January 2021; Rebel Up radio shows & sessions; Nightshop, BRUZZ & Kiosk Radio

January 2021, starting this year positive and more hopeful than last yearwith some radio shows and sessions.

Our monthly show of Rebel Up Nightshop for Radio Campus Bruxelles, with 9 albums of the month between folk, jazz, psychedelic rock, arabic experimentalism, afro bass and more.
With Rico Medeiros / Front Chaud in quarantine, Didi of Tropical DJipsies stepped in to help presenting the show with SebCat. Tune in here >>

we also had our Rebel Up & Friends session at Kiosk Radio with special guest and good friend Rafael Aragon (support him via his Bandcamp!). Listen here >>>

and we also had our bi-weekly Rebel Up show at BRUZZ, live interviews with DJ Carie aka La Dame and Lee Bass of Gato Preto and presenting new productions by them. Check it out here >>

new Rebel Up Nightshop show #74 > July, between Africa and beyond

This month of July we have a 3,5 hours long Nightshop show, 9 albums of the month and new songs, with a big focus on music from Africa. Starting with songs of the day; COVID-19 kologo music from Ghana (Ayuune Sule), and jazz from International Anthem label (by Anteloper and Angel Bat Dawid). Our albums of the month start with desert songwriting by Ak’Chamel (Akuphone), the early tsapiky cassette years by Damily (Bongo Joe), Bandé-Gamboa project between Guiné-Bissau & Cabo Verdian musicians (Heavenly Sweetness) and new ethiofunk by Mulatu Astakte & Black Jesus Experience (Agogo Records). It gets more percussive and electronic with albums by Malawi ritual drumming group Doctor Kanuska Group (1000Hz), Ugandan heavy electro tribalism by Nihiloxica (Crammed Discs), Portuguese percussive dub band HHY & the Macumbas (Nyege Tapes), deep Congolese futurism by Bantou Mentale (Glitterbeat) and a Dutch-Sierre Leone EP by producer Ramses3000 (Intercept) and Nigerian female rapper Aunty Razor (Blanc Manioc). tune in!

new Rebel Up Nightshop online (April) > #71 Quarantine show with 10 albums of the month!

This month’s Rebel Up Nightshop show (April 2020, via Radio Campus Bruxelles) is done in quarantine, home recorded as a big 2 hour mixtape with 10(!) albums of the month. Look out for some current candid COVID19 spoken word soundbites throughout the show as awareness or social political counteraction.

Starting with a psychedelic oriental tune by Baharat on Batov Records and followed by the new Ethiofunk-meets-dub album ‘Yene Mircha’ by Hailu Mergia on Awesome Tapes From Africa. After this, Argentinian outsider band Los Siquicos Literalenos and their experimental chamame folk sound out on Hive Mind Records and followed by the reissue of Peruvian Amazonian cumbia band Ranil Y Su Conjunto on Analog Africa, rare recordings from the 1970’s. We travel to Turkey via German Turkish migrant communities on the Uzelli Electro Saz compilation with psychedelic folk from 70’s & 80’s and followed by contemporary northern Greek folk music album by Evritiki Zygia on Teranga Beat label. Then we travel to Morocco, to the Master Musicians of Jajouka & Bachir Attar reissue on vinyl by Zehra label from a 1991 recording and we travel up into the Iberian peninsula for the compilation Codex Futura Vol.1 on Samain Music digital label with contemporary electronic folk music from Spain & Portugal. El Buho brings his new electronic latino album ‘Ramas’ on Wonderwheel label and we end the show in oriental electronic rave sounds via French duo Ko Shin Moon (‘Leila Nova’) on Akuphone and Palestinian duo Zenobia (‘Halak Halak’) on Crammed Discs.
See full tracklisting in comments >

08.02 Rebel Up Soundclash w/ Spiritczualic Enhancement Center, Farida Amadou & Friends and Terrie ‘Ex’ Hessels & Frank Rosaly @ OCCII, Amsterdam

Saturday 8 Feb >
Rebel Up Soundclash! present:
FARIDA AMADOU & FRIENDS (ex-Cocaine Piss) | SPIRITCZUALIC ENHANCEMENT CENTER (Akuphone) | REBEL UP! DJ’S
OCCII do-it-yourself mysticism | musical ritualism | €8 in before 22:00 / €10 after!
No presale,

FARIDA AMADOU & Friends (BE, ex-Cocaine Piss)
Farida Amadou is a Liège, Belgium based bass player, most well known for being part of the punk band Cocaine Piss and for her free improv sets with Steve Noble.
Since 2014, she has performed with many musicians all over Europe, including Linda Sharrock, Balasz Pandi, Jasper Stadhouders, Peter Brötzmann, Mette Rasmussen and Thurston Moore, TONiGHTS FRiENDS Include; Terrie Hessels (The Ex) on Guitar & Frank Rosaly (US) on Drums.
Listen here and here.

