumbia de los Pajaritos
The master…. Alejandro Duran – Atardecer Sinuano
Vallenato a gogo! Conjunto Tipico Vallenato – Cymbia Cienaguera
Cumbia Mestizo! Amandititita – Viernes de Quincena

& last not least… Argentinian dubstep. It’s out there, hiding.
Daleduro – Villa Crespo

-remember, one week online, after that no more pet peeves for thieves..-

We hope to see you at OCCII for some lush latino action!! Better not miss it, it’s gonna be the best tropical underground party of this stormy summer…

Saturday, 23rd of August @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#15) *Nueva Cumbia special*
Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals, without borders!
(mestizo, gypsy, old skool roots, roughness from Africa, latino cuts, rhythms from Arabia, Asian pop and gritty electronics. Everything!, and worldy mashed)
with various dj’s, armed with a musical manifesto…..

Please bring your friends, family, pets and network buddies etc, through word of mouth, digitally and so on. we hope to see you there! 🙂

here some warm up sounds for tonight and beyond, buckload em now!

piece from Myanmar, as taken from the sold-out Sublime Frequencies release ‘Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar‘
Unknown Artist – My Darling’s Love Arrow

classic Prince Buster tune, sing’n’hop along!
Prince Buster – Madness

and a slow moment, taken from a countryside wedding in southern Hungary. That voice, those violins…
Magyarpalatka – Szokos dance

Hi all,

Thanks to the many of you that showed up at last months edition. Also big thank you to Christiaan and Jeroen of Nohmada, Friso and all the other goodhearted yet unnmamed people that helped us in making the party as it happened.
pretty please ps: peek below for some pics of last month!

This month’s Rebel Up! Soundclash will be in aid of the cyclone catastrophy in Myanmar. As overheard on Belgian news that donations from the West have been far below an average level of aid, we at Rebel Up! want to raise immediate awareness for the current conditions in Myanmar! Our eye has fallen on Myanmar Charity Group as the charity for the night.

The goal that MCG have in their Cyclone Recovery project is to give out family packs on which a family of 5 can live on for 1 month. We hope our night can buy a lot of those family packs, so please spread the word and check their website http://www.myanmarcharitygroup.org/

What MCG hqs to say about on which level they stand within the country and its network:
‘MCG already has established local networks inside Burma to effectively distribute the funds to the cyclone victims and we will not run into obstacles like other international NGOs are facing. Dr. Yin Min Thein, Han Thi Oo, and May Thu Wint who are Myanmar Charity Group’s representatives in Burma, will be organizing and distributing the necessary items.’

About musical matters….
This saturday we will have a special guest from Poland who will bring his Vega Selecta sound of old skool reggae with buddhist trance rituals and easter european folk and so on. Good! The usual trio of Rebel Up dj’s will also play their tricks and picks, plus again special VJ guests providing visual counterpoints to the soundwave soup to be absorbed by the eyes. Quite so.

We hope to see you Saturday!

 

Saturday, 24th of May @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#13)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,
(in ways of Mestiza and Gypsy beats, old skool Roots, roughness from Africa, Arabia & Asia, Latino funk and gritty electronics. Everything worldy mashed)
Rebel Up! is played by various Dj’s…. all armed with a musical manifesto.

Please forward this to your interested friends, family, and network buddies, through word of mouth, digitally and so on. we hope to see you there! 🙂

pics 24th of April >>>>>>>>

Hi all,

This month’s Rebel Up! Soundclash marks the return of one of the clan’s grandaddies, who’ll bring along loads of new sounds such as russian hiphop, muslim accordeon folk, african merenge and nepali crazy pop. Then, we’ll also have the Nohmada chaps from Ghent playing along with us (www.nohmada.com), and special VJ guests Inti & Alejandra providing visual counterpoint to the soundwave soup.

Just like last month, profit & donations go to the Globalteer charity, assisting the schooling of orphans in Cambodia .. more info about this project will again be available on-site during the party @ the occii!

We hope to see you on Saturday!

Saturday, 26th of April @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#12)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,
(in ways of Mestiza and Gypsy beats, old skool Roots, roughness from Africa, Arabia & Asia, Latino funk and gritty electronics.)
Rebel Up! is played by various Dj’s…. all armed with a musical manifesto.

Please forward this to your interested friends, family, and network buddies, through word of mouth, digitally and so on. we hope to see you there! 🙂