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Rebel Up busy week allover Belgium! 20 – 22 – 23 + 24 June + new Nightshop show

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Hey all,

This sunny june week a nice and busy week in Brussels & Belgium with Rebel Up dj sets and even a stage!

First up, here is our latet Nightshop radio show for june, filled with new albums of jazz, brazilian soul funk, afrobeat, organica, cumbia, african electronic and arabic bass and more. Tune in here!

and now for the busy week of gigs!

On Tuesday 20 june, Rebel Up SebCat will play dj support together with Deejay Backstabber at the concert of the band Studio Shap Shap (all the way from Niger) at Cafee Cabron in Antwerpen.

Come and have a taste of contemporary music from Niger via Studio Shap Shap, between traditional griot sounds up to electronics. Check some of their sounds here.

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10€ in
@ Cafee Cabron
Kaasrui 1
2000 Antwerpen

on Thursday 22 june for Fete de La Musique in Brasserie de la Mule brewpub in Schaarbeek, Rebel Up SebCat plays a warmup dj set for the concert of KermesZ a l’Est.

KermesZ a l’Est are a wild bunch of anarchic musicians formed as a rough fanfare. They play punkrock and jazz mixed with uptempo balkan tones. Fire! Afterparty by DJ Calima.

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@ Brasserie de la Mule
95 Rue Rubens
1030 Schaarbeek

On the same evening, Rebel Up SebCat will play afterparty set for Phoenician Drive EP launch at Brasserie Illegaal in Forest. Organised by their label Exag Records and also with support by Swiss groups Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (Bongo Joe records) and Typhon.

Expect a blend of oriental sounds, flamenco guitar, arabic scales, postrock, drones, free jazz and more!

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@ Brasserie Illegaal
Rue Bollinckx 300
Forest

Friday 23 June, a big action packed evening with an amazing lineup at BRASS for Fete de la Musique in Forest > an evening by the Bongo Joe label!

Concerts by Cyril Cyril, Blanco Teta and AMAMI, and local Bxl Forest warmup band Turkish Kebap.

Outdoor garden dj sets by Rebel Up SebCat, Bongo Joe crew and Memo Pimiento.

18:00 – 02:00
Free in! 🙂
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and on Saturday 24 june our big juicy cherry on your cake > La Nature festival!
Since a few editions Rebel Up curates & programmes La Dome stage at this amazing and cosy alternative festival on the slopes of Baraque de Fraiture.

“La Nature” is an intimate festival, nestled in the heart of nature, exploiting a magnificent forest of the Belgian Ardenne and presenting a unique and multidisciplinary programme of arts, projects, body & soul workshops and a musical line-up, with a special place for live performances.

Such an amazing programme with many (inter)national artists & DJ’s.

Here’s our programme at La Dome stage for saturday, where we mostly booked live artists this edition >>>

14:00 DJ Rebel Up B2B Bongo Joe
15:30 schroothoop -LIVE
17:00 Cyril Cyril -LIVE
18:00 soundcheck break
19:00 Mohammed Reza Mortazavi – LIVE
20:00 DJ &RY B2B Holy Coco
22:00 AMAMI -LIVE
00:00 Alix Pilot -LIVE
01:00 La Dame -LIVE
02:30 DJ Rebel Up SebCat
04:00 Curfew

Check it all info & tickets on the website, there still might be some day tickets left.
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See you around this week? These are our last gigs before the holiday season, as we will return after mid august.

Wedn 26.04 Rebel Up & Kaito Winse @ We Are Various evening, Bosbar (Het Bos) Antwerp

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Hey all,

We Are Various radio organises monthly evenings with live concerts & dj set in the Bos bar of Het Bos in Antwerpen.

This wednesday 26.04 with Rebel Up SebCat on dj duties and live concert + Q&A with Kaito Winse (Burkina Faso), who will play his solo deep spiritual griot vibes. It will be livestreamed as well.

Info here and here / FB event

20-23h
free in!
@ Ankerrui 5-7
2000 Antwerpen

new Rebel Up Nightshop April show online!

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Nightshop April is online now, with songs by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru who passed away end of march and a zouk tune from Guadeloupe.

