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Rebel Up busy week allover Belgium! 20 – 22 – 23 + 24 June + new Nightshop show

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Hey all,

This sunny june week a nice and busy week in Brussels & Belgium with Rebel Up dj sets and even a stage!

First up, here is our latet Nightshop radio show for june, filled with new albums of jazz, brazilian soul funk, afrobeat, organica, cumbia, african electronic and arabic bass and more. Tune in here!

and now for the busy week of gigs!

On Tuesday 20 june, Rebel Up SebCat will play dj support together with Deejay Backstabber at the concert of the band Studio Shap Shap (all the way from Niger) at Cafee Cabron in Antwerpen.

Come and have a taste of contemporary music from Niger via Studio Shap Shap, between traditional griot sounds up to electronics. Check some of their sounds here.

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10€ in
@ Cafee Cabron
Kaasrui 1
2000 Antwerpen

on Thursday 22 june for Fete de La Musique in Brasserie de la Mule brewpub in Schaarbeek, Rebel Up SebCat plays a warmup dj set for the concert of KermesZ a l’Est.

KermesZ a l’Est are a wild bunch of anarchic musicians formed as a rough fanfare. They play punkrock and jazz mixed with uptempo balkan tones. Fire! Afterparty by DJ Calima.

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@ Brasserie de la Mule
95 Rue Rubens
1030 Schaarbeek

On the same evening, Rebel Up SebCat will play afterparty set for Phoenician Drive EP launch at Brasserie Illegaal in Forest. Organised by their label Exag Records and also with support by Swiss groups Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (Bongo Joe records) and Typhon.

Expect a blend of oriental sounds, flamenco guitar, arabic scales, postrock, drones, free jazz and more!

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@ Brasserie Illegaal
Rue Bollinckx 300
Forest

Friday 23 June, a big action packed evening with an amazing lineup at BRASS for Fete de la Musique in Forest > an evening by the Bongo Joe label!

Concerts by Cyril Cyril, Blanco Teta and AMAMI, and local Bxl Forest warmup band Turkish Kebap.

Outdoor garden dj sets by Rebel Up SebCat, Bongo Joe crew and Memo Pimiento.

18:00 – 02:00
Free in! 🙂
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and on Saturday 24 june our big juicy cherry on your cake > La Nature festival!
Since a few editions Rebel Up curates & programmes La Dome stage at this amazing and cosy alternative festival on the slopes of Baraque de Fraiture.

“La Nature” is an intimate festival, nestled in the heart of nature, exploiting a magnificent forest of the Belgian Ardenne and presenting a unique and multidisciplinary programme of arts, projects, body & soul workshops and a musical line-up, with a special place for live performances.

Such an amazing programme with many (inter)national artists & DJ’s.

Here’s our programme at La Dome stage for saturday, where we mostly booked live artists this edition >>>

14:00 DJ Rebel Up B2B Bongo Joe
15:30 schroothoop -LIVE
17:00 Cyril Cyril -LIVE
18:00 soundcheck break
19:00 Mohammed Reza Mortazavi – LIVE
20:00 DJ &RY B2B Holy Coco
22:00 AMAMI -LIVE
00:00 Alix Pilot -LIVE
01:00 La Dame -LIVE
02:30 DJ Rebel Up SebCat
04:00 Curfew

Check it all info & tickets on the website, there still might be some day tickets left.
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See you around this week? These are our last gigs before the holiday season, as we will return after mid august.

Wedn 26.04 Rebel Up & Kaito Winse @ We Are Various evening, Bosbar (Het Bos) Antwerp

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We Are Various radio organises monthly evenings with live concerts & dj set in the Bos bar of Het Bos in Antwerpen.

This wednesday 26.04 with Rebel Up SebCat on dj duties and live concert + Q&A with Kaito Winse (Burkina Faso), who will play his solo deep spiritual griot vibes. It will be livestreamed as well.

Info here and here / FB event

20-23h
free in!
@ Ankerrui 5-7
2000 Antwerpen

Wedn 26.10 + Thu 27.10 Rebel Up evenings in Antwerpen & Amsterdam

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Wednesday 26.10 Rebel Up & Memo Pimiento will play in Antwerp at the We Are Various live radio show in the Bosbar of cultural venue Het Bos.

Rebel Up label selections and more by Rebel Up SebCat + live concert & interview by Memo Pimiento.

from 19h to 23h. concert at 21h
Free in

More info > FB event / website.

On Thursday 27.10 in Amsterdam Rebel Up & OK IN /OUT KO! organise a concert evening at the deeply alternative venue OCCII.

with Wau Wau Collectif (Senegal/Sweden)
Avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal, Wau Wau Collectif’s Yaral Sa Doom is a groundbreaking group whose music album span borders and musical scenes. Inspired from West African tradition, Sufi praise songs, spiritual jazz, and dub rhythms, the effect is a genre-defying entry in outernational sound.
“Airy, dreamlike music as generous as it is joyous” – Pitchfork

and warmup by Bhajan Boy & Raga Arkestra
aka Ajay Sagger. His second album titled “Shanti Shanti Shanti” will be released at the start of November 2022. He will be joined by his Raga Arkestra, with special guests flying in to join this group. Expect a night of deep spiritual psych jams. and you get the chance to purchase the cassette album before its official release date.

warmup sounds before/between/after by Rebel Up SebCat

Doors 20h, showtime 21h
10€ in
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Rebel Up action in Brussels & Amsterdam June/July > 30.06 / 02.07 + 03.07

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Thursday Rebel Up & Friends night at Bonnefooi from 23h onwards.
with Sebcat & special guest Fourmi Rouz (Mauritius island).

