31 Jan – 3 Feb > Scopitone IFFR

During the International Film Festival Rotterdam the love for film and music comes together in de Schouwburg. A different music documentary and musical experience every day. Sandwich Island / Pantropical takes care for the following evenings, in collaboration with IFFR:

Sunday 31 januari – w/ ‘Roaring Abyss’:

AFEWORK NIGUSSI (et)

Rotterdam based Afework Nigussie is a versatile musician / singer from Gondar (north of Ethiopia). His solo set emulates his personal allegorical history of that of an ‘Azmari’, a type of Ethiopian bard who embodies the freedom of speech in Ethiopia by singing provocative, humoristic and often improvised verses set to music. He frequently collaborates with Dutch post-punk mainstays THE EX.

Monday 1 February – w/ ‘Waiting for B’:

• MELODYMELODY (br)

MelodyMelody (aka DJ DØG) mixes the most diverse styles, often pushing in styles known for its “bad taste”. He plays music produced in the global peripheries, with a focus on the Latin American context and extending to other Portuguese/Spanish speaking countries. Despite the love for raw northern Brazilian rythms such as Lambada, and Carimbo, Calypso and Cumbia will also be there to meet Tecnomelody, Dembow, Pagotek, Afro House, Tarraxa, Kuduro and, eventually, Funk Carioca, Juke and Ghetto House. Just don’t call it all Global Bass.

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dinsdag 2 februari – w/ ‘The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith’:

• COSTA ERNSTING (nl)

Costa Ernsting is a jazz/improvisation duo that operates from Rotterdam. Hugo Costa and Philipp Ensting’s music is created in and from the moment, resulting in a fine blend that can be both slightly noisy, sometimes melodic and subtle. Both musicians are skilled and very empathetic players who enjoy exploring the interplay and space between pure rhythm, lyricism and harmony. The music is intended to always move forward and surprise.

woensdag 3 februari:

DJ’s DUCKFOOD & SAXIXA (nl/de | rebel up!, pantropical)

Tonight’s party music supply will be in the hands of these two. Duckfood defies categorization. His selections are too colourful to be hampered by any preoccupation about genre. Always on the search for new sounds from around the globe, his massive music collection absorbs anything from renaissance to Moroccan trance. This description also roughly applies to Saxixa; initator of the renowned Pantropical party series for non-western, pantropical music galore, and promoter of various music related events in Rotterdam and beyond.

sun 25 Jan @ IFFR Rotterdam > viewing of Cambodian music film Don´t Think I´ve Forgotten + music talk & dj set by Rebel Up! SebCat

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This sunday at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, there will be a viewing of the film Don´t Think I´ve Forgotten by american director John Pirozzi. It´s about the Cambodian pop & rock scene of the 60´s n 70´s just before the Khmer Rouge came into power and killed off most of these musicians or put them into death camps. The lost generation of Cambodian music.

It will be shown on sun 25th, at 20:30 in the Schouwburg Kleine Zaal (Scopitone Café)
https://www.iffr.com/en/films/don-t-think-i-ve-forgotten-cambodia-s-lost-rock-and-roll/

See the trailer here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipq4FefX5Ps
more info on the film´s website > http://www.dtifcambodia.com/

Afterwards SebCat will do a short talk about this music scene from his own passionate perspective and then play a dj set in the Scopitone Café with Cambodian pop & rock tunes from that era.

Come and watch n listen!

Next up Rebel Up!
mon 23 Feb – Konono No 1 & Rebel Up! dj´s @ OCCII A´dam
(promises to be quite a full night!)

 

Fri 24 Jan > Rebel Up! dj’s @ IFFR Mind The Gap night in WORM, Rotterdam

hello folks,

mind the gap

tonight 24 January, we’re spinning tunes in WORM, Rotterdam on the Gonzo (circus) Mind The Gap night during the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

a neat lineup of contemporary experimental artists >
Kaboom Karavan (BE)
CoH (RU) & Tina Frank (DE)
The Durian Brothers (DE)

we’ll be spinning tunes between & afterwards with Duckfood & El Buho
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see WORM site for all info.
FB event here

Sat. 26 Jan > Rebel Up! Sebcat dj set @ Int. Film Festival Rotterdam – eclectic Mind The Gap night in WORM w/ Marcus Fjellström (SE), Felix Kubin (DE), Deadbeat (CA) & Lowriders crew (NL)

hello folks,

this saturday in the heart of Rotterdam, Rebel Up! Sebcat will be playing during the musical programme of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Dutch underground music magazine Gonzo (circus) is curating the night under the eclectic *Mind the Gap* theme and with a fine line-up of international artists;

Marcus Fjellström
Is a Swedish composer who plays neo-classical electronica and dark ambient for labels such as Miasmah. He also makes special animation movies about the cartoonish characters Odboy & Erordog and will perform these clips with his sounds.

