hey al! Happy new year everyone! Rebel Up is back home from the tropics after our super fun tour in La Reunion.
This Saturday 24.01, Rebel Up SebCat will be spinning a late set at the historical Café Charlatan club in the heart of Gent for the double birthdays of Noémi (Indian Summer festival) and Benn (Mélange Etrange).
Specially for their Birthday Bash, they’re bringing the crème de la crème of the Brussels and Wallonian scene to Ghent: Assaï, His Dudeness, Rafael Aragon, Rebel Up SebCat and Benn himself will provide the musical journey. Expect surprises, warm grooves, and a vibe that lingers.
Starting on Friday night atL’Impasse bar in Ixelles, Drache Musicale & Friends w/ SebCat as his guest. from 22h onwards. Vinyl only! Free in @ 17 Place du Châtelain, Ixelles.
On Saturday 13 May, a whole afternoon, evening & night of music in Ghent at the Chinastraat / Bar Bricolage on the dockside area. Organised by La Nature Festival as a warm up to their main festival in June.
The event starts with a vinyl record fair in the afternoon from 14h onwards until 18h30 @ Bar Bricolage outdoor area. Rebel Up, Souma Records and countless other good labels and sellers will be there! FB event of record fair.
There will be outdoor music too, with DJ sets by Souma Records, Rebel Up SebCat, Rafael Aragon and Tropical DJipies crew (Didi & Raql) until 22h.
After this the music & party will go inside at Chinastraat venue next door, with these artists on the programme >>>
Club Night (electronic & uk bass filled night): ⟶ Azu Tiwaline & Beatum HYBRID ⟶ Ben Kaczor ⟶ Daniel[i] ⟶ Yentl.
Starting in the morning (for real) at the Cureghem/Anderlecht canal side. The Microtunes X Breakfeest event is organised by Micromarché as part of their Recup Ton Quartier / Recup Je Wijk project. Listen to some tunes, do a workshop, have a pancake breakfast!
From 9 to 12h in breakfast/brunch vibes >>>> REBEL UP! SEBCAT & RAFAEL ARAGON MORNING DJ-SET PANCAKES/CREPES ATELIER VELO x VZW ELASTIEK BUBBLATON x BOTS CONSPIRACY
Prix libre / Vrije bijdrage / Free donation Find us at the Pont de Cureghem / Kuregembrug on the corner of Rue Wayez / Quai Fernand Demets. All info here.
and in the afternoon we move over to Gent at DOK open air venue from 12H until 20H. Gent collectives Huna Sounds, Democrazy & Tweeden Asem organise a record fair with lots of great sellers > labels, distro’s and collectors.
The Rebel Up label & distro will be there with our releases + other titles. More sellers who will be present are SOUMA, XOGN, Calacas, Labi & Funk, GroovyRecords, Ubuntu & more.
Today is World Refugee Day! This afternoon & evening, World Refugee Day livestream via Radio Rood / de Koer / Bij’ De Vieze Gasten from Gent with Osama Abdulrasol, Soundroutes, WHO DAT and a DJ set Rebel Up SebCat around 19h30, tune in live!
and also tonight, another evening of Rebel Up Global Sessions livestream, South American Female special with DJ’s House of Pris (BR/Miami) and Pezon (CO/Madrid).
for the next 2 weeks from 30.01 until 11.02, Rebel Up SebCat will be touring with Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia and her acoustic band. Not as DJ, but managing the band on the road, taking them from venue to venue through Belgium (Antwerp, Gent, Leffinge), Netherlands (Leiden), Germany (Dusseldorf), France (Paris) and Switzerland (Baden, Geneve & Dudingen).
Since the 1970’s, she is one of the main female voices of the Malian Wassoulou style. Check our her recent reissue on the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, it’s pure bliss. On the tour they will have merch for sale (CD’s and vinyls) at very fair prices.
See the tour dates & venues above, come and say hello!
On saturday 8 Feb, SebCat will spin global tunes in Geneva together with the Bongo Joe team at Chez Jean-Luc cabaret bar into the night. Drop by & swing 🙂
Nikanor – Bajo El Sol (RUP015) releases 15 january on vinyl, CD & digital Chicha cumbia, cumbia Amazonica and psychedelic rock from Peru via Brussels.
Nikanor is a Peruvian band based in Brussels, fronted by vocalist Marx Sánchez Sosa and guitarist Angel Loaiza. Together they play Chicha cumbia, a unique genre based on Andean melodies blended with tropical percussion and psychedelic rock.
The first Chicha cumbia bands appeared in Peru during the mid-1960’s and was very popular until the mid-1980’s. In recent years, ‘la Chicha’ is experiencing a renaissance, with bands and audiences from around the world (re)discovering its power and sound. Taking the big names and bands from the Chicha cumbia era as a reference, Nikanor started in 2016 as a cover band, to play the most remarkable and strongest songs to gain recognition in the Belgian scene. Since then the band has evolved into a group that writes their own music and songs.
Nikanor’s songs are a mix of rock, Chicha cumbia, tropical cumbia and Andean folk. Songs like ‘La Bajada del Kuraka’, with its Afro-Peruvian rhythms, or ‘Cóndor Blanco’, with its Quenas (Andean panpipes), make this album a trip in sound into Peru. Listening to the songs you feel like flying through landscapes and rhythms from all around the country. All of this in a rock structured format that invites to dancing and partying in a live setting.
Nikanor & Rebel Up Records will present the album with a little tour in Belgium on friday 17 & sunday 19 january, with dj support & afterparty by Rebel Up & friends.
a sparkling party & screening with and for the benefit of Cine Rio, your favorite Gent cinema. Screening of the live concert film “Stop Making Sense” by the Talking Heads. After that, some of the best DJs in the country to heat up the dance floor.
☆ 20:00 DJ, Neo Rej Happy tunes from dark cities
☆ 21:00 Talking heads – Stop making sense The title says it all, Talking Heads do it for you on the big screen, live from 1984!
☆ 22:30 DJ, Jeff Nice In addition to being a painter and a painter, the collector of the black gold. Spends several hours on Discogs resulting in a collection of musical treasures peppered with synthesizers, vocoders and other premature technological effects.
☆ 00:30 DJ, Rebel Up SebCat For more than 10 years, Rebel Up has been bringing global underground vibes and colors to the Brussels nightlife with events with “global sounds” or contemporary world music and fringe styles. He will make you surf the sound waves from everywhere to nowhere through the worldwide underground.
