Hi all,

Just before the holidays there will be a winter solstice Rebel Up! party, with a generous banquet of musical dishes to fill the tummies. From Amaterasu, Beiwe and Choimus to Yule, Zagmuk and Ziemassvētki, cultures and religions all over the world celebrate the shortest day and onset of the new astronomical year. This year we may humbly add ourselves to this list, as our next party takes place on Friday the 21st of December!

Thanks to everyone who came to the last edition, which was a very cozy and crowded one for sure, with very playful and psychedelic visuals and an exotic hodgepodge of rougher world music. Unfortunately we were enjoying the party a little too much ourselves to consequently ask people for the entrance fee. We ended up only receiving half of what we expected for the Casa Amazonia charity, which is why we will donate profits to them again this time.

Here’s the info bit for next Friday:

Friday, 21st of December @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, free in before 23:30, 4 Euro fee after.

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#9)
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! 🙂

Hi there,

Thanks to everyone who made the last Rebel Up! party such a big success, especially to Malorix for his wonderful broken world beats, and to Roberto, the humanoid in sheep’s clothes, for his tastefully eclectic selection of well-spiced tunes.

Our resident nomads Seb and Maarten have left for their music documentation project in India, and so the torch has been passed to the next band of rootless bricoleurs passing by. Some of the tunes collected by the India-wallahs will be audible on the next Rebel Up, which will take place on Saturday the 24th of November. To alleviate the pains of autumn rains, we will once again be weaving our multifarious web of sounds and imagery, the transcultural tapestry integrating elements from North Pole to Equator to South Pole … migratory sounds to be enjoyed under the warm and comfy OCCII roof.

As always, all profits will be donated to charity. We got a good amount of donations for Tamsarya project in Nepal last time, and this time we choose a project for the poor in South America with the association Casa Amazonia to help them open new classes for children in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (For more details you can check their website at www.casaamazonia.com.)

Here’s the practical info-bit:

Saturday, 24th of November @ OCCII, Amsterdam
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, free in before 23:30, 4 Euro fee after.

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#8)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,
(in ways of Southern European Mestiza and Gypsy beats, old skool Roots and further styles from Africa, Arabia & Asia plus gritty electronics.)

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! 🙂

Hey all,

On saturday we will donate the profits and collected money to Stichting Tamsarya. This organisation for Nepal has been shaped bya caring dutch woman over 10 years ago after she passed the region on bicycle and now has formed into a solid foundation, aimed to help the inland people of the mountain area of central Nepal. Huge mountain ridges and deep valleys make this region very inaccessible and therefore neglected by the state.

Many projects have already been succesfully completed or are still running smoothly. Money is ofcourse always needed to inject more funds into current projects or start new ones. Perhaps we can make it possible that more children from poor villages get education in better conditions. There is a school project that needs funding as the school has a lack of decent commodities while the pupils have to wade in ankle deep water. Repairs and renovations are already in the making, but our role here is to raise funds for school uniforms and supplies for the children. We hope to collect a fair sum to make this happen…and beyond. Do read more at www.tamsarya.nl

here some photo’s to give an impression:

Below, as always, some warm pre sounds to warm up the ears…

Unknown Artist – Unknown Song (Sublime Frequencies: Folk and Pop sounds of Sumatra vol1)
Ni Ni Win Shwe – My Darling’s Love Arrow (SF: Folk and Pop sounds of Myanmar/Birma vol1)
Judge Dread – Wine or Grind
Sobanza Mimanise – Kiwembo (V/A – Congotronics #2 Urb’n’ Rumble)
Goran Bregovic – Kalasnjikov (OST Underground)

see you, soon.

Hi there all,

Thanks for coming out last time, lots of new faces and a good atmosphere to boot!

Proceedings of the night will go to a charity still to named. We do are looking eastwards, with our eyes set on either a Nepalese, Bangladeshi or Indian organisation. We hope to know more by next week and fill you in about their social cause.

Hope to see you!

No worry though about the future, Rebel Up will steadily continue and new folks will step in to help the crew to keep the flame burning.
Next Rebel Up, possibly november 24th…stay tuned.

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! 🙂

Hi there all,

Hope you had a good summer and fresh start to the new study and working year.

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! 🙂

Next Rebel Up will be Saturday, October 20th, with a ethnical beat playing guest live!
stay tuned….