sat 26; triple Rebel Up! in 3 different countries simultaneously! > Netherlands, Belgium & Great Britain

yeah, it’s no hoax or joke; Rebel Up! is divided in three equal parts to go and play at 3 parties on the same night, at the same time!
This never happened before, so it’s a funny fact to remember.  so hope you can choose the party closest and to your liking 😉

RU 26-10-13
first up, our special fundraiser night @ de Vinger in Den Haag, where we will have the mighty awesome Orchestre du Mont-Plaistant (FR/UK) playing their global funk and jazz psychedelica. The night will be hosted by Rebel Up! Palm M who will bring on his best heat 🙂

You’ll get to jive on this four-guy combo from London. They bring back a bit of soundtrack psychedelia from the 60’s and 70’s, with them you’ll also get into some nifty African and Latino sounds. Rebel Up! DJs will wrap it all up to let you bounce some more.

Benefits at the entrance will go for a great cause, the Stahili Foundation, fighting to give a normal life for Kenyan orphans. So every extra cent is worth it.

Damage : 5 euro
Facebook Event
@ de Vinger
Bagijnstraat 25
Den Haag

unhail trillers

Then at the same moment, Rebel Up! Leblanc will be fronting @ de Charlatan in Gent at the Unhail & Trillers night by Klanxong Nights. Expect a good dose of cumbia, tribal, electro afro beats, kwaito house, turkish folk, maroccan chaabi and chaoui, global bass, trap and much more!  The line up further includes a good flurry of dj’s; Thom ∆ DJ-set (Alt-J) , TLP, Latomski and Biggy & Smalls.

Damage: 6 euro presale/ 8 door

Facebook Event
@ Charlatan
Vlasmarkt 6
Gent
wormex
and finally, also at the same moment but in Greenwich mean time; Rebel Up! SebCat will be spinning global sounds @ the Canteen in Bristol during the Wormex night. Main band of the night is Bengali-Cuban-British afrolatindian outfit Lokkhi Terra, hosted by Wormfood. Our busy man SebCat will replace Kosta Kostov who could not make it and will do his best to replace him well.
It’s free in, so lucky you if you are in Bristol!
Facebook Event@ The Canteen
80 Stokes Croft
Bristol
See you around, somewhere!

and oh, check out our upcoming Rebel Up agenda….some fine nights!
thu 31 Oct > Rebel Up! @ Radio Panik 30 years anniversary * tropical maloya sega soiree*, w/ Commandant Cadet & les Pythons de la Fournaise,  Espace Senghor, Etterbeek, Bxl
sat 16 Nov > Rebel Up! Soundclash Cinema Soloriens @ OCCII, Amsterdam w/ Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra, US), James Harrar, film of Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) & more
sat 23 Nov > Rebel Up! @ Moussem Sounds, Bozar museum, Bxl
thu 28 Nov > Rebel Up! @ Bonnefooi Bxl w/ A.J. Holmes – aka Hackney Empire– (UK)

and another mixtape, getting tropical cumbia, Mexican barrio style!

This is the 2nd installment of Rebel Up! LeBlanc’s obsession with Mexican cumbia sonidera. Special attention goes to the position and role of the sonidero in Mexican popular cumbia sonidera. He’s the DJ/MC/entertainer with cult status, permanently on the voice over, close to the laser sounds, jingles and effects… pitched voices, heavy rhythm n bass, endless shifting loops, cheap synth sounds, accordeons galore: welcome to any good old block party in Monterrey, Puebla, DF or LA, *Nueva* York or New Jersey.

Cumbia Sonidera mixtape – Con Sabor vol 2 by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

PURA MUSICA DEL BARRIO! perfect for listening while BBQ in the sun with a crate of chilled beers.

If you feel like more, check out the first volume here: cumbia sonidera mix – con sabor!
dj LeBlanc 4 Rebel Up! devilish sounds

image: Mirjam Wirz, from the amazing photo serie “CUMBIA SONIDERA: Soundsystem Culture in Mexico City and Monterrrey, Mexico, 2010-2011”
check: http://www.flashinstitut.com/index.ph

Fri 8 March > Rebel Up dj’s @ Tropical Boobs party, Le Metro Valdi, Bxl

hiya,

tropical boobs

this Friday our good female friends from Nantes-annex-Bruxelles are organising their first Tropical Boobs party @ le Metro Valdi -yes, they named it that in female self-sexist power stylee- a night filled with global bass sounds, juke, trap, dubstep, italo disco and whatnot @ Metro Valdi (15 Rue des Poissonniers) Bxl city centre near Beurs/Bourse.