SPIRITCZUALIC ENHANCEMENT CENTER (Akuphone)
Giving birth via impromptu instrumentals to glimpses of synchronistic magic, these Spiritczualics remain agnostic: are they magicians, or merely charlatans?
Spiritczualic Enhancement Center is an outernational movement.
A traveling nexus collecting dozens of participants to explore alchemical realms of sonic ritualism. Fusing DIY electronics with experimental improvisation and traditional instruments, recurring collaborators have studied under masters of Andalusian music, ethno-music research as well as important underground venues in Berlin and Hamburg’s musical scenes. Visual artist Dima Rabik contributes his miniature ink drawing style to all Spiritczualic releases – as well as a live-drawing projection during performances.

Spiritczualic (“cz” borrowed from the Polish / tʂ / hard “tch”) – a word-melange of “ritczualic” and spiritual, reflects upon the ancient practice of musical ritualism. As an idea, it greatly predates the physical occurrence of the Enhancement Center – on Christmas 2017, when an Ottoman building below the Gates of Jerusalem provided itself for a remarkable meeting. The trespassing people who happened to be there – admittingly bizarre participants synchronized by state-of-mind rather than tune or scale – began exploring sonic sessions of do-it-yourself mysticism. Witnesses of its ritualistic gatherings have indeed reported moments of divination – and possibly sorcery. This raises the question, will the audience once again behold the allurement of Higher Sources – or rather testify to trickery.“
Listen here and here.

Rebel Up DJ’s
Before, inbetween & after, DJ’s Duckfood & Spliff will take you on a trip through the global underground

Info > FB event / website

door 20:30
@ OCCII
Amstelveenseweg 134
Amsterdam Oud West

new releases in the Rebel Up distro! > Crammed Discs, Bongo Joe, Akuphone, Mississippi Records, Domino Sound, Shika Shika, Radio Martiko, Souma, SWP Records & more.

Lots of new vinyls in the Rebel Up distro, from album to EPs and 7″ singles!

from labels such as Crammed Discs, Bongo Joe, Akuphone, Mississippi Records, Domino Sound, Shika Shika, Radio Martiko, Souma, SWP Records & more
check all here.

Sat 23 Nov: Rebel Up SebCat @ Antitapas 10th Anniversary, Studio CityGate, Bxl

Our friends of Antitapas are celebrating their 10th anniversary!

with an amazing programme & lineup >

Rebel Up SebCat playing in the Tripoteur sauna room from 2 til 3am

From 21h ❉ ANNIVERSARY APERò ❉
Free Food until 23h, Music, Ateliers, Performances & Dj’s until late
Special dish: Ragout alla Napoletana & big cake

LIVE MUSIC
Bantou Mentale (RDC – FR) ♫
Congolese dub-rock hot-wired global beats from Kinshasa Underground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuD0WtRCSeE

Ko Shin Moon (FR) ♫
Synth Folk Hybrid Techno Collage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ34R5GURKo

Bernard Orchestar (BE) ♫
Électro Oriental Brass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkBUT5mNi0

NIDI D’ARAC (IT) ♫
New wave électro pizzica beats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCjHzAVSoxQ

Alizarina (FR) ♫
Ethno Techno Tzigane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ygkvyYvq5g

Paul Venturi’s fan club (IT) ♫
Original Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFCqeM2AjQ

Antonio & Friends
Itinerant Urban Brass Pizzica

Dazibao Conex (Bra) meets Jakinta Soppress@und ♫
Very Special Guest: Eusebio Martinelli!

DJ SETS
Xogn (BE) – Rarest African Tunes
https://www.facebook.com/kioskradiobxl/videos/509453023190883/
Woxow (AA) – Afrotropical Bass Journey
Dj Grissino (IT) – Trip Hop, Jungle, Funk and Breakbeats
Coqò djette (IT) – Golosen World Beat
Tringle Loop Machine feat. DYnamic – Big Fat Vibes from Vesuvio to Jamaika
Le Triporteur (NL) Rebel Up SebCat & Friends – Balkan Beats and Global Sounds
Bruno Brown Selecta (KR) – Spicy Punky Reggae
Doctor Wey (ES) – Rumba from Cadiz

mapping by Maria Ilia
🍺 Handycraft Beer by Brasserie Jandrain-Jandrenouille
Ateliers, Reggae Toilet, Cake’s Contests: soon more info

Limited Capacity.
We advise to book your tickets 12€ -> http://bit.ly/TicketsAntitapas10Years

All info >
FB event

Place to be: Studio CityGate
cultural creative hotspot near Gare du Midi.
Rue de la petite île 1A – 1070 Anderlecht
(Metro: Gare du Midi – Bus: 78 Deux Gares – Tram 81 : Avenue du roi or Cureghem ; Tram 82 : Suède)