Sat. 29 June > Tropical Boobs Mini Boom party #2 w/ Maga Bo (BR) & MC Teba (SA) @ Bouillon Kube, Bxl (St Gilles)

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Couleur Café might be on this weekend in Brussels, but it’s a not so interesting edition and already finishing around midnight. So it’s time for some rougher world colours in a global dancehall and bass style for a real tropical party till the early morning light! Hosted by the all-female Tropical Boobs crew from Brussels, known from their wild global bass nights, in collaboration with Rebel Up! and Silver Canary. Expect everything from roots dancehall to cumbia, afro styles, folkloric beats, baile funk, trap and bass by these artists & crews >

Maga Bo (BR) & MC Teba (SA); ethnic bass & global dancehall
We’re proud to announce 2 special international guests on our night. Globetrotting producer Maga Bo hails from Rio de Janeiro and is one of the godfathers of the ‘global bass’ sound before the name had even been invented, having worked with artists from all around Africa and Latin America. His recent 2012 album *Quilombo do Future* features a modern Brazilian sound where he merged regional Afro folkloric styles from the Nordeste together with modern electronic dancehall beats, a true futuristic melting pot for the global dancefloor! MC Teba from Cape Town, South Africa, will perform duties on the mic during Maga Bo’s live set. Yep, be warned; it’s gonna be hot, steamy and wild.
http://www.magabo.com/

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! dj´s > tropical bounce & cumbia bass
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 mash of folk, pop and contemporary electronic dance music. On this night their global sound will be all things uptempo bass & tropical.
http://www.rebelup.org/
http://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

Fi$h€rpric€ (FR)
French dj & organiser of the eclectic wild C pussy nights in Nantes and part of the Tropical Boobs crew. Everything from baile funk, moombahton, trap, bass and beyond.

VJ Groovebox & VJ Brian, all night *tropicalectro* visuals

Also check this article by Benjamin Tollet in the Brussels paper agenda this week. awesome! 🙂

more info > check the FB event here!
23:00 – 5:00
Fee; 3€ before midnight, 4€ after!
@ Bouillon Kube
4 Rue Vlogaert
1060, St Gilles
(metro Porte de Halle/Hallepoort)

Saturday 21st nov @ OCCII, A’dam; Rebel Up! Soundclash *Rio vs Sampa Brazilian cidade clash* w/ Maga Bo(US/BR), DJ Tudo(BR) & Process Rebel (US)

Wahey, next Rebel Up! party coming up!

This one will be a *Rio vs Sampa Brazilian cidade clash*. We will guests from Brazil’s 2 biggest and most famous cities; Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paulo. Anyone familiar with these cities will know it; these cities are overly vibrant with music, culture and liveliness! For that very same reason they are also each other’s nemesis and created some good old rivalry. The Carioca’s (inhabitants of Rio) think themselves as the most life enjoying people while the Paulista’s (inhabitants of Sampa -or Sao Paulo-) see themselves as the centre of Brazilian culture. Oh dear, but on this night the rivalry will have a delicious taste where Maga Bo and DJ Tudo will be giving their best sounds.

Maga Bo (US/BR/Rio) is the messenger of things exotic, broken and mashed up. expect a live dj set with furious bass line that will wobble on capoeira rhythms. Ever touring the world as a soundman and general globalteer, it will be his 3rd time(!) already at Rebel Up! but it’s always an honour to have him. Both times he played with us, it was a FULL house! Check out his site or myspace for sounds & mixes.

DJ Tudo (BR) hails from Sampa and this is only the first time he comes to Holland! His sound is a varied mix of samba, bossa nova, capoeira , forro and other Brazilian dance styles with some sweet breakbeat and electro bass added for full effect.
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During the night, your faithfull Rebel Up! crew will take care of globetrotting dance sounds, cult spheres and colourfull visuals. We also will be joined by US ex-patriate Process Rebel, living in A’dam nowadays. He’ll bring a full clash of rootsical mashups with a global ‘up yours’ attitude 🙂

We also will have a special photo exhibition by Enno de Jong (A’dam, 1967), who has made an amazing serie about the street Children of São Martinho, Rio. This exhibition is a combined project of 1991 and a recent revisit in 2009. See below the photo of Marina in 1991 & 2009. www.PositiveIndustries.nl

As you know, we dig the charity cause and we have again selected Brazilian organisation IBISS, who do multiple street projects in the Rio area. We’ll go around with a collection box during the night or you can donate at the door!
More info: www.ibiss.info

Saturday 21st nov @ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late,
6 Euro fee. ~Profit goes to charity~!

