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Thu 14 Feb > Rebel Up SebCat & Drache Musicale dj support @ Glitterbeat presents: Kel Assouf album launch, Ancienne Belgique, Bxl

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Hello all!

Big thanks to those who came out in full force to our Festa Afro Tuga night, what an amazing night it was!

This thursday, Rebel Up SebCat & Drache Musicale will spin warm up & afterparty tunes at the album launch of Brussels based tuareg rock band Kel Assouf in Ancienne Belgique. On friday 15 feb their album ‘Black Tenere’ will be released on the international label Glitterbeat, so this is the true avant premiere!

About that: After their acclaimed album Tikounen, Kel Assouf return with an even more transformative collection: Black Tenere. Produced by the band’s keyboardist Sofyann Ben Youssef, the mastermind behind the highly touted AMMAR 808, the new album strips things back to a power trio lineup and focuses on the crackling, forward-looking energy of Nigerien front man Anana Ag Haroun’s next level Kel Tamashek (Tuareg) rock songs, aided by percussionist Olivier Penu.
Listen here to the opening tune or check out this live video from a few months ago.

Tickets: 15€ presale or at the door.

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@ Ancienne Belgique, AB Club
Anspachlaan 110
1000 Bxl


Sat 26 Jan > Rebel Up SebCat @ Antitapas Night #50, Studio CityGate, Bxl

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Hello Brussels!

This saturday 26th, Rebel Up SebCat will play at Antitapas Night #50, at the new Studio CityGate venue, a big venue which will be the new alternative and underground party spot for Brussels,

Check the programme: from flamenco rumba from Spain, to urban soul, electro vibes, global beats and much more!

Free food from 21 til 23h
12 € in presale, 15 € at the door

All info > FB event

from 21:00 to 5am
@ Studio City Gate
154 Rue des Goujons
Anderlecht
10 mins walk from gare du Midi!


Sat 19 Jan > Rebel Up @ Giraffes & Penguins #14, Au Quai, Bxl w/ special guest Hugo Mendez (Sofrito / Buda Musique)

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yes yes Bxl!
another fun & wild Giraffes & Penguins party coming up this saturday in Au Quai!

#14 already, and with special guests that will spread the heat of the tropical jungle over Brussels > Hugo Mendez & Funky Bompa!

Born in London and based in Paris, Hugo Mendez is the co-founder of the renowned Sofrito label. Responsible for a huge amount of re-issues, edits and compilations of music from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Together with Frankie Francis he also wrote a full page in London’s nightlife history with the infamous Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque warehouse parties and released the famed Tropical Discotheque compilation on Strut Records. Bringing together a deep musical knowledge and extensive travels with a sharp ear for dancefloor-rocking tunes, his DJ sets draw on everything from vintage bassline Soukous to dubplate edits of Caribbean Cadence and boogie, passing by DIY electro and forward looking sounds to create a unique balance of hypnotic and percussive rhythms that he regularly showcases at clubs and festivals around the world. With Nouvelle Ambiance, his latest label project on the African Paris diaspora scene of the 1980’s, he continues the work of Sofrito, celebrating cross-cultural collaborations via reissue projects and contemporary productions with a geographically diverse group of musicians. He also is the caretaker for renowned label Buda Musique where has helped releasing a string of amazing album last year.
https://soundcloud.com/strut/sofrito-mini-mix
https://soundcloud.com/sofrito
https://soundcloud.com/nouvelleambiance

Funky Bompa will join us, an avid vinyl lover, digger, producer and key figure in the Brussels tropical DJ scene and founder of the Tropical and Twist parties. Expect a wide range of grooves, from nuclear bassline cumbia to nigerian boogie, indian disco and everything in-between! Funky Bompa experiments his finds in original version or personal edits, vinyl only. Being an enthusiast record lover for more than 20 years, he promotes the format and artists (old and new) through his imprints Bompa Discos (personal edits) and Limité Records (Témé Tan, BRNS). As the co-founder of the Atelier 210 venue, Funky Bompa booked hundreds of bands and parties as well as launching the Blackout Sessions in 2012, which he continues to curate to this day.
https://www.youtube.com/funkybompa
https://www.mixcloud.com/funkybompa

And of course, your hosts Rebel Up SebCat, Le Grand Méchant Loop & Maria Ilia will also make your feet move and your eyes pop out!

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Entrance 5€ (CASH ONLY)
Doors 10pm

@ Au Quai
23 Quai du Hainaut / Henegouwenkaai 23
Next to Dépôt Design and MIMA
Metro 1/5 >> Comte de Flandre / Graaf van Vlaanderen
Tram 51 >> Porte de Flandre / Vlaamse Poort

Thu 17 jan > Rebel Up SebCat @ Eurosonic, Pushin’ Wood Showcase, Vera, Groningen

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Hello NL & beyond!

This thursday, Rebel Up SebCat go all the way up to Groningen, in the far north of the Netherlands.

Pushin’ Wood Soundsystem are doing an official showcase, they invited some of their friends to join them for a sweaty stomping night of tropical tunes and global sounds.

SebCat will spin together with the Pushin’ Wood Soundsystem and also joined by DJ Francesco (Earth Beat) and A-Tweed (IT) during Eurosonic19 festival in the Vera venue in Groningen.

and before us, Lisboa / Cabo Verde funana metal band Scuru Fitchado will be playing, very much worth seeing! check out their wild video 🙂

info >>>

FB event / Vera website.
partytime from 2:00-5:00

@ Vera
Oosterstraat 44, Groningen

Holiday discount, new radio show & live sessions online of Rebel Up Nightshop, Kiosk Radio & Red Light Radio.