FB event here.

on saturday 2 July, Giraffes & Penguins will host several dj slots at the 3 day jazz & folk Brosella festival at the Osseghem park (Atomium). Didi of Tropical Djipsies, Rebel Up SebCat and Fourmi Rouz will play varied 1 hour sets at 16h30, 19h30, 22h and 23h30.

See for full programme & tickets here.

in the evening from around 22h onwards, Rebel Up & Friends at Le Reservoir bar in les Marolles. with dj sets by Freedo Figh & Roza (54 Sound), Didi, RaQLand Fresh Nunas

FB event here.

On sunday 3 July is the free Amsterdam Roots Open Air festival in Oosterpark.
Rebel Up SebCat will play a dj set at 16h in the Solar tent run by Oedipus brewery.

Deli Teli performs at 17h30 at the World stage. Also concerts by Deli Teli, Miroca Paris, Groupe RTD Dancing Devils of Djibouti, Aquafaba, Ayom and Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy, Ami Yerewolo, Yallah Yallah party and more.

see all info & lineup here.

Saturday 02.04 > Listen Festival: Rebel Up x Crammed Discs night @ VK Vaartkapoen with Zenobia, Acid Arab dj set Schroothoop & more

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hey all,

Listen festival is finally on again this week for 1st time since 2019! Such an amazing programme, 5 nights of music allover Brussels!

On saturday 02.04 Rebel Up & Crammed Discs team up with the VK Vaartkapoen venue with an amazing diverse lineup. Schroothoop trio from Brussels on their instruments made from recycled trash, Palestinian duo Zenobia and their electro-dabke sound and DJ set by Acid Arab, plus Rebel Up & Rrita Jashari on the dj decks for more dancefloor fun.

More than 80% of the tickets are gone, so better hurry up. Get tickets here.

Lineup >>>>
22h00 Rrita Jashari
23h00 Schroothoop ‘Live’
00h00 Rrita Jashari
00h30 Zenobia ‘Live’
01h30 Acid Arab ‘Dj set’
03h30 Rebel Up DJs
05h00 end

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On friday 01.04, Instore listening session > Rebel Up & Fresh Nunas will spin vinyls at Tropicall Records in the Marolles area. Also concert by Burkinabé griot musician Kaito Winse.

Come over, free in > bar with artisanal beers, samosa & arancini tapas, piments de fati & more. From 18h to 23h. FB event.

@ Tropical Records shop
235 Rue Haute
Marolles Bxl

Thu 17.03 > Rebel Up & Friends @ Bonnefooi w/ special guest Spilulu (DRC) & Fresh Nunas (MZ – Bxl)

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Rebel Up collective is back this week at Bonnefooi for a set that’ll get the week started properly ! Don’t miss out Fresh Nunas & Spilulu coming right from the Rebel Up family who are ready to set the stage on fire with live percussion !

Line up:

Spilulu (DRC / Lumumbashi)
Originally from Lubumbashi / Katanga Democratic Republic of Congo, Spilulu is famous for his afrohouse blends and more!
https://soundcloud.com/spilulu

Fresh Nunas (MZ – Bxl)
Mozambican DJ Fresh Nunas is a multimedia artist who started his pro dj cultural career in New York City. Fresh is a veteran DJ of afro sounds, always keeping them grounded in the continent, for club audiences across the globe. He will play his set together with Cuban percussionist Sandy Martin
https://www.mixcloud.com/deadfresh

hosted by Rebel Up SebCat (Bxl)
SebCat is a full time nexus, taking sounds from all corners and styles into his wildcat dj sets, performing at parties & festival on several continents.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

Full info > FB event
@ Bonnefooi
Steenstraat 8 Rue des Pierres
Doors: 8PM
DJ Set: 10PM
Free entry

Tue 16.11 concert Etran de l’Aïr (Sahel Sounds / Agadez, Niger) + Rebel Up support @ Les Ateliers Claus, Bxl

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This tuesday evening Rebel Up & Les Ateliers Claus present: Etran de l’Aïr!

The name Etran de L’Aïr translates to “the Stars of the Aïr,” the mountainous region of Northern Niger. They are based in the town of Agadez, an urban center renowned for the electric guitar and the western named “desert blues” music. In the Sahara, this electric guitar genre is intertwined with social function. It’s a lucrative commerce, and gigging bands make their living in weddings, baptisms, and political events. Etran de L’Aïr is one of Agadez’s longest playing groups on the circuit since 1995. Yet they are also a band that has remained on the fringes, stars of the Agadez working class.

Etran de L’Aïr play a style that captures the contemporary sound of Agadez, incorporating vastly different musics into their repertoire. While Tuareg guitar follows a predictable format, Etran breaks convention and throws a third guitar into the mix. The two lead guitars solo on top of one another, in constant dialogue, with a crashing response from the drum. There is a bubbly underwater warble that emerges from reverb and crackly amps. It’s electric party music, surf rock, from a place that is all beach. They differentiate themselves from the other wedding bands: “We play our own folklore, not like the other artists in Agadez. Our music is based around traditional Takamba…and we listen to a lot of Malian music. Not Tinariwen, but musicians like Ali Farka Touré and Oumou Sangaré.” Etran de L’Aïr is not just a musical group, but a family collective.

+ DJ support Rebel Up SebCat

Tickets presale: 8€ under 26/ unemployed – 10€ normal. Buy here.
doors 20h
concert @ 20h30

@ Les Ateliers Claus
15 Rue Crickx
St Gilles

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