new Rebel Up Nightshop #100 (November) and Rebel & Friends session @ Kiosk Radio w special guest Roza (54 sound)

Celebrating our 100th Nightshop show! more than 8 years of radio action at Radio Campus Bruxelles, Groovalizacion Radio and Rhythm Passport.

Check out this show filled with new tunes and album from Brussels, Ghana, La Reunion, Congo, Peru, Lisbon and beyond!

Here our latest Rebel Up & Friends session at Kiosk Radio from earlier this month by me with special guest Roza of 54 Sound

Tune in here for a 2 hour session of dub, roots, jazz, Turkish psychedelica, afro & oriental bass and more >>>

Rebel Up in December!

Rebel Up dates in December!

01.12 @ Kiosk Radio (16-18h)
01.12 @ CoHop Brewpub > event
04.12 @ Brussels Vinyl Record Fair > event
09.12 @ Dos Dos Radio Barcelona > website
09.12 @ Lugar L’Occulta, Raval, Barcelona
17.12 @ Skofja Loka concert in Belgrade > event
22.12 @ Bonnefooi w/ Fresh Nunas
23.12 @ Jardin Hospice

Rebel Up Nightshop January + December

Best wishes for this year all!
Hope you had a great start to this new year whether healthy or in quarantine.. hoping for better days soon, which will come! 🙂

Here our recent Rebel Up Nightshop episodes, January & December via Radio Campus Bxl and shared by Rhythms Passport & Groovalizacion radio, each +3 hours trip around the world in sound. Click on images to listen >>>

Nightshop episode for January, starting with a coladeira song from Cabo Verde and Turkish folk made in Germany. Our albums of the month take us to sufi meditation raga’s via Tahir Qawwal, Portuguese arabic & sephardic jazz by Al-Jiçç, Tuvan throat singing by Khöömei Beat and Egyptian 70’s synthesizer soundtracks by Hany Mehanna. Down to the tropics of South America we have albums by Colombian palenque queen Petrona Martinez & female guests, the Rebel Up compilation Chicha Popular of 80’s chicha cumbia from Peru via Discos Horoscopo, Brazilian activist songs by Juçara Marçal, a female electronic compilation from Chile, afroperuvian bass by duo Vudufa, female electro maloya from La Reunion by Eat My Butterfly and closing with Tia Maria Produçoes crew from Lisbon.

Nightshop for December with albums of the month that take us to Iranian Kurdistan via the tanbur strings of Mohammad Heydarian on Radio Khiyaban, Lebanese-Brussels folk jazz by Molo Sayat via Zephyrus and Cabo Verde funana disco & roots by Tchiss Lopes reissued via Arabusta. Colombian band Sonoras Mil brings psychedelic tropical pop, Kiko de Gallo brings organic electro compositions in different colours, while father-son duo Betamax & Clive Bell combine experimental jazz and electronics. Owini Sigoma Band goes into spacey effects on traditional and electro tones via Brownswood label, while The Tonga Boys & Dr Kanuska Group dive into heavy ritual temple sounds. Tunisian duo Frigya brings mezwed & bedoui beats via Shouka label, Lisboa producer DJ Lycox via Principe Discos and South Africa gqom producer Griffit Vigo via Brussels Maloca label.

Latest Rebel Up show at BRUZZ radio + Kiosk Radio session

Here our latest radio show on BRUZZ via the BRUZZ Mixcloud, with new albums & songs by Azmari on Sdban Records, Liraz on Glitterbeat Records, ArtSaves on kopi_records, Balam on HARD FIST, welcoming the new Kebrada label by Dengue Dengue Dengue with tracks by Nick León, Lila Tirando a Violeta and Merci Merci & Carlomarco, Pierre Kwenders & Chicadora a and a compilation on In-Correcto label with Orieta Chrem and Julián Mayorga. Listen here >>

and today (03.11) we have our monthly Rebel Up & Friends session at Kiosk Radio from 16 to 18H Bxl time, hosted by SebCat with special guest DIANE from Brikabrak. Tune in live via the website or the Mixcloud.