Felix Kubin & Martha Colburn
The sound of this peculiar fella from the Hamburg underground always amazes and he always operates outside the boundaries of genres; from weird go go pop to super crazy electro fun, anything goes! Martha Colburn will join him with her strong visuals that intertwine heavy social issue, such as bloodthirsty dictators, paranoid crystal meth junkies, corrupt police and whatnot. Kubin & Colburn already worked together on the clip Big Bug Attack -below- This new set surely will be ‘aussergewöhnlich’.

Big Bug Attack- Music by Felix Kubin from Martha Colburn on Vimeo.

Deadbeat
is the moniker of Scott Monteith, a Canadian-but-living-in-Berlin, the best place for someone who makes one of the best deep dub-techno at the moment. Deadbeat’s pulsating sound is right at home in Rotterdam true the gritty industrial and architecture-scaped feel of the city. Artist and geography seldom form such a unity as it will be on this night. Slowdancing is on!

Lowriders crew
These R’dam homeboys will close off the night with a heavy stew of dubby spheres of all things grime, step, trap and tech to make you move.

various Gonzo (circus) dj’s will play eclectic sounds in the bar downstairs, for all your listening or dancing pleasure.

Rebel Up! Sebcat is playing upstairs in the big room as part of the Gonzo (circus) crew and will play eclectic warmup sets inbetween the artists and some finetuned Rebel Up! global dance n bass sounds from the tropics and urban spheres later into the night.

Should be great night indeed, hope to see you there!

For full info & programme on all the other nights (thu-sun) > check the site of Worm or see FB event here.

with support of the Goethe-Institut Nederland & Stichting Verzameling Van Wijngaarden-Boot

Saturday 29th of January: Rebel Up! Soundclash with DJ BUSHDOOF, DJ POLYESTA & Rebel Up! DJs/VJs @ OCCII

Still feelin’ stuffy, hey ?

You’re not quite finished with your chocolate box and your waistline resembled a creamy croissant with an invisible belly button. It’s normal, it’s global. Happy faces for a happy new year plenty of crisis and resistance against it. Most of us ate plenty for this end of 2010, the snow didn’t prevent us from reaching the turkey’s butt. Wilders gets his own licked more than ever by the local parliament and there’s anarchy in Belgium. The salmon flies above the homeless and the shit of a banker does not want to produce gold yet. On this “divide and rule” game, indignation taken into action remains the best arm.  In order to connect and talk about real good common resolutions for the future, the OCCII and its Rebel Up! Soundclash is a perfect venue for that. We will bring you the atmosphere necessary to redeem your stomach and cruise the world’s perspective. Through what means of transportation ?

HOBO DREAMS OF CINEMATIC SALVATION (Los Angeles/US)
Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr have been touring the world for the past 20 years as musicians, filmmakers and ambassadors of cinematic goodwill. When they are not running the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, they tour the world singing folks songs to accompany silent Super 8 films they have shot on their travels. From the Mongolian Steppe to the Streets of Mexico City, sit back and relax as these images and sounds are presented as a lullaby of memory and dreams. We’re lucky to have them as they’re just a few days in Europe by the invitation of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Be on time, they’ll play around midnight!
old clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0dBwOE0Hk

DJ POLYESTA (NL) has gained the rank and right to travel in a magic carpet, swifter, smoother, that fits her attitude to music. On the outskirt of all-lands, she seems to have create her own place where her guests are invited to float in an elegant compound of styles. Like a druid, she’ll combined each force into a musical entanglement and vaporized it as a BalkanAfricarribeoceAsiatic trail. Bring your carpet and maybe one or two cushions if you want to follow her.
http://www.polyesta.net/

DJ BUSHDOOF (Melbourne/AU/A’dam) will use his rickshaw to stroll within the small streets of Laos, filled with charismatic songs and fumes of grilled pork. He’ll bargain his ride for a green 125cc Suzuki and jump into the Favelas of Rio and deal some gems for Baile funk sake. Suddenly reappearing in an electrified tram on Brooklyn Ave. Seeking the right cap, electro hip-hop, electro / pure / hip hop. Within these choices, our local DJ will use the Jamdown decision “Take ’em all, leave none behind”.
http://www.bushdoof.eu/

The REBEL UP! CREW will take a viral pleasure to ensure sound attraction and visual prospection. We are coming back with more intriguing sounds than ever. With us a Chaabi singer meets easily with a Dubsteppa MC, fresh 2010 tecnocumbia from the Andes collides with South Indian folkpop down to the dance circles of Soweto. We keep it on a no-ground level!

With the knowledge of these eclectic sounds and the temperature it’s going to bring you should also be aware that you coming represents a good step in the means of helping others and enjoying it. By leaving a 5 euro fee at the entrance and maybe a little more, you’ll support an organisation that develops goodwill projects especially in Africa. The name of the organization is Warriors Without Weapons. So here’s one mutual resolution that works !
Seek for more info :
warriorswithoutweapons.wordpress.com

Saturday 29th of January @ OCCII
DJ POLYESTA (NL)
DJ BUSHDOOF (NL)
REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)
5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!
doors: 22.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)

www.occii.org