We have 12! albums of the month, starting with spritual jazz by Syrian-French artist Naïssam Jalal, followed by Brussels group schroothoop and their special junk jazz sound, French-Malian duo Clement Janinet & Adama Sidibé with spiritual strings, Belgian band Gaïsha with psychedelic rock & grooves sung in Arabic. Entoto Band by musicians from Ethiopia and Eritrea bring Ethio funk classics, David Walters explores afro disco & funk and Belgian band Bernard Orchestar brings electro balkan brass in oriental bass. To end the show, Jamaican producer Gavsborg and his deep post-dancehall, DJ Kapwanthi from Malawi and his hyper beats, Ozferti brings his electronic afro club sound, Brussels producer Le Motel w/ Nigerian rapper Magugu and Swordman Kitala & Tim Karbon bring afro bass fire. Tune in below!

Rebel Up gigs 16-17-18 February in Brussels: Brasserie Illegaal, Acid Arab & Reservoir bar

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Hey all,

Next few evenings & nights we have some great Rebel Up events in Bxl.

Thursday 16.02, expo opening / Jeudi baar at Brasserie Illegaal brewery, curated by Rebel Up, with live concerts by duo Bonzaiology (musicien de Phoenician Drive), duo Jean-Sebastien, and duo dj set/live by DJ Fresh Nunas & renowned trumpet player Aquiles Navarro (Panama/New York / International Anthem / River Down records) and SebCat.
Expo by Leonie Stolberg & Esteban Moulin.

Expect all sounds between jazz, rock, afro, latin and electronica, hybrid & eclectic.

Doors 19h
FREE IN. FB event

On Friday 17.02, live concert by Acid Arab & guests @ Ancienne Belgique, presenting their new album Trois, just released on Crammed Discs.

DJ support before & after in bar by Rebel Up Nightshop & Drache Musicale

Tickets here.

and on Saturday 18.02, Rebel Up & Friends party at Le Reservoir bar in les Marolles.
joined by Radio Frappe, and with dj’s SebCat, Roza (54 Sound), Olek Olek, and Italian dj’s Ni_so B2B Sgrida. From roots reggae to global grooves and more!

Sounds start at 21h, Free in!
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new Rebel Up Nightshop online #102, january 2023

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New Nightshop show online for January via Radio Campus Bruxelles. With songs of the day from Brazil, Peru, Argentina and London via South Africa. Our albums of the month are by experimental jazz trio Bog Bodies, Egyptian singer Maha and her 1979 arabic funk album, Israeli band Sababa 5 and their psychedelic exotica, Turkish singer Gaye Su Akyol and her psychedelic folkrock and Nigerian band Oriental Brothers International Band and their Igbo highlife music. Continuing with Electric Vocuhila and their Malagasy tsapiky sound, Mexican electro cumbia meets classical keys by Memo Pimiento, Algerian disco raï singles from the Maghreb K7 Club, Sarera & Blanc Manioc and their Mayotte island bass, Insula and their La Reunion maloya deep bass and finishing with RS Produçoes from Lisboa and their batida bass.

Tune in below!!

and in case you had missed, our #101 December show with a lot of great sounds. Songs of the day by Alicia Edelweiss and Ezra Collective on folky and afro funk vibes. 11 Albums of the month by Senegalese-Swedish group Wau Wau Collectif, desert psyche folk by Ak’Chamel, Kutiman with chill exotica soul & grooves, Guts with a powerful lineup of african & latin musicians, latin psychedelica vibes by Lola’s Dice, an anthology 2LP from Sao Tomé & Principe on Pedro Lima’s life and music and the religious electropop by Ghanaian singer Linda Ayupuka. Followed by female empowerment by Persian-Israeli singer Liraz, Al-Qasar and their urban arabic desert rock, French-Moroccan duo Alix Pilot & Ghizlane Melih and their arabic electrodub vibes and finishing with Iranian female producer Maral and her dark cut up electronics.

Tune in below!

new radio shows & sessions online > Kiosk Radio w/ Maru Kay From Japan and Best Of 2022 mixes for Bruzz

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Best wishes for the new year everyone!

Some new radio show & sessions online >>>>

Rebel Up & Friends session at Kiosk radio with SebCat and special guest Maru Kay From Japan, dj, artist and also illustrator of Brasserie Illegaal. Listen to our eclectic 2h session filled with jazz, global sounds, afrohouse and bass.


For Bruzz radio SebCat made a Best Of 2022 mix in 2 parts, part one was prerecorded,part 2 was mixed live in the studio with some little chats too. Everything between jazz, global, psychedelic, electronic and bass.

Enjoy!!!

Rebel Up radio @ BRUZZ ICE in November, interviews with M.Chuzi & Use Knife

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In November the Rebel Up show at BRUZZ Ice radio had interviews with Brussels groove band M.Chuzi and Belgian/Iraqi darkwave trio Use Knife.

Check out the shows below!