Rebel Up @ Giraffes & Penguins, Antidote Bxl

hey all,
this Saturday 7 october, our maybe last Giraffes & Penguins party at the Antidote canteen?
With special guest DJ Doraemon from Lisboa and his afrotech and batida bass, afro tuga style! Hosted by Le Grand Mechant Loop, SebCat and Didi & 3afifa of Tropical DJipsies.

Doors 22h, 5€ > better come early!!
FB event here

Saturday 10 June, Rebel Up @ Festa Afrotuga #1, Lisboa, Portugal

Hey all,
this weekend Rebel Up in Lisboa! a 1st ever Festa Afrotuga party with an Lisboa Afroportuguese lineup.

First up on saturday afternoon, we do a Festa Afrotuga DJ session at Lusophonica webradio from 16-18h (so that’s 17-19h western Europe time!). SebCat, DJ Kolt, Didi & Raql will be spinning together.
Hey all,
this weekend Rebel Up in Lisboa! a 1st ever Festa Afrotuga party with an Lisboa Afroportuguese lineup.

First up on saturday afternoon, we do a Festa Afrotuga DJ session at Lusophonica coastal café webradio from 16-18h (so that’s 17-19h western Europe time!). SebCat, DJ Kolt, Didi & Raql will be spinning together.

Tune in live here.

Then in the evening, from 22h onwards, the 1st ever Festa Afrotuga in Lisboaaaa! 🙂

@ Titanic Sur Mer, at Tejo riverside.

with a super amazing and local lineup >
Batucadeiras Freireanas Guerreiras (Batuk women group)
Silvino Branca & Maria Furtado (Cotxi Po Funana)
DJ Kolt (Blacksea Nao Maya / Principe Discos) (Batida/ Afrotech)
DJ Doraemon (Batida / Afrotech)
Tropical DJipsies Didi & Raql (Palop sounds / Afrotech)
Rebel Up SebCat (Palop sounds / Afrotech)

FB event here.

see you there, até pronto?

Rebel Up gigs 16-17-18 February in Brussels: Brasserie Illegaal, Acid Arab & Reservoir bar

Hey all,

Next few evenings & nights we have some great Rebel Up events in Bxl.

Thursday 16.02, expo opening / Jeudi baar at Brasserie Illegaal brewery, curated by Rebel Up, with live concerts by duo Bonzaiology (musicien de Phoenician Drive), duo Jean-Sebastien, and duo dj set/live by DJ Fresh Nunas & renowned trumpet player Aquiles Navarro (Panama/New York / International Anthem / River Down records) and SebCat.
Expo by Leonie Stolberg & Esteban Moulin.

Expect all sounds between jazz, rock, afro, latin and electronica, hybrid & eclectic.

Doors 19h
FREE IN. FB event

On Friday 17.02, live concert by Acid Arab & guests @ Ancienne Belgique, presenting their new album Trois, just released on Crammed Discs.

DJ support before & after in bar by Rebel Up Nightshop & Drache Musicale

Tickets here.

and on Saturday 18.02, Rebel Up & Friends party at Le Reservoir bar in les Marolles.
joined by Radio Frappe, and with dj’s SebCat, Roza (54 Sound), Olek Olek, and Italian dj’s Ni_so B2B Sgrida. From roots reggae to global grooves and more!

Sounds start at 21h, Free in!
FB event here

Saturday 26 Nov > Illegaal Feestje by Brasserie Illegaal with Rebel Up & Nyege Nyege @ Buda Brussels club

hoho, this saturday 26 nov, big party night organised by Brasserie Illegaal in the Buda Brussels club! With Rebel Up, Tropical DJipsies & Nyege Nyege as partners for an afro rave lineup.

Buda Brussels club is a top location in an old warehouse on the northern Brussels canal zone (Haren) with an amazing soundsystem. It has a big room for 800 people and a smaller room for 250 people. This evening & party night promises to be special with live concerts and dj sets in 2 rooms.

Timetable >

LIVE STAGE
21H – LEYA TOUCH
22H – BICKY LOVE
23H – SWEATS
00H – MARU KAY FROM JAPAN
01H – PERNOVITC
03H – LA MONTAGNE LIQUIDE

REBEL DJIPSIES NYEGE STAGE
00H DE SCHUURMAN (NYEGE NYEGE)
01H30 DIDI B2B RAQL (TROPICAL DJIPSIES)
03H DJ TRAVELLA (NYEGE NYEGE)
04H30 REBEL UP SEBCAT B2B FRESH NUNAS

DOORS 20H
10€ > No presale, at door only.
Make sure you come on time as it promises to get real busy!