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2018 has been a first & turbulent calendar year of Rebel Up Records. We put out 7 releases in the space of 9 months, 6 vinyls and 1 cassette, not bad ey? To celebrate this we like to offer you a limited Rebel Up bundle of 5 vinyls with a special Xmas / New Year holiday discount of 25% until 2 january. Use the promo code *happynewyear* and the price will magically drop down to 56€. Click on picture above for direct link.

In case you just want to buy our digital releases or cassette, that’s really sweet too. Use the same promo code *happynewyear* to claim your 25% discount on every item.

We got some fresh new Rebel Up radio show and sessions online from the past 2 weeks. scroll below 🙂

Here our latest Rebel Up Nightshop sho of December, via Radio Campus Bruxelles and Groovalizacion Radio. With lots of new global tunes from Pakistan, Congo, Madagascar, the African diaspora in Paris and beyond, with KOKOKO! (Transgressive), Fanna-Fi-Allah (Buda Musique), Damily (Bongo Joe Records) Nouvelle Ambiance,Deena Abdelwahed, Telefunksoul (Kafundó Records), Samarana (Tropical Twista Records), MISS RED, Gafacci, NEKI and much much more! Click on image above for listen.

Last saturday we did a Rebel Up session at Red Light Radio (Amsterdam) with Akuphone, to promote our Rebel Up night in OCCII with Akuphone & Ko Shin Moon. Tune into our outernational sound. Tune in, click on image above or see video here below >

https://www.facebook.com/akuphone/videos/537943050014895

and earlier this month at Kiosk Radio we had our Rebel Up & Friends session with special guest Yves Taquet of Goulash Disko festival (Croatia). Lots of eclectic global sounds between blues, maloya, African guitars and Indian disco. Tune in, click on image above or see video below.

https://www.facebook.com/RebelUpSound/videos/578951705851894/

Saturday 15 Dec > Rebel Up Leblanc & Front Chaud @ Bonnefooi, Bxl

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We play with fire, it will be very hot. Feet, heart and between the legs. With big sound, by our wholesalers-specialists of tropical nuggets from all over the world. Between folk, pop and electro but especially everything you never hear on the radio or with your pirated streaming subscription.

Rebel Up Leblanc will represent Rebel Up on this night hosted by Front Chaud aka Rico Medeiros of Drache Musicale.


http://drachemusicale.blogspot.com

from 23h til very late…. afterparty hours.
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@ Bonnefooi
Rue des Pierres / Steenstraat 8

Saturday 15 Dec > Rebel Up x Akuphone label night w/ Ko Shin Moon live + dahaW ⅃ꓘ@ OCCII, Amsterdam

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Rebel Up Soundclash x Akuphone label night, with live sets by Amsterdam duo dahaW ⅃ꓘ and French duo Ko Shin Moon.

Imagine an outernational sound that defies borders, the meeting of ethnic folk music in underground spheres. Sound from the past brought alive into the present via the frequencies and vibrations of strings, percussion and analogue synths. The cultural counterculture against the right wing tendencies and normalities of today will not be silenced. We want you to be part of this, join our ritual as we dance the night away to beautiful songs and hidden gems from around the world.

Earlier in the day we will play a live session at Red Light Radio from 17-18h.
stream us here > http://redlightradio.net

 dahaW ⅃ꓘ (GR/SYR) *live*
Somewhere was the beginning/Somehow will be the end/Everything is chaos/All is ONE “KL wahad” (Oud/folk guitar). In their first ever concert, they will explore the possibilities of the endless improvisation between borders and freedom.
 
Ko Shin Moon (FR) *live*
Paris duo Axel Moon and Niko Shin blur temporal and geographical boundaries. As Ko Shin Moon they mix acoustic instruments from different regions of the world though analogue machines, traditional instruments, electronic sampling and field recordings, taking the stage with a Saz and heaps of analogic synths. The first album of the band is a bodily trip through hybrid territories, fantasy soundscapes and colorful collages: from Oriental Europe to Northern Africa, Middle East or Southeast Asia and beyond. Reversing analogical listening in digital synthesis, as music for imaginary traveling in dancefloor trance. After numerous summer festivals allover Europe and Morocco, they have just returned from a residency in Caïro, Egypt and played at Trans Musicales Rennes Festival.
 
DJ Cheb Gero (Akuphone label / FR)
Genuine music lover and chronic collector, Cheb Gero has cleared up and digged into musical worlds ever since his teens. In 2015, He launched outernational label Akuphone in an “archiving” spirit, drawn by a desire to “explore the world through music”. Far from supporting a romantic or fetishist vision of extra-Western music, the label aims at linking these productions to their historical and political contexts, placing them back in the social and cultural conditions in which they emerged. He hosts the radio shows Decolonize Ur Mind and Radio Gero, as well as Parisian Northern African music nights such as Belleville Habibi. Check out his live cassette mix >
https://akuphone.com/catalog/Z
https://akuphone.bandcamp.com
 
Rebel Up DJ’s
hosts of the Rebel Up Soundclash parties in OCCII and of countless global sound events in Brussels, Belgium with contemporary *world / folk* music or in electronic ethnic sounds. Rebel Up is a full force: making remixes, drop mixtapes, hosting the Nightshop radio show on Radio Campus Bxl and live sessions on Kiosk Radio. Earlier this year Rebel Up Records label has been kickstarted the with cutting edge releases from Ghana, Iraq, Mexico, Tunisia, Morocco & Bxl out now. Always on the search for new and old sounds from around the globe, their selections are colorful and not hampered by any preoccupation about genre. Expect a true Rebel Up trip into global dancefloor depths.
 
DOORS 21h | €8
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more info www.occii.org

@ OCCII
Amstelveenseweg 134
A’dam Oud Zuid