23-26 Oct > Rebel Up! @ Womex expo in Cardiff + 2 gigs in Bristol (UK)

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In the next few days Rebel Up! will be at the Womex world music expo in Cardiff, Wales. We are participating with a stand as part of the Global Club Music Network, a network of global music dj’s and producers (such as Kosta Kostov, Chief Boima. Post World Industries, Wormfood, Urbanworld and several others), to spread the positive and hipshaking message of new and inventive global and electronic music. Should you be there, you can find us in the main Motorpoint arena at stand no. 215 and during thursday and friday you can come and listen to our silent disco dj sets!

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Also on Friday afternoon we will present a GCMN network session in Network Room 2 at 15:00, to talk and discuss world music in the club context with international collaboration, exchanging music, sharing idea’s and setting up a touring circuit, so come along if you want to participate!

Besides the day time fair there will be many musical showcases and for the first time even a DJ summit on 2 nights! See here for more info and check the Womex site for the full schedule and programme.

Specially for the Belgium Music stand we made a mixtape filled with contemporary Belgian world music released in 2013 or a bit before. Everything from world hybrids such as jazz, rock, pop, roots, urban, electronic and experimental spheres. Listen to it here and it’s up for download as well!

Belgium Music @ Womex 2013 mixtape by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

Then the gigs where Rebel Up! can be found >

On wednesday 23rd in Bristol at The Exchange venue, Rebel Up! dj Sebcat will be playing some shangaan & tsonga disco between the concerts of Shangaan Electro & Heat Sick. See full info and tickets in the FB event.

 

On thursday evening in a bar in downtown Cardiff, Rebel Up! Sebcat will be playing a global roots set at a roots/dancehall night, below the 10 Feet Tall bar at 11A-12 Church Street. Starting at around 22:00.

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And on saturday night, Rebel Up! will be back in Bristol and playing at The Canteen venue on the Wormex night with Bengali-Cuban-British band Lokkhi Terra. Expect a good mash of indian, african and latino sounds to keep your feet warm and stomping 🙂   and it’s FREE IN! Full info in the FB event.

 

see you around!

 

 

 

Sat. 8 June: Oyé! *CUMBIA DANCEHALL Fiesta* @ Bouillon Kube, Bxl

Rebel Up! & Silver Canary crews present:
Oyé! *CUMBIA DANCEHALL Fiesta* @ Bouillon Kube
a night of cumbia & dancehall flowing together in one strong Afrolatino sound, connecting the Caribbean isles to the Latin continent without borders.

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The Bouillon Kube is an old Galician restaurant which in olden days was also used as a resting place by pilgrims who travelled the Camino de Santiago. Now it has been turned into a global cultural spot for the St Gilles neighbourbood, where the focus is put on southern music, arts, poetry and film. They operate as a non-profit place where prices are fair, with drinks are much cheaper than elsewhere in town and so we make it a cheap night for all!

Silver Canary crew + MC´s > straight up roots
The Silver Canary is a Brussel based Soundsystem consisting of a international crew of dj´s and singers who organise roots nights in Matongé and other venues allover the city. The Canary brings you a deadly cocktail of underground Caribbean-Jamaican music to quench you thirst to dance. Everything from rocksteady up to raggamuffin!
http://silvercanary.blogspot.be/

Rebel Up! crew > cumbia, bass & tropical bounce
Since 2010, the Rebel Up! crew organises not-for-profit Soundclash parties in Brussels as fundraisers for small NGO´s. These rebels dive into many different local music styles from all around the world, whether it be ethnic, urban or a fusion of folk, pop and contemporary electronic dance music. On this night the sound will be all things uptempo Caribbean & streetstyle latino bass.
http://www.rebelup.org/

Chico Parany (AR) > cumbia & latino bass
our international guest Chico Parany from Córdoba, Argentina is a dj, selektor, remixer and investigator of folkloric rhythms and alternative, rebel and mestiza music from around the world. A trip of sounds that synthetize a rhythmic encounter between South America and Eastern Europe, blending gypsy with cumbia, Latin bases with Arabic melodies, Balkan-Beats, Tarantella, Punk, “Paso Doble”, … a revolution of senses, in search of a revolutionary and universal sound. During May until August he is based in Brussels and doing his “LA TRAMPA – EUROPE TOUR 2013”
https://soundcloud.com/dj-chico-parany

FB event here
Doors n sound from 22:00 – 5:00h
Damage: 3€
@ Bouillon Kube
4 Rue Vlogaert
1060, St Gilles
(metro Porte de Halle/Hallepoort, just next to friterie Fontainas)

Fri 22 March: Fiesta PanTropical @ Poortgebouw, Rotterdam

This Friday, another fun tropical dance night in Rotterdam in the grand squatted Poortgebouw harbour building on the Maas river, an amazing place really!

DJ’s of the night will be DJ Pinchado (AR) *straight outta La Boca!*,  Saxixa and Rebel Up! Sebcat. Expect all sounds bouncy and tropical, from vintage chicha & cumbia to more digital and contemporary urban dance spheres.  It’s cheap in too, you pay what you like by donation, we’ll go soft on your wallet but heavy on your feet 😉

Info? see event here.

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Wed. 17 Oct; Rebel Up! @ KultuurKaffee Globe Aroma evening – FREE IN! –


Hello all,

this wednesday there’s a nice free Globe Aroma *Syria meets Africa* evening at KultuurKaffee.

Globe Aroma is a Brussels intercultural project where refugee musicians who live at Klein Kasteeltje/Petit Chateau get the chance to play their music for an audience. The band Syria Sound is composed of musicians of Syrian-Kurdish origin and will play Kurdish styles with soft rhythms and flamenco guitar. The band Afro Sound has musicians from Guinee, Congo and Togo and will play a variety of African styles like coupé décalé, slam and slam, Congolese rumba.

Before & after, Rebel Up! dj’s will play eastern & african tunes to colour the evening.

It’s free in, so just come for a globalicious fun time!
Hope to see you there.

KultuurKaffee @ VUB Campus, Etterbeek
doors open > 20:30
FB event here

this saturday 3 dec; Future Sound of Folk evening & afterparty @ Worm, Rotterdam

ahoy all,

Unfortunately we won’t have a Rebel Up! night in A’dam this month of December. Our next one @ OCCII will be on saturday 25 february. We promise you a very special night of Congolese rumba & soukous with live bands from Congo & Brussels! Mark it down in your agenda’s 🙂

However, this saturday in the relocated Worm venue, in a new location just off the Witte de Withstraat and very close to Rotterdam CS >

a special evening with futuristic folk with artists from Indonesia, Sudan and closer…. > like One Man Nation, Jimbot and Bambu Wukir, check it >

[The UnifiedField 01] Bambu Wukir from The Unifiedfield on Vimeo.

afterwards there will be an afterparty of global folk dance music with Saca La Mois dj (Cumbia Cosmonauts) and one of the Rebel Up! dj’s (SebCat); expect everything from Indian tribal pop to African autotune folk, slowed down Mexican cumbia, lo-fi exotic Afro guitar swing and much more…….anything goes!

see more info on the new Worm site

Sat. 3 december
22:00 – late…..
7€ door
@ WORM, Rotterdam
Boomgaardsstraat 71 (next to Witte de With straat)

see you there!