More info > FB event / Illegaal website

@ Buda club Bxl
Chaussée de Budasesteenweg, 96
1130 Brussels (Haren)


Public transport >
quickest route via bus 58 Gare du Nord – Chausee de Buda (20 min) > last one at 22h!
afterwards only combo of tram/bus that takes longer.
or train to Vilvoorde + taxi



3 Rebel Up radio sessions online from August > Kiosk Radio, Lusophonica & East Side Radio

hey all,
in the past few weeks we did some sessions in Portugal and Brussels.
Check the sessions out below!

On sunday 08.08 we did a session at Cascais web radio/bar Lusophonica, SebCat & Didi.

Followed a few days later with a session at East Side Radio in Lisboa, a B2B between SebCat & Didi as well as a guest set by margem sul’s DJ Kolt of Blacksea Nao Maya / Principe Discos in pure afro portuguese electronic vibes via tarraxo, batida, afrotech and more!

and here our recent Rebel Up & Friends session at Kiosk Radio, with SebCat & special guest Nacion Ekeko from Argentina who played a live set!

new release > digital EP by Cameroon producer Nkom Bivoué – ‘Before Zeun Ya Yop’, afrohouse, gqom & afro bass

New digital release on Rebel Up Records.

Nkom Bivoué is a young Cameroon DJ/Producer based in the capital Yaoundé. After obtaining his master’s degree in Financial Management and Accounting, he decided to focus on music production. In 2016 he effectively started to learn computer assisted music. Six months later he produced his first demos (beats). It is only in January 2019 that he publishes his very first professional single, “Akelekui Tche” which in his native Beti language (one of the main languages of Cameroon) means “Until Morning”. He then released a second single, “Interstellar Anthem” with Austrian label Leisure Music Production in August 2019. After the release of several remixes in late 2019 and early 2020, he released his very first EP, “From The Stars” (6 tracks). hn august 2020 he released a track on the African Electronic Diaspora compilation on Rebel Up and he ended that year with a new EP, “Processus” and a single “No Lele”, in collaboration with the Ghanaian vocal artist Sizeless.

His new EP “Before Zeun Ya Yop” serves as a taste to his forthcoming album Zeun Ya Yop, which is filled with afrohouse, gqom, bass and afro EDM, to be released in July on his own Bandcamp artist page, follow him here >>
nkombivoue.bandcamp.com

Nkom Bivoué’s style is singular and new, which consists of mixing the rhythms and grooves of various African cultures with the sounds of EDM. But it is much more than Afro EDM, in fact it is his own unique Afro Euphoric Dance Music. He does not follow the trend, but listens to his heart and soul to generate unique emotions, through beautiful melodies. These oscillate well between festive,dancing moods and those inspiring or even meditative. As he likes to say, he is a “free thinker” and is even more so when it comes to creating and editing music. He often adds to this by saying “I don’t follow the trend but I do what I feel”. It is in this order of ideas, that he created a whole rather intriguing persona, where he represents a being, Extraterrestrial native of a distant planet called Sirún. He considers his fans as Sirúnians.

Buy/support here >>>>

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Streaming here

Press/Radio/DJ feedback:

love Zeun Ya Yop! playlisting it on Secousse radio and can’t wait to drop it in the mix!
Etienne Tron (Secousse)

I always look forward to promos from Rebel Up. – Bob Hill (Ilicit Grooves Radio)

Radio play at WDR Cosmo on Cosmo Dance.

Tuesday 26.01, Rebel Up show @ BRUZZ radio

Tonight tuesday 21-22H live Brussels time, our bi-weekly Rebel Up show at BRUZZ radio with new tunes by GUTA aka Cátia Sá (& interview), SAULT, Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers, Exile Di Brave & Time Cow, Nkom Bivoué ft Sizeless, Tia Maria Produçoes via Príncipe Discos with Dj Danifox, Lycox & Puto Marcio.

Tune in live on the BRUZZ Mixcloud videostream >>>
https://www.mixcloud.com/BRUZZ