Rebel Up! dj’s Sebcat & Leblanc will be spinning a heavy selection of global tunes. Leblanc will go deep into Africa with fast urban kuduro, kwaito house and some streetwise Mexican sonidero cumbia, while Sebcat will turn to Caribbean ways with the newest and roughest Karnival sounds from Haiti, Brazilian tecnomelody swing and some tecnofolk tunes from Syria & Egypt.

Joined by guest dj’s from Nantes DJ FI$H€RPRIC€ & $TRAPONTIN and Brussels immigrants RICO MEDEIROS (DRACHE MUSICAL/BXL) and VJ FLANDERS. Gonna be a hot night!

just 2€ donation in. these chicas are not about profit but into good partying.
Full info > check the faecesbook event here.

Also before our party starts, our good buddy Lowdjo is organising a special free *The Trilogy Tapes* evening @ Recyclart at 20:00 which is really worth going to for some fine lo-fi global tape sounds from Mexico, Thailand, India and Japan. It finishes at 1am, so our party is an excellent after party check it here!

Fri 7 Sept. Rebel Up! dj set @ UNESCO vernissage Grand-Hornu (Hainaut/Henegouwen)

We’re proud to announce that this Friday evening we’ll be playing a special dj set at the historical Grand-Hornu mining & exposition site as part of a UNESCO night to celebrate the fact that Grand-Hornu has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The site has a long history in coal mining, attracting many migrants from Wallonia and Flanders, as well as many immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, all in search of a better livelyhood in the 50’s & 60’s. Check the French or Dutch wikipedia pages to get full info on the mining site (which by the way lies very close to the Dour festival area).

So, time for a party and they asked us to play some global sounds.  We’ve settled on doing a special concept set filled with miner’s folk songs to pay respect in sound to the flemish and wallonian laborers and many other migrant workers that have passed through Grand-Hornu such as Polish, Greek, Italian, Spanish (Asturian), Portugese, Turkish and Moroccan communities. Expect a set filled with vintage folk, socialist songs, folkloric dance diddies and some modern sounds, all focussed on Belgian, eastern and southern European spheres. Our 2 hour set will be from 18:30 till 20:30, should you want to be there.

Apparently, Belgian prime minister di Rupo will be there as many other politicians, bobo’s and vip’s. Not really our nomal crowd, to say the least. We have no clue what the deal exactly is about this evening being open to the public or if it is by invite only, see the Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC) de Grand-Hornu site for more information about the expositions and more, though no info can be found about this Friday 7th. At least we can tell you that the site is free and open to the public on Saturday and Sunday as a celebrative gesture…..

Sat. 21 July; Rebel Up! Sebcat @ Babaca global bass party, Noordkasteel, Antwerp

hello folks,

This Saturday 21st, a new global bass party is born in Antwerp; BABACA!

Hosted by the Tsigani guys, the night will be in the Magiq Spiegeltent at Noordkasteel, kicking off at 21:00 til the 6:00 morning light. The lineup consists of Belgian global bass dj’s, specialised in different parts of the world; Max Le Daron (Low Up recs), Kobe Louis Charles (Tsigani), Captain Steel (Tsigani/(Low Up recs), LeBlanc (Brussels Up!) and ofcourse your very own Rebel Up! Sebcat. Expect everything bass from digital dancehall to bashment,  reggaeton, electrocumbia, sonidero, tecnobrega, swingeira, baile funk,  3bal guarachero, moombahton, kuduro, juke, dakbe, halparke and many other bass styles.

Before 23:00, it’s cheaper to get in > roll the dice and the number is what you pay. a 6 gets you in for FREE! After 23:00 it’s 5€ in

more info? see here for FB event

See you around!

Sat. 21 july
Magiq Spiegeltent,
Noordkasteel Oost,
2030 Antwerp

Sat. 19 may Rebel Up! dj Sebcat @ Kokopelli festival (BE)

Kokopelli is a 3 day global open minded music festival near Kortrijk, western flanders. and great line up too!

Rebel Up! Sebcat and buddy LeBlanc (Brussels Up) will play a joint global dance set in the Ting Ling tent stage from 23:00 till 0:30. right at the same time Le Peuple de l’Herbe are playing on the other stage, but you know where to find us if you need a heavy dance session 🙂

donations & radio session at Urgent.fm

ohlala, thank you all for coming out last saturday, we raised 140€ for Seed Samburu, big up!

last monday our Rebeluppalite dj SebCat did a radio session in the Radio Taxi programme at Urgent FM student radio as part of Rebel Up!/Brussels Up special with buddy dj Leblanc. We arrived 10 minutes late because of a minor car accident. Listen to it here >>>

Radio Taxi 29 August 2011 by Urgent.fm Official