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Lost iPhone @ OCCII last saturday

Hi all,

Thanks for coming out last saturday!
It was a mighty fine busy night with a super heavy live set by Maga Bo and Bnegão.

Maga Bo is seriously hungover, not from sodapops, but from losing his brand new iPhone. He just had it since a week ago and bought it on his tour down under in Oz.
We hope that someone found it on the dancefloor or at the bar. Please let us know earnestly if you have found it.

It’s nasty to think, but it might have been stolen. For now it seems to point that way as Bo left his phone upstairs at the OCCII for a lil’ while, lil’ enough for a pesky thief to strike its luck (truly bad karma on you!).
It truly would be a sad day to realise that our artist’s belongings are not even safe in the swell OCCII, bah 🙁

well, let’s hope for the best.
please mail us @ rebeluppa-at-gmail dot com

Rebel Up! Soundclash #20, Saturday 24th of january 2009 @ OCCII. Special Live Guests Maga Bo & MC B negão

Happy new 2009!

Thanks to all of you who came to our more than enjoyable December night with The Ex, we collected well for the Somaliland causes!

At our next night (24th) we will have another special live guest!
-psssst; and we’ll have more of those lined up in the next months too- 🙂

rebel up #20

After his amazing live set at Rebel Up! 1,5 years ago, Maga Bo again comes to the OCCII to bring his superb live sound. And not alone this time, as he is bringing the Brazilian MC Bnegão with him as the vocal support in ragga ruff style, also straight from Rio de Janeiro!
Expect a feisty night filled with delicious organic beats and sweeping sounds. Think Brasil, Africa and western electronic influences in one big worldly mash, just as we like it at Rebel Up! Maga Bo has just recently released his long-awaited debut album ‘Archipelagoes’ on DJ/Rupture’s Soot Records and it must be said; it was one of the musical highlights of 2008 (look at www.gonzocircus.com in the review section!). The album is filled with african rhythms, raps in local languages and a heavy load of skewed broken beats and dubstep spheres. Western beats have never been with merged so well with African styles as on this album! We hope he will bring some records along for your home enjoyment.

http://www.magabo.com/
http://www.myspace.com/magabo
http://www.myspace.com/seletores

Maga Bo - Archipelagoes Cover Art

Bring your funny friends, partyhard parents, furry pets and so on and be sure to put on your smiley mood! It will surely be a whirlwind of global inspiration and new directions to discover. Support from your local Rebel Up! DJ’s, globally schizophrenic in sound and as always. Anything goes in our imagination; psychedelic Peruvian lama’s spitting out cumbia, Angolan and Zambian jazzy grandfathers with the heaviest swings of funk, beserked Sufi’s with ghostly spells, Cabo Verdian drum rituals by holy goats that make you go cuckoo and other earthly baba boom follies that will give you some kick up the cultural spine! ofcourse all topped by a hot spicy sauce of layered beats in the breaks ‘n’ dub sense of sound, oh yes. Not to forget the sublime visuals from VJ M & Normal Con Alas that will be playing all night. From now on we will always have 2 VJ’s working together at massaging your eyes and making you see the unseen! Come to your first good party of the year 🙂

Ofcourse the fundraiser bit…As many of you will know, things are not going well in Gaza at the moment. Around 900 people have been killed and over 4000 have been injured during the last three weeks. The majority of Gaza citizens are currently without water, electricity or gas. Food is running out, and around 80,000 people are estimated to have been left homeless.

We’d like to use this Rebel Up! in order to support the Islamic Relief charity, an international relief and development organization which has been working in the Palestinian territories since 1994. In spite of ongoing blockades and enduring limited humanitarian access, Islamic Relief Palestine has managed to supply and will continue to supply food parcels, medical supplies and blankets to the people of Gaza, co-operating with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, and other aid agencies in order to alleviate the pains of the people of Gaza. Your donation may seem but a tiny step, but lots of tiny steps combined will surely enable something of a positive leap to occur in the lives of our fellow humans in the Gaza strip!

More info:
http://www.irpal.ps/
http://www.islamic-relief.nl/

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#20) -we gettin’ old n wise now? oy-
Diasporic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,

Saturday 24th of january @ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late,
5 Euro fee. -> Profit goes to charity!
www.rebelup.org

Some new Maga Bo video’s!

Maga Bo – Saye Mbott feat. ALIF

Maga Bo – Fire feat. Xuman

Bnegão